Sabaton - The Price of a Mile

Music: Sabaton - The Price of a Mile
Movie: All Quiet on the Western Front
visual copyright: Lionsgate
audial copyright: Black Lodge

[@GotQuality]

Six miles of ground have been won, half a million men are gone That line hit me hard.

[@kanoslayer2735]

You and me both... This is war at its core....

[@MrMobiusfan]

GotQuality That was the Somme.

[@elitetaskforce321gtavmilit4]

MrMobiusfan Passchendaele too.

[@BasileusHorus]

GotQuality For me, the most touching part is "how they suffer, so tell me what's the price of a mile?!" I can imagine the singer claiming to the Generals, how they throw away human lives without hesitation.

[@podemosurss8316]

That line is WW1 in a nutshell

[@mamut6635]

1% of comments - Normal commets about video, history... 99% of comments - Dude with shovel

[@felixalexisortizlagos6904]

That guy was mermaidman in spongebob

[@prussianblue7034]

that man was in the movie all quiet on the eastern front and most of the clips if not all the clips of the movie was from all quiet on the eastern front

[@jamesquinney6686]

Michael Whalen western

[@prussianblue7034]

@@jamesquinney6686 thank you sorry for the mistake

[@jakubnowak2488]

@@prussianblue7034 His name was Stanislaw Kaczynski if i remember

[@rein5689]

When 80% of the comments on a video that shows an event in which millions died are about a guy with a shovel.

[@sentinelplayztm922]

willions died because a guy with a shovel

[@vuxigeck5281]

XD

[@jizzallovaislam]

wish I had a willion of dollars.

[@StorminNorman322]

rein5689 Shows how much our society has changed.

[@ineednochannelyoutube5384]

And we still wonder why things like this happen.

[@onlyicedgarrett7791]

That guy unlocked the bipod on his Shovel.

[@azogtheeternallyunskilled9704]

Garrett Seno They really need to fuckin do that don't they?

[@DartLuke]

Garrett Seno he unlocked bipod for bipod on his showel

[@SouthernerFloridain2006]

Garrett Seno bffs reference

[@TheMaskedSam]

that comment is sick af xD

[@XLHeavyD999]

Whats this Battlefield 5 :) :)

[@joborbin4903]

That guy with a shovel probably got like two iron crosses.

[@SDittmann91]

+hum taob Shovel Knight ftw :)

[@cleidsonaraujopeixoto163]

Unfortunately no, Mate. As far as I remember, he was Kat - The older and wiser member of Bäumer's squad... And He died with a shrapnel piece to the neck.

[@zookatone]

Nah, You'd have to kill like 15 enemies to get just the Bronze Close Combat Clasp

[@caroline7648]

@@cleidsonaraujopeixoto163 Its sad that he could survive so much but a simple piece of shrapnel killed him. He was one of the best characters in my opinion.

[@vadimsizov830]

A special iron cross with shovels and diamond pickelhelm.

[@randomsoviet8529]

shovel man: headshot. double kill. triple kill. multi kill. monster kill. ludicrous kill. HOLY SH*T sh*t sh*t.....

[@user-uf1ej3yb6i]

The guy with the shovel is called Katchinsky ...

[@prakharmishra5583]

now he's banned

[@mishaq6538]

Spaten Uber Alles

[@ironduke7423]

If this movie taught me anything about trenchwarfare it is that shovels are OP af.

[@fabianhofer7984]

They actually are. They're way more offective than per example a rifle with a bajonett on it, because it's easier to handle, and the sharp sides of the shovels fit perfectly for breaking necks!

[@killerkid2028]

+Fabian Hofer Well that escalated quickly.

[@donder172]

Also range, shovels could be used in close quarter combat. Something not so easy with bayonets on rifles.

[@patrickallen6193]

some times Old weapons beats new weapons, shovels, stones even to a damn stick can be used as a weapon if you do not have one at hand on you.

[@Morrigi192]

The Russian military still prefers the entrenching tool over the bayonet or combat knife for hand-to-hand combat. Put an edge on one and you have what amounts to an axe that you can dig fortifications with.

[@bernd32]

According to the lyrics, the price of a mile is ≈83,333 of young men's lives.

[@RestlessBogatyr]

If you do the math it was 10 men per foot.

[@bananaurchin501]

So 52,000 men per mile

[@Jack-vp6wc]

I'm probably just being really stupid but I can't find anywhere that says that or, implies it.

[@bernd32]

Flynny1201 "Six miles of ground has been won, Half a million men are gone" 500,000/6 ≈ 83,333 It's not rocket science, is it?

[@golddragon164]

+bernd32 nice thinking there son.

[@GlobstersMessenger]

keep in mind that the conditions depicted in this film are somewhat represetive, but don't really give the full picture. many areas of the western front were far, far worse than this, the 'trenches' you see here are not the same quality as everywhere else, in many parts of the western front, the 'trenches' were barely deserving of being called that, merely shell craters connected by shallow tunnels, often filled with water infused with human remains, human waste and toxic chemicals from chemical weapons. Drowning in mud or poisonous water mixed with sewage were not uncommon deaths in some of the worst areas of the front, dysentry, sickness and general extremely poor weather conditions were a fact of life in many of these areas. Other, better fortified areas faced less issues with supplies and the total lack of protection and good trenches, but because these areas were so insanely fortified and built up, they were completely impenetrable to assault, making the assaults (as depicted in this film) extremely lethal. The level of fortifications on some areas of the front meant that assaults simply resulted in such unimaginable casualties, no serious attacks were made after such fortifications went up. The shelling that you see in this film doesn't really give the full picture, particuarly at battles like verdun, which saw the most shell fire on the smallest amount of space of any battle in the entire war. Imagine listening to rain hitting a tin roof, heavy rain. Replace every single one of those raindrops with a shell exploding. Double that. Add in genuinely ear-damaging levels of noise, the constant fear of death by shell looming over you for hundreds of hours at a time. Shellfire so intense and unrelenting, that soldiers often described feeling like they were 'constantly punch-drunk' when spending time in the trenches, because of the vibrations and shockwaves caused by the shellfire. This film is fantastic, but understand that on some areas of the front, there was no charge and retreat, there was simply a wall of steel, a storm of shrapnel, metal, wire and bullets stretching out hundreds of meters, a solid barrier of shellfire and steel that you would've been ordered to run THROUGH. The only defense against these kinds of things? To use your own artillery to constantly create a wall of shrapnel and steel in FRONT of your OWN TROOPS. Your artillery would slowly fire forwards more and more as the troops would advance behind it, blocking them from enemy sight until they were close enough to contest the next trench. Hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands of shells being fired in a single battle. What you see here is primarily bullets and grenades, but don't be fooled, the true weapon of WWI was the shell. With even conservative estimates putting the number of shells launched by all sides in WWI at a billion, those shells kill people even to this day.

[@Fulcrox]

During of a certain battle the terrain was filled whit water,entire whit water,the soldiers crawled day and night in mud,some of them drowing or dyng trapped ,indeed,WW1 was hell on earth

[@sampledpuppet5023]

Nice essay

[@DelaryHap]

"Your artillery would slowly fire forwards more and more as the troops would advance behind it, blocking them from enemy sight until they were close enough to contest the next trench." This technique, called the Creeping Barrage, wasn't as common as you think, since it required insane preparations and its success rate wasn't very high

[@isitnotwrittenthat1680]

@@sampledpuppet5023 agreed, the only weapon more terrible, though less common, was the silence of the gas

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

Is is hell on earth

[@TacticalDoge]

How did Germany not win every war with that dude with the shovel?

[@riploljustforfu9929]

+Tactical Doge There were more enemies than one man could shovelkill. Also he got killed by artillery wich is why Germany lost.

[@riploljustforfu9929]

+Joe Momma But look at Germany now. It's AWESOME.

[@landronics]

+Riplol Justforfu it's overrun with scum from the Mideast

[@txbht14]

+Riplol Justforfu Yeah, millions of "refugees" Everything's great.

[@donder172]

Also, their plan wasn't really the best.

[@antivorg1239]

Metal is one of the few genres that has the ability to literally emotionally move me...

[@kaaz1010]

Especially Sabaton's "Masters of the world"

[@scaperist]

What are the other few genres?

[@antivorg1239]

+scarperist Classical, Blues and Gospel maybe.

[@scaperist]

Antivorg How about neo-classical epic motivational? (Two Steps from Hell or audiomachine?)

[@antivorg1239]

+scaperist I'm more partial to Blind Guardian for Neo-classical :)

[@YoungSavage]

2:30 i love this scene in the video, its so damn humanizing. they charge in with their bayonets ready and when theres no one there they instantly ransack it looking for water, really showing their desperation and exhaustion

[@guderian_hainz]

In the film they are friends who together went to the front

[@kemarisite]

It's straight out of the book.

[@ursinewarrior5573]

That one dude went medieval on their asses with that shovel.

[@cleidsonaraujopeixoto163]

Would You be surprised if I told You that they also used maces, Brother? Tent pegs, sharpened shovels, knives, shortened bayonets... WWI was quite wild when It comes to small arms and hand weapons.

[@Ironfist85hu1]

Sharpened Infantry Shovels actually WERE a brutal, and quite effective close combat weapons, what were needed in the trench warfare. Read the novel of this movie: it was written about the own memories of the writer. WW1 were that inhuman. Much more than any other wars, imho.

[@sebastianraduschmotz9499]

It's not fantasy or medieval. Even nowadays in german military the shovel is part of your weaponry. I was told that we may not have bayonets anymore (thankfully), but the shovel is better than your typical army knife. When someone jumps your position one clean hit can cut him down easily. I hope i'll never see that happen but yeah..part of the drill. Even today :) I thought every military uses its shovels that way to be true XD

[@Rockman7532]

They used Shovels alot because Bayonets would get stuck in your enemies ribs getting you killed.

[@catguytom4024]

+36th Division Productions tell me more

[@writtenbasket1129]

I personally think this is one of Sabaton's top 3 songs.

[@Lugzan0]

and the other 2 are?

[@albeiro3886]

The other ones are The Last Stand & Primo Victoria, right?

[@wyattduda-vanatta5389]

Nah camouflage and panzer battalion

[@ele7864]

Rise of evil and ghost divishion

[@kyleh3615]

Primo Victoria is definitely awesome Winged Hussars and Fields of Verdun are good ones too

[@freshcancer713]

you know that germany's loss was a conspiracy cause no countory would lose with hans the shovelman

[@coh2conscript851]

French Artillery can melt Steel Hans

[@Gooberpatrol66]

Ah yes, the old "shovel in the back" myth.

[@9yearsagooner611]

Bayer on the MG too! It's all about capping those flags though!

[@arttupaska7382]

Gary Slovenskov no shit sherlock

[@HiddenHunterSeven]

this legit made me laught

[@vivelarepublique5185]

My great-grandfather also fought in the Great War. He was in the German army, fought in the west.For the courage and the wounds he received the Iron Cross. He survived the war, he wrote many letters home. He always said that the Great War is hell. I am proud of him - I have nothing to be ashamed of.

[@neat7568]

A myślałem, że Polacy byli w głównej mierze werbowani do armii Francji i Austrowęgier. Niemcy brali Polaków do swojego wojska? Nawet nie wiedziałem thx :v

[@neat7568]

Rozumiem, moja rodzina wywodzi się z terenów kongresówki i podczas IIWW brat prababci został wcielony do Wermachtu po upadku Polski w październiku 39'. Mąż prababci, który brał udział w kampanii obronnej Polski został wysłany do Niemiec na przymusowe roboty, a jego brat był w partyzantce. Pozdrawiam.

[@VilliamRoth]

Though google translate does not give a fully accurate translation, thank you for sharing this interesting story

[@andy.comandship2088]

Villiam Roth can you translate it please?

[@davidalonsoramirezaguirre7268]

Problably he esa the shovel man

[@GloonieTheRogue]

"Know that Many Men will suffer, Know that Many Men will die! Half a Million Lives at Stake, Ask the Fields of Passchendale." 88000 a mile. 2933 men per foot, 97 men per centimeter.

[@kieranh2005]

Square or linear measurements?

[@GloonieTheRogue]

Square

[@JimbobHarrigan1984]

Horrific

[@Lwis2]

A very grizzly statistic.

[@QuiranPup]

About one person per mm, the idea of this is horrible

[@raulrochaotaviano]

Soldier: "They're comming!" Fat Guy: "Take your shovels!" Soldier: "....?" *Later* Soldier: "Take your shovels!"

[@eref88]

+Raul Rocha hahahaha i pissed up myself :D:D:D

[@raulrochaotaviano]

Grzegorz Łata Spread the word: The shovel guy is comming!

[@manux2678]

+Raul Rocha There is a book (a novel called "Sin Novedad en el Frente, by Erich Maria Remarque, 1944) that states that many soldiers prefered to use the Shovel than the bayonete because of this reasons: The bayonete is sticked to the rifle. Rifles were like spears, and spears in a trench are not usefull. The shovel in the other hand, was short and also u didnt have to stab the enemy, u could just hit, slice or cut the him like if u had a short axe. The knife was an exelent melee weapon too, but the shovel was stronger, and it made it an exellente tool... for war :(

[@raulrochaotaviano]

Manu X That explain the rampage of: "The fat guy and his shovel in a trench, The Movie" The Cobras Fumantes used capoeira to kill the enemy in WWII

[@SashaTheDog]

+Raul Rocha Well you use what you get.

[@lt.patterson6081]

What's the difference between WW1 and a horror movie? WW1 actually happened.

[@6th_Army]

The difference is that in "horror" movies, there's an end.

[@communistpotato3204]

@Rage virus and zombification are 2 diverse concepts What

[@knog.401]

one has more death and fear, it's not the horror movie either.

[@eliphas_catdaddy7982]

In horror movies, the good guys usually win. Here everyone lost and there were no good guys.

[@goodafternoon4902]

@Rage virus and zombification are 2 diverse concepts can be real but WW1 beat it in a race

[@beatlecost]

“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.” ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

[@OppaKoppa]

My great-grandfather fought in both World Wars. As a 17 years old, he enlisted 1914 for Reichswehr. First fought the Russians, then the Western Entente. He stayed in Reichswehr up to 1933, then he left for Great Britain, but then answered the call for Spain (He was a notorious democrat, hated all kinds of Fashists). He retourned wounded in GB but enlistet for Royal Army in 1941. In the Age of 48, after month of figting, he saw germany again. He had been so depresses about it, that he died four years later drinking himself to death in his small flat in Kiel. I recently found his diaries, they where a pretty interresting lecture, but I don't think I can read them again. I was getting truly depressed myself because of those.

[@Afurrywolfguy]

Respect to him. Drinking his memories away is understandable, and no one deserves to be in both wars. And at that young age, too. And btw, it's Facists. you put it in as it sounded.

[@jajajajajajaasasasas1597]

I wish I could find such a piece of history somewhere wow.

[@pagantribalist6179]

Wostok Wotan save him. Germany will be saved

[@9yearsagooner611]

fascinating tale and possesion to have, nontheless.

[@olle6727]

I gusse he couldn't take seeing his home in such a state. it's a shame he had to go through.

[@NarvyDent]

That one soldier killed like 10 people with a shovel.

[@RoninWolfos]

what about Hero's & Generals?

[@cedricrodriguez8995]

The Shovel Knight rises.

[@k.o.t.o.r.5119]

+NarvyGaming I know it's not supposed to be funny but still... Epic shovel Killstreak.

[@Mehugga]

+NarvyGaming he gets the shovel nuke there

[@BOING1407]

he just unlocked the bipod on his shovel

[@12coudak000]

The showel was actually the standard weapon for close instead of bayonet-they often got stuck inside the body and you couldnt take it out

[@triggermetimbers534]

Some soldiers would keep a round ready so that if they did stab an enemy with the bayonet, then they could remove the blade using the recoil of the round. Soldier even today use this tactic to quickly remove their bayonet from an enemy's body.

[@user-py5qq4ht8l]

Enlightened LoneWalker and then they broke

[@skullcandy4everyone695]

Enlightened LoneWalker sounds gruesome

[@voidsaverob]

Bayonets are not for killing people, they are for intimidating people

[@canicheenrage]

A bayonet was better than nothing, but like most polearms, was always moderately efficient against infantry. The sharpened shovel was a ww1 classic. A bayonet on a lng rifle ends up to a nearly 2m pike. during the IXth century, a pike wall could discourage a saber cavalry charge, or slaughter it, even out of ammo. With the advant of repeaters and mass production of ammunition, it became less and less useful, and more of a threat for a guard than a weapon of war. It still is, but far from a weapon of choice.

[@nickfletcher9955]

France- We have a thousand soldiers Germany- we have a dude with a spade France- oh shit...

[@SinerAthin]

The best war is the one that is swift and decisive, where the gains are great and the losses are small. World War 1 was the complete opposite of an ideal war.

[@_chew_]

I agree completely. So many people died in such horrific ways, and all it achieved was providing an excuse to start another war.

[@SinerAthin]

EmperorOfStuff It also killed off the great Empires of Europe as well.

[@_chew_]

But that didn't really matter, did it? There will always be Empires, weather they call themselves that or not.

[@SinerAthin]

EmperorOfStuff Not quite. For instance, there are no empires in today's world. We only have larger and smaller nations. An Empire is a massive entity that stretches far beyond its own natural borders, whose center is a grand capital; and the further you go from that center, the poorer and poorer the regions become. Neither the US, Russia or China fit that description :P

[@_chew_]

I guess you're right.

[@haisulful8245]

The price of a mile was approximately 456,774,2 soldiers.

[@blingwraith6951]

+HAIsulful That's a lotta dudes.

[@Rickster621]

+Ivan Agyeyev won*

[@skullface7407]

+HAIsulful War is a BS...just a nonsence way to waste many lifes. Just my opinion

[@haisulful8245]

One should then wonder why there have always been war..

[@skullface7407]

HAIsulful Yeah......thats true

[@RoxyRacerGT]

In BF1 Shovel Man should be called upon like the unkillable heroes in SW: Battlefront.

[@funnyvalentine2520]

Obviously !

[@north7500]

I normally run around with my shovel out in BF1. Shovel + Restricted vision =Mass panic in the enemy held objective

[@NodDisciple1]

Pyrrhus: Rome will do me in if I keep winning. Both Sides of WWI: Hold my beer...

[@jamescastle9606]

We kinda got him with the Trench Raider Kit. No shovel, but a hell of a hard hitting club! Lol

[@Edelweiss1102]

Fat guy used shovel, it's super effective.

[@stevebean9210]

Can u dig it?

[@Edelweiss1102]

Steve Bean If the fat guy can, why not?.

[@d4rkhound388]

I SAID CAN YOU DIG IT?!

[@WhateverMan35]

It doesn't take a genius to figure out what happens if you hit a frog hard enough.

[@metalmike3780]

possibly, but a dead one

[@ShortGuy1792]

100 years ago today the British and German guns went silent and for that first Christmas of the great war enemies had become friends.

[@geneisenhower6674]

i will do you one better. during the american civil war in the middle of battles confederates and union soldiers would lay down there rifles sit around the camp fire together and trade things.

[@socialismRules]

russell cope that is true~ from my family journals

[@christhomasmonks4608]

russell cope thing with that is though that they at least spoke the same language. The two sides who laid down their weapons at Christmas 1914 hated each other and couldn't even speak the same language.

[@geneisenhower6674]

Chris Thomas Monks its people like you who come along and have to ruin the moment

[@christhomasmonks4608]

Always. That's what the English are for :)

[@kakam458]

The price of a mile is too damn high!

[@killman369547]

the price of a mile will forever be too high

[@leviamsel3840]

killman369547 Yeah, It's like 6.00$ for a mile now...That shit is insane.

[@killman369547]

Levi Amsel i wasn't speaking of money i was speaking of the cost in lives

[@leviamsel3840]

You must be new here.

[@ZombieNimmersatt]

Genius

[@TheOtakuPrince]

The Battles in World War 1 - the price of a mile. The Battle of Stalingrad - the price of a ruin.

[@fim1344]

The Deaf Mute Battle of Stalingrad - price of one inch

[@drowninghive]

The Deaf Mute Battle of Okinawa. A drum of blood for a scoop of mud.

[@nujunara]

Brothers of Europe, next time we fight, it's side by side!

[@ludvigthebirb7131]

i fucking agree

[@TheEznix]

Lets hope it wont come to that. And by that i mean a WW3.

[@donder172]

I agree with TheEznix

[@lelcant7590]

Sorry dude, my country voted out of the EU for some reason...

[@markasivaska2135]

+Lel Cant theres a thing called nato

[@NiteAngyl]

I live about an hour and a half from Ypres, Passchendaele, Zonnebeke, Diksmuide and all the other infamous places near the Ijzer (in Belgium, of course). I've been there numerous times to visit the museums, memorial sites and to reminiscence the unspeakable horrors when looking out over the fields. It's downright mindnumbing to realize that so many people were murdered and destroyed there. Each year something typical happens when the Belgian farmers go out and plough their fields. It still occurs that WW1 munitions are uncovered when ploughing, so that time of year is actually called the "Ijzeren Oogst," or the "Iron Reap."

[@kaitlinsmith1984]

wow, that's scary and very fascinating at the same time and I mean that, as an American I don't have to deal with that so that is an incredible fact for me to think about, just amazing

[@JimbobHarrigan1984]

Kaitlin Smith I'm from Britain, us british lost nearly a million lives during ww1, it affected nearly every family in Britain in some form. Names like Ypres, the Somme and Paschendaele still are a constant reminder of the heavy loss of life

[@kaitlinsmith1984]

I apologize if I offended either of you, my most sincere apologies

[@JimbobHarrigan1984]

there was no offence there, I study WW1 from the tactics and strategy side of things. The Americans were invaluable for tipping the balance in the allies' favour, some of their actions were costly. At Belleau Wood in 1918, the Americans took over 4,000 casualties in 6 days. soldiers suffered on both sides in horrific numbers

[@thatguyoverthere531]

Blood Raven The Americans did do a lot for the allies in the great war. however some of their tactic's where questionable. for example they ordered an attack on the axis forces 6 hours before the war ended, when every one wasn't fighting.

[@KitsuneDunx]

The great war can safely take the prize for being the most horrific war

[@Daithiwolf]

Lions led by donkeys.

[@pantherace1000]

Wolfhound Mac that statement can't be more untrue. go watch the documentary titled The First World War then we can discus ww1

[@halflifeapc8777]

World war 2 by far was the deadliest human conflict

[@pantherace1000]

of course it was. 50,000,000 being the lowest estimate and 75-100,000,000 being the high estimate

[@DammalleNamenweg]

Gilad Pellaeon But just because the population growed. If you take the Gallic War(Ceasar) that killed about 1milion, about 1/3 of the gaul population, and perhaps another 1milion slaves

[@MrBignick88]

some metal bands sing about hell this song is truly about a real hell the wars men were left behind buried by artillery

[@Kennyboy0077]

The amount of times this song has brought tears to my eyes due to my feelings of World War One.. Damn son.

[@Kennyboy0077]

Day six. Still crying. ;-;

[@christophgohlen4568]

im with you man, so sad

[@Kennyboy0077]

World War One always touches me.

[@awkwardaleq896]

That awkward moment when you realize your great, great great grandfather and his cousin died in the First World War while serving in the German army....just me?

[@Kirhean]

There is no shame in it. Service to one's people is often not tied to the sins of politicians hundreds or even thousands of miles away. We are far enough removed in time to look back and respect all those who died in one of history's worst conflicts.

[@RPGRogers]

"All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again"

[@user-wn3do8pw9j]

+RnP Rogers Battlestar Galactica?

[@mivapusa]

Remarking on the current fuckfest or a citation from a movie?

[@JavikShepard]

+RnP Rogers Truer words have never been spoken. It is sad when a TV show says more about political climates than the 'news media' that 'follows' the political climate.

[@maxh19991]

+RnP Rogers I fear that whit newer weapon technology, things can get a lot worse...

[@JavikShepard]

While true, humans as a species are largely incapable of learning from the mistakes of history (save for about 1% of the population that are not in power). Thus, history shall always repeat itself until, quite simply, there is nobody left to repeat history.

[@lesleyjohnson3121]

My grandfather fought in this conflict-this song gives me goose bumps and saddens me at all those boys that died in a futile and stupid war that didn't really solve anything. He didn't talk much about WW1 but the few times he did, he spoke of the German soldiers with respect saying that they were the best soldiers on the field, when I was younger I didn't really understand, but I believe there was some honour between the soldiers of both armies, they should never be forgotten. SABATON you ROCK!!

[@solidseb1960]

You must be like 80 or 100 years old

[@mikemike6908]

+solid seb my mother is only 54 and remembers all the stories her grandfather told her about his time in ww1

[@jaisonsumner8510]

a year and a half later I still shed tears to this song.

[@ratlover523]

I remember trying to watch All Quiet on the Western Front for school... I couldn't even finish watching the trailer, it resonated so strongly in my mind. I still haven't seen it.

[@riploljustforfu9929]

ratlover523 Watch it. Do it! Do it nao! Just DO IT! It's a great film even today.

[@riploljustforfu9929]

ratlover523 Watch it. Do it! Do it nao! Just DO IT! It's a great film even today.

[@ratlover523]

I'll give it another shot. Maybe set aside a day to watch it and then recover from whatever it's effects are on me.

[@riploljustforfu9929]

ratlover523 Good :) Also consider watching the original version from 1933. Nazis released rats in the theatre during the premier. That alone is a reason to give it a try.

[@Kirhean]

The book is just as intense. Either one is a good choice.

[@tamagnuss6145]

That's what I love about Sabaton. They create & sing songs for all sides. Well, maybe a little slanted to us, the Swedes.

[@Why0987431]

stfu

[@tamagnuss6145]

Tnx Ethan Finley. I'm new to type of short hand chat.

[@markrenzella7267]

They do a few for the polish too. 40-1,Winged Hussars,Uprising

[@silentangel2259]

They do quite a few for the Americans as well.

[@MrAmerilias]

Shovel Warrior name was Stanislaw Kaczynski from the book ""All Quiet on the Western Front" , he was polish in german army , very resourceful and wise old slav who always cared for new soldiers ...many polish are that way... Shovel was excellent at short distance and it was considered honourable, they also used trench knives and maces like in medieval wars but people using them would be killed when captured alive (not honourable weapon)

[@stahlhelmturtle9822]

The entire French army < ONE SHOVEL BOI

[@amaccabianjanissary5011]

ahahahahahah :D

[@amaccabianjanissary5011]

@Şişman Kapitalist bizden daha çok var rahat ol. Sa-ba-ton.

[@stevan546]

Ahahhahaha ikr XD

[@mihaiciocan9545]

This comment has been posted on the 11 of November, 2018, at 8:30 GMT, in honour of the ones who fell during The Great War. Let their souls rest in peace, no matter their nationality. They were all soldiers who fought for their country. It does not matter now from which side were they, for they lie in the ground side by side. Death claims all, no matter where you are coming from. May their souls forever be remembered, for they had shaped the world we live in today.

[@yuhtsyougurtyurt6672]

I can imagine the captain of soldiers in those trenches trying to boost morale by saying to his soldiers:"a hundred years from now they will sing songs about us" *hundred years later* MA ANACONDA DONT MA ANACONDA DONT MA ANACONDA DONT WANT NONE UNLESS YOU GOT BUNS HUN

[@Makzimiser]

Fuck

[@MetalFan1530]

true story music now is just some random person picked out of the group,give them some money and voicechanger,they don't even sing live anymore they all playback...and thier fans don't even fucking mind it,might aswell just watch the music video on a big screen then...

[@Derzto]

I don't know if I should lmfao or feel terrible

[@dravenocklost4253]

This song though, sings of them.

[@scuffednoituri754]

Extremely sad but true :,(

[@ididit4fun]

Shovel Knight

[@forthegodtrump619]

kay givs. shovel knight rises XD

[@yoboikamil525]

Pls nerf

[@Walterdecarvalh0100]

Best comment yet

[@hansvonzisimann44]

Alr that was good

[@triggermetimbers534]

I just had a stupid idea, but for those who know about Hogan's Heroes. You'll get a laugh from it. That fat guy with the shovel... is SGT. Schultz. Damn he was a badass in his younger years.

[@kentuckyreenactor9132]

TriggerMeTimbers yeah he was

[@erwinrommelfromteamb3ar178]

TriggerMeTimbers Nein

[@trippfields279]

TriggerMeTimbers This is now Canon.

[@nickkurzy2246]

explains why he can't stand the sound of guns, he used his shovel!

[@denvermartin1749]

He almost killed Klink with that thing, and now Klink is his boss

[@markhenley3097]

This is probably one of my favourite Sabaton songs, the chorus is just amazing.

[@guzangssombrero8127]

I know right

[@dantemeriere5890]

Their music is awesome, but war is terrible. When I think about the millions of lives lost to war and bright futures taken from young men who barely had the chance to experience life... People killing each other, fighting their fellow humans with the intention of taking their lives... I feel genuinely sad.

[@Marinesofairsoft1121]

Makes you wonder why youre volunteering for it sometimes XD

[@user-cg1em6cp8f]

“Soldiers, exactly at three o’clock, the enemy is to be crushed by your fierce charge, destroyed by your grenades and bayonets. The honor of Belgrade, our capital, must not be stained. Soldiers! Heroes! The supreme command has erased our regiment from its records. Our regiment has been sacrificed for the honor of Belgrade and the motherland. Therefore, you no longer need to worry about your lives: they no longer exist. So, forward to glory! For King and country! Long live the King, Long live Belgrade!” -Major Dragutin Gavrilović

[@kiima5659]

+Ivan Agyeyev yeah

[@jackphb1]

+Filip Antic Serbia Stronk

[@caesaraugustus5558]

I love serbia but this bloody war started because of you guys

[@historiaestmagistravitae.7051]

An eternal glory to all the soldiers who participated in the First World War and their late soul who died without knowing how the world would look for 100 years. Rest in peace all the soldiers and civils. Amen.

[@clone3_7]

It is sad, that they died, but I think it is better, that they do not see what is going on in Europe right now...

[@merafirewing6591]

​@@clone3_7 it would break them hard if they really lived to see it.

[@DudetaketheBus]

fk, now I have to go play Verdun...

[@DudetaketheBus]

***** or you can go play COD

[@DudetaketheBus]

***** When COD was good (IMHO, last was W@W), i'd say go for it. But too late now, little kids are rampant. I haven't touched COD since like Bo2, and I hardly played that as it was

[@DudetaketheBus]

***** I agree with that. I remember cheesing on zombies all the time. But I replayed the campaign at least 4 or 5 times *treyarch was always my preference*.

[@DudetaketheBus]

***** lol wouldn't it be awkward for Germans invading an American island though? o.O

[@DudetaketheBus]

***** actually. i'd see where the work would come in. Having to change the languages (or at least the accents).

[@xXx420NOSCOP3RxXx]

Shovel too OP volvo nerf plox

[@jna3341]

its velve you silly billy

[@Yum_Yum_Delicious_Cum]

+Cactus ʕ๏ᴥ๏ʔ valve*

[@Yum_Yum_Delicious_Cum]

Volkswagen usses cheats

[@xXx420NOSCOP3RxXx]

XmolokX haha yes :)

[@hugabi]

+xXx_420_NOSCOP3R_xXx idiot cubes............history

[@justsomeguy3931]

5:13 how that guy fires, turns and moves while working the bolt, and then continues to move - my favorite part. That's real gunmanship.

[@georgethakur]

Pretty impressed now that I see that, despite how simple it seems

[@justsomeguy3931]

@@georgethakur "There are no advanced techniques in gunfighting. There's only advanced application of fundamentals." -Gabriel Suarez, Fighting with the AK: too Simple to be Tactical

[@Merf_Gaming]

I just watched All Quiet on the Western Front. The 1979 version, used in this video. I don't think a single film has made me so upset. What a sad story.

[@tiltonroadbirmingham1153]

Both my grandfathers and four other members fought on the Western Front, two came home and I've seen Toms grave killed at Aubers Ridge, the others are inscribed at the Menin Gate. I've heard the Last Post.

[@emil3801]

I've read the book that the film is about :D it is just magnificent

[@TheLordboki]

If you look at war from perspective of an Alien that has never before known war, it would seem that every now and then, humans organize in huge groups to kill each other over land and resources. Yet, every time one group wins it's not enough... so, they simply start over and over again until their group collapses and another takes their place. This cycle has been going on for the better part of 5000 years. Aliens must be laughing their ass off.

[@manicchild7827]

***** Those Sectoids have been laughing for a while.

[@Hy93Ri0n]

Eileen McEileen of The EIleen Tribe They're waiting, waiting for us to be weakened. Then they strike. Clever bastards...

[@TheLordboki]

jim volkert I'm sorry, dafuq is a Sectoid?

[@manicchild7827]

TheLordboki XCOM

[@Hiperforteca]

jim volkert unless they strike when we're fighting. Then it would be a huge show of mass dakka.

[@MEGALODONGERS]

2:59 Leaked Battlefield 1 gameplay!

[@serdavosseaworth4643]

KEK.

[@brettbarrett8749]

He's going to get a ribbon for that one

[@LeHappiste]

You must be mistaken, I see French soldiers

[@brettbarrett8749]

gg

[@arttupaska7382]

MegaloDorian juo

[@florianpierredumont4775]

I discovered a few years ago that my great-great uncle fought in WW1, in Belgium with the Ronarc'h Brigade. He died there, from a german grenade, at 25. We never spoke about that in my family because my grand parents were "survivors" of war themselves (my grand father survived to a air bombing over the city of Lorient, somewhere between 1941 and 1944 while he was at work, but lost all his family in the explosion), and never spoke about their story to my dad and his siblings. My mother searched a long time in the old letters she kept from her ancestors, in the attic, and gave me letters that her grand father wrote to his wife during WW2, in the occupied France. He was a train driver, and often heard, or saw bombing from the sky. What strong ancestors do we have... they saw so much, survived as they could, and still were able to make a living after that... What great people.

[@FrauWilhelmKlink]

“And as the night falls, the general calls and the battle carries on” sent chills down my spine. Holy shit. If you’re reading this, Sabaton, the heavy riffs and drums you guys use in songs like this and “Long Live the King” are perfect for telling more grim stories. Well done!

[@commanderbenson4121]

Treaty of Versailles in a nutshell: 1. Britain gets security. 2. France gets to undo everything that Germany has accomplished after 1870. 3. Russia gets nothing. 4. US gets only part of it's wishes granted. 5. Italy gets a small chunk out of Austria-Hungary 6. Finally to top it off Germany must accept blame for a war that it did not start (it was Austria-Hungary that started it with its invasion of Serbia, the man that shot and killed the Archduke and his wife was Gavrilo Princip a serbian nationalist.) and must pay a massive reparation bill of possibly around 67.8 billion golden marks, the final payment was made in 2010 consisting or $94 million US dollars. 7. France repeats its mistake of allowing the Germans to enter via Belgium during WW2, resulting in its inevitable defeat. Proving that what doesn't kill you usually succeeds in the second attempt. It was part of the Schlieffen Plan to enter France via neutral Belgium.

[@Megadead24]

3.(sorry must correct) russia gets the territories lost to germany 8. italy and japan get pissed with the allies beacuse they didn't gained anything that was promised 9. rise of extreme nationalism 10.the path to power for a failed australian artist is created

[@anthonydejesus1842]

Megadead24 Austrian not australian

[@commanderbenson4121]

Megadead24 Actually Russia didn't take much part in the forming of the treaty and the Bolshevik Revolution was going on at the time so the territory they lost was made into independent countries. Later on most of the territory would be regained in between WW1 and WW2.

[@olle6727]

Giving a newly defeated very nationalistic nation an awfull peace treaty but still leaving them with enough to become a major industrial power. Seems like a good idea to me.

[@zabigyerek9743]

And taking 75% of Hungary and giving ethnic hungarian lands to romania,slovakia and serbia.... JUSTICE FOR HUNGARY

[@davehoffman4659]

I tear up whenever I hear, "Six miles of ground has been won , half a million men are gone."

[@boom9637]

Loved the movie. All quiet on the western front, I believe this one was made in 1979 or around that time frame, such a good movie

[@charleslocke2092]

In peace time sons bury their fathers In war fathers bury their sons - Herodotus

[@TheSuperShadowman]

If you see all the wars in Europe as a flowing narrative, WW1 is where things started getting out of control before the series was finally cancelled after the stinker that was WW2. Sure, there were a few one-shots here and there like those spinoffs set in the balkans, but we never got a full arc again.

[@ScotishChristian]

That is a disturbingly accurate way to portray it.

[@cturner956]

Cold War would have been an aborted arch in the series, huh?

[@pm7353]

My great grandfather fought for the Kaiserreich, and I am very proud of him.

[@stevew6138]

Come on Guys, "shovel guy" is Ernest Borgnine, he got an Oscar in the 50's. The movie is "All Quiet on the Western Front" 1979 I think.

[@Flaminarc7717]

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.” J.R.R Tolkien

[@sumbuddy2019]

This will be perfect for battlefield 1

[@boganscrubs5731]

SHOVEL.....

[@jamesrascal4455]

God dam right!

[@BeybladeSuomi]

There is already Verdun.. EA just ripoffs everything.

[@sumbuddy2019]

BeybladeSuomi Are you special? So whoever made the first WWII game has been getting ripped off by everyone else?

[@Henry-kz6fo]

Oh boy, another fucking arcade shooter. Not like this is the 2000th version of the same formula with a WW1 reskin for the kids.

[@MrAdemptio]

Historic fact: The Battle of Passchendaele was a major campaign of the First World War, it opposed the Allies and the German Empire. The battle took place between the 31st of July and the 6th of November 1917 in Passendale for the control of the ridges south and east of Ypres, 8 kilometers away from a vital railway junction for the Germans. The campaign was composed of several battles and subsidiary operation. The whole campaign turned out to be a disaster which cost more than 500’000 lives.

[@beekichan5054]

Thousands of sheep march to the beat! it's an army of the Welsh!

[@hansvonzisimann44]

Let's get those English men for the glory of Wales

[@FieldMarshalFry]

so apparently the next Battlefield game will be set in World War 1... this had better be in the soundtrack

[@kratoi87]

+Field Marshal Fry You have to be kidding me right , Is it true?

[@Bazerald777]

+Field Marshal Fry Better yet. They have to include that damn shovel.

[@Tommy-5684]

+Field Marshal Fry id kind of love them to do the exploits of T.E.Laurence in that game and maybe Gallipoli give a bit of chainge from the trench warfare in the west

[@FieldMarshalFry]

Tommy Breitwieser it was all a slaughter, didn't have the movement that made WW2 such a good source for games

[@Tommy-5684]

Field Marshal Fry thats why i say Lawrence of Arabia allot of movement and guerilla warfare in the deserts of Arabia

[@xBrolomx]

World War I changed our view on war. Before that, war was seen as a logical and reasonable thing, were states had the opportunity to show their strengths and soldiers would gain glory for their country. Yet trench warfare showed the opposite of what those values said. Indeed, I would say the spotlight of the war was the psychological horrors that came with it. Even when the war ended, the rewards were few to the ''winners''.

[@thetexan1513]

This video introduced me to this band..... I was 8 at the time and I don't regret it lol

[@Justin-yp1dz]

Great song, so many lives lost, and in such horrid conditions. My heart goes out to the men who fought in WW1.

[@ivandawolfe4474]

Superb workout music.

[@TheEndiPL]

All quiet on the western front! Great movie.

[@user-kb8rc5vq2i]

The ending hit he right in the fells. "After four years!"

[@mjolnir_swe]

Im gonna tell my kids this is the official video.

[@fuzzylogic7502]

All sides, all men. They fought for their own and paid the ultimate price for what they believed in. God Bless them all.

[@alexwoodhouse1831]

5:29 guy at lower right, no fucks given.

[@ThatGuy-a48]

Just taking a walk don't mind me

[@julian2626]

Adam Shirback *Artillery pounding* He stands up goes walking...

[@danielodonnell7060]

lol he just looks "Done with this shit"

[@theweirdnessking5]

Dammit Woodhouse, Nobody asked you

[@roelgonzales5163]

Wait Woodhouse, didn't you fight in this War? And I'll take eggs woodhouse and a bloody mary

[@TheEye114]

War; in which men too young to understand why they're fighting murder one another over ideas and maps while the men that caused the conflict throw the lives of others away.

[@MegaAngus1]

and the men who lives are wasted are replaced with other young men who have been told the propaganda version not the truth then they too die in vain

[@Playonstereo]

French Revolution ushered in forcible conscription of men into the army, which is practiced in democratic countries to the present day - before it, in the monarchies kings had their professional armies and hired mercenaries!

[@Darkblitz777]

"War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other"- Niko Bellic

[@bloodswordsman8168]

Darkblitz777 Never thought GTA would give a philosophical lesson.

[@squiddymcsquid6371]

War; what humans do best and were born to do

[@drheinzdoofenshmirtz5547]

Soldier: "Shit there coming." Old guy: "Get your Shovels !" Soldier:...........................? But why? *Later* Soldier: " Quick men get your Shovels!"

[@andro7862]

Just reading All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque perfectly described the pointlessness of that war:“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”

[@mivapusa]

This song is remarkably thoughtful. Sabaton usually glorifies war and warheroes. Here, they point out just how meaningless war really is. Kudos.

[@MinecraftPlanetChan]

they did the same in cliffs of gallipoli

[@mivapusa]

Thanks, hadn't heard that piece before :)

[@baky582]

I started listening to them 2 years ago when I heard final solution then I listened to ghost division,screaming eagles and price of a mile and then freaken flood of their songs started.Truly they are greatest band ever.

[@dimitriss.7954]

Hear the sound of a machinegun Hear it echo in the night Mortals firing rains the scene Scars the fields that once were green It’s a stalemate at the frontline where the soldiers rest in mud roads and houses all is gone there is no glory to be won know that many men will suffer know that many men will die half a million lives at stake Ask the fields of Passchendaele And as the night falls the general calls and the battle carries on and on How long? What is the purpose of it all What’s the price of a mile? Thousands of feet march to the beat It’s an army on the march Long way from home Paying the price in young men’s lives Thousands of feet march to the beat It’s an army in despair Knee-deep in mud Stuck in the trench with no way out Thousands of machineguns Kept on firing through the night Mortars blazed and wrecked the scene Guns in the fields that once were green Still a deadlock at the frontline Where the soldiers die in mud roads and houses since long gone still no glory has been won know that many men has suffered know that many men has died Six miles of ground has been won Half a million men are gone And as the men crawled the general called And the killing carried on and on How long? What’s the purpose of it all? What’s the price of a mile? Thousands of feet march to the beat It’s an army on the march Long way from home Paying the price in young men’s lives Thousands of feet march to the beat It’s an army in despair Knee-deep in mud Stuck in the trench with no way out Young men are dying They pay the price Oh how they suffer So tell me what’s the price of a mile That’s the price of a mile. Thousands of feet march to the beat It’s an army on the march Long way from home Paying the price in young men’s lives Thousands of feet march to the beat It’s an army in despair Knee-deep in mud Stuck in the trench with no way out

[@mesothelioma5024]

Despite this movie coming out in 1925 it is still one of the best war movies I’ve ever seen

[@saulgoodmansentme1992]

This movie came out in 1979 lol

[@forexed8948]

World War 1, the war of artillery, where artillery counted for upwards of 70% of casualties, and maybe 30 percent due to mines, tanks, machine guns, air planes, bombs, grenades, snipers, rifles, flame throwers, bayonets, improvised weapons, gas, shell shock, and much more, "if someone tells you he went over the top and wasn't scared, he's a damn liar" - a survivor of the great war.

[@supersaiyangenitals8666]

That badass killing his foes with a shovel

[@morganeriksson3765]

A showel is a amazing weapon many cases better than a knife speacely the ww1 era german showel

[@maebae5350]

Sharpen that bad boy up and it would be among my favorite melee weapons

[@ScotishChristian]

They still do train soldiers to use them if need be. Well at least they did back in the 60's. They are also good for when fights happen in the barracks according to my grandpa.

[@FUBARGunpla]

if you've seen/read all quiet, that opening scene hits different.

[@matteocervesato6372]

Portiamo doni e fiori ad ogni monumento a loro dedicato........😢😢😢😢È IL MINIMO DEL MINIMO CHE POSSIAMO FARE 😢😢😢😢

[@jamesellis863]

Quote from a WW1 soldier "I saw a severely shell-shocked man knee deep in mud in a crater. I saw him three days later covered up to his neck in mud"

[@davidmarsh7933]

what is scary is when this movie was made, some of the actors were actual veterans of the war, same thing happened with world war 2 movies for like 10 years after the war, they used soldiers as actors because they knew what death looked like and they could replicate what they saw and did. morbid, yes.

[@wielandk5307]

My grandfather fought in ww1. his best friend died at his side and his beloved father died at home while he was at the front. In 1918 he was seriously injured and got the EK 1. In the second world war he also had to fight. Unfortunately, I never knew him, but I have so much respect for Him.

[@nachoboy3503]

Everyone else: "OMG Sabaton is so great!" Me: "Haha! Shovel Man go BRRRRRR!!"

[@KingDerpy13]

Here's a fact about WWI, a shovel was issued to every soldier. Most of them would sharpen one side. The reason a shovel was used is because a bayonet would usually get stuck in a person when you stabbed them, so it wasn't that useful. Soldiers were given shovels, which they sharpened, and so they had a melee weapon when they stormed the enemy's trench. Also, here's another fact, both sides used chemical warfare, which was outlawed by that time, and knew that the gas would be blown into civilian villages and stuff, and never warned them about it. Also, the Western trenches were really well kept compared to the Eastern trenches. What you see in this video are the Western trenches. Eastern trenches were basically dirt holes that connected to one another, and had corpses, blood/water in them, and lots of disease. Eastern trenches were a soldier's worse nightmare basically. Not to mention, the farther East you went, the more into Russia you went, and no one wants to go into deep Russia...

[@attilahildebrand8449]

Did you knew, that the movie ,,All quiet on Western Front" is a 100% true story? So Yes, that shovel guy really existed. His Name was Katcinsky, he died 1918 at the age of 43 at the westernfront near his friend Paul Bäumer. Yes, I read the book.

[@Dalesmanable]

Er, it’s fiction, a novel. The author may have served in the trenches, but only for a month in 1917 between training and being injured by shellfire. The scene here, with troops returning an attack, is bogus; The Germans would immediately counterattack to retain lost ground, but that is a very different thing.

[@davidclayton238]

This song is the fucking JAM! I was fortunate enough to see them last night with trivium and LORD they put on a good show! Hope to see you again Sabaton you killed it!

[@magnuschristianssen8999]

This one and "You're in the Army Now" is Sabbaton's 2 best songs by far!