A Historian Reacts - THE LAST BATTLE - Sabaton History (Castle Itter)

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[@romas011]

This story is the one of the best examples why reality is often stranger than fiction.

[@michaelaburns734]

Yes including Schindler's List was a story too.

[@p3chv0gel22]

Can we just appreciate for a Moment what a awesome narrator indy Neidell is?

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Yes!!!

[@michaelaburns734]

He also did The Great War all these years from 2014-2018.

[@TheButterflyChaos]

He is amazing!

[@Brainreaver79]

@@michaelaburns734 thats an epic video series

[@michaelaburns734]

@@Brainreaver79 They REALLY WENT IN DEEP. Discovered interesting topics and people who impacted the era. I kept calling him Professor Neidell during the series run.

[@WaywardVet]

It must have been hard on the resistance to feel confident. Especially the SS Officer who brought his wife and kids to the castle for protection from the people his own people had imprisoned. But for Lee... If the Army was anything like it was in my time in service, he must have been cocky as hell. Will the Americans come save us? Maybe not... But I'm American, and they'll send half a battalion to get me back even if it's just to court martial me for this stunt!! He essentially made himself a willing hostage in need of rescue. Oh, and I made some foreign friends who also need a ride out of here...

[@MrGman543]

How is this not a movie? What a great story.

[@Isometrix116]

There is one... well, it’s still in production. It’s timeline got fucky wuckied by covid

[@SolidAvenger1290]

@@Isometrix116 Part of it also is that Hollywood would instead let the production die out and not see the light of day, seeing how, since the 50s, the Allied nations wanted to portray the German people as all evil people who aren't savable. Even in 2024, the victors don't want people to know that some Germans still had their human dignity intact.

[@suntiger745]

There actually is an imdb listing for The Last Battle about the battle of Castle Itter. It's listed as in pre-production and Sabaton is listed in the soundtrack section. I don't know if things have stopped or slowed down due to Covid, or if funding has run out, or if work continues remotely on it, but we might actually see a film about it in a few years. :)

[@bkayser05]

It's been stuck in development hell since at least 2018 or 2017. I don't think it will ever happen, at least in Hollywood

[@DeutechJäger]

Hollywood would rather have every director/producer kill themselves than make a film about German soldiers being the good guys

[@DeutechJäger]

Hollywood would rather see every Director/Producer 6ft under than have someone make a film with German soldiers being the good guys

[@Emulad0or_]

One of my favorite Sabaton History is the one about the six days war, from the music Counterstrike. It's incredible to see how a new and small nation, surrounded by enemies, managed to go into the offensive against three much larger countries at once and win. Would love to see a reaction from you to that, be it from Sabaton History or from someone else's video

[@sertre123]

You should react to soldier of 3 armies by sabaton, its about Lauri törni who fought in the finnish, german and american armies

[@Chris09978]

That man is just an insane person and soldier, only fought just to kill soviet because of the amount of hate he has

[@christiananton8388]

@@Chris09978 not soviets directly, but communism yes. in the american army he fought in vietnam, i believe in korea too when im not false

[@Chris09978]

@@christiananton8388 he fought in Vietnam because he knew that Vietnamese allies were russian or soviets And yes we did in fact technically fought the soviets in the Vietnam war

[@CrazyCaliforniaFishing]

MORE. MORE. MORE. I can never get enough of sabaton and vth!

[@nunogarces1628]

Chris: That's incredible! Indy: I know. Awesome reaction. I love The Great War Channel, Time Ghost and The Sabaton History channel, much because Indy does an amazing job in relaying history.

[@DietBepisMAX]

Would love a reaction to Hearts Of Iron Such a passionate song

[@OrbusS]

About the telephone: I guess this took place back in the days when the landlines used switchboards. If the resistance had captured the phonstation, all you had to do was lift the phone and you would reach the resistance

[@bkayser05]

Also when you asked about the timeline, Captain Lee arrived on May 4th and the Waffen-ss arrived, started reconnaissance and attacked late on the 4th and into the day of the 5th. Finally, the Nazis' definitely didn't have time to cut the communication line, those tanks left to guard the line of retreat also protected Captain Lee's ability to contact the larger part of his command.

[@Longshanks1690]

We can’t make a movie about Teddy because no man alive is enough of an Ultra Mega Chad to represent him accurately.

[@seamusmustapha8378]

Teddy would call Chuck Norris a bitch

[@jonmiller9534]

The book "The Last Battle: When US and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe" By: Stephen Harding is good. If you have audible plus it is free. Also if I remember right the movie rights for the book has been sold just no one has made it.

[@craftpaint1644]

Every video about the battle of Itter Castle is just not as thoroughly researched as the book - none could possibly have read it 👩‍🔧🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺

[@nfw4747]

The SS must have been so confused lol fighting other Nazis, like the Sniper who killed Gangl must have been like what the hell is going on.

[@padascos]

From HGG Singing The Red Baron to Him Reacting to my Favorite Story of WW2. What a Day.

[@xGoodOldSmurfehx]

can never get over the fact that Major Gangl and the SS officer, both frontline veterans, along with a bunch of Wehrmacht soldiers that intended to surrender turned around and did the right thing, some of them paying the ultimate price instead of living to see the end of the war they hated so much if this is not redemption, i dont know what is

[@p3chv0gel22]

Ahhhh the last Battle One of my favorite songs but sadly extremly underrated

[@luisurdiales3091]

My dude, do you follow the WW2 week by week series of the Timeghost group? It's nothing short of amazing.

[@sosna3025]

Is there any option for you to react to another Sabaton song about Poland? Inmate 4859 is a great story of a volunteer who got sent to Auschwitz on purpose just to find out how the camp operates and build an underground net of resistance with ultimate goal being an uprising in a camp.

[@MISTERX_5890]

i think Hitler got the idea of Austria and Germany being the same from The Holy Roman Empire cause think about it. The Holy Roman Empire Was centered around Germanic regions and would eventually be dissolved by The Austrian Emperor during the Napoleon Wars

[@kaizersoze1950]

I don’t know how I stumbled upon this channel, but this channel has made me extremely interested in history.. sometimes videos tell you information but to find out more you have to google it and find it yourself, but when you pause and give us more insight it’s incredibly helpful

[@jackthelad9933]

This SHOULD be a movie. The problem is that Hollywood is besotted with stupid comic book super hereos and sequels.

[@bkayser05]

This would be a great movie if done correctly. Too bad it has been stuck in development hell for years. Hollywood has no intention of showing the German soldiers in a positive light despite what Major Gangl was like but this event is not widely known about in the US. I am so glad Sabaton and other people are helping to highlight events like these on KZbin. Yes, we shouldn't glorify Nazis but we should note Germans and Austrians who fought against Nazism once they were able to do so.

[@TheMightyKent]

When Indy mentioned passive resistance in Austria, I’m reminded of a beautiful film I watched recently called A Hidden Life about the Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter. He was a devout Catholic and, before the Anschluss, was a pillar of the community. He alienated himself and his family by being the only person in his small area that saw the Nazis for what they were and voted against the Anschluss. He was eventually called up for military service in 1942-1943, he refused to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler and was imprisoned, brutalized and eventually executed as a traitor. A beautiful film by Terrance Malick and a wonderful story about a true hero. Highly recommend it

[@draochvar9646]

Yea, that movie is excellent, if fucking tragic.

[@HistorysRaven]

Why is there not a major movie about this? No one would believe it's real. You'd have to drag a producer and movie execs to the battlefield and show them the battle reports for them to accept this happened.

[@kineuhansen8629]

a tv series called hittlers last stand there a episode with this story

[@andresvaca4243]

You should watch WWII videos made by Mark Felton Productions, he tells the untold stories, political background and forgotten episodes from the war. I highly recommend those if you'd like to react.

[@LunaS043]

Oh no, he hated Austria he hated it because it was so against a greater German state. Dude basicly told Austria to get bent your doing what I say.

[@bkayser05]

Also since you were wondering here is a link to the story where the Japanese aided the British. In Java, the Dutch civilians would have been massacred by the Java military, due to them being previous colonizers and probably not particularly fair or just to the natives of Java, if other Dutch colonies are anything to judge them by. The Japanese soldiers defended them and when British forces arrived the Japanese were placed under the overall British command to continue to defend the Dutch civilians on Java. japantoday.com/category/features/how-japanese-soldiers-helped-the-british-in-1944-java-conflict

[@AlwaysBolttheBird]

Purely react channels (I know you aren’t pure react but very close) are always weird to me. I feel like they, like you said, just get famous off other peoples work and don’t add anything just laughs and such. However you do it right. You add to the original video. It’s basically director’s commentary after that fact and it’s always informative. Good work keep it up.

[@Isometrix116]

I think what makes it different is he has knowledge and something legitimate to add to the video while most other react channels don’t really. I think he could honestly make his own documentary style videos though. He’s knowledgeable and charismatic enough :)

[@AlwaysBolttheBird]

@@Isometrix116 yeah like I said he adds something he’s not just a “personality” that just makes noises and laughs

[@JamesRT1291]

From what I have read Jack was enthusiastic about the rescue mission, his men were not, they were hoping to just sit tight were they were and wait out the war

[@calvinkeinath6955]

Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History and Hardcore History: Addendum are some of my favorite series. If you’re looking for hours of very in-depth discussion, it’s perfect

[@nickshaffer9961]

This story and the story of Pavlovs house in the Soviet Union are by far my favorite stories to come out of WWII. If you can find a video on Pavlovs House I think it would be awesome to see it on the channel. More people should definitely know about it. Incredible story, incredible channel. Love it!

[@clarissaschnabel]

Castle Itter is private property now, so better ask permission first before you visit. ;) Interesting fact that no one has ever mentioned: Erich Blechschmidt, Gangl's second-in-command, wrote that Itter village lies slightly above the castle. "An attacker can therefore target part of the castle courtyards with effective fire from this section." I'm guessing that's where the sniper was.

[@Deilwynna]

i think i went past the castle on the way from innsbruck to salzburg when i was on a roadtrip through germany and austria with my dad and sister back in 1999 i believe it was. i have no memory of it though, maybe i was asleep in the car when going past

[@kgb8545]

Just a fun fact: Mexico was the only country that protested against the Anschluss of Austria. In honor of Mexico's support, the Austrians have a square in Vienna called Mexikoplatz.

[@philippw3728]

Where would that square be? Never heard of it. The story I heard why Mexico didn't recognize the annexation was an omage to the Maximilian the emperor, but I think that's highly unlikely.

[@kgb8545]

@@philippw3728 it's in Austria's capital Vienna. It's in the city's 2nd district

[@maxz8807]

@@philippw3728 Mexikopl. maps.app.goo.gl/rqxqDCUiQV2MVTsr8 I wouldn't really call it a square but it does exist. Hab ich noch nie von gehört 😆

[@Killamofongo]

This channel is my favorite yt channel rn lol, I love how he add things more interesting than the video. Keep up the work🙏🏼 Love from Texas

[@mehmetegeunal8767]

Can you react to turkish indipendenc war?

[@phillee2814]

This is one which does make me wonder about what happened to some of my nth cousins who left the UK in the 17th to 19th centuries to the colonies, one of which turned out to be rather rebellious. . . I'd known from childhood that some had settled in the antipodes, some in Canada, and an unknown number in the US. Of course, our family name is not really rare, but it isn't exactly Smith, Jones, or Wright either. And although in a reserved occupation and as a pacifist, my grandfather was non-combatant in WW2, he certainly had a pair, as he served as district gas officer in the ARP (Air Raid Precaution) wardens throughout the war. It was not known if the Germans would use gas bombs against us, and every member of the population was issued with a gas mask and trained in its use (and in assisting children with theirs), and it was made a criminal offence to be more than a few seconds away from it. As district gas officer, my grandad's job (just like all his comrades in that role all over the country) was to inspect any and all unexploded bombs, take samples and make tests of the soil as they were dug out by sappers, before it was cleared for the heroes of the bomb disposal teams to defuse them. I only learned of the details of the role after his death, and I don't believe he ever told my grandmother that he was actually swabbing UXBs when on call-out, and taking a sample from the bottom of each fresh hole made by the carefully used spades of the sappers. Not bad for a reserved occupation pacifist non-combatant. There is some serious iron in the nerves of us Lees. I doubt if anything I will ever do will require that kind of nerve. The Sabaton song I really want to hear is one they haven't written yet, but I hope they might, someday, as it is right up their street, and perhaps you may wish to research it and do your take - the sacrifice of 155 Battery, Royal Artillery, Sidi Nsir, Tunisia, 26th Feb 1943. My father served in the RA in the 50s, and it was legendary then, but has now been forgotten by all but scholars of military history and a decreasing number of RA servicemen, and now, women.

[@stevenroberts1392]

Highly recommend Hearts of Iron. German 9th/12th Armies escorting civilians outrunning the Russians to surrender to US forces at Tangermunde. One of those rare "human" stories that come up in conflict.

[@craftpaint1644]

The local resistance members vouched for Gangl's sincerity, that's why Lee trusted him 👩‍🔧🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺

[@BlueWoWTaylan]

Someone read that story and thought '' That is TOO UNREALISTIC of a plot ''...but it actually happened.

[@TheDraconnian]

I have a problem with one sentence in the text, so I would like someone to explain it to me. And it's American troops and the German army Joining together at last. At last? English is not my native language, but from this it seems to me that someone regrets that the German and American armies had to wage war against each other. Here, Hitler is one to blame, but in fact, the German and American armies should be together. Against a common enemy. A Slavs, for example?

[@annaaquitaine4225]

It’s more regret for the war in general. And also for the sake of rhyming. I think they take the view that, although heroic things do happen during war, that war itself is bad

[@Lightman0359]

I'm working on a Bolt Action [28mm War Game] army based on this battle. I need to get Gangl's Kubelwagen and the Shermans, so the proof of concept model is Lee driving a halftrack with Gangl manning the machine gun and a mix of US Marines and Wehrmacht Grenadiers [all I have at the moment] riding in the back.

[@philippw3728]

Resistance in Austria began after the Civil War in Austria (socialists and communists) katholics and monarchists resisted after the the annexation of Austria. Fun fact the last crow prince of Austria Otto was the nearest thing Austria had to an exile government and he was later elected for a seat in the European Parlament.

[@randycampbell6307]

Odd question but have you ever read an alt-history book called "The Anglo-American Nazi War"?

[@chrislewis8865]

It is still there, is a private home now, should be respected as such and I get the impression that the owners are not very accommodating of people trying to appreciate its historical significance. The narrative that accompanies the song here is largely accurate but cannot begin to tell the full story, for which you are highly recommended to get a copy of Stephen Harding's book 'The Last Battle'. My main dispute with this narrative is the disposition of the SS major Schrader, who is portrayed as a disaffected Nazi turned Austrian resistance fighter. Looking Gangl up, there is no doubt he was exactly that and is regarded as a hero, having a street in nearby Worgl named after him. Schrader was a soldier, badly wounded in the leg and convalescing at home in the village below the castle. Whilst there, he was expected to turn up at the castle and report to the commandant at regular intervals to show that he was still there and still unfit to return to duty, however those visits invariably turned into a drinking and reminiscing party. According to the book, he visited and conversed with the prisoners while he was reporting in which led to their surrendering themselves to his protection when Hitler committed suicide, the main Dachau camp was on the point of being liberated so the commandant committed suicide, and the castle commandant and guards decided it would be to their benefit to quietly disappear. When you created this post you would not have known this, but there is a movie to be made of this story, based on Harding's book, and I will be looking to be at the head of the queue to watch it when it comes out as this is one of my favourite stories from the war.

[@jochencwilhelm]

Please also do "Hearts of Iron" you will love the story. Disobeying the Führers commands to save civilians and a decimated army

[@Archerfish1977]

Supernova in the East is excellent! I'm just finishing up listening to Ghosts of the Ostfront.

[@mallc8874]

japanese and british soldiers also fought together in vietnam to defeat the viet minh source: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6iQlKloeK-VnKs skip to 4:20 but you can watch the whole video it's really good

[@coneco1770]

Yo! You could react to their song"Last Dying Breath"

[@DarthAxolotl]

Or pretty much any other sabaton song. I love them all

[@purplenorseman426]

There is actually a pretty good board wargame on this topic called Castle Itter by Dan Verssen games (DVG)

[@teddysurf]

Hi, if you’re looking for another reaction video idea HBO had a 2 episode special a while back called Assume the Position about little quirks in US history like the history that isn’t actually true or the history that was left out (one of the things he mentions is Paul Revers ride and how Israel Bissell made a much longer ride but his name didn’t rhyme with anything so that kind of thing) with Robert Wuhl. It’s all done in a very entertaining way and it might be interesting for you to give some extra context to some of the topics he goes over. I think it’s on HBO max but if you don’t have HBO I have it on my hard drive and would be more than happy to upload it to the cloud for you. Also I don’t know the laws and I don’t know what you can show on your KZbin channel so obviously if it’ll get you in trouble don’t do it lol. Also I just found out they have short little clips of the two episode series on KZbin so you can check it out before hand.

[@comradekommandmentklaus1848]

5:08 not exactly true in Mein Kampf Adolf spoke poorly of the Austrians

[@nissanyngm-3686]

“Machine guns rolled in” AND THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!

[@lucianoveneu3392]

React to Smoking Snakes please!!!!!! Sabaton's music about brazilian heroes that died in Italy

[@cardiffmad]

Gangl - Christoph Waltz Schrader - Richard Sammel Lee - ????

[@Toverneger]

There is a Sepp Gangl-straße In Wörgl, just to the north of this castle. It's named in honor of Josef "Sepp" Gangl, the man who died defending the castle.

[@BeReddog]

One of the most surreal battles in WW2

[@Cindorellatellstory]

This part of history screams for a quentin tarantula movie

[@sebastianlopez2097]

Hey man you should react to the video a ugly fact about every us president

[@lab1042]

It's true that the castle is still there, but it is privately owned and not open to the public.

[@drrakw2432]

Sabaton is always great. Not only doing songs about historical events, but videos as well! Thanks for posting

[@AnikaJarlsdottr]

war brings out the worst in mankind, but it also brings out some of the best

[@Toyotatracktor]

Please react to inmate 4859 the vocals are very good

[@venomtailOG]

Can't wait for you to react to Sabaton Ghost division music video with the WW2 footage. Best one of them all

[@babbiter276]

You got to react to Ghost Division by Sabaton!!

[@pickle4422]

this whole thing seems like the plot to a tarentino movie...

[@bigjoe8542]

is it just me or is anyone else's likes getting deleted

[@nathantorresstanevil6958]

Bro you have ballooned. I remember subscribing at around 6k. You're at 88k! So close to 100k

[@argantyr5154]

True, and well deserved might I add.

[@nathantorresstanevil6958]

@@argantyr5154 very much so

[@WaywardVet]

Guy knows how to keep it fresh, and as he's said, his reactions aren't just saying "wow"

[@nathantorresstanevil6958]

Bruh I wake up and he's got 1000 more🤣. It never ends and I hope it doesn't.

[@nickshaffer9961]

I remember when I subbed around 9k subscribers just thinking this is a cool channel and the guy knows his stuff. This could be really interesting. It’s been an awesome journey 100k and we’ll deserved

[@pontiacfan76]

Hollywood would ruin the story.

[@mpcrauzer]

And we still dont have a movie about it

[@tommytommy7535]

resist and bite - sabaton history :)

[@Niitroxyde]

Really a movie scenario.

[@DrStrangelove_]

Best 👍👎 ratio I've ever seen

[@ChuckinCluck]

thats a +1 for everybody

[@Chiquita-CZ]

There is so many great war themed metal bands, I recommend Panzerfaust - The Men of No Man's Land (Official Lyric Video)

[@HahaHaha-vs4ib]

Love how you say Wehrmacht :)

[@walterperl6528]

Hey I know it must be kinda annoying, but I'm still for inmate 4859, on April 27 marked the day of his escape from Auschwitz but not the end of his heroic life. Witold Pilecki a polish national hero. On the other hand keep up your entertaining work and I send greetings from Austria.

[@vaclavblazek]

If you like catchy song about kicking off attackers you can check the “1648” Sabaton’s song.

[@jeff2146]

Uk and japanese also fought together in Vietnam against the Vietcong in 1945/46 until french troops arrived to garrison their colony of indo china. Letting what little remained if the Vietcong and ho chi min escape as they had almost been wiped out

[@ivorytitan7653]

A rare gem of a channel. Subbed!

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Thank you!

[@senatuspopulusqueromanus3011]

When are you going to react to Resist and Bite?

[@TheButterflyChaos]

You know what movie I want to see? An autobiography of Sir Christopher Lee

[@stanleyrogouski]

Teddy Roosevelt is a major character in the first John Milius film The Wind and the Lion.

[@sonofabrick1213]

Great video as always! Found your channel about 2 weeks ago and ive watched everyday!

[@wvzepplin1509]

You kind of resemble Tony Romo. Sometimes you sound like him too. Keep up the great content.

[@Jordan-oj1mj]

You should look into the 442nd Regimental Combat Team :)

[@johnny1194]

Hey have you watched downfall it’s a older movie but it’s good

[@pomamoba]

Oh, do you know the story behind Inmate 4859?

[@HistorysRaven]

Another example of just how small of an area some of these fierce battles took place in.

[@lordredhood1858]

Can you do a video for the song last stand which is about the crusades

[@alexmcginnis2577]

Theodore Roosevelt has a movie called the Rough rider's. About how he lead troops in the Spanish American war in the Early 20 century.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Yes with Tom Berenger. But we need a movie about his whole life!

[@winggweeps]

These guys would've loved Wolfenstein.

[@Alex-bb7pe]

Check out wehrmacht, it's a great song

[@Vector-ht6zq]

OMG This is my favorites song of all

[@pomamoba]

Finally, Sabaton History!

[@sol_ab143]

Just saw some of your previous videos, did you wife get her master's degree yet? If so congrats

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

She’s almost done. Just internship left.

[@battlefronthero3789]

I loved the Dan Carlin series I couldn’t stop listening to it I hope you enjoy the rest of

[@battlefronthero3789]

It