American's First Time Reaction to the song "The Final Solution" by Sabaton
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2022
- In this video I will be taking a deep dive into the song "The Final Solution" by Sabaton. I will start with the official Lyric Video. Then, I will watch the Sabaton History lesson. Finally, I will be watching a live performance.
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In Sweden we were shown footage and videos of the camp. When I was in 4th or 5th grade we had a visit from an Auschwitz survivor telling us about this horrible event, showing the tattoo. Mankind makes mistakes (sometimes horrific ones). Hate, Greed, Ignorance, Racism, Prejudice are but a few things that unfortunately manifests and grows. Hopefully at one point things can turn to the better for future generations. Stay safe everyone *hugs*
I am German.
The Holocaust is a stain on our history, our honour, that will never vanish.
And rightfully so. May we never forget, and may we stay humble because of it.
All countries have stains on their honour, do not feel alone. We (the British) have committed genocide throughout our colonial history, the new age Americans wiped out the native Americans. Germany bears no black mark alone.
History will repeat itself, as do murderous dictators as Putin, This will stain the Russian reputation forever.
Do not accept responsibility for something you didn't do. Work to be better, of course, but the guilt is not yours.
It's important to never forget the Holocaust, but it's just as important to remember the Germans who fought and sacrificed everything to save the lives of people condemned by the Final Solution, but to show the world this was not Hitler's Germany. Oskar Schindler, Karl Plagge, Josef Gangl, Walther Wenck, and so many others; they deserve to be remembered as well.
@@patrioticjustice9040 Excellent point. Some people automatically group all Germans of the 30s and 40s into a "Nazi" mindset. People are individuals. Some wholeheartedly supported Hitler's agenda. Some didn't feel strongly either way and got swept up in a public movement. Some sacrificed or risked a great deal in order to save those who were being attacked. Those who acted so heroically as to be recognized as "Righteous among the Nations" are amazingly brave, and deserve serious attention. Half of those you named are listed as Righteous among the Nations, and were Germans. The fact they were German does not make them less heroic. If anything, it makes them deserving of special recognition, given their nation was set against them.
Well, He whom forgets his past, is condemned to repeat it.
Lest not forget!
My grandfather was a young kid in Denmark during WWII, as a 4 year old he had to hide under the kitchen table during the night because of German bombers flying above, he also saw his jewish neibourgs being dragged out in the street and shot in the head. It scarred him for life but when he was 18-19 years old he visited alot of camps close to Denmark and he finally realized how saddistic the nazis really was.
Im also glad you didn't censor the images in this video, its important to see and understand this.
Well, I censored some of them. But thank you for watching.
The camps and ghettos are kept as reminders for educational purposes. Some people really need to experience it to get it. I remember learning about it in class, thinking "of course its terrible but it happened, what does it matter now, i want this class to end already so i can go out with my friends" but then we went to Teresienstadt ghetto and then to concentration camps, we had talks with holocoust survivors who shared with us their personal experience, such as somebody else living in their house when they returned, people not believing them what theyve been through etc. It has huge impact once you persobally experience it.
Other than that we have been to some of the exterminated villages, which may not be counted as part of the holocoust, but just imagine being a child and lead to a meadow where there's literally nothing but a statue of crowd of children and youre told the story that there used to be a village here just like your home and the statues represent the children just like you who have all been killed, sent to extermination camps or to be reeducated and germanised to a foster family in germany if they had the right hair and eye colour... I dont think people can really grasp the thought through industrial and calculated death of it all, both inside and outside of the camps until they visit these places or get to talk to somebody whos been through it...
Wow. Thank you so much for sharing your story.
I both agree and disagree with keeping the sites... i get the education site, but by now, they are empty, old buildings, showing nothing of the horror these walls saw. As a kid, i din't think much of it when we visited one with the class beyond what history books did tell me, because all these atrocities arent here anymore. Just empty buildings.
@@thorveim1174 they show nothing??? Have you never seen the scratch marks from the fingernails of those trying to claw their way out of the gas chambers?
@@tilltronje1623 Sure don't remember anything like that! (note that it wasnt Auchwitz we visited but another camp, cant remember the name)
The camps in the ghettos or for educational purposes huh then we need to rebuild everything in the camps that way we will never forget what really happened!
I am from Poland and I was in Auschwitz in high school. The whole class decided that we would reserve one day of the 3-day trip to Krakow to visit Oświęcim (an hour's drive from Krakow), where this camp is located. Many teachers encourage such actions because this is part of our history. Millions of people visit Auschwitz every year.
When I was a kid, my best friend's dad told us about entering a death camp in WWII. He had nightmares about it his whole life afterward.
I bet.
3:51 Romanis means Romani people, widely known as Gypsies in the English language. Since it is considered a racial slur, Romani people or Romanis is the way to go.
edit: 4:26 Kristallnacht isn't (or at least shouldn't be) used in German anymore. It is a euphimism for the broken glasses at 11/9/1938. Today, we say Pogromnacht.
In school in Germany it is mandatory to visit a concentration camp as a student. (in most places) We went to Dachau in the winter and it really is different than just seeing it online. Feeling the cold and seeing the solitude and desperation in a place like this is a lesson that should be learned.
I know it is not a pleasant experience, but it is an impotent one in order to remember to never let it happen again. Something like a park would never be able to convey the same feelings.
My Grandma pulled my Grandpa from transport to Aushvitz when gestapo came looking for my Uncle who was in Home Army and didn't find him.
My Mom's best friend, Jewish girl, and her family disappeared one day, never to be seen again. Neighbors said they were taken to Warsaw Ghetto.
My aunt fought in Warsaw UPRISING and after it was over she was taken to Ravensbruck. She survived, but my mom said she was never the same.
My father's youngest sister went out one morning to a neighborhood store. She never came back. People said, that gestapo did a street sweep and took everybody in sight. She never returned.
If you ever visit Poland, I strongly suggest you visit Aushvitz, then you will understand why it can't be burned.
I was born long after the War was over, but history lives within me, and I told it to my son, so it lives through his generation.
NEVER FORGET!
And today we have even more reason to remember.🇵🇱
Thank you so much for sharing your story. Your family has been touched too much by these horrible times.
@@TouchyReactions There are many people in Poland, and other European countries with similar stories, that's why we ALL have to make sure, that history DOES NOT repeat itself. 🇵🇱🇺🇦
@@TouchyReactions One thing I forgot to mention. The sign over Aushvitz gates "Arbeit macht Frei" ironically means "Work will set you free".
"It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say"
Primo Levi.
I visited the Holocaust Monument in Berlin in November 2019, I'm not ashamed to say that as 57 year old grown man, I cried like a baby.
I have heard this song tens of times, and every time it leaves me with a tear and a thought to those that endured such horrors.
RIP.
Thank you Sabaton for making the song, and thank you Touchy Reactions for reacting to this dark theme. The song is not easy to listen to, but it is beautiful song. It's on my playlist, it stirr my emotions. Songs have to mean something to me, and the metal genre is masters of this.
Yes this is a very good but hard song to listen too without having some emotional feeling to it
For me this is a very hard song to listen to. It's more personal since my Grandfather was born in Germany in 1940. His childhood was the war. He would rarely ever speak of it. Germans still to this day feel burdened and beholden to the past sins.
I am glad Sabaton was able to respectfully sing of this time. I am a fan because I love history. History is full of the greatest good and the darkest evils of mankind. Honestly it is still hard to hear the song. I am honored you responded to it to help more people to be aware of Sabaton and history.
@@wesleybarrett9502 I guess the only thing we can do, is to remember history and keep it away from happening again. I must mention that another Sabaton song came to mind, Hearts of Iron. Love that too.
Regards from one friendly norwegian.
As a German, this is an important part of history lessons in school, to never forget, stuff like this really happened. I've been to Dachau and Buchenwald. As much as I see the wish to burn these places down, it is IMPORTANT to leave them as they were, so people could never say, it wasn't THAT bad... all should be able to see the dimension of this. But yes, it for sure is a haunting experience... in Dachau, they teared down most of the prisoner barracks and just left some for display.. the rest of the area was filles with white and gray gravel, only stones marking the former places of the other buildings.. and that made it even more haunting, as you could see how HUGE this area was.. it was a hot summer day when we've been there, standing in a sea of stones, and you could almost feel the dispair.. Thank you for the reaction, though, it is an important one...
Thank you for sharing your story.
Agreed. We can't erase these parts of history, and we shouldn't try to. The best way to learn is to see it for yourself, and that's why keeping these camps visible is important.
This song is meant "to feel that way", for a reminder what humanity is able to do...I was at Bergen-Belsen when i was younger and even they had to pull down most of the buildings shortly after the war because of an massive typhus outbreak it's still doing the work. Walking on a path between large mass graves with even growing numbers of people, who were resting there is something you never forget, although Bergen-Belsen was not an dedicated extermination camp like Auschwitz and Treblinka...I highly recommend a visit to such an place to understand the real dimension of the crime against humanity!
They mention Adolf Eichmann in this video. You may have noticed that he died in 1962. That is because he escaped to Argentina due to his relative obscurity and the fact that he avoided having his picture taken whenever possible. Eventually, though, he was discovered and the Israeli intelligence service, the Mossad, essentially kidnapped him in Buenos Aires and took him back to Israel where he was put on trial and executed. There's a great book about it called "Nazi Hunters" and a movie called "Operation Finale."
And Reinhard Heydrich, who gave him his job, was assassinated by the Czech resistance while he was in Prague.
the Israelis do not forgive or forget what happend in the holocausts and will deliver justice for the victims the Israelis do not forgive or forget what happend in the holocaust and will deliver justice for the victims
@@bescotdude9121 yeah and who will stop them from doing the same to the Palestinians seems no one :\
@@jacksmith-vs4ct this is the problem with the existence nations and different governments, it would be less of a problem if the world was under one unified government. yet what is a nation can we see the lines that divide us?
In german school its mandatory to visit a camp. The school visit to the camp aims to sensitize the students to the crimes committed during the Nazi era.
I think this is done all over Europa. I know we do this in Norway too.
@@PetterVesselhere in the United Kingdom we get shown videos of the old footage whether we can handle it or not,in my school we were told we can’t leave the room even if we feel like we need to
Wow, they weren't playing around. Thanks for sharing your story with us.
It's not mandatory. I don't know where in Germany you live but when I went to school I knew not a single person that went to a camp during their school years.
Walking around a concentration camp gave me two feeling.
One of them is like when you're on a graveyard. You just know to respect the silence. Respect the dead and mourn them.
The other feeling was disbelief and anger. This should never have been allowed to happen and I think of all the normal, kind and innocent people who died there.
In Europe we have more places like this. This is just the latest chapter of darkness we have. We have a long history, a lot of hell is in that damn history.
As a supplement to this topic on Indy's World War 2 channel they have a War Against Humanity series that covers this in detail starting from the beginning of the war. They are in 1943 in their weekly war coverage and the atrocities are already to the point of numbness. The crazy thing is it all started with relatively benign laws (for the time) that were justified with public safety etc.
I had this long winded political discussion with regards to our current time but cut it out. Instead I leave with this, looking through the eyeglass of history examining past events. What are the next steps once a government has willingly vilified and separated a class of people from "everyday" society ? In the span of a little more than half a decade ('33 - '38) Nazi Germany went from separating Jews from society for public safety and whatever other justification to transporting them to Ghettos then mass murder and not necessarily in that order from that point on.
Never forget.
Yes, never
They add the noise of the train going over the tracks. Creepy sound
Have been to Sachsenhausen consentration camp. I personaly recomend that everyone atleast once visit one of these places. Never forget the lessons learned, and the millions who have died to give us those lessons. Not telling or fearing pain from these lessons and hiding them from future generations only results in the lessons having to be re-learned, the price to relearned them will be the same or higher than the past.
I've been to Bergen-Belsen when i was a couple of years younger.
At first you go to the museum and can watch all the things they found and you can't really comprehend that these are all belonging of those people.
Outside is a huge memorial. The Moment you stand before that memorial you realize where you are. That's how it went to me.
Thank you so much for sharing your story.
I personally do want to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, because visiting historical places and sites makes the history much more "real" for me - in both good and bad things.
It's easy to read about history in a book or watch a video about it and be like "ok, cool, that happened. Awful, but I guess it's in the past already so whatever", but when you go to the place where it really happened and you walk on the same ground those people did and you see the remaining signs of their lives there, it just brings you to that place of thinking "what if this had been me or my family?" and suddenly it's that much more real. It makes you understand the full gravity of what happened
I know this was released 2 weeks ago, but I would reccomend a book by Gloria Hollander Lyon called "Mommy, Whats that Number on your Arm?"
Its a chilling story and first hand experience of her life in a death camp. There is also a documentary of her going back.
She was the second Holocaust survivor I've met. The first was in 8th grade and I cried the whole presentation. The lady who came to my school in 8th grade is still afraid of German Shepherds that she cannot even be in the same room with them due to horrific memories.
This is something that happened. I've heard them from someone who had experienced it and later generations will one day read it in books and believe it as myth due to the fact of those who were there being gone.
Never forget, always remember. Rest in peace to all of the millions of souls that didn't make it through that horrific time and may some day they can truly rest in peace.
Thank you so much for sharing your story.
Being a german, my school decided we should go there as trip for history classes. So.. I've been to Ausschwitz once. We'd been learning about it for like.. 4 months before that, we'd been looking stuff up, trying to prepare but just like Pär said.. you can't prepare. You really can't. It's a very heavy topic in the first place but actually going there... While I'm honestly glad I did, now able to.. understand the history even better and.. pay even more respect to the ones who sadly were forced to live through that horror or die there, if that makes sense, it's difficult. Very difficult. It was a very emotional, hard trip
Thank you for sharing your story.
@@TouchyReactions it’s quite a shock as a German standing there where millions died…. I kind freaked out when I saw some Americans who made fund in the barracks etc ….. sorry ….. Nono. I remember how the whole bus was silent after that trip…. I was kind of a history nerd …. I knew exactly what we are going to see ….. I was the only guy who could describe the feelings when we where asked later .
I knew a veteran of the 506th PIR in WWII who would get severely pissed at anyone who denied that The Holocaust happened…he saw the one at Landsberg when the 101 was there as they were making their way through Germany near the end of the war. When the camps started being discovered, Eisenhower sent Signal Corps soldiers to document every one, because as he said, “Someday, some people will say this didn’t happen.”
Have been to Dachau
The feelings Per describes, i felt it
I was emty, sad and so angry
The air at the place felt heavy and sad
May we never forget
Good on you to react to the song; I know it's a hard song to hear and a lot to take in. I agree with you: this is indeed a song everyone should hear at least once in their lives.
At 41:50, when Joakim let's out that cry, it's like a cry of pain (and someone over here was chopping onions) - it's so impactful. This is a good piece of music, that's undeniable, but I wonder how it feels to stand there in the live audience. It IS a catchy song. That's a bit weird to me, because it's hard not to sing along, and at the same time, you just want to cry.
The lyric video version feels very oppressive while the live version feels very melancholy. I guess I see Touchy's point about audience participation, but, like you, I find it hard not to sing along. Also, I'm Catholic. Every Good Friday Mass, the congregation has to chant "crucify him" as part of the Passion reenactment. It's a reminder that Jesus died for *all* our sins. Here, singing the song reinforces the message to *never forget.*
Just do as me, sing and cry. :)
@@PetterVessel I'm not saying that is what happening currently, I'm just saying that's a good idea you have there...
Who remembers prisoner 4859? I do
It's honestly sad to think, that songs like this are slowly becoming a more respectful form of educating people than most schools...
Heavy subjects need to be discussed, painful things need to be remembered...
"Those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it"
very true European and Asian conflicts
Schools suck at teaching in general.
Im a swede but in school I was imature and tired I learned more from sabaton in few years than in school for 6 years of history lessons.
I actually went to a concentration camp with school. It was a very sad experience
Its why the decision to keep the camps standing and not just burn them to the ground and replace them with standard memorials is honestly commendable. How easy of a sell would it be to local governments and populations to just demo the camps and build a nice respectful memorial but then you would lose some of the real impact. The Holocaust was the systemic conversion of the administrative state for the express purpose of killing people, that was a new phenomenon and one that can be difficult to wrap your mind around without being able to physical see how organized and structured and efficient it all was.
Thank you for the reaction. The Holocaust is a horrible chapter in worlds history. In German schools the Holocaust is a mandatory subject and most schools have a mandatory vist to a concentration camp, so I've been to the camps Buchenwald and Flossenbürg. It is definitly a lifechanging experience. And I've seen Holocaust deniers changing their minds after visiting one of those camps. Its one thing if you see videos of it, but if you see the Logs of the killed people, read all those names, see the remains of dumped clothing and lamps made from human skin, its changing you.
To anyone planning on visiting one pls be respectful. Remember its a memorial and a gravesite, no Horror cabinet at an amusement park
I've been to a concentration camp with school too. I found it very sad seeing it all. I'm Dutch btw
I've only ever been to Auschwitz, but that was more than enough. I don't normally believe in the supernatural, but if there were ever a place that would be haunted, Auschwitz is the place. I don't think I've ever been somewhere before or since that just radiated *evil*. It's incredibly unsettling and something I'll carry with me until the day I die.
The only respect that is required throughout and after the song is to reaffirm one's conviction to "never again" tolerate such atrocities, against anyone. Never forget, never forgive, never again!
Here in Germany many schools which are in the vicinity of one of the concentration camps go there with their classes. Often times, when they are around 14-16 years old. I have been to Buchenwald 2 times two times and it really is exhausting. But I would like to visit Auschwitz because it is a very integral part of our history especcially as a german. At most of these sites are Museums and Memorials. But we don't hide these sites in germany.
Never forget.
Thank you for being so aware and making sure everyone is aware of the content and the need for the warning of what is to come. Well done Touchy.
Thank you
I have been to one of these camps, Sachsenhausen, and let me just say that it is a visit that will forever shape my life. Its not for entertainment you go there. It is to make it real for your mind.
Germany and Poland has done amazing work to preserve this dark chapter so that we can do everything in our power to avoid it ever to be repeated.
I think its a reality check that we need to understand that humanity has the potential of infinit darkness if we won't uphold higher goals for ourself.
Now I do not wish to insult anyone but this is not a german thing or a Europe thing.... we all have this potential void in us if our society fails. There could be a human meat grinder outside of Detroit or Austin or LA. This is why we can't simply eradicate it by fire. It would be easy to do! But if we fail to remember, it will happen again.
this should be shown in every school in the world
Agreed
I have been to a camp. Dont remember wich one. One of the big ones. The school sent us there as a history trip under WW2 history. It was nothing what i thought it would be. I thought it would be bad, but not THAT bad. And yes you feel anger, sadness and overwhelming emotions of..i dont know what.
It was really good to do that trip as Pär says, once is good. But enough.
I hope they never burn them down, in my schol everyone had to go on a fieldtrip to Buchenwald. A Memorial would never have had the same impact on me as seeing the place for myself. It's a really somber atmosphere, that creeps you out. And i'm glad i went.
To answer the question, I've been to the camp and it really is a haunting experience. I'm Polish and it's actually pretty common to organise school trips there. Well, at least it was back when I was a kid. Can't really speak for current schooling system as I have been out of it for decades, especially with current situation. The thing is, that when you visit it at such a young age, you generally don't understand the weight of that place. It was only when I revisited it as an adult I could really experience the atmosphere - the mountains of belongings stolen from the victims, their portraits hanging in the halls. Such a visit is something I would recommend to anyone, as I think it does a lot to remind ourselves just what that event meant.
Thank you so much for sharing your story.
Thank you for this reaction, even if it is a hard one for us all.
So i'm from Austria and we start learning about all of this as soon as elementary school. I grew up in the district of Braunau. In third grade, we went on a trip to Braunau and the first thing we visited was his Birthplace.
In Austria its standard for every school to go and visit the concentration camp of Mauthausen in 8th grade and its also the main topic in history class in that year.
In every major city you will find memorials of every kind.
One time, we visited a man called Marko Feingold, who was the oldest survivor in Austria and died 2019 at the age of 106. He was the president of the Jewish community in Salzburg and he told us his story. Of how he was arrested and managed to flee to Prague, was deported to Poland, went back and got arrested again and sent to Ausschwitz. Of how he survived not only there, but also in Dachau and Buchenwald.
I was in one of these camps in Sereď. It was, strange. But I want to go and visit others too... But change a lot of things in you. When you are walking there. You can feel something, which is not from this world... And there is not peace.
We visited Sachsenhausen on our German language-trip to Berlin.
I have been there, and I really hope it will never be burned down! It needs to be remembered how it is.
When I was in Germany, I went to Dachau. It was a hard experience; but, an important one. To put a park or something to hide the horror would be the greatest affront to what happened. Lest We Forget.
Personally I really wish they made an official version of the acoustic version. I love the metal version but I think this is one of few, if not the only song that sounds better acoustic when given the context.
Agreed
30:12 a memorial doesn't have nearly the impact on a visitor then the real thing.
and even with the real thing around, there's people denying that it happened.
we where there multiple times with school, and it's a really somber mood, but there's nothing as good at reinforcing how bad this was then actually seeing one.
Three times I've visited Auschwitz . In Norway, schools arrange trips to Auschwitz with 9th graders students,and as a bus driver I've been there 3 times. Each time it's getting worse. The atmosphere is incredibly sad,scary, terrible and unbelievable. I will never go back. But still, I recommend you to go there. Less we forget! Ps. Another great reaction.
Thank you
I’ve been to Sachsenhausen (north of Berlin) and Theresienstadt in Czech Republic. It really brings chills down to your bones
When this song came out I wasn't sure either. It was a bit too catchy in my opinion and I was worried that I would accidentally hum it in public. When I went for their first tour after the release I didn't expect the song to be played. It didn't sound like a good idea to present to a partially drunk crowd. But they did and it worked. There was nothing of the catchiness left. They slowed it down and it was impressive and somber to hear. But I haven't heard it since at any other tour.
I've also been to Auschwitz. It was not an easy visit. I've been to other concentration camps before (all mainly for work like Mauthausen), but Auschwitz hit differently. I was a nervous wreck before going in, clinging to my handbag for comfort. Nothing can prepare you for it. I don't know how the guides are doing it. Obviously it was the only "sightseeing" we had planned for the day. You are very much not in the mood for anything else afterwards. As an Austrian (my ancestors being on the evil side) it was important for me to go through that experience. Mauthausen was actually a school trip and I know that German schools are also doing that. I would be worried that if they remove it people will have an easier time to forget it and act as if it didn't happen.
And the Romani people are what many people call "gypsies". They have always been persecuted for their difference. Their holocaust is called "Porajmos" and there are no real numbers of how many were killed because they already were forced to live outside of society before so them disappearing wasn't as obvious as it was with the Jews. But estimates say that half a million or more were murdered.
Thank you for sharing your story with us.
Thank you for the reaction.
I agree with Indy that it's important to write, sing and retell these events.
The importance of keeping these places how they were is precisely to keep them in memory. Every Holocaust deniar should be taken there at least once.
My sister visited Auschwitz and told me it was a reality check in spite of knowing the history, seeing for yourself is quite different.
I second the recomendation of the retelling by the WW2 channel of The War Against Humanity by Spartacus.
Never forget.
the camp is the memorial. nothing can capture the horror better than the camp itself....
We studied quite thoroughly the history of WWII and the Polish literature of this topic in a high school, and I remember writing a composition about it during my matura exam. I remember how shocked I was after reading some descriptions of that hell.
The first concentration camp I've visited was Majdanek, next to Lublin where I used to study. There is this mound of ashes there. Afterwards I've been to Ravensbruck (at the begining the main women's camp) and Sachsenhausen in Germany. I've also visited Stutthof (Sztutowo), near Gdańsk and Sobibór, north of Lublin. I've seen enough and I'm not planing visiting Aushwitz (Oświęcim) in the near future. I read books and watch several documentaries about these places and I think we mustn't forget the people who died there. Please react ot Inmate 4859.
I've done 4859 already. Thank you for sharing your story.
I do understand where you're coming from with the whole "burn it to the ground and put a memorial there", but at the same time I strongly disagree.
Maybe if it was falling apart and in no way still showed what it was like there I could understand doing that, but the fact that it's the site of the
culmination of one of, if *the* worst acts in our history as a species, that I think it needs to remain for as long as possible so that people can't
forget. As good as it can be for mental health to move on and simplify such matters, this is something we should never be allowed to lessen.
It's easy to forget since we all live relatively short lives compared to the world around us, but burning down historic sights and trying to move on is
how we lose, become numb to, and ultimately forget things as a culture. So yes, while I agree it's good to move on with most things, this is not
one of those things we can afford to let that happen to as a species, less we repeat it someday.
True. I understand where he's coming from, but it's also important to keep these lessons alive. Though, I rather doubt that burning the place to the ground would remove the emotional scar from the land. Something that vile is sure to reach out and suck the joy from those who walk those grounds for generations to come.
I meant no disrespect by saying that. I just know that place is horrific to so many. I absolutely agree that we can't afford to forget what happened there.
@@TouchyReactions It is kind of the same reason the French town of Oradour-sur-Glane still exists. In 1944 where the Waffen SS caused one of the greatest massacres of civilians in France by killing 642 men, women and children. The town still stands today, a ghost town in complete ruins exactly as it looked after the war as a constant reminder of what happened and why we need to remain vigilant and try as hard as we can to make sure it NEVER happens again.
No matter how many movies or documentaries you watched or how many articles and books you have read about this topic, absolutely nothing will prepare you for a visit to Auschwitz.....
I visited Auschwitz once with a friend almost 20 years ago, and frankly I don't remember a lot of it (maybe some sort of a self-protection reflex inside my brain). But there were some pictures being hammered inside my memory, and we didn't talk a lot during our tour, except for a brief "holy shit" or "oh fuck!". We felt really empty and drained after we left and were not in the mood to do anything.
However, I encourage everybody to make a trip to Auschwitz once in your lifetime. It is a part of mankinds darkest history which must not be denied or forgotten!
Thank you so much for taking the time to share this with us.
I get chills every time I hear this song!
those camps must never be destroyed they serve a noble purpose now in forcefully reminding people of what happened through shock factor so to make sure its never forgotten and hopefully never again done, let this be the history never repeated
another sabaton song that you might find interesting, "royal guard". last year, the swedish royal guard celebrated 500 years of service as an operational unit. and sabaton hails from the same region of sweden as the founders of the royal guard, they made a pair of songs to honor them. one in swedish, and one in english. as is their habit, they played dress up and made their customary well made music videos. the english one is particularily impressive
It's on my list.
@@TouchyReactions the English version (the royal guard) and the Swedish (Livgardet) are awesome, even though I prefer the Swedish version.
Both of my grandparents on my Mom’s side survived the Holocaust.
My grandfather and his family were hidden until 1943 by a German soldier. The soldier’s ‘Aryan’ wife was Jewish. After they were discovered, my grandfather’s family were deported to Auschwitz.
My grandfather was tortured by the doctors there, including Dr. Josef Mengele. My grandfather was the only single birth in his family. The rest of his siblings were either twins or triplets. My grandfather was injected with polio.
My grandmother’s family escaped Lithuania. However, they ended up hidden on a farm in Italy. There’s gaps in her family’s story, but they were likely on one of the ships denied port in the US, Cuba, and other countries.
One of my grandmother’s siblings accidentally smothered her newborn when the Gestapo investigated the farm. They weren’t discovered that day. Eventually they were. My grandmother’s family were deported to Bergen-Belsen.
Out of 70 family members that entered the camps, 9 survived.
My great-grandfather (my grandmother’s father), stole a Luger from an SS guard at Bergen-Belsen. He used it to get revenge when the British and Canadians eventually liberated the camps.
I have not been to Auschwitz though it is on my list to eventually go. It might seem strange, but I want to see the camp and honor the family members that I lost there.
And this song, honestly, I was hesitant to listen to. This was only the 2nd time I ever listened to it. The other time was another video reaction by a historian.
Thank you for sharing your story of your family.
Thank you for sharing your family history I hope they are resting in peace and they are all happy in afterlife Ik that’s hard to talk about but thank you for sharing
This is a hard song to hear. Because some of the words speak of actions that have started once more to surface. I hope to heaven people don't just listen but hears what this song is saying and try with all their hearts to find a way to reverse the current course our world is once more heading. This is why history is so important not to be forgotten. So we don't see these types of atrocities repeat themselves at any level.
So true
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. That’s one of my favorite quotes for this sort of topic.
Personally, I think this is an amazing, sensitive song, which covers the material well. I’ve loved this song since I first heard it. Granted, I had no clue what the subject matter was at the time, so I was only paying attention to the music and lyrics in general. However, even after I understood what it’s about, I still enjoy this song, and when it comes on on my playlist, I sing it just as loud as the rest. It’s a wonderful memorial, and it tells a difficult story.
Finally-yes, I would like to go to at least one of the camps. I personally think it would be an unforgettable experience, if a difficult one. I think it would be valuable to put myself in the shoes of the shoeless victims of the Holocaust, and just reflect on the horrors that humans can work against each other.
Thank you for reacting to this one, Touchy. It’s not recognized enough, and it really ought to be. I hope you grow to enjoy this song and recognize it as a warning.
Thank you for sharing your story.
Went to Dachau last week im now getting different chills while listening to this song
Very sensible and mature reaction !
I feel happy about the live action one 🙂as I feel that adding the guitar and the piano make the song more like a memorial or a tribute to all those innocent people who died during the halocost rip 😑
30:17 The camp itself *IS* the memorial, sir.
i have been to one concentration camp, i think a few months ago. It's called Stutthof which is also in Poland. It's just heart breaking to see what is left after all that has happened during the second world war. I myself am Polish along with my family and in this summer we are going to visit Auschwitz i think in the middle of august.. I almost feel just like you but.. history is history, nobody can change the past. I do respect your opinion about 'burning' Auschwitz but i also think we just want to preserve it for people to see what is left of it. Overall, you are a great guy i respect your opinion about the song and the history about the concentration camp itself.
30:00 I never visited Auschwitz. In Czech republic old fort of Terezin was used as concetration camp (A-H empire prison in WW1). That place has very oppresive "aura" (for lack of better word). After that visit I know I don´t want to go anywhere near Auschwitz.
27:42 noone with a heart would do good hearing the history. i believe it is human to feel devasted hearing these stories.
Other than that about the song itself. i believe it is sabaton at it's best. not because of the music itself but by showing how music can help to bring awareness. it is the prime example of what sabaton does for history in general, or that is what i believe. it's in no way comprehensive, but an opener to a section of history. in this case a very dark and stomach churning section.
If we wish not to forget in the long run we must keep those atrocities visible.
As long as there will be people visiting those Deathcamps and seeing in person the horrors that mankind can do, it will be remembered.
Those sites are the memorial and extremely powerful message conveyers. They shouldn't be burnt down to the ground.
the fact that the background music sometimes sounds like a old train traveling over the tracks makes this song even better, It is one of my favorite songs by sabatons but its also one of the ones I dont listen to very often, it really tells of a horrible story in the history of Europe.
Controversial topic for sure.. and im proud of the boys to take it up....
in 9th grade i went to a death camp in france, school trip.... When freedom burns and all hope turns to dust
I’m sure someone’s mentioned it, but when the video mentions “Romanis” at 4:00, what they’re talking about is the Roma or Romani people, who have often been referred to with the derogatory term “Gypsy”
I'm from Poland and we had been going to Majdanek in Lublin and I realy don't want to visit this place ever again or other camp. i'm was this kid who is realy tought and so on and it was first time i had cried in front of my friends and canot stop for like 10 minute( we went to monument with the ashes of people killed there). Every time I'm going back in my mind to that trip I really have feeling that I want to kill myself because of those thinks I saw ( it;s really like PTSD). Not recomended for guys that aren't super cold hearted
Thanks for sharing your story.
Thank you for your reaction, it must have been hard for you. During our tour in Poland we visited Auschwitz. It was sickening, but I believe that you have to see it with your own eyes to realized how far the horror went. The final solution was the worst among numerous eruptions of anti-semitism in Europe during the last 2000 years. Allow me to add 3 historic facts. First, the yellow badge for the Jews was created under the french king Saint Louis in the early 13th century. Second, the word "ghetto" is coming from a part of Cannaregio in the bay of Venice, where the Jews were forced to regroup from the early 16th century until Napoleon's conquest of Italy in 1797. Third, part of the wealth of the Jews is a consequence of the rule edicted by the church in the middle ages, that christians were forbidden to loan money with interest and thus non-christians had to take over the banking business.
Every time I hear this song, my heart breaks, and I feel like I lose a little bit more of my own humanity, as my humanity turns to resolution to do all I can to bring attention to what happened from 1932 to 1945.
Because we are losing Holocaust survivors, just as we are the veterans of the Second World War. In a decade, there will be no survivors of the Holocaust or veterans of the war itself left.
And for me, this is why I am glad for the first-hand pictures, the actual survivor accounts, and in the case of Eva Kor, one of the "Twins of Mengele," she did something incredible: She found an administrator of Auschwitz, a man who was not found guilty of any crimes during the Nuremburg Trials, and with him, created a document that is legal evidence to prove that the Holocaust happened. Both Eva Kor and the administrator she found, signed it, and in the presence of witnesses. When asked why she created the document, she literally responded, "It was so I could take this piece of paper out, and throw it at them, and so I could say that what I went through in fact happened! The Holocaust, happened! And I know this, because I was there, at Auschwitz!"
May God rest her soul, and the souls of all those who lost their lives in that genocide so long ago. May their message always be remembered:
Never forget. Never again.
Thank you so much for sharing your story with us ❤️
Visited Auschwitz at my early 20's, never been okay after that visit. Would I visit again.. NO! I would literally lose my mind, I was mentally so drained. Been taking years to process what I saw and heard.
Thank you for sharing your story.
I live in Poland, close to Cracow, but I've never been in Auschwitz. But I want to. In the concentration camps died lots of Poles too. I just wait to take my kids with me. They need to know the truth. I need to honor these people who died. It happened when my grandparents were kids. It breaks my heart, because WWII was the worst for Poles also. My grandparents told me that that they had to hide 1. German 2. Soviets I can't even imagine the horror all the people came through.. There was a time, when I was a little kid at school, when everyone in class had someone who during the WWII had to hide or saved Jews or survived Auschwitz or someone died at war. In Poland they teach us at very young age about the WWII. But nothing can prepare you for that.
I have been to Theresienstadt (The propaganda KZ-camp) in Czechia, and Dachau (the KZ.-camp longest time in use, 1933-1945!) in Bavaria, Germany ... I am yet to go to Auschwitz, but the plans to go there are in the making!
IMO EVERYBODY should visit Auschwitz! People STILL need to remember and learn. Humankind have ALWAYS been VERY innovative when it came to hurt his fellow man, and these camps are the sad, depressing, and most evil of pinnacles on this "innovation".
I don't think that the camps should be torn down, but kept as is, as a memorials and museums to humankind's evil and all the victims of these camps. It's hard visiting, but it is VERY necessary as the generation, who experienced and lived through these terrors are dying of old-age ... And people forget ...
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana
Man it's history for bad or good history needs to be remembered. A monument wouldn't have the same effect to understand what people went through. You can not forget the bad just because it is uncomfortable to remember it.
I've been there: Auschwitz is basically one giant memorial. No better way to retain the memory of what happened than to see the remains. To visit them is tough, indeed, but we should not deny or run from our past - we should face it with courage and learn its lessons.
I once was in "Buchenwalde" and it is a weird feeling to be to such a place. I was just overwhelmed and it feels like looking into the human abyss.
I have visited... Together with my family. It leaves scars. To see the shoes of the murdered people burned deep into my memory. As many other things. But it is importend to see it. I recommend you to visit it.
I offer you a reason for not destroying the site, that visceral reaction that you felt even seeing the gates, that is why it still stands. For the millions who died behind gates like those, for the millions who died fighting to end the war, for those children who might have made it out alive. Also as a point to the crematoriums, they ran constantly, and not even hot enough to destroy the bodies entirely, its just easier and takes less space to dispose of semi cremated or charred remains. Remember that many of those who worked at those camps were forced to, it makes it easier when the body is nothing more than ash, then charred bones, its no longer a person. Also yes I would go, I would be a mess emotionally but I would enter those gates and be greatful that I am able to leave unlike many
Powerful comments. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I kinda would want to experience it, so I would never forget
Hitler denied the plan of rounding up Jews or anything of the like initially. One of the generals had proposed the plan two different times prior to the third time when finally Hitler gave the ok on the plan.
The live version is haunting, as is proper...
So in my country Poland there is the biggest and most disturbing of all Nazi camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and as a traditionmy school was organising school trips there every year and as a history nerd I thought that surely I want to go I will enjoy it, but there was something about that place that caused me to not say a word other then whisper to my friends when they were talking to me, it felt just wrong to be there, if noosphere was real that place would be cursed
I can only imagine.
I am from Germany but I never went to one of these camps. If I was near one, I would visit it but I don't drive some hours to one.
30:00 don't burn it down. Preserve it. Study it. Learn from it. And when you leave the blood-soaked soil, look at it once again and vow to teach all that will hear of the atrocities and the choices that led to them. Make it an inflexible bulwark against the rage and hate that made it.
This is one of my “anger songs“, for lack of a better term. It's their only song that makes me feel pure rage against the kind of bigotry that wrote its story. Songs like Price of a Mile carry despair, a lot of them have a tinge of hope, this one's just anger.
Thanks
They had it live, but some people decided to be disrespectful so they took it out completely.
Romanis are same as gypsies. Romanians are then citizens of Romania. Edit: Someone already explained it, I just noticed. Anyway, nazis focused to all minorities etc. to wipe them out. One paradox is, that catholic church helped so many nazis to escape in the end of the war and right after, but if nazis would have won the war, church would have been neutralized too.
This places have to never be destroyed.Because people never forget what hapend.
Damm, that live version cut me off guard
I just dicovered this video, but it does reminds me of what I have been saying. Yes, there are denier because we are starting to be more and more removed from the moments.
Born in 76. the end of the war was already 31 years away, So, the veterant, the victimes were alrready 32 to 50 years old. (for those who were 20back then). So, I am part of the last generation who had immediate contact with survivors, with veterant of this terrible tragedy. We had grand-parents who fought, bleed, saw the horror of the was (if not of the Holocaust). We've had someone right in front of us telling us the stories. Now, the current generations are 50-65 years removed from the events. They do not have direct contact, or rarely have direct contact with the reality of the war, of the camps.
And somewhere, I believe that when the truth hurts to much, we do not want to believe it, we want to hude it, we want to shove it in a corner and pretend it never happened. We don't want to suffer. So for that reason, I believe we NEED camps to stay up, not to be destroyed so we can go there to have that direct contact with thas part of our history. I understand that we want to hide the hideous, we want to hide the ugly, but we musn't because we must remember.
For that, I am grateful for Sabaton who has decided to talk about history in music, or Steven Spielberg who did the “Schindler's List” to tell us how it happened. It is important to remember Nicolas Winton and tell the stories of the heroes but also of the really darker side so we can know how far we can spiral down when fear, hate, and looking for someone to blame controls us. It is important so we can recogize and stop it before it is to late.
And that is why when people look at me and tell me that everyone has the right to believe what ever they want, I remind them that there are people who believes the earth is flat, other believes that the moon landing was fake and some denie that the hollocaust happened.
So let's remember, and let's honor their memory by never forgetting what happen, and by making sure sure that those mistakes are never repeated again.
Trick you like Peter Griffin. "Lois I thought you said we were going to a place Walt Disney built""no I said he supported"
Lol
I've been to Auschwitz, Dachau and Treblinka. Awful, awful, awful places. But we need to let them be and we need people to see them, so we will never ever repeat history again. I love Sabaton for keeping all these things alive - good or bad, we need to remember them. Never forget. Greetings from Finland. 🤘🏻❤
I was in Dachau when I was a teenager with my school(I'm from Croatia - which during WW2 was partly a Nazi puppet state) and I disagree with your idea of burning it to the ground. I can not stress enough how important it is to see such places for what they were. Industrialised killing factories. This can not happen again, ever. Yes, there are memorials which are very important, but to truly understand the gravitas and the horrors of the situation, you need to see machinations of the process that killed so many. They do take a part of your soul with them and a part of me wishes I had never seen that, but as I got older I understood why I had to see it. It is a reminder to everyone that this can not and will not be allowed to happen ever again. Great vid nonetheless and greetings from Croatia!
Thank you
I wasnt in Auschwitz but in Mauthausen it was incredible to See where it all happend,how,the Atmosphere was very depressing. And my class was so disrespecting as well wich made it even worse
If you can go to graveyards then you can go to those places. In the end it's just a big mass grave place if you narrow it down. It's just how you want to think it through, it is what it is. I am just saying objectively, without any real political or anything else comment behind this. Important thing is to never forget as this will happen again if it's forgotten.
This is the reason for the Amendments to the Constitution, specifically the Second, the right to defend ourselves. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in the Gulag Archipelago about being arrested. "
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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I was there, and it was both the most horrific thing i have ever felt, and something that everyone should experience once in their life.
I recommend to visit Auschwitz if you are mentally and emotionally prepared, I thought I was..but no..my emotions run through the roof as I stepped inside those gates,you can feel the sadness and that lost of all hope..i teared up and cried uncontrollably took weeks to be myself again..but tear everything down and build a park is madness..we need to be remembered what happend inside of that place..and when you visit that place you gonna be aware of it immediately and all of your views of the world gonna change dramatically..see what the pandemic did to people,the unjabed got the blame for everything, they couldn't go to restaurants, they needed a pass to be with regular people..yeah the history repeat itself but everyone didnt notice that