Versailles - "It will be what you make of it" - Sabaton History 111 [Official]

There are a great many myths and misconceptions about the Treaty of Versailles, and it has been used and even weaponized many times over the years. Today, Indy goes over the nuts and bolts of what it actually was and what it actually did.
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[@SabatonHistory]

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[@cortanatheai6103]

wow that makes me feel old

[@marcgrote7540]

Yes, I did & I have a BA in history. This is one of the reasons I love Sabaton & Sabaton History - there's always more to learn!

[@PiscatorLager]

Very much!

[@Justbahduh]

Always

[@TiredCzech]

It was fantastic video.

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

"this is not peace. It's a ceasefire for 20 years" - Marshall Ferdinand Foch when reading the treaty of Versailles, 1919.

[@IceCapCarnivore]

great prediction on his part

[@epicgamer4798]

That one didn't age that well

[@starsword-c2534]

Unfortunately people typically leave out the part where it was because he thought it was **too lenient**.

[@Dollt28]

this has to be one of the most misunderstood quotes of all time, as StarSword-C said, he thought it was TOO LENIENT instead too harsh (which is what probably most people think because of ww2)

[@starsword-c2534]

@@Dollt28 Well, from a certain point of view they're right: I think it would be hard to argue the world would have been worse off if the drafters had gone Wilson's route and said, "Okay, let's call this a fair fight and set up a structure to keep it from happening again." The "war guilt" clauses were bullshit.

[@Ryuzeii]

Joakim never being to the Normandy beaches feels like such a plot twist

[@hohooooooooify]

To true

[@ethanor]

Top ten anime betrayals

[@juliane.mfarias9285]

Sabaton goal of life: Sing the song in its respectice historical place. State: Total disaster

[@musasejdinovic]

Joakim: "Wow you have an amazing memory!" Of course he does, he's a bloody historian!

[@kenashimame]

103 Years later and we’re still dealing with fallout from Versailles.

[@Kay2kGer]

dam, that was an epic cut there. from indys last statement back to the song. it is so frightening. having witnessed the horrors of one war, who would want another one..

[@Yashael341]

You'd have to be desperate or insane to want another war. Hitler: Did someone say desperate and insane?

[@timnewman7591]

I think part of the reason Turkey got off differently was less that the regime had changed and the state had also lost a lot of territory - this was also true for Austria and Hungary - but that they were obviously willing to fight against the terms and had defeated Greek forces in some of the territory that was supposed to be handed over to Greece. And neither the French nor the British were enthusiastic about a war against the still large Turkish army on behalf of Greek ambitions and ancient claims to cities on the coast of Turkey. And Greece lacked the power to do that alone. Austria and Hungary by contrast were bordered by Italy, Romania, and the new Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. All of those would have been ready to take another slice out of their neighbours - possibly the thing that did most to stop them was that the others would also have wanted their own bits and might have led to them fighting each other.

[@sandraschwarz8464]

Yugoslavia tried to get a bigger territory from austria (the southern part of todays Carinthia). The people of Carinthia wanted to stay in Austria, so they fought of the intruders for another 2 years. The war (defensive battle from 1918 on) in southern Carinthia acutally ended on 10.10.1920 with a national referendum where more people voted for remaining in Austria.

[@geraldarmstrong5646]

Well, they fought off the British, Greeks, and French to win their independence

[@RobertDecker417]

19:06 Indy: "Say that out loud." Joakim: "...no..."

[@thescollard8764]

Feels kinda weird getting an episode on this song before an episode on "Sarajevo". As Joakim said, the songs are really mirrors of each other, with "Versailles" being almost a "Part 2" to the earlier song, so getting this episode first is like getting a "Part 2" before the first episode... or like Spaceballs 3 before Spaceballs 2.

[@_Nelcros_]

Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money!

[@bodavidson2804]

Merchandising!

[@ShamanMcLamie]

What is a fun listen, a playlist with all of Sabaton's World War I songs in chronological order. Start with Sarejevo end with Versaille. Although I like to put Shiroyama and Rorke's Drift in front as a prologue and Flander's Field at the end because it feels like a good way to end the playlist. For those interested the playlist I have is listed below. Based off a playlist I found on Reddit, but with a few changes. 1. Shiroyama 2. Rorke's Drift 3. Sarajevo 4. March To War 5. Race To The Sea 6. Christmas Truce 7. A Ghost In The Trenches 8. The Attack Of The Dead Men 9. Last Dying Breath 10. The Unkillable Soldier 11. Cliffs of Gallipoli 12. Angels Calling 13. Red Baron 14. Fields Of Verdun 15. Dreadnought 16. Soldier Of Heaven 17. The Future Of Warfare 18. Lady Of The Dark 19. Seven Pillars Of Wisdom 20. The Valley Of Death 21. The Price Of A Mile 22. Great War 23. Stormtroopers 24. Devil Dogs 25. Diary Of An Unknown Soldier 26. The Lost Battalion 27. 82nd All The Way 28. Hellfighters 29. The End Of The War To End All Wars 30. Versailles 31. In Flanders Fields

[@HeWhoHungers]

With Sarajevo being left out of the digital releases it fits very well actually!

[@ShamanMcLamie]

@@HeWhoHungers It is in the History Edition

[@robertkillis8490]

Always a good day when a Sabaton history comes out, low key hope they make one for each song

[@zerg539]

They will, the only reason they went so long without is they ran out of history songs to do episodes on until the album came out so now they are slow dripping them into our collective KZbin vein.

[@sleepytt9537]

They probably learned their lesson, if you wanna do an episode every week, you're gonna need a new album every 3-4 months.

[@suqma]

well let me make your day worse if you will... technoblade died :(

[@codex4046]

Here is the comment requesting for you to do the thing

[@thescollard8764]

So you're one of the guys, huh?

[@rawchicken3463]

Que pasa mi amigo?

[@chikitabowow]

I love how great Indy and Joakim work together on screen, they complement each other very well

[@RedDeathXVI]

I’ve missed Sabaton history so much. Makes my day better to learn history

[@sirangusfungus5471]

THE History is better than the music to be fair.

[@Alva_Lombax]

I just noticed that the music is so close to Sarajevo, so close but it has the oposite tone, that just gsve me chills

[@Jet-ij9zc]

Hey, just leaving a suggestion. It'd be nice to do an episode on Leo Major, a French Canadian soldier in ww2 and the Korean war. I won't go into to much detail but here's a quick summary: -----WW2----- - Was on the frontline of D day at Juno beach. -Captured a German tank containing communications ciphers. - Single-handedly captured 93 German soldiers while being out on a scouting mission. During that night, he lost his left eye to a white-phosphorus grenade and had his spine shattered in two places by an antitank mine amongst other injuries. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medals for it but refused because he deemed general Montgomery too incompetent to award such an honor - Single-handedly liberated the town of Zwolle from German occupation, Zwolle was occupied by roughly 1500 german soldiers. Him and Willy Arseneault were sent on a scouting mission to determine the enemy location in order to launch artillery strike on the town. Early in the mission Willy Arseneault died and Leo Major decided to take matter in his own hands (I wont go into too much detail otherwise this comment would be way too long). The town of Zwolle still has yearly parade in his honor and have awarded him honorary citizenship. He was again awarded a Distinguished Conduct Medals for it and this time accepted the award. -----Korean War----- Here's a prelude: The commander of the mortar platoon, Captain Charly Forbes, later wrote that Major was "an audacious man ... not satisfied with the proximity of my barrage and asks to bring it closer...In effect my barrage falls so close that I hear my bombs explode when he speaks to me on the radio." In Nov 1951 the American 3rd infantry division lost hill 355 to the Chinese army, leaving behind a significant amount of supplies. Lieutenant colonel Jacques Dextraze ask Leo if he can do anything about it. Leo ask to be given carte blanche, that he chooses his troops himself and that afterwards all his troops be given a bottle of rhum and an 8 day leave. That same night Leo goes to hill 355 with 18 men he previously trained, by morning he had seized the hill. Then the Chinese attempted to take it back with their 190th and 191st division, an estimated 14 000 with no success. Leo and his troops then defended the hill against 7 more attacks from 4 different directions over 3 days before being replaced by Canadian reinforcement. To highlight how insane that is again, Leo and 18 of his men did what the American 3rd division, made up of ten thousand men, deemed impossible for them to do. For those actions he was awarded his second Distinguished Conduct Medals (third if you count the one he refused) and became the only Canadian to have received a Distinguished Conduct Medals in two separate wars. I also found some articles that details the events of hill 355 a bit differently then Leo Major's Wikipedia page, not quite sure which is more accurate so I'll leave them here too (second one is from the canadian va associationof the korean war so it should be trustworthy). Forst one: www.google.com/amp/s/www.cranbrooktownsman.com/community/annals-of-canadian-combat-leo-major-and-the-battle-of-maryang-san/amp/ Second one: www.kvacanada.com/stories_trfleo.htm

[@wetwillyis_1881]

I feel like Indy has one of the most unique perspectives on the Treaty of Versailles, that I have ever heard. He doesn’t blame the fairness, instead, the Allie’s willingness to cooperate. Also, Joachim, never apologize for getting too into musical theory, my mother went to arts school, so I know the terms and the pain.

[@HivefleetMagoladon]

I agree, that's a really interesting perspective I haven't heard before! I've heard a lot of different opinions over time, but I never heard anyone say that WW2 happened because of a lack of willingness to enforce the terms of the agreement. I certainly can't say that he is wrong, either!

[@dbzfanexwarbrady]

this song grew on me over time, and i love the orcesteral version

[@RedLogicYT]

The treaty of Versailles is like the quote of "trying to make everyone happy just makes nobody happy" and that trying be "fair" instead of being decisive in their decision. I've said it before but the thing that made the treaty awful was that it left no country satisfied, and the reason it was ineffective was because it should've either been really lenient OR super harsh. They made the treaty lenient enough for Germany to rise to power again (and lenient enough that it made the germans think they did nothing wrong) but was harsh enough to make them think they were being treated unfairly. They should've made it powerful enough to prevent war completely or lenient enough that there was no ill will like post ww2

[@ΚοινωνικόςΟρθολογιστής]

Looking forward to watching you performing live on July 21st here in Athens, Hellas guys. 20 days to go. Can't wait. See you then. Excellent episode as always. Good analysis by Indy Neidel and an interesting interview at the end.

[@indianajones4321]

Dang, it’s been almost four years since the end of the Great War week by week. I feel old

[@lynnbrooklyn1332]

I’ve learned quite a bit from this episode, like the five separate treaties. Also, learned where Joachim has not visited (much to my surprise and amusement). Can’t wait to see them live for the first time!

[@jakebranch2599]

14:35 - 14: 49 is my fav part of the vid

[@jdlacroix1328]

Can't beat 2 badasses sharing the screen together! Also flute works great in this song

[@miloszlatala6315]

Finally , our prayers have been answeared a new video had arrived!

[@garrettgsf8849]

I love the line "Can a war be the end of war?" War always creates resentment and hatred, which in turn can be exploited for further warmongering in the future...

[@der_kluger_gunther8391]

i didn't know about the other ones, well i actually learned something new again!

[@harbl99]

Did Germany pay their war loans (not the reparations exacted after the war, but the incurred cost of waging the war), or default on them? To whom were these debts owed?

[@_Nelcros_]

According to BBC they finally finished paying the loans in 2010.

[@TankJockey38]

I seem to remember something about them paying it off in 2010, I think.

[@dlx7844]

actually the music stuff was very interesting, always nice to get a glimpse to behind the scenes

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

Weird mustache man: *soon.*

[@josephbaum9673]

I've been waiting for my remedial history lessons

[@jhonthecat5061]

I love the detail of the history and music, don't feel bad for nerding out about your songs! They are great and I do it all the goddamn time

[@nairpic7360]

Congratulation guys, this is maybe the most informative and overall best Sabaton History ever made. I tip my hat to you.

[@madmannn9576]

I like how the song/video teases WW2 like it's a secret ending in a marvel movie that sets up the next movie 😂

[@ValerietheLovelyDeadlyItalian]

Sooner than you think...

[@Igorilianu]

Oh yes sabaton history my favorite history channel ❤

[@DoinkReacts]

This is the best song on the album next to race to the sea. I love it!

[@jffry890]

"War will evolve. It will change." Ron Pearlman says otherwise.

[@jannwue]

Thanks Indy, this in only 20 minutes forced a new perspective on the treaty on me... The reparations where never fully forced on Germany. After reading Sleepwalkers my focus was completely on the topic of the guilty for the war but this might be too narrow. Still, I would be very interested in your opinion, Indy. Or is this not really important for the future historic events?

[@annikkirahko6714]

Really wish I had watched this back when I was writing my research paper on the Treaty of Versailles back in hoghbschool😂

[@Tadicuslegion78]

Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan is one of the best books on this subject.

[@josephbolcome5462]

She was one of the major authors I used when looking at how Wilson's role specifically has been debated in a paper for school I recently wrote.

[@InquisitorXarius]

20:20 Foreshadowing to the Extreme

[@SandraNelson063]

I love these history lessons! I always learn something. And that's a real treat.

[@neillbickerstaff6671]

Finally a new episode!!! It’s been a minute

[@starsword-c2534]

I should bring up WRT President Wilson, he was a huge racist at home, too: massively pro-segregation, including signing off on the order to formally segregate the US Armed Forces for the first time (and he wasn't even from the South, he was a college professor from New Jersey). Breaking up the US into ethnostates wouldn't exactly have been out of character for him. Also his health was deteriorating by the time the treaties were being negotiated: if I remember correctly he had a stroke during the conference. He died only a year or two after leaving office and his wife had pretty much appointed herself acting president by then. That, incidentally, is one of the scenarios the writers of the 25th Amendment had in mind.

[@johngillespie3409]

The north was just as racist as the south.

[@Tadicuslegion78]

He was born in Staunton, Virginia on December 28, 1856, his first memory is hearing that Abraham Lincoln got elected and that war was coming, grew up in Augusta, Georgia then in Columbia South Carolina, Went to College at Princeton, then went back to Virginia for law school then back to Georgia to practice law, got sick of it so went to John Hopkins to get his PhD then jumped around at several colleges before back to Princeton to Governor of New Jersey to President

[@jarlbreadmaker]

If my memory serves me, he was infected with influenza during the conference and the stroke was afterwards back in America.

[@knelsud92]

Wilson is arguably the worst American President.

[@Tadicuslegion78]

@@jarlbreadmaker In A. Scott Berg's book, I believe it was Wilson had undiagnosed/poorly diagnosed atherosclerosis and have several small strokes over the course of his life until the Big one that nearly killed him.

[@NataschaS195]

Great episode, spanning a very disturbing time. Especially in Germany... And who knows what would have happened if the Treaty of Versailles had been implemented consistently... By the way, I love this "Thunderbolt and lightning" shirt, it's amazing!

[@quantuman100]

It would have taken a few more years before ww2 started, in the end it was cooperation that lead to an end of the wars of Central/Western Europe, not colonial power plays.

[@SimonvanTilburg]

Sabaton History makes me look every time with great interest to a new history lesson and an awesome song. EVERY TIME👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻🤩

[@5chr4pn3ll]

Damn, have you gotten a camera upgrade? Looks amazing.

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!

[@mastergamer1238]

Upload a video call stormtrooper Sabaton history please

[@ok9nja741]

This episode reminds me of probably the most famous line said in Fallout. "War. War never changes."

[@comradekommandmentklaus1848]

I find it weird that the more songs Sabaton makes the more a timeline appears like Versailles leads into Rise of Evil very well.

[@csabanadasiioioo1480]

Thanks for mentioning the other treaties as well! It kinda pains me that the song was only about the Versailles treaty though. Obviously it has the biggest impact in the future but it's still a bit inconsiderate with the other nations who lost much more. Hungary for example got reduced to 30% of it's original size but their parliament voted against the war but was ignored by the Austrian leadership.

[@bubla2659]

Ayyyyyyy new episode

[@ChickenNoodleSouf]

LETS GOOO!!!

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

7:36 imagine if they didn’t sign the armistice? What if the war continued?

[@ozimakistvan]

12:02 Let it sink in! 28%... (imagine that for your country) As a Hungarian, i don't have any intentions on getting back any of those lands. Not even those which are lived by Hungarians even today. But for gods sake... let us remember for our history. Let us remember that in history, we were a great nation lived by great people. I'm mainly addressing this to people who actually outraged because our PM (and many ordinary Hungarian people) has a "great Hungary" (do a google search on it) map on his office wall. I believe a lot of nations were actually offended by seeing this. I mean??? It's our history. You can even ban this map from the world, but thats just history. I know that we had a lot of other nations people in our territory, so that's why i have no interest on saying that it was "good". Because it was only good for us. But let's turn this method towards EU nowadays... These nations people nowadays would openly and willingly join UEN or European Federation... when we know it well, that western countries have 0 interest on strengthening eastern or central european countries economy. They want to sell their goods, not buy it from us. They want to strengthen their economy and lower unemployement, not ours. Still... if a Croatian or Romanian or Slovakian etc. individual sees this map, instantly rages towards us :D Like we don't even have a proper army for gods sake :D We have like 4 piece of Gripen and a few Leopard? :D Having like 10-20k voluntary service soldiers? :D It's obvious that we will not attack anyone... we could not even properly defend ourselfs. We are not sending any weaponry into Ukraine, not because we don't want to... but because we CAN'T :D What we have is barely enough to defend our borders against illegal migrants. Even if we would wanted to (but actually imho we shouldn't), we don't have anything to spare :) Anyway. We lost 2/3rd of our country at trianon. Let us mourn in piece at least. Thank you!

[@marinamucic908]

Yes, but you can understand how we can get "slightly" irritated when your PM Talks how Croatia took "your" sea. We can argue about certain areas with our other neighbours on the sea, but not with Hungary. Anyway, we are all Sabaton fans here, so I don't want to turn this into a discussion, just stating my point of view. It is all history now, future is frightening enough anyway.

[@ozimakistvan]

@@marinamucic908 See? That is what i'm talking about! Our PM said exactly this: "We've had sea, but it was taken from us." He does not said "Croatia took it from us" never. Is it true, or is it false? It WAS taken from us. Period. Theres nothing to argue about it. But your country took it personally right away. And now you are in false information circle already. And tbh, we've took very nice care of Fiume (our only port in Croatia which was given to us by Maria Theresia in 1779 upon request of the local residents). We built numerous infrastructure/buildings there. We even had a Budapest-Fiume train connection. And we had like 5-10k hungarian people living there. It was a blooming port city until 1914... Just look after it. When the war began, the port did not received commercial goods and therefore it began to deteriate. After that in 1918 the croatian military/army (Jellasics regiment to be precise) went in to Fiume and ransacked it. Especially public institutions. However, the existing military forces were no longer sufficient to control further riots, so on October 28, 1918, the last Hungarian Fiume governor, Zoltán Jekelfalussy, and the Hungarian state police left the city. Thats what our PM was talking about. We never took advantage or parlay the cities which were in our kingdom. We actually built it and tried to even upgrade and revive them. Yet, we always get these "hatred" from our neighbours. Still after we lost 2/3rd of our country, and we have to live without a significant amount of our population outside of our borders. We gave more since 104 years, than we ever took. Yet we are the bad guys because we have our old country maps... smh. No offense! Really no. I like every neighbouring country. Croatian coast and islands are beutiful, i've been there twice already (Krk, Rab), and i want to go back asap.

[@marinamucic908]

@@ozimakistvan like I said, it's history now and you are always welcome.

[@szeleddie]

Exactly what you wrote here!!! So called "Versailles peace treaty" was the biggest robbery/land manipulation and crime in history of the WORLD!!! In the trianon part they declerare: Hungary must commit suicide for the sake of his surviving!!!

[@andrewfanner2245]

106 years ago today the Battle of The Somme started.

[@Bang-Ai146]

Allies: "This treaty will end all the war." Man with mustache: "I don't think so." *To Sabaton History. Can I request for video about "Defense of Moskow part2"?

[@jameswalker3973]

0:42 few of us will ever be as bad ass as a guy standing on top of a WW1 tank as it rolls into battle.

[@rawchicken3463]

Correction 0:39

[@jameswalker3973]

@@rawchicken3463 my clock must be fast

[@realhawaii5o]

Indeed, my country of Portugal entered the war on the Entente side in 1916... The treaty of Versailles did recognize Portuguese sovereignty over their "overseas province" (colonies) and was awarded very small portions of Germany's bordering overseas colonies. Otherwise, Portugal gained little at the peace conference. The promised share of German reparations never materialized, and the seat Portugal coveted on the executive council of the new League of Nations went instead to Spain (which had remained neutral in the war). In the end, Portugal ratified the treaty, but got little out of the war, which cost more than 8,000 Portuguese Armed Forces troops their lives.

[@nehemiahsstuff]

Can you please do a video on the song "7734" from the "Heroes" album?!

[@climax050]

This is my favourite series on KZbin! Can’t wait to see more of these amazing breakdowns on amazing songs that I’ve had on repeat since the album dropped 🤘

[@samzorn4656]

It is my hope that, when you cover the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, as well as the long-term ramifications of said assassination, in "Sarajevo", you also include some of the words allegedly spoken by Vaso Čubrilovič, one of the other assassins, when he expressed regret over the event: "We destroyed a beautiful world that was lost forever due to the war that followed." Regardless, as a history buff and Sabaton fan, I look forward to the next episode of Sabaton History!

[@maxbrooks5468]

Joachim never having been to Normandy beaches does seem odd ... I mean I haven't either but y'know.

[@kaitlyncashman577]

Joakim!! I play the flute!!! I volunteer the next time you need one!!!!

[@robertm.8653]

Loved it! 😍

[@MotorPotor56]

My grandpappy had the good sense to gtfo out of Romania/Hungary in 1907. Left the Port City of Rijeka/Fiume on the Carpathia...which would later pick up Titanic survivors in 1912.

[@asidewinder5871]

ngl this song should have ended with some "Rise of Evil" notes, that would have been sick

[@christopheradams9543]

They could have at least asked Ian Anderson if he was available to do a few seconds of flute. Hehehehe

[@JMK79]

Went to Ben and Mary Kelley's Grave yesterday.

[@xcritic9671]

This was very informative, I never knew just how much the Nazis manipulated the narrative on this subject.

[@TheRealForgetfulElephant]

There were two ways to potentially secure peace with Germany at the end of WWI. The first way was to destroy Germany's ability to determine their future (politically and militarily). The second way was to offer a fairer peace agreement hopefully quelling the tensions that erupted into WWII. I feel like the treaty that was signed here is somewhere in the middle leading to the allies (France mostly) being unhappy with the leniency and Germany being devastated. Which allowed for reactionary politics that painted a picture of an "unfair peace treaty" in the 1920-1930's like Indy talks about.

[@alexamerling79]

I always play this song right before Rise of Evil in my playlist lol

[@leftyme4568]

Many Danes now say we should have fought much more, but it was a hopeless battle back then. Our sad king gave it up, but many heroes unknown joined the resistance and blew up railroads to stop the germans in any way possible ....many were caught and executed .

[@mattroshon1415]

More importantly, what brand of pants is Joakim wearing and where can I get them????

[@Кивис-ч3й]

new video nice

[@Roycesraphim1]

The "full democracy" bit had my attention

[@ggravett]

Well said.

[@damenaturedu91]

kind of joke ! Thou'art to go in Normandy ! it's mandatory !! 😂😂

[@ΚοινωνικόςΟρθολογιστής]

7:54 A reference to the Wonder Woman movie? Wasn't expecting it. Nice one Indy. Well, we all know that Lundendorf (if I had any spelling mistakes here please correct me) was killed by Dianna of Themiskyra, daughter of the Amazon queen Hypolita. And since Indy talked about it that means it happened right? RIGHT?

[@Southsideindy]

of course! and all those phots of him leading what was at the time called the Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch in 1923 and later the Beer Hall Putsch are fake. Fake, I tell you!!!

[@ΚοινωνικόςΟρθολογιστής]

@@Southsideindy Of course they are fake. How could he have been there? He was killed in 1918 by Wonder Woman merely a few days before the ceasefire. Wait a minute, is that really you Mr Neidell? If so, I am honored.

[@darraghmartin8985]

Sabaton need to make a single about the 1916 Easter Rising 🇮🇪

[@smelkus]

Is it true Germany was forced to give the world the formula for aspirin as one of the conditions of the treatise

[@sirangusfungus5471]

NIGHTWISH MUCH...OH MY?!?

[@Gil-galad12]

10:26 - still horrible to hear - and War will return, sooner than we think - because Putlers war

[@Jekyll-fv3qd]

Dziękuję, Pozdrawiam Serdecznie !!!

[@beanssnaeb3154]

Yo new upload

[@swordsnspearguy5945]

what I'd give for a time machine right about now

[@naldowelthagen2777]

So we can expect a guest appearance from Joakim in the WW2 D-Day coverage?

[@justbeingahistorynerd7477]

Nice

[@najrenchelf2751]

Now, will Joachim be there in Normandy? XD

[@carlh3745]

Can we get dreadnought next please

[@metalmachine4433]

It's a bit sad, disappointing and unbelievable how everyone on the victorious side didn't think that their treaty of peace is a straight up provoking and an act of hatred against other countries who have suffered just as much as they did. I'm from hungary, and people from western countries think that our society hasn't become any better since the first and second world wars. Just to tell the truth, it became two sided. One is stuck in the old ages, clinging to nationality and other kinds of radicalism, which of course doesn't help anyone. People on the other side have severed bonds with many of the "hungarian characteristics" that are mostly cultural, built by the harsh history of the country. All for the greater good, to finally forget what some people did in the past, that are NOT us, who live after them

[@marcfrei319]

wer u gona sel the piano from frauenseld?

[@bastisonnenkind]

Can someone explain how some people (like TIKHistory) don't seem to agree on the "war guild clause" of the Versailles treaty?

[@matiasyannuzzi9655]

I'm surprised the increasing worrying the west experienced about Communism wasn't included as one of the reasons why the treaty wasn't enforced on Germany and why appeasement was the chosen diplomatic strategy.

[@xornxenophon3652]

Versailles was a bad treaty insofar, as it left Germany still powerful enough to throw off the shackles of the treaty sooner or later but on the other hand had no realistic terms for a treaty meant to be enforced (i.e. a fixed term or total sum for reparations). Nobody in his right mind believed that Germany would keep to that treaty forever or that the former allies would even be able to enforce it forever. It was not meant to last, from the very day it was signed. The allies simply charged their total costs of ww1 to Germany and did not think much about how that would inevitably lead to "renegotiations" of the treaty on the part of Germany sooner or later. The French were especially dumb by continually harassing Germany after ww1 (and even invading her territory). That was somewhat like poking a wounded tiger with a stick each day, even though you have been mauled by him once before. And that is why most people internationally were not that surprised when one man finally did the "renegotiations" for Germany all by himself and simply told them to shove it. Strangely enough, nobody wanted to cause a major war, just to appease the irrational fears of the French about Germany. After all, Hitler seemed a rather reasonable man, who just wanted to make Germany great again?! Did he not?

[@kingawesoowska3341]

when Poland regained independence, in November 28 1918 the decree of the Chief of State on the electoral law to the Legislative Seym stated that "an voter to the Seym is every citizen of the State without any gender difference" (Art. 1) and "Elected to the Seym are all citizens (light) of the state who have the right to vote ”(Art. 7) [4]; these provisions were upheld by the March Constitution [1]. The first Polish women to sit in the Polish parliament were Gabriela Balicka, Jadwiga Dziubińska, Irena Kosmowska, Maria Moczydłowska, Zofia Moraczewska, Anna Piasecka, Zofia Sokolnicka and Franciszka Wilczkowiakowa. 😁

[@samanthar1214]

So, is Joakim going to make it to Normandy???

[@Corporal_Wojtek]

Day 1 of asking them to do a video on glorious land

[@leftyme4568]

Ill believe it If Sabaton and Indie says it . They are usually right,!!!