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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"
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.
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!
"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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
"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
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. 🤣👍
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
I dont know how true this is, but I've heard that one of the prison guards overseeing Witold before his execution found his son and told him something along the lines of "I guarded your father before he was killed, and I wanted to tell you that he was a saint. I used to hurt people, but after spending so much time with that man, I've turned my life around"
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.
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.
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".
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.
This story as for me - a Pole - is something really touching and brings tears to my eyes everytime. It's so horryfying when you even try to think about what he could've been through. And I'm happy that this video was made, I really feel this story should be brought up in details for as many people as possible - not only, because I'm a Pole, but also because I'm a human.
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 .
“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.
Joakim and Indy, thank you for this, people should know about Witold Pilecki and about hell he walk through, during the war and after when communist kill him . Polish history is full of heroic man and women, but he is one of the greatest, real man of iron, man of honor . I wish thanks Sabaton for many great songs about polish history, Uprising, 40:1,Inmate4859,Winged Hussars. You are doing a great job for our country and history. Respect and greetings from Poland 🇵🇱 Sabaton and Indy you are the best. And Indy, when you speak polish words it sounds very good👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@poisonvenom7044 both Sabaton and Indy are amazing. I've known Sabaton for a while but I like them even more now knowing how passionate they are about the history and the research they do for the songs. And I can listen to Indy for hours, I love his other channels too.
@@annar6294 yeah, you have an absolutely right, listen to them music when you know how history passionate they are is truly amazing. They know what they are singing about. Great band. What is your favorite song? I like Winged hussars, my personal hit
@@poisonvenom7044 it's hard to pick just one song, there's so many great ones😁 but I guess I'd pick Uprasing. I used to have Nuclear attack as my alarm clock for a while 😂
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.
Witold Pilecki was to be completely forgotten. His grave has not been found to this day. During the period in which the communists strengthened their power over Poland, especially during the Stalinist period of their rule, they buried murdered Polish patriots in landfills, in cesspits, in rubbed-out wells, in the cellars of their prisons, and (what a perfidy!) under the graves of communist dignitaries ! But the truth ultimately prevails ...
A man so stupid and yet so brave who went into hell and came back to be executed by people who were calling themselves "brothers" to slavs . May your actions never be forgotten, Captain. He is one of the most brave people in World War 2 .
I just started following the Auschwitz Memorial Museum on Twitter yesterday and discovered the picture of Witold Pilecki and just found his book and have been reading it all day. What an incredible human being he was, talk about his bravery to put himself in all those deadly situations all for his homeland. It's heartbreaking to hear that he was murdered by his own countrymen. I agree, this should be made into a movie in Hollywood. Thanks for making this video.
My polish grandmother who was 16 during the war told me about the story of Pilecki many times. It is amazing to see that SOMEBODY has tried to spread his story. My dream is to one day make a movie or, because this is such a complex story, a TV series about his life to show his great story to more people. One day it will happen.
He is our national hero! I was surprised to find that video in English language, made by someone else than Polish. I love it, thank you for sharing his story! Appreciate you guys for sharing a piece of Polish WWII history! Greetings from Polish born guy who lives in US now 💪💪💪 Cześć i chwała bohaterom!
Oh man have I waited for this! It wasn't until I heard the song that I learned of Witold Pilecki and what he did. After that I honestly hated the Soviet Union even more than usual (no disrespect, but Stalin is still one of the worst people in history). This video did the guy justice and I honestly do hope more people learn about him as time goes on.
Sane people: Insane people: Literally the craziest people to ever draw breath in the history of the universe - past, present, and future: Pilecki: I'm going to *willingly* go to my enemy's POW camp from which most people like me have never returned, as a prisoner, and then I'm going to return. (Returns, albeit after 3 years) Everyone else: *"HOW?!?"* 11:40 - This should be a lesson to all: *"Never* underestimate humanity's capacity for cruelty, for there exist no depths to which it incapable of sinking."
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.
Thank you for making this video! Last year I had to make a research video for English and I knew I had to make it on him. Your music inspires everyone it touches. Thank you.
This is hands down my favorite song by Sabaton simply because of the story discovered I would have never known that someone so insanely badass could have possibly existed thank you Sabaton for helping me discover this man and his heroic deeds I will never forget Inmate 4859 and neither will my children!
THIS LAD HERE HAD FUCKIN BALLS OF DIAMOND, like when your stuck in the trenches it in a bridge staring down an army you can fight back this man willingly walked Into a place where he couldn't fight back
There is a special team of researchers and historians dedicated to find and identify the remains of many Home Army soldiers murdered by the communists after the war. When Witold Pilecki's remains will be found we will definitely hear about it.
Rtm. Pilecki shortly before his execution and during the trials told his wife that in comparison to Soviet prosecutors methods the Auschwitz was a "child's play". That should tell a lot about the people who by many, still to this day, are considered to be a Poland's "liberators", but in truth were murderers of Pilecki and thousands upon thousands of other patriots and indepence fighters, killing them and laying in umarked, mass graves. It's very hearth lifting to see that at least part of the world still remembers who was who at that time. And on the topic of "romance in the times of doom", there were actually many marriage ceremonies performed during Warsaw uprising, you can look up the pictures on the Internet. The ceremonies were performed right on the streets, with very few people, between couples who just got to know each other, fell in love, and very often, sadly, died soon after
Thanks to the Auschwitz Volunteer (Pilecki's reports written, in 1945, about his time in the camp), I knew what would be said in this episode, but I still like watching, reading and listening to his story because of how absolutely incredible it is.
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.
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.
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...
So sad, this story is so sad. I really aprecciated that you guys make songs of stories like this, so everyone can realize how war is. What people can do in situations like that. Thank u Sabaton for your music and this channel too.
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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? 😮
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.
'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"
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.
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
"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.
👍👍👍👍👍
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.
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"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
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
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.
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 swear, the last chorus where "Who knows his name" changes to "*We* know his name" makes me teary-eyed every time.
Yup.
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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.
"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
Quite easily the bravest man to ever live.
R.I.P. Witold Pilecki, Till Valhalla.
*Vyraj*
Absolute mad lad and in a good way
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
Dude could make Chuck Norris feel inadequate....
Chuck Norris is his weaker long lost twin brother
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.
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.
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
Just wrote a essay about him for school. Love this band for telling the story of heroes that might otherwise not be told
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.
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.
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!
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.
Thanks for reminding us why people say things like "never again"
That man is an absolute legend.
Witold Pilecki was truly one of the most righteous among the nations. May his memory be a blessing.
I dont know how true this is, but I've heard that one of the prison guards overseeing Witold before his execution found his son and told him something along the lines of "I guarded your father before he was killed, and I wanted to tell you that he was a saint. I used to hurt people, but after spending so much time with that man, I've turned my life around"
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!
"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
From what I've read, he was a very kind and gentle man.
Before his death,soviets tortured him so cruelly, so one of his last words compared to soviet tortures is:Auchwitz was a game.
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!
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.
Ready for "the great surprise"?
This is the biggest hero that I have ever heard of and more people should know his story.
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".
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.
This story as for me - a Pole - is something really touching and brings tears to my eyes everytime. It's so horryfying when you even try to think about what he could've been through. And I'm happy that this video was made, I really feel this story should be brought up in details for as many people as possible - not only, because I'm a Pole, but also because I'm a human.
Notification squad reporting as ordered to pay respects to one of the greatest heroes of our century. o7
What a f*cked up time in our history...
Sadly, yes
Im honestly so happy you finally did this episode.
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 👍🏻😊
Long live Poland!! from the UK
Mighty Eagle
blood of heroes
Forever rest in Heaven,
Young hero
“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.
Odd, I have learned more about history by watching these Sabaton videos than I ever did in school.
Joakim and Indy, thank you for this, people should know about Witold Pilecki and about hell he walk through, during the war and after when communist kill him . Polish history is full of heroic man and women, but he is one of the greatest, real man of iron, man of honor . I wish thanks Sabaton for many great songs about polish history, Uprising, 40:1,Inmate4859,Winged Hussars. You are doing a great job for our country and history. Respect and greetings from Poland 🇵🇱 Sabaton and Indy you are the best. And Indy, when you speak polish words it sounds very good👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
yess, i'm always impressed with Indy's pronunciation!
@@annar6294 this is a great channel and I am big fan of it, they are very good and doing great stuff 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@poisonvenom7044 both Sabaton and Indy are amazing. I've known Sabaton for a while but I like them even more now knowing how passionate they are about the history and the research they do for the songs. And I can listen to Indy for hours, I love his other channels too.
@@annar6294 yeah, you have an absolutely right, listen to them music when you know how history passionate they are is truly amazing. They know what they are singing about. Great band. What is your favorite song? I like Winged hussars, my personal hit
@@poisonvenom7044 it's hard to pick just one song, there's so many great ones😁 but I guess I'd pick Uprasing. I used to have Nuclear attack as my alarm clock for a while 😂
"WE KNOW HIS NAME"
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.
How is this hero not more well known. I’m 40 and this is the first I’m learning of him. Sabaton is a better history teacher
Witold Pilecki was to be completely forgotten. His grave has not been found to this day. During the period in which the communists strengthened their power over Poland, especially during the Stalinist period of their rule, they buried murdered Polish patriots in landfills, in cesspits, in rubbed-out wells, in the cellars of their prisons, and (what a perfidy!) under the graves of communist dignitaries !
But the truth ultimately prevails ...
People like this totally deserve a song in tribute to them.
That's part of our job!
St Maximilian Kolbe was pretty great as well.
Thanks for making the video about the real life James Bond
Thank you so much for doing a video about Witold Pilecki. He is a hero of mine, and I'll admit I cry manly tears every time I hear this song.
Thank you!
This is one of my favourite Sabaton songs and I am soo glad there is finally a history video for it
Thanks! The background really makes the song come to life
And people wander why the ancients used tragedy so often in thier writing
A man so stupid and yet so brave who went into hell and came back to be executed by people who were calling themselves "brothers" to slavs .
May your actions never be forgotten, Captain. He is one of the most brave people in World War 2 .
What a true hero we salute you Witold
What a hero, may he rest in peace at last...
I just started following the Auschwitz Memorial
Museum on Twitter yesterday and discovered the picture of Witold Pilecki and just found his book and have been reading it all day. What an incredible human being he was, talk about his bravery to put himself in all those deadly situations all for his homeland. It's heartbreaking to hear that he was murdered by his own countrymen. I agree, this should be made into a movie in Hollywood. Thanks for making this video.
I'm actually a writer and I agree that it is a crime of the highest magnitude that this brave mans story is not a movie.
My polish grandmother who was 16 during the war told me about the story of Pilecki many times. It is amazing to see that SOMEBODY has tried to spread his story. My dream is to one day make a movie or, because this is such a complex story, a TV series about his life to show his great story to more people. One day it will happen.
Now i want an HBO mini Series with a Sabaton soundtrack
I've been waiting for this episode since start of the channel. It was worth it
what timing! im doing a presentation on Witold for a school project today, and this came out at just the perfect time!
He is our national hero! I was surprised to find that video in English language, made by someone else than Polish. I love it, thank you for sharing his story! Appreciate you guys for sharing a piece of Polish WWII history!
Greetings from Polish born guy who lives in US now 💪💪💪
Cześć i chwała bohaterom!
Chwała Bohaterom
Oh man have I waited for this! It wasn't until I heard the song that I learned of Witold Pilecki and what he did. After that I honestly hated the Soviet Union even more than usual (no disrespect, but Stalin is still one of the worst people in history). This video did the guy justice and I honestly do hope more people learn about him as time goes on.
Fuck Stalin and USSR and CCP
Sane people:
Insane people:
Literally the craziest people to ever draw breath in the history of the universe - past, present, and future:
Pilecki: I'm going to *willingly* go to my enemy's POW camp from which most people like me have never returned, as a prisoner, and then I'm going to return.
(Returns, albeit after 3 years)
Everyone else: *"HOW?!?"*
11:40 - This should be a lesson to all: *"Never* underestimate humanity's capacity for cruelty, for there exist no depths to which it incapable of sinking."
I love this song, it's beautiful in a way. But it's story is... just... heavy, hard to fully procces.
This is one of my favorite songs and it gives me a 100% chill down the spine
How is there not a film about this man
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.
One word: Dziękuję SABATON
Cheers!
One of the greatest men (if not the greatest) you ever made a song about
For some reason I hear a clicking noise when Indy is talking. Is it coming from his jacket or am I going insane : o?
Either the tab of a zipper or wrist buttons.
Yes, it is one of the buttons i think, they are right next to the mic.
Thank you for making this video! Last year I had to make a research video for English and I knew I had to make it on him. Your music inspires everyone it touches. Thank you.
This is hands down my favorite song by Sabaton simply because of the story discovered I would have never known that someone so insanely badass could have possibly existed thank you Sabaton for helping me discover this man and his heroic deeds I will never forget Inmate 4859 and neither will my children!
THIS LAD HERE HAD FUCKIN BALLS OF DIAMOND, like when your stuck in the trenches it in a bridge staring down an army you can fight back this man willingly walked Into a place where he couldn't fight back
There is a special team of researchers and historians dedicated to find and identify the remains of many Home Army soldiers murdered by the communists after the war. When Witold Pilecki's remains will be found we will definitely hear about it.
Nazis: "OK, we can't kill this guy, we give up."
Communists: "Let's finish the job for you, comrades."
Rtm. Pilecki shortly before his execution and during the trials told his wife that in comparison to Soviet prosecutors methods the Auschwitz was a "child's play". That should tell a lot about the people who by many, still to this day, are considered to be a Poland's "liberators", but in truth were murderers of Pilecki and thousands upon thousands of other patriots and indepence fighters, killing them and laying in umarked, mass graves. It's very hearth lifting to see that at least part of the world still remembers who was who at that time.
And on the topic of "romance in the times of doom", there were actually many marriage ceremonies performed during Warsaw uprising, you can look up the pictures on the Internet. The ceremonies were performed right on the streets, with very few people, between couples who just got to know each other, fell in love, and very often, sadly, died soon after
This was a really hevy story... I just feel empty. Great story telling again Indy
Thanks to the Auschwitz Volunteer (Pilecki's reports written, in 1945, about his time in the camp), I knew what would be said in this episode, but I still like watching, reading and listening to his story because of how absolutely incredible it is.
The kangaroo court trial sentence, I wouldn't been shocked if he'd quipped "You can't kill me. I already died in Auschwitz."
I cant believe you actually did it
I've been requesting it for a while
Thanks
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.
Thank you Sabaton. You are the best story tellers
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...
Thank you for sharing this history
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
So sad, this story is so sad.
I really aprecciated that you guys make songs of stories like this, so everyone can realize how war is. What people can do in situations like that. Thank u Sabaton for your music and this channel too.