Inmate 4859 - Witold Pilecki - Sabaton History 042 [Official]
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Join Indy and Joakim as they dive into the out-of-life story of Witold Pilecki during the Second World War, that has made for this awesome song.
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Witold Pilecki is one of those larger-than-life characters, and listen to Joakim and Indy talk about this amazing song as well as the historical background behind it. Now thanks to all of you we have ben able to film the history part of this in a new studio which is both bigger and better. This is 100% thanks to the Patrons whose generous contributions made this possible. Do you want to be a part of this as well? Make sure to support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sabatonhistory
Cheers, The Sabaton History Team
Many of the footages are taken in the concentration camp Buchenwald. If it's used symbolic, it's okay.
Thanks for telling this story
New studio! So you're not in the shed/Sparty's house anymore?
I love the new studio! It was surprising at first to not see the well known surroundings, but it is definitely interesting and cool. You know, it's always good to see my money really makes difference (both here and on ww2 channel). 🙂
The truth why Pileckis story is not lifted by huge companies is that he is political incorrect. He was patriot Pole. Hated russian communism which he saw during war in 1918-1921 and german nazism during ww2. He was killed by stalinist gouverment in Poland after 1945. After WW2 Poland were under heavy russian occupation it gone softer after Stalins death 1952. All polish resistance movement were placed in former Nazi prisons or camps in almost same conditions like under SS mangement. Even Aushwitz almost after taken by Russians were used to concentrate there Polish patriots. What is worser for this topic loots of communist judges on trials were jewish(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Michnik or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Woli%C5%84ska-Brus.) There were of course also Poles among stalinist murders. But you know it is quite political incorect especially after holocaust to say that stuff. Pilecki told to his wife after being beating and torture during "investigetion" that "Aushwitz was trifle in comparison to being "treated" by stalinist gouvermant". It is unpopular story. Why? Stalin was good uncle Joe for american president F D Rosewelt. Russians were treated as good guys in that times, who beated Third Reich and conquer Berlin. USA and Brits did nothing after seeing raports about holocaust in Aushwitz. Today Poles are very often accused by western media to create "Polish concentration camps" even Obama used that hurtfull words ua-cam.com/video/qXhlTKQufPg/v-deo.html during celebrating another infiltrator hero - Jan Karski. Jan Karski infiltrated German Nazi Ghetto in occupied by Germans Warsaw and told what he saw directly to F D Rosewelt. Here you may see how Karski tells his story of meeting with FDR in White House during WW2 ua-cam.com/video/paP02Us8CyM/v-deo.html. The main core of reaction of FD Rosevelt about killing Jews in Warsaw Ghetto by Germans were short "Justice will be done bla bla bla" and "hey dude Poland before war were agricultural country, so you have horses??" It was all reaction what could be made by most powerfull man on the world hearing about holocaust in Treblinka Belzec Sobobor and Aushwitz during WW2. See on vid especially Karsis emotions in that interview. Showing Pileckis story or Karskis story is full of incorrect and hurtfull facts will be not welcome among looots of peoples. I hope I wont be treated as antisemic. My grandfather were jew. So it would be also unfair.
PS For example one from polish meber of resistance were kept in same cell after war with German SS officer Jurgen Strop. Same monster who comanded Germans during Ghetto Warsaw Uprising in 1943 and destroying last Warsaw Jewish community. Strop was hangt of course but after realeasing free that guy created book - interview from talks with Strop. This book is called en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_with_an_Executioner and shows what was in mind of commander of SS squads during genocide in Warsaw Ghetto.
@joe bloggs Uhm...what? 😮
I am a history teacher and after I found his story, through randomly listening to Inmate 4859, Captain Pilecki was on my mind every day for like 3-4 months. Every year in my classes when we talk about WW2 and Communism I share his story. Thanks Sabaton for teaching history in such an impactful way!
Thank you for sharing his story and song!
@@SabatonHistory this I’m guessing
Rotmistrz. Prawdziwy bohater.
Check our Ryszard Kukliński aka Jack Strong, Marian Rejewski and Polish cryptologists and Jan Karski and Lords of humanity
'Romance in Auschwitz' sounds like a sequel to 'Springtime for Hitler'
69 likes, nice
It might seem weird (or maybe even inappropriate given the subject) but apparently, in 2002 Greeks actually made a stage musical "Mala, The Music of the Wind" based on the tragic story of Mala Zimetbaum, which includes a sort of romance with another inmate Edward "Edek" Galiński. They escaped together but got caught, brought back to the camp and killed.
Starting a girl named Anna.
That somehow sound familiar to be frank. Sounds like a well known story with a biography of sorts being quite popular.
"The Gulag Marriage" will finish the trilogy
"Eva and Adolf: A Love Story"
Knowing the full story truly makes the songs better.
You can even go deeper with a book i read called the volunteer
Now I understand the pause with a bell in the song. That¨s the moment he's out and seeing the idealistic and absurd society, compared to what the reality actually is.
@Vanya Secundus hmm ill have to read it. I just got the standard version at my library
I've read The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery. Indy does not go into anywhere near the level of horror it did. That said, it is a difficult, but amazing read.
Yup... the man died as he lived... a hero.
"I've been trying to live my life so that in the hour of my death I would rather feel joy, than fear."
Witold Pilecki at final hour.
I think this sentence we all should keep in mind.
Audy Murphy: *goes to Hell and Back*
Pilecki: That's cute, kiddo.
It's just a joke, not to disrespect both heroes.
I was thinking more like Pilecky would say, "hold my beer"
XD
@@ghostnappa2012 "Hold my food"
Pilecky would just say "So have I"
Different kind of hell. Audie Murphy was a warrior, not an agent.
I swear, the last chorus where "Who knows his name" changes to "*We* know his name" makes me teary-eyed every time.
Yup.
A movie or mini-series of Witold Pilecki written by Indy and produced (and of course music written) by Sabaton? Shut up, and take my money!
This song is one of my absolute favorite Sabaton songs. I like these darker sounds, like Inmate 4859 or Attack of the dead men. And in my opinion, the worst in Witold's story isn't that he had to experience and survive Auschwitz. Not even that nobody believed him. I think the most tragic part of his story that he couldn't see a free Poland. He died with the thought of his country further suffering from foreign terror.
Well he saw a free poland before the war
@@aidan8830 Yes, but I meant he didn't live enough to see Poland to be free again.
Amazing comment
Yes! These series need to be a thing!
Especially a national hero and patriot being executed for treachery is well... hideously ironic
God how depressing must it have been for the polish people in 1945, for the war to end only to trade one evil rule for another.
For many of us, WW2 truly ended only in 1989
If i can suggest you something watch "Unconquered" The animation. Our history in animated version
Puckosar and yet poles are still some of the happiest people I’ve met. (Granted I haven’t met many poles)
especially when we were sold by Churchill for "better relations with USSR". Still Pilecki got mooooore balls in hes small finger that we all have between our legs together!
Puckosar think about that next time you hear some woke Communist call the Pols “racist” or “fascist” when they refuse to trust outsiders or Europe. The Pols have many, many reasons to for the way they are. And it all started September 1, 1939.
I’m so glad that there’s outlets like this channel, and Sabaton’s music, to make sure that we don’t forget our history. It’s the only way to recognize past atrocities and make sure we don’t repeat them. Thank you everything you do.
Visited Oświęcim in 2015. When the guide talked about three men escaping the camp and not mentioning their names, I asked if one of them was Witold Pilecki.
She was very surprised that a foreigner knew who he was. But also quite pleased.
Så tack, Sabaton, för att ni hjälpte mig a verka bättre på historia än vad jag egentligen är. =P
"Poles, they are the last knights of Europe" -George Patton
I didn't heard about it, what source?
@@mrMajeq yeah I'd love a source.
I saw a video released from Russian archives. Roosevelt ordered Patton and his men to go to Moscow and make friends with Russian troops. Patton and troops standing across from Russians and could see Patton not happy and there was no conversations. Patton had replied, "I will go but after I saw what these savages did to the Polish people, I will not make friends. We were on the wrong side. He was quite outspoken and upset about fact the American people were told we were going to war to free the people from Communism and you left the Polish and East Germany behind Communist rule.
@@mrMajeq "Butt source." - Adam Mickiewicz
Before his death,soviets tortured him so cruelly, so one of his last words compared to soviet tortures is:Auchwitz was a game.
What a f*cked up time in our history...
Sadly, yes
“I told him: “I have been inside for two years and seven months. I have had a job to do here. Lately I have had no instructions. Now the Germans have shipped out our best people with whom I’ve been working. I would have to start from scratch. I can see no further point in staying here. Therefore, I’m going to leave.” Captain 159 [Stanisław Machowski] looked at me in some surprise and said: “Yes. I can see that, but can one pick and choose when one wants to come to Auschwitz and when one wants to leave?” I replied: “One can.” -The Auschwitz Volunteer.
Mighty Eagle
blood of heroes
Forever rest in Heaven,
Young hero
What a hero, may he rest in peace at last...
Witold Pilecki was a man who had iron willpower and integrity, determined to expose the true evil of a murderous regime and do what was right for his country. It's tragic he never got to see what his work did.
Long live Poland!! from the UK
His trial photos make him look like he wants to feel betrayed, but he more just feels done. Done with the hate, the violence and the fight. He looks tired and mad.
Your right
Those eye just say it's too much
Read about the torture methods used against the perceived state enemies in Peoples Republic of Poland back then. It's astonishing they didn't break down Pilecki and didn't make him cooperate. Some of the prosecutors working for the state were former soldiers of the Polish Home Army, who betrayed...
When people wonder why poland doesn't trust Germany and Russia, now all i do is show them this video and they have no more questions
I love this song, it's beautiful in a way. But it's story is... just... heavy, hard to fully procces.
It was a mistake to watch this while eating lunch.
Ditto. I knew what I was in for with this episode, but hearing all this and seeing that footage, it's always horrifying. To think people could do that to each other. Such barbarity, such evil. May the world never again suffer industrial murder and the victims rest in peace.
What's really disturbing is that some very prominent people are trying to convince people this never happened. And Israel is taking similar actions against Palestinians. And Trump is building yet another wall based on ignorence and fear.
I think too many politicians has forgotten what made Hitler and Third Reich possible.
@@johan.ohgren let me know when Biden gets nominated for 2 Nobel peace prizes.
@@blakedurston The Nobel prize has lost all its credibility. It's all politics now. And anybody can be nominated.
Great to see a colab with Indy. I loved him in The Great War.
Great you like it! You checked out his World War Two channel?
That man rightfully earned his BAMF card (they don't make wheelbarrows big enough to haul that man's balls around) and his story deserves to be told. My question is if Hollywood picked up wind of his story and wanted to tell it in either a series or movie format who would they get to play that badass?
I love Sabaton for all of many of reasons, their unbiased representation of history, their power to teach and inform, their ability to inspire and still entertain. Their upbeat songs are fantastic and often get the limelight but arguably their darker songs on darker topics are their best work with their shear dedication to the material yet still achieve musical greatness on them.
Taking a story of what is literally one of the greatest feats of physical and mental endurance in the history of humanity that more people need to know off.
This is the true power of Sabaton. Even more so with the support of Indy now to help expand on these events and people of history.
Now who needs horror movies when stories like these exist
To me it is the most important episode on Sabaton History.
I deeply appreciate this song for introducing me to a man who has come to be a personal hero to me.
Jesus, that was amazing.
Never heard of him
Thank you sabaton
i love heavy metal sabaton is one of them telling a story about war history is fantasic im from australia
This song is my favorite sabaton song i think, been waiting for this
Never forget the truth to this dark tale of history.
Nor forget the heroes who fought through it.
The whole "You're Not Giving Up" part makes me wonder when y'all are gonna do a song on Desmond Doss.
:3
I've waited too long for this. Thank you.
That man was a bad ass.
#freehongkong
The story of Witold Pilecki would probably work best as a mini-series. It seems like a lot of detail to leave just for a movie. Give it 4 or 5 episodes:
Episode 1: Early years, episode ends with the planning of his infiltration
Episode 2: First Year in Auschwitz
Episode 3: The later years in Auschwitz
Episode 4: The breakout and joining the Warsaw Uprising
Episode 5: The Trial and Execution
Pilecki is a True hero
Thank you
The vers has the best Sabaton guitar riff of all.
Still one of the best sabaton songs
Dude had no idea what he was getting into. The fact that he didn't get out given his first chance speaks miles to his dedication.
Awesome work guys
This would make a great film but I think that because of certain ‘elements’, few people will see it. We already have a film which shows those. Its called Schindlers list (spelling?). Not many people watch that one. This story is heroic and sad. Thanks for sharing it.
Its terrible how stuff as bad or worse is happening till this day
I wont get political, but .... Once day there shall be a song about it
The human race never learns from its mistakes.
The history channel at 3 AM: Romance in Auschwitz
Those images and videos really fucked me up...holy fuck!
ever since i first started watching Sabaton history I have seen story after story that I cannot believe is not a Hollywood movie. Like they were saying Hollywood write scripts all the time, and the movies and the plot are just awful. I hear you have these amazing stories from the great war, World War II and so on that are just movies waiting to be made.
God. So much of the early tactics here remind me of the gulags. Terrible minds think alike.
They have become real history teachers.
We have gotten homework.
👑
Yayyy......!
Honor to the hero
Excellent lesson! Now it's my turn. Your flag patch is on the wrong arm. Stars always face front. 😊
After all he endured...what a sad way to go...
You guys should make movies.
You make some incredibly good mini-films for your videos.
Still waiting on Camouflage.
If they ever find and exhume Witold Pilecki's grave, they'll find his big pair of steel balls!
Why is there no Hollywood blockbuster about this? I'll tell you why. The "cancel culture" movement. That's why. They, and others, want this piece of history erased like it never happened.
Agreed
More like Americans don’t care about history that isn’t their own.
If there will be a movie about Witold Pilecki I'm gonna watch it and as tough as I am i might cry..hahaha
9:11 bruh they had cbt at auchwitz!
you guys added some morse code aournd the 8 minute mark right? if yes what is it suppose to say?
14:06 He's not MURRICAN
Witold ooflecki
Didn't Geddy Lee's parents meet each other in Auschwitz? Great episode BTW on my favorite song from Heroes. Cheers!
Joakim: "Romance in Ausschwitz great!"
Indy:
Indy: WTF
See Mala Zimetbaum or the film The Last Stage (1947)
Not for nothing, Pilecki himself writes in The Auschwitz Volunteer that later in his incarceration men and women did meet and relationships did happen. He didn't go into much detail, but since the book was written like a military dispatch, it was stated more or less as a statement of observation.
I like Indy's face when he said it, you could see when it hit him actually what a horrible, insensitive movie idea he'd actually thrown out and probably wanted to take back but to little to late lol
If there will be a movie about Witold Pilecki I'm gonna watch it and as tough as I am i might cry..hahaha
We all know about snipers with kill counts in the hundreds or that crazy guy using medieval weapons, but willingly entering a death camp to leak informations about it is in another league.
Very true because you would have no idea if you were next to die. When I found out about this man oh I was slack jawed that someone would willing risk his life to enter the death camp to gain info. In my eyes wiltold pilecki went above the call of duty.
@@cutlawquane6301
"Above the call of duty" doesn't work at this level. This is something that I don't know if humanity has been able to define.
Garret LeBuis your right. But all I’m saying is that Witold had the courage and will that few men or none could do. Which was to infiltrate the death camp with the risk of possibly dying if he was caught or worse chosen to be killed.
I feel like you guys still don't get it fully. I guess at the beginning Mr. Pilecki didn't know what he was getting himself into. But staying two years in this hell and keep up figthing is beyond what I thought is possible. As Joakim said: WTF? This is not about fearing to die tommorow. Lots of soldiers have gone through that. Without diminishing their bravery, this is on an entire different level!
This is about working to exhaustion, going hungry, beeing beaten, beeing humilated and then trying to get 5 hours of sleep knowing that all this will start tommorow again. Living under this conditions most people will see death as a liberation.
Mr. Pilecki went through it and never lost his will to resist. I wonder what kept him going.
But it is clear why the communists killed him. He would have never stopped to give them hell!
Not like he knew what kind of hell he was packing into, True madladism was willingly staying there for 2 years instead of breaking out after first month
Survived the most deadly nazi concentration camp only to be murdered by the Soviets, the biggest enemy of the nazis. As Reznov once said "the flags may be different, but the methods are the same"
National-Socialism and Communism are almost a full circle, especially in their inhumanity.
yea, fought with two socialists that hated each other, survived one, didn't survive other
Brown and Red Socialists spent quite long time cooperating together against other non-socialist states.
He actually said just before his execution in the last meeting with his wife that "Auschwitz was a kindergander in comparison to communist prison". Really puts things into perspective.
I clearly don't want to disrespect him, but he was sent to Auschwitz just because he was polish, and he was killed by Soviets for espionage, which was the truth. For example, Carl Hans Lody was killed when he was caught in Britain during first world war, but you don't call it a murder. Double standard?
Also, as much as i hate Soviets, i clearly understand why this happened and it's not related to socialism at all, it's just history and it's "presents", so it can be justified by times as i live in Russia and know history of my country.
One of histories bravest men, its a shame he's not as well known as he should be
We know his name.
@@KyleJordanGaming I never heard about him. And I studied about the Holocaust .
He hides behind 4859.
It is sad. I don't recall his story being covered in school ever.
excuse me, but there was a couple in auschwitz, who actually felt in love in that death camp, and run away from it *Jerzy Bielecki and Cyla Cybulska*
There is also a story about a Polish resistance fighter who dressed as an SS man and rescued his Jewish wife and daughter from a concentration camp.
@@ronaldostrowski4014 That's the power of love.
@@ronaldostrowski4014 Do you have the name of that man. That sounds amazing
This video should be shown in schools. Maybe there would be less revisionists who try to justy Nazi crime or deny the very existence of the camps
I'm an American, and am all too familiar with revisionist history (native Americans, slavery, the civil war, etc) and even though I fully support the right to freedom of speech, when I hear people questioning the Holocaust or even denying that it happened it's hard not to support laws similar to ones in Europe where it's illegal to publicly question the Holocaust
just like Schindlers List.
Even Scarier is that the dude said the soviet prisons were even worse, and the soviets just got away with it
@@wardeni4806 were Soviet prisons worse than Nazi prisons? you're such a storyteller
Well i for example, dont deny it, but believe it was more forced work and death by working inhumane conditions and long hours than gas and burning , think about it logical, why kill them when you could work them to death?
This guy had the hardest balls of steel in all of the WWII
@A random fat shyboi With interent access why
The SS officers tried to smash them with a sledgehammer and the sledgehammer broke
Breaking news Poland sinks into the ground because of this guys massive balls
A diamond among Poland's heroes and the highest example of Polish patriotism.
Not disagreeing with you and he's probably the highest example of a hero throughout human history. These kinds of stories, for some reason, give me hope in humanity despite the heroes being caught in the most inhuman of times.
How did inmate 4859 escape Auschwitz?
They were no longer able to Witold Pilecki.
Okay, puns aside. This is an amazing, albeit a heartbreaking story. Thanks guys for making a song about this hero.
What’s the word for when you laugh and groan at the same time, so all that comes out is a weird turkey-gobble sound? Because that’s what you just made me do. Props. 🤣👍
LMFAO
After hearing and learning about this, I feel like Poland doesn't get the honor and recognition for their efforts in WW2. Again, Sabaton never ceases to amaze.
It's not very comfortable for the Brits (for instance) to admit how Polish pilots helped save their ass*s in the Battle of Britain you see. Or the role of Polish mathematicians in cracking the Enigma code. The Brits would rather say they did it all alone. Because Britain did not have its finest hour when they sold us to Stalin at Yalta and refused Polish troops to join the victory parade. They were unable to fight Stalin at the time, which doesn't mean it wasn't a shameful betrayal that cost us 50 years of progress. 50 years! Now people joke that Poland is oh so backward compared to Germany or France without understanding why. Both countries had a lot of financial aid to help them rebuild, for decades. We had Stalin.
Polish soldiers also fought for the liberation of France, Holland, and Belgium. They fought in Libya and the Battle of the Atlantic. I'm telling you this but the heroes that did it wouldn't be happy about it. For their generation fighting for their country was as natural as breathing air. They didn't do it for glory. And you know, after the communist government took over a lot of those soldiers were tortured and executed for being Polish patriots. Buried in unmarked graves. This is why my grandfather removed his POW tattoo and therefore never received any compensation for being a prisoner in two camps. Anyhow, thanks for listening to my TED talk.
They nor the indians
And the british war crimes
Yeesss ! I have waited for this sinice very begining of sabaton history !
Same I've been waiting to hear the story on this one
ComissarYarrick *and* a WatchmasterOfKrieg? Guardsmen, look sharp! For The Emperor!
I heard this HERO's story dozens of times, yet it still sends chills down my spine, he's almost to unrealistically heroic and insanely courageous to be real.
Spread the world. He shall never be forgotten.
The scariest part of this story is that you basically read his Auschwitz accounts.... Pilecki said compared to Soviet Prisons Auschwitz was a game.
Jesus Christ, this legend just changed one Hell for another. I can't imagine that.
To hell and back... To another hell and then killed
or you shoudl say, he changed hell for summer holiday with communists
I think Pilecki`s quote " compared to Soviet Prisons Auschwitz was a game" was the result of being in Aushwitz and conditions that occur to him during Warsaw uprising. Starvation, loots of PTSD combined with loosing loots of men surely weakened Pileckis body. In time being tortured and "judged" he had 47 years. I have today 36 years my back hurts, my teeth also shows some issues, same story with broken in accident bones and I `ve never been on any war not mention German death camp or full of hunger Warsaw uprising. So that 47 years done some job in that quote.
@@JK-cl3sj I think it's more about that the Soviet tortures could be more individual. In the camp there were many people they had to torture and it could be more like mechanical, just beating up etc. another nameless prisoner and also war was still on so they have "bigger" problems to deal with in general. During Soviet occupation there wasn't any war in Poland, they could take their time in torturing and "have fun" while doing that and only their imagination limited them in new ways of doing that. It was like in the "1984" but with physical tortures.
I read his report after listening to this song... and in the history of badass, he has to take the mantle. Some of his leaders in the resistance he set up have the same last name as my Grandmother so I hope to do some research on them some day. I am not sure I want modern Hollywood touching this story though.
Hollywood will not touch his story because the judge who sentenced him for death and the executor were Jewish. The Jew who executed him moved to Israel and died there.
Just wrote a essay about him for school. Love this band for telling the story of heroes that might otherwise not be told
Dude could make Chuck Norris feel inadequate....
This is hands down my favorite song of yours I'm honestly sad I've never heard of this man before.
Long live free Poland 🇵🇱
Good thing you have now!
"If there was an Allied hero who deserved to be remembered and celebrated, this was a person with few peers." Norman Davies in regard to Witold Pilecki
"When God created the human being, God had in mind that we should all be like Captain Witold Pilecki, of blessed memory." Michael Schudrich
Notification squad reporting as ordered to pay respects to one of the greatest heroes of our century. o7
Possibly one of the Bravest people in the history of the world. I just can't say that ,under any circumstances I can imagine, I would be as anywhere as brave as Witold Pilecki and I doubt there are many people alive today who could.
Quite easily the bravest man to ever live.
R.I.P. Witold Pilecki, Till Valhalla.
*Vyraj*
Absolute mad lad and in a good way
He volunteered to go to Auschwitz. Just think about that.
Not like anyone know wtf happans here, think that he chose to stay there for 2 years instead of running at first opportunity
Był z krwi i kości żołnierzem.Brak mi słów.Jestem polskim patriotom,ale z własnej woli nie miałbym odwagi wejść do tego piekła!
Guys, for some reasons I couldn't watch it. Not cool. But now. We can watch it and this one is a song that is really haunting.m
Guy didn't got what he deserved. And with this song. You guys keep his legacy alive. 4859 can't die.
Ready for "the great surprise"?
Sabaton has affected my life so much that back in Year 12 we had to write a story about something in English. Just a story!
I wrote the story of Witold Pilecki but with my own twists. I didn't use Witold's name as the protagonist but (me using a website to search Polish names) "Marek Zylka" instead. I did however use his name that Witold lied about to the camp (Tomasz something something). I heard everyone else's stories and how tragic they were in my class, I just had to give Witold's story a happy ending. It was the complete opposite of the original, him being praised, listened to and awarded for his outrageous bravery.
I ended off the story with him living a happy and fulfilled life.
One of my favorites stories of WW2. I remember first reading about this story in 2013 in a magazine, along with the FEB story (which you covered in Smoking Snakes), about heroes in the WW2.
Great video and great song.
Dankeschön my greatest Respekt !!! I am german , i thank you so much for this great song and the sad history (the darkest ) behind . Makes me cry ...i am so sorry for .
culture.pl/en/article/15-historical-quirks-that-make-poland-so-different-from-the-rest-of-europe
@@Werdingo Dankeschön 👍🏻😊
St Maximilian Kolbe was pretty great as well.
He must have gone in and out with a wheelbarrow holding his massive set of balls for attempting and pulling this all off. This is my favorite story from Hero's. Night Witches is my favorite song. Then "No Bullets Fly".
Nazis: "OK, we can't kill this guy, we give up."
Communists: "Let's finish the job for you, comrades."
As a Pole going to Oświęcim-Brzezinka had to be one of the most chilling experiences of my life, as soon as you step through those gates you can feel the carnage and death that occurred there and I will to this day swear up, down and sideways that I could still smell the stench of burnt flesh in the air.
On top of all of that knowing man of family met their end there only added to the weight of the experience, seeing the piles of shoes, luggage, clothes, hair etc. that is still there only drives the point home even further.
I have walked across many places both in Europe and here in the States where death happened on a grand scale i.e. Gettysburg or Normandy, but none of those places even came close to the utter feeling of dread and constant spine chill I felt while in Oświęcim-Brzezinka.
Thank you Sabaton for spreading Polish history to greater world, its been slept on for far to long now the world needs to know what Poland has endured over the course of our history.
And if I can suggest a topic for a song the story of Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki and their work in breaking the cipher for the German Enigma machine which was highly vital to Allied intelligence and more than likely saved untold lives.
That man is an absolute legend.