THE FINAL SOLUTION // Sabaton // Historian Reaction

[@mdtrava1619]

My dad was stationed in England when I was younger, which allowed us to do a lot of traveling in Europe. We were in Germany on a ski trip in Garmisch, and at the resort I saw a brochure for Dachau, which was about an hour and a half from our resort. I've been a history buff since I was younger and my Navy vet grandfather would babysit me and all we watched were world war two documentaries. I was about 11 years old at that time, and I begged and begged my dad to take me there since I thought it would be just like any other WW2 landmark but I was sorely mistaken. At that age, seeing where some of the most horrible crimes against humanity were committed, really opened my eyes, and to this day I think it has affected my outlook on life the most. If anyone can get the opportunity to go, I think you 100% should. It was one of the most humbling experiences I've ever had, and even at 11 years old it put a lot of things in perspective for me. Love the videos, keep up the hard work!

[@pavelius140]

I was in similar age when I visited Auschwitz, I have pretty same conclusion about it, seeing all that horrible things changes you buy you have to go there fully aware where you go, as you said, dont treat it as a tourist attraction

[@kylehoffman7396]

What I found chilling about the song is that after the lines “ Auschwitz awaits” you can hear the guitar in the background. I believe they said in an interview once that it is mimicking the sounds of a train going over tracks. Just stumbled across your channel with your reaction to no bullets fly - it’s so cool to watch someone that knows about the history of the songs! Anything off their Great War album is great; or their Heroes album! Keep up the great work :D

[@Davidkiser13]

look up sabaton history channel.... they literally sit for like 20 min and explain the history behind the songs... so bloody cool

[@papamauryc2300]

I also found the channel at the no bullets fly song

[@ThePuma1707]

The whole train things starts with the line "ever since its started" the whole songs just mimics a steam train approaching a train station, in this case, Auschwitz. Just listen a bit closely, you will notice

[@TheSimon253]

The drums are doing that in the whole song...

[@robertpeel3771]

I heard my father call my name as that happened

[@jemrockton]

The song: Honestly? I love it. Once I saw Sabaton live and they performed it. I remember standing quite in front of the stage, in all that warmth of the venue- pyro, stage lights, many people around me transpiring, sweatting myself- and with this song, I got chills, shudders, goosebumps over my whole body. That was a... strange feeling to say the least. The next two or three weeks, I couln't sleep without listening to this song. Such an impact has it had on me... I love Joakim's voice anyway, but it simply fits the song in an amazing way. The vid fits also, the pictures, the dark atmosphere it radiates. The topic? Very interested since I was fourteen. My grand aunt gave me two books, experience novels about concentration camps. I was still interested when our history teacher showed us original documentations of CCs, piles of bodies, thousands of flies around them, piles of hair, tooth gold (?) and so on. I'm a history nerd anyway but this special topic haunts me, perhaps because I'm German.

[@alexs7189]

The important thing is to remember and commemorate the victims, and to ensure that such an event never happens again. "What happened cannot be undone, but it can be prevented from happening again." Anne Frank

[@mannistef]

I was sad to hear your great uncle destroyed the pictures. Even though it is horrifying we must remember. Thanks for the reaction, greetings from Iceland.

[@kugelblitzkrieg]

Yes. So much important history was lost in that stove. I don’t blame him for doing so, but it’s still so tragic.

[@painvillegaming4119]

@@kugelblitzkrieg am not sur anybody could have saw those photos without losing hope in humanity

[@danielrupp7578]

There's a pretty intense holocaust museum in Michigan as well. Took my wife and kids there last year. You mentioned wanting to visit Auschwitz and I cannot imagine it. I try every veterans day to visit a local veteran cemetary and it breaks me every time. I've thought about going to some famous battlefields or famous military cemeteries and can't. Don't think I could handle it. Auschwitz would be worse.

[@Dingusdoofus]

There is a massive one in Skokie Illinois. The museum is built as a maze that goes in chronological order and in the center of the whole building is an old railroad (that never was removed) that had a German Cattle Car placed on it. The whole museum was built around this car. I was in 8th grade when I visited the museum on a school trip and when we got to the car only a few of us (including me) had the courage to go inside this harmless looking Cattle Car knowing that 100 at a time, minorities were crammed into this car and sent into horrific places.

[@mariellevandenborne2361]

Been to normandy, really chilling but also beautiful because these people gave me freedom and more importantly life

[@KajtekBeary]

Yeah, if you have empathy, it's... unbelievable hard experience... I'm visited other concentration camp "Majdanek" and it's terrifying experience... Auschwitz was bigger, but other than that, there's no that big difference between other concentration camps and Auschwitz. Maybe with few exceptions...

[@DeputatKaktus]

Visiting Auschwitz or any other concentration camp is a harrowing experience. I visited both Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen, as well as the "Wolfsschanze" Bunker memorial, where Stauffenberg tried to assassinate Hitler. If you go to any of the camps, do not go alone if your are in any way sensitive. Do not try to "be brave". Go with friends or family and talk about your experience afterwards. And there is no shame in crying. This happens regularly at some of the memorials.

[@arashirena4317]

Visiting concentration camps is hard, no matter the size and history of it. In my former school it's mandatory to visit 'Strutthof' in France when we're 14/15 years old. The experimention chamber was the worst there for me. To see it and know what horrifying things were done to living people... it was rough for the whole class. Later in my last years of school we went to 'Buchenwald' when we went to a trip in Weimar. There was a room before the chamber with the ovens where the had memorial tablets from some of the people who died there. Putting names to the people who were burned just behind you removed the anonymity of the mass and makes everything so much more heartbreaking. But seeing these concentration camps was important. To see and feel the proof of what happens if you let fear, animosity, discrimination and hatred go to far. It consilidates something for me. We may not be able to change the past, but we can ensure that something like this never happens again.

[@QueenVoodo0]

This song is a weird one for me It hurts like hell to watch but at the same time I can’t stop listening, I cried multiple times when I first listened to it And while making this comment I read another one talking about the Guitars and drums emulating trains when Joakim said “Auschwitz Awaits” it made me shake and break down when that part played

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I understand what you mean, completely.

[@Toyotatracktor]

I have the same feeling

[@Chris-fr2gm]

I am from Austria and we visited Mauthausen from School because the story must not die. It was overwhelming and shocking and ashaming what our nations did. But we have to learn from history and do everything in our might that this doesnt happen again!

[@martinjacobsen2992]

The sins of the father does not pass on to the son, likewise, the sins of a nations leaders, wont pass on to the next ones, you have nothing to be ashamed over..

[@sharischoll9411]

Even though people knew about it what could they do about it. Any person who stands up against a Communist will be slaughtered. Just walking down the street got you raped or shot. The Polish underground took several Nazis out but had to be careful to only take the worst criminals out since if one was missing, they would kill like 10 prisoners as payback. Didn't have power or weapons to fight them.

[@h.t.h.4086]

Same here Bro. Greetings from another Austrian.

[@alkirk-ws4co]

@@martinjacobsen2992 Correct So Long as you NEVER allow history to repeat itself on 'Your Watch.'

[@gidi3250]

My people where also in a concentration camp some 40 years earlier by the British but it didn't get to the scale the Germans did it in the second world war. We Boers as a people group of some od 150 thousand at the time(in counting those already living under Britsh rule) lost 27 thousand in the British camps and it's quite common to hear of a British person coming here to see the meuseam and saying it was not real and is a conspiracy to make the britsh look bad and the Boers should have just bought their freedom and when people bring up the britsh only allowed them to take clothes and then burned their farms down the britsh tourists usually say it's not their problem. Still Hitler did say he got inspired from hearing about the britsh concentration camps and how my people died of starvation and disease

[@erikdahlgren6656]

Have a similar thing here in Sweden that I had not heard about until like last year. A comedian and political commentator wrote a book about our swedish consetration camps (among other things) and how they also was an inspiration for the german ones. In them there were some of the Sami (native to nordic Sweden, Norway and Finland however not ethnic to any of the countries even by thier own words), people with dissabilities and so on. To get best possible info he had to get it from the US. beacause the swedish government had sealed the information. The book is called "det här är en svensk tiger" or "this is a swedish tiger" and is a reference to a painting.

[@alexs7189]

On Hitler's speech this is controversial, some say that he was inspired by the genocide of Native Americans carried out by the British and then by the United States, especially in 700/800, but it may be that they are inspired by more things at the same time. Before the Second World War, the internment camp had another meaning, of course they were often brutal places where prisoners died very often, we Italians for example used it against Africans during the colonial period, but the purpose was not to make a genocide, certainly genocides unfortunately did not begin with the holocaust, and unfortunately they did not end with the holocaust, albeit on a much smaller scale.

[@etherealhawk]

The Boer camps weren't DEATH camps though. The Brits didn't want to exterminate the Boers. They were at war with you and it was an opportunity to secure territory. There's prisons in South America with the same benign neglect going on. Concentration camp =/= death camp.

[@etherealhawk]

@@alexs7189 Britain didn't genocide native Americans, almost at all. That wasn't colonial policy. In fact, in the War of 1812, a big part of the British allied forces were a huge coalition of Natives.

[@gidi3250]

@@etherealhawk never said that they where death camps tho the German ones started out as concentration camps aswell but was changed into death camps later on and the British army didn't care about Boer casualties and made no attempts to hide what they where doing the cape governer begged and was successful in getting the British army to hand over the camps to the colony's administration and no one attempted to stop miss emily hobhouse from giving the European newspapers her story. The Boer camps where not a case of neglect it was the strategy to get Boer kommandos out of the country side and to surrender, some did. This was not the first appearance of internment camps, as the Spanish had used internment in Cuba in the Ten Years' War, but the Boer War concentration camp system was the first time that a whole nation had been systematically targeted, and the first in which whole regions had been depopulated. I'd recommend reading the concentration camps section to get the general idea en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War

[@xJamesLaughx]

For a first hand account of the Holocaust I recommend the book "Transcending Darkness" by Estelle Glaser Laughlin, my stepfather's mother, who was a survivor and lived through the concentration camps along with her sister and mother who all survived as well.

[@danorott]

Little known fact is that Patton got to Pilsen and wanted to get all the way to Prague before the Soviets but Eisenhower stopped him.

[@Wanys123]

Geopolitics costing lives again there. Prague uprising, calling for help over radios, and those men just had to stand there and do nothing. Americans could have been in Prague like 4-5 days earlier than Soviets. Also being part of Western Bloc rather than Eastern would sound fantastic to me.

[@danorott]

@@Wanys123 Yeah, it's a shame.

[@sharischoll9411]

Russian released documents, saw video of General Paton & troops in Moscow standing accross from Russian troops. Paton staring ahead and Russians whispering. Roosevelt ordered them to go make friends with Russian troops. He was in Poland and called for orders to help the Polish and told to "stand down". He stated, " I will follow orders and come here but after what I saw those savages do to the Polish people, I will not make friends. We were on the wrong side. Also read he was furious with the US. He said you told the American people we were there to free the people from Communists and you left the Polish and East German under Communist rule!!! They lied about almost everything. The events were so much more horrible than we were told it is like 2 different events. Just recently agreed to list Holodomar as a famine. Bit was NOT a famine, it was evil cruel crime against humanity of starvation. Refused to admit the Armenian genocide . Another one going on today. Don't get me started on our genocide.

[@warrior7ra]

I went to Dachau while I was stationed in Germany with the Big Red One. You could still smell burned human flesh 10 yrds outside the cremetorium even 60 years after the furnaces were last used. Just approaching the camp made the hair stand up on the back of my neck, entering the courtyard is oppressive and approaching the crematorium sickened and enraged me an anger so deep I know with out a doubt what I would have done to those who perpeteated or helped perpetrate that horror. After we left I was physically exhausted we stayed in Munchin (Munich) because I couldn't make the 2.25 hr drive back to Bliedorn Kasserne, Ansbach. Two other times in my life I have felt that same rage and absolute hatred for other people, Somalia (the total disregard for any and all life) and Bosnia/ Hetsoslovenia I provided cover and security for the UN War Crimes investigators while they documented and recovered genocide victims from mass graves. I have seen war enough to last till the end of time there is no word or phrase in any language I speak or have heard that can explain or convey that level of Evil nor is there any words that can convey help me explain the anger I still harbor and retribution I want to deliver onto those who were responsible at any level for any of these... atrocities perpetrated by Soul Less, Evil, Twisted Abominations pretending to be Human.

[@kyle18934]

Thankyou for sharing that

[@GregoryGeilman]

I have seen them in 77 and we got a lot closer that 10 yds. We could actually touch them if we wanted. Of course we were told they were never actually used (a big lie!)

[@pawebroszko4737]

better start preparing for war again. china just beat all others in crimes against humanity

[@Lord_Juvens]

@@pawebroszko4737 Yeah, no one is save. Their recent Quantum Network and Jack Ma gone missing just shows us, something is going on there and it's not just COVID. Thank you for sharing, D McGregor, nothing to add.

[@ncrranger6409]

Damm I don’t think I Evan went near the crematorium I just stayed in the museum and listened to survivor interviews

[@viceroy3016]

I'd love to see your reaction to "Last stand" and "40 to 1" both are Sabaton songs. Also I don't know if you know but there is a Sabaton history channel were the guys from the band talk about their music and the history behind it.

[@Amelia-vk4jt]

A friend of mine (also a neighbour) but also so much more, took me in as a teenager as I had a bad family situation. I'd go to their house and they'd feed me. The husband (my friend) Albert, though me to fish, hunt, cook and grow/breed my own food. We'd go fishing every Wednesday afternoon for years untill his death. During our fishing trips he'd always tell me stories of what our hometown used to be like, his childhood, how he met his wife and his life as a soldier in WWII. I felt like I knew his whole life story he told me so much and he was good at telling stories as well. When he died I saw on his death note it said that he had survived and escaped a labour camp in Germany (were Belgian). After a while I brought it up with his wife (Benedicta) during dinner. She proceeded to tell me that during the war he was taking as a prisoner of war and sent to a labour camp in Germany, he escaped and with the help of resistance movement he managed to travel true France, cross the Pyrenees get into Spain and from there to England. Where he served there (I knew that part but I always assumed he smuggled to the UK via a ship in Zeebrugge). Wed spend hours together where he'd tell me all about his life (and his life as a soldier during the war) I thought I knew him well and I did. But he never told me anything about being a prisoner of war, it just goes to show that you can never know everything about someone. A year after Albert's death Benedicta also died, I was 18 then and I got out of my home situation. I still miss them and am honoured that I got to grow up with their support. They lived a happy life, they never had any children of their own but I like to think that I was kind of like a child to them. They never slowed down even into their 90s they still lived active lives untill they suddenly died in their sleep.

[@elitetanker6090]

Next you should listen to their life performance of "En livstid I krig" from their 2020 tour. It's about the 30 years war and is one of their best performances. Also, have subs on since they sing in Swedish

[@wurstsalatplays523]

I was to Dachau camp near Munich once, and there was a small section of woodland where the ashes of the Burned were shoveled into. Knowing there are the ashes of over 200.000 people in just a few squaremetres of woodland gives you chills. The place had something dark and scary to it. Knowing what happend there just 75 years ago is unimagineble.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

wow....I can't imagine.

[@PorcusDivinus]

As "Kristallnacht" is mentioned: It was called like that for many years, but today in german speaking countries it is widely seen as cynical and/or euphemistic and therefore terms like "Reichspogromnacht" or "Novemberpogrome" are used quite often, too (I guess this is different among historians as historians of other origin still use and always used "Kristallnacht"as a term). Thank you for your videos from Germany, I camhe here for Sabaton, but I pretyy sure will watch your other stuff, too)!

[@philiphalpin1997]

I went to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin a couple of years back. As a 57 year old man I cried like a baby at what i was seeing and hearing. This must never happen again.

[@livianegidius9772]

this is one of their finest... salute to SABATON

[@ukaszjanowski2183]

Listening your stories is hard, looking at your face is hard. So emotional... Terrifying. And to think that there are people who pretend it never happened. May it never happen again. Grettings from Poland. Sorry for my english

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Your English is very good...we must never forget. I am with you, may we never let it happen again.

[@metatron76]

When i was in highschool we took a school learning excursion. Basically, we went to visit Buchenwald memorial, where we were guided around by a survivor of that very camp. It was a surreal experience. I feel priviledged to have been given the chance to see that place and learn from someone who was actually there. It is a humbling and haunting experience.

[@maizhing]

have been to auschwitz and Dachau as part of a schooltrip and you can still feel the hopelessness and despair they must have felt, visited one of the "showers" and i could not bring myself to walk in there no matter what, that was how bad the place made me feel.

[@adanhu]

Conspiracy is a pretty brutal film, despite being all talk. It was based on what was left of the original transcripts from the whansee convention. If you ever make it to Europe, don't forget to visit Belgium. Born and raised in Mechelen (malines. SS samellager Mecheln) we get confronted with these dark pages of history on a daily base. In front of kazerne dossin there's a restored version of the train wagons used, the kazerne itself housing a holocaust museum now.

[@DivusMagus]

The best part about sabaton is they are making sure these events, battles, heroes are not forgot. Its important to remember the past so we can move into the future better. Right now we are seeing the same things happening china with their slave camps. but most the world would rather turn a blind eye and pretend its not happening.

[@fredrikolofsson2320]

And yet we are in a situation where are in a time where history keeps repeating its self and you are dined to speak out

[@88Whatanick88]

Being from Austria you learn a lot about WW2, the Nazis and the Holocaust in school. Even though I had a great teacher back then, what I have learned about WW2 and the Holocaust always felt "distant" and somewhat "unimaginable". I will never forget that moment, walking through Auschwitz, looking at an exhibit, a handwritten list, some kind of work schedule and realizing that I am able to read and understand every single word. That suddenly made it feel very real and personal. I hope you get the chance to visit Auschwitz, I can honestly say it is an experience you will not forget.

[@thedolbea5906]

React to War Thunder's Trailer: "Victory Is Ours" (DAY 3)

[@mishaDorjan]

Auschwitz was hands down the “heaviest” place I’ve ever been. I remember feeling, as soon as I passed under the gates, that I couldn’t remember how to laugh; like a physical weight feeling around my shoulders that I would never smile again. Visiting this place changed me.

[@shardironclaw5936]

I have visited Dachau concentration camp. As soon as I entered the gates, every fibre in my body was telling me that something was wrong there. I can't explain it well, but it's almost like you could sense the death, as if I had a sixth sense. I'm glad I went to further my knowledge of the events, but I will never do it again. I still get chills when thinking about it.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Appreciate your observations. They are quite understandable.

[@shardironclaw5936]

@@VloggingThroughHistory I definitely recommend going once for the sake of the history, but once you do you'll understand why it's something you'd only do once. Edit: just be warned that you will feel... wrong (for lack of a better explanation) the entire time.

[@devinmorse3607]

A couple songs I think you'd enjoy from Sabaton are "Screaming Eagles" (about the 101st AB) and "To Hell and Back" (about Audie Murphy).

[@lauribleu7558]

I am 67. I grew up in CA. There was a required documentary all students were shown during their history classes. It was comprised entirely of film footage the Nazis took to archive what went on in the concentration camps. Horrifying stuff, real footage of severely starved emaciated people, exections, those emaciated bodies dumped into mass graves. "Dehumanization" is too pale a word to describe it. It took three days to watch the entire thing. I am glad I had that opportunity to see it. Any time I hear the phrase, "Lest we forget," I remember that documentary.

[@bradk12fan]

I had been hesitant to listen to and watch this video by Sabaton. To be honest, it had put me off to them to know that they had a song called The Final Solution. I hadn’t listened to any of their music until I came across The Christmas Truce. I’m Jewish, and my grandparents survived the Holocaust. My grandfather was in Auschwitz, my grandmother was in Bergen-Belsen. I had, by my count, 70 relatives deported. 9 survived. The Christmas Truce reaction that you did @vloggingthroughthistory actually taught me that Sabaton’s music is a mix of music and history lessons.

[@SightUnseen555]

Your story about your great uncle and his daughter reminded me of the story in the song "What Did You Do In the War, Dad?" by Sonata Arctica. While not strictly speaking a historical song like Sabaton's, the lyrics are about a father with PTSD from a war he was in and trying to hide his trauma from his son so that his son never has to experience what he went through. Maybe you should check it out if you're interested. It's a really good song IMO.

[@theronraam23]

My great uncle in my moms side brought a wife home from ww2. She lived 5 miles away from a camp, and as a result, couldnt stand the 4th of July as the barbeques reminded her to much of the burning corpses and the fireworks reminded her of the gunfire and bombs. She would hide under their bed every year, cry and urinate herself from the trauma. I never knew her but I wholeheartedly hope she at peace now.

[@andrewames247]

There is (or perhaps, was) a Holocaust museum in Nashville, Tennessee; I had a chance to visit it about 10 years ago, but I decided not to. I didn't think I could stomach it. Considering I broke out in tears at the sight of a set of slave manacles a few years later at the Illinois State Museum, I think I made the right decision. We must NEVER allow ourselves to forget the evils that mankind can commit...

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Amen to that. I had a really hard time with the lynching scene in Free State of Jones.

[@argantyr5154]

As a dane with interest in history I must admit I'm a bit ashamed to say I have never visited a camp yet, but I will once this Covid is over. What made the Nazi regime standout compared toward other regimes/wars was not so much what they did, but how they "industrialised" it. While being on the Topic of Camps etc. try and react to "Sabaton - inmate 4859"

[@argantyr5154]

Sabaton does not play this live, because they believe it would be weird to rock out to this Song and subject.

[@stephenmagill1294]

My wife and I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau a few years ago. I think its one place everyone should get a chance to experience, incredibly harrowing. I hope your channel enables you to travel to Poland and see some of the camps. The "tourist" feeling wasn't bad when i was there, the guides did a good job of keeping the idiots respectful.

[@buckybrown1048]

If you're interested in how it all looked from the perspective of an inmate in such a camp called 'camp literature' (literatura obozowa), and it includes some of the most graphic descriptions of how it was. I am not sure if these works were translated into English, but the name of one of them is 'Ladies and Gentlemen, To the Chamber please' (Proszę Państwa do Gazu). I genuinly had nightmares after reading and talking about it on my literature classes.

[@kirstenshute2729]

By Tadeusz Borowski? Yes, I have an English translation of that book, called "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen." I've only read the first story in it so far. Brutal stuff, I agree, though I appreciate the writing quality and attention to detail.

[@buckybrown1048]

@@kirstenshute2729 This one, you got it. Brutal as all hell, but worth the read to know what happened in the camp. I hope you get through it better than me.

[@isaiahwelch8066]

I remember watching Schindler's List in 10th grade History class (and one of Liam Neeson's most emotional performances, IMO). Around the same time, my English teacher, Ms. Labadie, went to Dachau, the first concentration camp, and brought back pictures. They were...horrific, to say the least. I had no idea how much they would affect me, as we were also reading "Night" by Elie Wiesel at the same time. This song hits me hard and is why I fight so hard to show the doubters and rewriters of history that this happened. That it is real. That the horror of the Holocaust has left a deep and indelible mark on 20th century history. Having seen Schindler's List, and learning about a man from Britain named Sir Wiston, who saved 669 children during the Second World War, clips of Schindler's List, and songs like this not only bring tears to my eyes, but they harden my resolve to pass along the knowledge I know, so that the following shall always ring true: Never again. Never forget.

[@lordwar7678]

The best Sabaton song ever in my opinion.

[@Nattfare]

Visited Auschwitz (or Oświęcim in Polish) in 2015. Just seeing it without even getting anything explained from the guide gave me a very heavy feeling. The monstrosities that happened in all those camps is shocking, but also telling what crimes humanity is capable of committing. Very solemn, but also very educational.

[@danorott]

Oświęcim is the name of the town, not the camp.

[@Nattfare]

I am aware.

[@erikdahlgren6656]

Some of my family are Jehovas witnesses. And some years ago I went to USA to visit my step brother and in his and His wives congregation there were two members who were at the same camp. A woman (she even showed me her purple triangle she had kept as a reminder that anything can be overcome, and her husband who were a guard. He still had his old uniform (with papers showing he was allowed to own them) as a reminder that anyone can be evil, it is not the uniform that does the deed.

[@alexskokan880]

Every year ending in the ninth grade go to visit the Auschwitz to learn what happend. I was there too and the experience cannot be described by the feelings that can be felt from that place.

[@zetsu12344]

Honestly if you go to Auschwizt you should both go to main camp as well as camp II: Bircenau. I was there on my last year of high school, and the feeling was that camp I is kinda more like museum, yes it is terrifying, but more so as you hear again the scary stories of it. Camp II ... well there is kinda not much to see there now, just some barracks, gate and ruins of crematoriums, but entire place just feels wrong and terrifying, this feeling is something you do not rly forget, unless you came there without any empathy to catch Pokémon or Sth ...

[@lisafoster4468]

I am grateful to Sabaton that they are highlighting this, in a time when our government wants to say it never happened.

[@Reyvius78]

You might be interested in the story of Witold Piletcki and in fact, Sabaton made a song in his memory; the title's : _Inmate 4859_ (A crazy brave polish soldier who voluntarily got interned ... won't say more)

[@torkilsd]

Since i am austrian it is kind of mandatory to visit mauthausen once in your life. Just to see the darkest chapter in the countrys history, as a reminder to not let it happen again. We wnt to the barracks. The gas chambers and the cremation facility..... Even tho it is a ruin, just the sight is gut wrenching. We even met a time wittness. Someone that survived that hell. Honestly one of the most impressive persons ive ever met. Try to go to auschwitz soon. Now that there are still some survivors left. Listen to their stories. No history book can teach you that!

[@МихаилГоронок]

3:52 ah yes, T-55

[@St33lStrife]

I find it absolutely chilling the idea that people can have their Rights stripped from them. It's one hundred percent correct. Things like this only happen after your freedoms and Liberties have been stripped from you. That is precisely why you cannot allow it to happen.

[@dutchthespitfire3204]

In the line "The curtain has fallen" Is from the curtain that used to covers the holy part in a Jewish temple. Fun fact: When Jesus died on the cross and the curtain of the temple fell

[@glstka5710]

One thing that says to me that a band is really good-they can make me like their music even if it is not my style. I usually prefer a bit more mellow style of music, softer rock, but these guys are the real deal. On the other hand when it comes to Classical Music my preferences are on the "hard" side, Bethooven, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Mussgorgsky, and even Stravinsky. Sravinsky's Rite of Spring is kind of the "Heavy Metal" of Clasical music. The fact that they deal with historic subjrcts is one of the thing that makes me like them.

[@wandererz1724]

Been to Auschwitz, Mauthausen and to Birkenau, it is a chill that goes down you spine when you are there - btw. interesting Fact: compulsory visit as an austrian Police Officer i think is to Mauthausen according to a friend of mine.

[@b0inxi]

i was in auschwitz one time with my school and pretty much everyone stated crying as soon as they just saw their names on clothing and stuff. i was there for 4 hours and cried 3 and a half hours walking around there. it was terrifying.

[@garychambers6848]

My father served in Patton's 3rd army........He was tasked with helping "clean up" of Buchenwald.....My mother (The "boss") made him burn all of the pictures he took there.....Not sure why but she had reasons I suppose.....

[@glennlennartsson4887]

The German race biologiteachers studied here in sweden where the first race biologi institute where built.

[@mike140298]

I'm from the Netherlands, so the war is never really far away, it's a bit of a BC/AD moment. But It still felt somewhat distant to me, having no holocaust victims in the family (as far as I am aware), and not really any stories of the war in general (all my grandparents are born after the war). Visiting Auschwitz in December 2019 was a good experience (in a horrifying way). I have come to a better understanding of horrifying it must have been for the over 1 million people who were murdered in that camp alone. Since then, I've also become far more emotional at things like our memorial day and songs like this one.

[@paulschauer6273]

5:09 man..... that shook me to my core it takes a lot to unnerve me but that was traumatic

[@imaginewt9616]

I went to Auschwitz in 2018, and my lord it was such a surreal experience. Similar to times like visiting Arlington National Cemetery and the Gettysburg Battlefields, it felt, like ominous almost. Just being at a site where so many people had been killed or worked to the bone was something else entirely. Then, there's the point of people using it to make cruel videos and take pictures, seemingly happy in them. You wouldn't go to your parents' funerals acting like that, so why would people ever go to a site where hundreds of thousands had been killed, again, acting like they were.

[@silverblade5805]

They actually did a live performance of this at Cracow.

[@florianstraub72]

I once were in rebuild KZ, i dont know where it was anymore (it was a school trip). Im from Germany so it wasnt a world travel to do. I heard the song bevore but this was the first time i watched the video of the song. It brought back memories of the place. even so i think only 1 or 2 original buildings was there, it felt like a graveless graveyard. The most struck me how much of thought they used to design a place. That they were also fully aware of the effect it have to do this to people. For example for a shoot sentcens of a inmate they put him, with the back, to a wooden wall with a slide in it. So that the german soilder can shoot him throu it, with the lowest phsicological effect possible.

[@Razgriz85]

I went to the Holocaust museum when I was in elementary school. The smell of the room with the mountain of shoes sticks with you.

[@r_ramendump9681]

No one can Imagine how the victims of the horrid crime named the final solution felt, and I hope no one ever gets to feel that again

[@sober667]

That moment when you notice Guitar imitating train sound

[@yolomanolo2601]

The uniforms of the guards in the animation are wrong. SS had the eagle on the left arm not on the chest. Apart from that - very strong song, there is so much about that topic that it cant really fit into one song but sabaton did well.

[@_Triple-B]

I have been in Auschwitz and other camps in western europe. I always tell people that if the have the possibilty they should visit at least one of these camps. The victims can not be forgotten and the history has to be told. Today it's liberation day in the Netherlands, yesterday the memorial day. Even at this moment people cant bring up the respect on socialmedia to hold in a minute and think about the fact people died for their freedom of speech, religion, sexuality and education. Sometimes its good to hold in a minute.. dont shout out what you think but think twice before acting or saying something.

[@DokDo1995]

I visited two concentration camps, Belzec and Majdanek, when I was in Poland in 2019...It was an interesting experience, depressing and hard to realize what had happend there all these years ago and I'd recommend for all people to go there once if possible...I'm happy, if you can say so, that I was there and could see all of this since I'm very interested in the whole history behind all this...Also if all worjs out right I'll visit Auschwitz this year...Lets cross fingers and hope for the best...

[@NeexT0P]

chills

[@ken12011]

And don't overlook that it came up in usa congress prior to usa involvement with one representative calling the witness a lier.

[@michaelsuarez6901]

Kristallnacht and Anschluß both happened in 1938.

[@chase.lehmann]

When I went to Germany in 2016 I was able to visit Dachau. I was lucky that enough of my classmates wanted to go with me that I was able to. It is an incredibly heavy place and while I recognize it was not nearly on the same level as Auschwitz, it was an amazingly sobering moment. I've always loved WW2 history, but I was so disconnected from the atrocities. I would recommend everyone visits a Concentration Camp so that we never forget and never repeat.

[@Kaiserin]

It’s compulsory to visit one if you’re in the German school system.

[@destromaa8709]

I‘m a 22 year old German. I feel so ashamed of my country, eventhough I haven’t done anything. It’s hard. I want to be proud of my country and my heritage, but the past of my country sort of forbids me to be proud.

[@amckittrick7951]

Instead be proud of humanity. Countries do wrong, but as a greater people we do great things.

[@NbenGames]

I would love to see a Rection video on " A Lifetime of war" and the 30-year war it talked about.

[@diedrachan]

i would reccommend watching The Winds of War miniseries as it depicts the situation at the start of the war and the rising tensions in Germany and rest of the world

[@frankk9477]

I've visited auschwitz a few years ago. Due to my girlfriends family living in Poland. It is worth the trip. It's a very sad experience they encourage no photos while there but as a history major it was quite an experience and i feel many people should visit it. They actually destroyed the gas chambers in Birkenau before the Russians could reach it

[@babariankanibal822]

I'm from Germany and to learn about our history our class visited a concentration camp... hard stuff

[@privatecookie29]

You should react to Lejonet Från Norden (The lion from the north) english subtitles next. It's about Gustavus Adolphus. Revered as the father of modern warfare and also a badass Monarch.

[@Evvolusion]

Hi Chris. If you want to learn even more, I recommend it: Inmate 4859 - Witold Pilecki - Sabaton History 042 [Official]

[@IIkarysan]

Hey! Reinhard Heydrich was assasinated by czechoslovak paratroopers deployed from UK. Lidice and Ležáky (two villages near Prague) were slaughtered and wiped out. 13 000 people were arrested and 5000 murdered in reprisals. Paratroopers commited suicide after six hours of shooting with german troops in crypt of prague church.

[@langeweileonline4720]

Kristallnacht was only a "nice" name for that what happened the real name was: Reichspogromnacht (greetings from germany -^-)

[@lucioweht2161]

I think this song can be aply to the soviet gulags too

[@user-dl5gy6lc2n]

"nazism is bad, but how can we also make this about communism?" you people have zero capability for nuance. different atrocities, different rationale, different evils

[@SkyRaider-31]

No gonna lie but I thought at the start the bodies were swaying side to side

[@Erik6706]

Never forget!

[@ProfTydrim]

I'm from Germany and visited Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when I was in school with my class. Most if not all german students visit a concentration camp at least once and I believe it's now obligatory for everyone. It was a strong experience and I think everyone regardless where one is from should visit one at some point.

[@ivanderschreckliche8385]

i am glad i was never forced to visit that disgusting disgrace of german history.

[@BlackWater_49]

6:25 With all due respect in my opinion that is not good. We have to talk about it otherwise we risk the events being forgotten which would enable a repeat of history which is to be avoided at all costs.

[@BlackWater_49]

@M.Hoppmann You're talking gibberish.

[@BlackWater_49]

@M.Hoppmann Napoleon didn't slaughter civilians en masse in the process. I think in case of the British it's more about the living standards and general progress of the time. In case of Japan I agree but I don't think they use Germany's past to feel better about themselves. I don't think the majority of people would see the starvations as necessary. But all of the atrocities committed pale in comparison to the industrialised slaughter of 6 000 000 people.

[@Crazael]

For a similar theme, I recommend you check out Rise of Evil (the rise of the Nazi regime) and We Burn (the Bosnian genocide). Also, I recommend Counterstrike (the Six Day War between Israel and it's Arab neighbors).

[@HistoryMonarch1999]

Oh there’s a movie about mauthausen on Netflix from the point of view of imprisoned Spanish republicans.

[@jejeakle]

What was worse: that this happened, or how efficient it was?

[@jejeakle]

@@creeperrobot6859 you’re trolling, right?

[@creeperrobot6859]

@@jejeakle No

[@johnprice3002]

10:07 even China

[@jirkaadamek-1]

0:52 that film what you meant was good in view of Heydrich, but Czech side was really non-historical. That Czech side is better to watch in film Athropoid.

[@creepycutiegoth4113]

Thanks for not rocking out to this song. I have seen so many vids with people rocking out to this song, and it makes me angry to see that.

[@thehellhound1615]

I went to a holocaust museum in Amsterdam and it made me break down in to tears I'll never forget it I couldn't stop crying while I was in there

[@leopoldsalzbrenner7791]

Alright... thats kinda weird. I posted a fucklong comment here today about my experience in Buchenwald, anoter cc and its gone. Either the owner deleted it or youtube is screwing with me cuz I wasnt as you may say, careful with my words. I said exactly what I learned there. Appearently someone didnt like the truth

[@Booblydork]

How long have you worked for rachaels challenge?

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Since 2014.

[@Booblydork]

@@VloggingThroughHistory Thats awesome! I was just curious because I thought I remembered seeing you at my school a few years back and it was very impactful to me because I go to HRHS which is close to columbine and my best friend actually attended columbine until we both graduated this year. So just thank you for what you and that amazing organization does for the youth of America.

[@yansbp]

You've got a lot of catching up to do with the Sabaton songs. They have an interesting way of telling a story that is not just all roses. I started to listen to them from track 40: 1, then another track came and it is still like this today. Currently, you can visit the museum virtually on the link, the website also has English language support. link: www.auschwitz.org Masz dużo do nadrobienia z piosenkami Sabaton. W ciekawy sposób opowiadają historię, która nie jest usłana tylko róż. Zacząłem ich słuchać od utworu 40: 1, potem przyszedł kolejny utwór i tak jest do dziś. Obecnie można zwiedzać wirtualnie muzeum podaje link: www.auschwitz.org

[@thecrazyyoutuber2017]

I cry when I think of the Holocaust

[@warringtonfaust1088]

It makes me fear the current trend toward "Identity Politics" in the U.S. Sooner, or later, some group will become the "one to blame".

[@user-dl5gy6lc2n]

we're one year into the future now, and it seems like the group to blame has been made clear. this fucking sucks

[@catpro9139]

I personally wouldn’t use Kristallnacht because thats the term the Germans used, instead the term you should use is Reichsprognomnacht.

[@bane_0f_heroesx226]

Watch inmate 4859

[@tobiasweistenfeld7281]

You should do night witches

[@mariuseles1664]

Serbian patriarch, and manny episcops of Serbian ortodoh church have been captured in Dahau. Concentration camp.

[@Davidkiser13]

the holocaust museum is an amazing place to visit... but very depressing... my great aunt was in Auschwitz and survived