SABATON - Hearts Of Iron (Official Lyric Video)
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- The official lyric video for Hearts Of Iron by Sabaton, taken from the Heroes album.
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========= Hearts Of Iron LYRICS ==========
See the Reich in flames
Try to save Berlin in vain
It’s a road through death and pain
On the other shore, there’s the end of the war
Who could ever have believed,
Seems like nothing’s been achieved
Just to walk a day, go all the way, the fronts are closing in
As the end is drawing near, the 12th army interfere
Open up a route, get people out, it’s forces spread out thin
It’s the end of the war
Hold the corridor!
Reach for Elbe’s shore
It’s the end, the war has been lost
Keeping them safe ’til the river’s been crossed
Nicht ein schlacht, ein rettungsaktion
Holding their ground ’til the final platoon
“Hurry up, we’re waiting for you”
Men of the 9th, and civilians too
Dispossessed, surrendering to the west
Who’ll survive and who will die?
Up to kriegsglück to decide
Those who made it cross, without a loss, have reason to reflect
It is not about Berlin, it is not about the Reich,
It’s about the men, who fought for them, what peace can they expect?
See the city burn on the other side
Going down in flames as two worlds collide
Who can now look back with a sense of pride?
On the other shore, there’s the end of the war
========= Historic Fact ==========
Instead of attempting to defeat the invading Soviet forces during the Battle of Berlin, German general of the 12th Army, Walther Wenck, used his army to create an escape corridor out of Berlin.
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Instead of attempting to defeat the invading Soviet forces during the Battle of Berlin, German general of the 12th Army, Walther Wenck, used his army to create an escape corridor out of Berlin. Read more about the Battle of Berlin 👉 www.sabaton.net/historical-facts/battle-of-berlin-ends/
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Thanks for this song, nowadays way too many people have been taught the idea that everyone on the Axis side was literally Satan and for it to be impossible for there to be heroes among them. Continue the good work.
My great grandfather was part of the 12th armee. Surrendered to the Canadians then returned to Schleswig-Holstein as POW
This song would fit so well in Hearts of Iron 4
@@saxon..falkenhayn2908 he was lucky not being pow to Russians.
nice game)
The line "Hurry up, we're waiting for you" always gives me chills, and pulls tears into my eyes
Same
They're saying, we're across, we're not finishing this mission without you. And thanks to some planning and luck, most of this division and the people they were protecting lived.
It conjures up an image of a mother and child trying to breathlessly thank the soldier ushering them across the bridge, and the soldier just gives them a gruff, "Yeah, yeah, save it until after you're safe!"
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️
" men of the 9th and civilians, too." My grandma and her mother were among the civilians that fled through this corridor. So I can related to that.
Truly, this is the definition of “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him”
I learnt that quote from here
True.
But.
A hero is a person that does what is right, even if it leaves them broken, maimed or dead, that is a hero, but the real heroes are never recorded in history, they are the ones that move the wheels and gears of society and humanity and never ask for more than a peaceful life.-
M
I hope you mean his family and not Nazi Germany
What if the soldier is attacking not defending?
@@memecrusader8391 sometimes you have to hurt others in order to help them.
This to me is one of Sabatons best songs. It's criminally underated.
It is really good, but a far cry from Lion of the North, Red baron imo. It is really faithful to the Sabaton style we all like, and of course I will listen to it again and again
Для меня теперь тоже
That's because it's a great song about the futility and horror of war. It's not about people winning a battle, or fighting for what's right. It's about people who fought for something wrong and horrible, seeing that all is lost, and there's nothing to do now but try to save what little good is left in their world.
@@abmackay agreed
how can it be underated, isnt it a new song?
Man they really made an entire game for this song
Yup
and that game kicks ass
@@CharlesFromHenryTheStickman not wrong
Instructions unclear kicked my grandma's ass while yelling 'GAME' like the commentator from Super Smash Bros.
@@halomika4973 no no, you followed the instructions to the dime
This will always be one of the best sabaton songs ever.
Agreed
Till the ukraine resistance song comes out
@@hahaimadecoy2942 Let's not make this joke now
Wasn't a series of computer strategy games named after it?
It was named after the hearts of iron series
This incredible story is told in the book "The Last Panther". Thank you Sabaton for telling the story of the last battle of the Wehrmacht.
Thank you for being there.
I know a videogame s story called "the last Tiger" and it talk about these events
The book is real good, I’m reading it again now
@@theillusiveman2139 if it’s in BF 5, then that’s the wrong story. That was on the western front in late 44 early 45
@@michaelcisneros6352 ah ok, but still talks about a counter attack, done for protect the retreat of the major forces (if i' m not wrong)
Walther Wenck was a real hero. He chose to save as many people as possible instead of fighting a useless battle and he personally stayed there keeping the rescue corridor open. He was one of the last who moved to safety.
He really was, at the end he wasn't a nazi, he was a true hero.
It is always good to know that there weren't just bad people in Germany back then.
@@terry2295 the truth is that both sides have bad and good people. more good then you thought
@@simpsbelongtothegulags3702 That is true and it's always good to remember that.
@@simpsbelongtothegulags3702 The biggest problem is evil governance, not the military.
"It is not about berlin, it is not about the reich.
It's about the men who fought for them, what peace can they expect!"
That unironically made me shed a tear, that's just such a good line
Well, they live knowing they not only failed to win, but soon it will become apparent who the real monsters of this war were.
77 years later an it's still unapparent.
@@warmak4576 its apparent just shocking how many more there were than expected
@@AngelEmfrbl The real monsters of that war were the nazis, the Japanese and the soviets. Three out of four aggressors have paid for what they did, one is currently paying. We will see just how much they will pay in the end.
@@lordjigglepickle340 there’s no good guys in this world. Everyone is out for power and money
Nicht Ein Schlacht, Ein Rettungsaktion = Not A Battle,But A Resue Opertion
einE schlacht, einE Rettungsaktion
@@hendrik2792 Genau, diese falsche Grammatik macht mich fertig
@@nuadize ich mag den Song eigentlich, aber immer an der Stelle kann ich nicht weiter 😂
@@nuadize Killt für mich den Song völlig. Schade, wäre sonst geil.
@@hendrik2792 sabaton knows it not right, but said it sounded better this way. (Also german is currently the second language I am learning)
I have been listening to metal since i was 12-13 years of age. It took me 15 years to find your music. I cant begin to explain how much i love you guys. Long live Sabaton!
Thank you so much for writing and appreciating our music!
better late than never!
Exactly the same here 😂
Sabaton was actually the first metal band I listened to.
Same except much less time
Hitler: "Attack the Red Army, you fools!!!"
General Wenck: "Sorry, but we've got more important things to do."
Mount and blade :D
Теперь гитлер на Украине, а его хозяева все так же в Америке. Но будет все, как и 80 лет назад. Русские победит фашизм. Вам должно быть стыдно
@@bobbobvolr1942 чел, зачем ты сюда политику приплёл?
@@bobbobvolr1942 zeleisky is a jew what do you mean
@@EbalRotHuyhuyhuy333 because thats what russian trolls do
I'm so happy they're reintroducing these songs for the people who didn't know about them
Thank you for appreciating it
From 2014! My favorite Sabaton Album "Heroes".
This is an old song?
@@RussUno It's not old, but they never released anything on their UA-cam channel about them, so it's refreshing for those who hadn't bought the albums or heard of the songs
@@themysticaldrone4517 ok
My German family fled East Prussia, Königsberg, they were protected by these heroes, the 12th army! Cheers/thanks 👍
The brother of my grandfather was in the 12th army unfortunately he died 3 years ago but I will answer in his name: your welcome. He always said nothing felt better than to protect his people and finally do something that mattered
@@tiroler492 it was nice to read about your Grandfather, and I agree with him. It is man's duty to serve and protect his people, and thus, soon all men of Europa will rise united in defense of the Fatherland.
My grandfather's papers said Pietskindorf East Prussia.
@@Fatherland927Ok let’s not try conquering the continent again ok? Sincerely, a jew
@@RomanumChristum Europa is currently being conquered, my only hope is to reclaim and rebuild. Jews aren't my problem, I am of Polish descent, many of my men were Polish resistance WW2.
This song will forever have a place in my heart as the song that got me into Sabaton
It's great having you 😉
For me it was shiroyama I was chilling out with my friends playing minecraft when they played the song. I'm not sure how Sabaton manages to first get the lyrics onto paper and second Express so much feeling into their songs everytime I listen to the last stand album or hero's album it's just a giant hit of adrenaline the entire way through
@@Sabaton my first Sabaton song was Attero Dominatus
My first was fields of Verdun
First was panzerkampf but I didn't listen to their other music until attack of the dead men which weirdly now is one of my least favorite songs for some reason compared to all others
On the other side
“Attero dominatus… Berlin is burning”
There are two wolves inside of you. One is Hearts of Iron, the other is Attero Dominatus.
"It is not about Berlin, it is not about the Reich..."
God, I love this line so much...
It's about the men
Who fought for them
What peace can they expect?
It's the end of the war
@@Bornana7 hold the corridor
@@ShizoidBlyad reach for Elbe’s shore
@@altf4755 It's the end, the war has been lost
This is one of my favorite songs, because it really helps to understand that not ever German in WW2 was a bloodthirsty monster, and how, at the end of the war, their mission ceased to be about protecting Berlin, and became saving the people of Berlin.
War is strange. For almost every conflict in history, the men have mostly just been normal people made to do the job of fighting.
my granpa to fight communism und save europe he was hero
Personally, I think this whole dichotomy is a comforting lie we tell to ourselves. There are no monsters. Only men, with all the potential for good and evil inherent in man. We label those following their worst impulses monsters because the alternative would be to ask ourselves wether we would be any better when put in the same spot, and there's very few people who can answer that question truly without any doubt. Something, frankly, to be thankful about.
Yes. Also operation Valkryie and the German resistance.
@@magni5648 yes, if we'd been born in a different situation... Any one of us could have learned horrible beliefs and become an SS member, or a suicide bomber, or a doctor committing atrocities in Manchuria. Or been Bull Allen or Audie Murphy. Talk about Kriegsglück.
Sabaton will keep us fighting in these dark time
I hope they make a song about the ghost of Kyiv...
Kiitos Vitun Kääpiö
@@jebkerman5422 you mean abouth that videogame images?..
@@jebkerman5422 even though that was my dream I hope the ghost of kiev is a true person my dream is nothing but he has done his duty to the nation
@@jebkerman5422 agreed. I hope he is real
isn't it kind of impressive that their songs aged so well that I couldn't tell if it was one of their new songs or an old song
That's interesting 😉
@@Sabaton Woah, you guys still reply? That's epic.
@@fairblower3192 Oh, they are one of the most active metal bands out there, it isn't a surprise that they reply.
@@Sabaton based sabaton reply
Everyday, all time, in car, at work, in shower i listen Sabaton. The best Band Ever.I am a History researcher and you have no idea what emotion I get from Sabaton. Simply the Greatest ♥️🙏
Agreed
@@patrioticsniper7922 agreed
You dont listen to sabaton in a car
@@aleksszukovskis2074 it instantly became a tank
you listen to Sabaton in the shower? lemme guess... Bismarck, Wolfpack or Dreadnought?
"See the city burn on the other side, going down in flames as two worlds collide, who can now look back with a sense of pride", that line always gets me emotional
“It’s the end of the war, hold the corridor, reach for Elbe’s shore.”
A heroic last effort to save who they could from Berlin’s destruction. Soldiers fighting to save lives.
Thr "Heroes" album is one of Sabaton's best in terms of storytelling. We need more like that album.
thats also the only thing it got going for it sadly.
We just need a second Heroes Album and second Last Stand album.
@@commander591 You did not just say Heroes was a bad album...
Morgan Fitch I did. Not even close compared to Albums like Primo Victoria or the Art of war. Don’t get me started on the new Album…
@@commander591 The War to End All Wars too!? That's easily one of my favourites! Stormtroopers, Soldier of Heaven, Dreadnought, Race to the Sea, The Valley of Death, The Unkillable Soldier, Hellfighters... How could you call any of these bad!?
First heard this song while playing Hearts Of Iron 4, been listening to Sabaton ever since...
This ones right up there with "A Lifetime at War", "Price of a Mile" and "Cliffs of Gallipoli"
My history teacher showed our class "Price of a Mile" and that was the start of my addiction to Sabaton
I've always loved how Sabaton handles the Heer, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine as separate entities from the Madman that drove them to war.
Gives them all more nuance to their states of being: Rather than blanket-treating them as always Chaotic Evil or utterly Innocent to the horrors they have inflicted, Sabaton takes the time to note that the truth is somewhere down the middle, and, as in this song, they note that whatever heroics a unit or individual in the Wehrmacht may have performed during the war, those acts do not override the fact that those same soldiers still assisted in the rise and attempted sustainment of one of the most evil regimes in world history...
Even so... Sabaton asks that we maintain a state of nuance when examining those individuals, rather than lump them in with the utter psychopath that lead them.
That, and those same entities also had cool tanks and a big-ass battleship.
Mostly the last line
Wehraboo moment
@@genus5987 cringe. Not funny. No one asked.
Well there are mountians of documents showing the Whermacht participated directly in the Holocaust and the Holocaust of Bullets. Not all of them but quite a few. That should be taken into account when looking at the German Military in WW2. Not everyone was and not everyone was even a bad person, but the "Clean Whermacht" is a myth.
Correction, 2 big-ass battleships
SABATON is not a band
It is an emotion
It is a ride in pages of history
Tainted by blood of the brave
Story of the soldiers
And the lives they tried to save
For a life and a death
They are a band.
Sabaton is a religion
@@user-yt2ku3ht5pyou must be fun at parties
im feeling a bit sabaton-y today
"see the city Burn on the side"
"going down in flames as two worlds collide"
*its enough to make a grown man cry, and thats okay.*
When a Swedish Power Metal band gives a better tribute to serving men and women of WW2 even on the side of the German Reich and their Axis forces than corporations ever could, you know the world's going in the right direction.
Salutes to you from the Czech Republic!
Love listening to Sabaton while palying Hearts of iron IV Best song to complement The gameplay now.
Yesss
Glory to ukraine!
@@niume7468 Don't bring that shit here
When i play HOI4 i most of the time just left alone the songs playing sabaton and HOI4 normal ost but when i start a war i most of the time activate only sabaton song to have some kinda of epicness about the fight( sorry for any grammatical error )
@@stevenrehme8002 ur shit man, Ukraine is a country of heroes. GLORY TO UKRAINE AND IT'S HEROES!
One of my favourite Sabaton songs.
There were good people on every side... my gandpa was a polish kid when germany invated. He was supporting the resistence as many kids and young polish people did. One day he and others stood against the wall ready to be shoot ... it was a young german officer who had the guts to convince the other nazis soldiers not to shoot the kid, quickly took him in his arms and carried him to safety, while behind his back the other polish people were shoot. If not for him I would be not here today.
Hearing these types of stories always bring me to tears. It's amazing that your grandfather was saved, it really is amazing how much humanity can be found I the darkest parts of the world.
Honestly, the words of the Kenny Rogers song The Gambler come to mind when I think about what Walther Wenck did: He knew where the game was and that it was time to both fold and run.
What makes his actions admirable, as opposed to cowardly, is that he chose to save as many as he could, including civilians. If you know much about history, then you know that this kind of concerned about civilians was not very common amongst generals.
I really appreciate knowing about the heroes of these wars, regardless of which side they were on, because the criteria for being a hero largely doesn't actually change based upon which side was right and which was wrong.
To give Wenck further credit he was one of the last men to cross the Elbe.
And given the Fact that Walther Wenck was nicknamed "The child General" because of his pranks such as ordering a Flak gun to fire to spook a Visiting General in his Bathtub, Walther is one of the biggest Chads of the Second World War.
@@schmeatgaming853 also because he was the youngest german general
perfect outro song for the end of a WW2 movie. Imagine this song playing as you walk out of the theater, credits rolling.
I'd say it would be better in the last intense scene of the movie
Ho, what I wouldn't give for a great movie scene with a Sabaton Song...
Defeat is inevitable, everyone is exhausted and frustrated, no reinforcements can be called on...
But you must stand against well-trained and enraged enemies just to earn some time for the wounded and civilians to evacuate.
The whole situation hits hard...
People who think Sabaton is nazi because of such songs don't know shit about war. Most people in war don't choose it, they're DRAGGED into it. Most Wehrmacht soldiers were just common folk, urban workers, peasants, who didn't have a choice but to fight the invading forces. Even if they were against nazism, they had either to fight, or to be considered criminals and betrayers. Think about it: if your country were invaded now and those who refused to fight got shunned and considered criminals, would you risk your entire family just because of politics?
May God protect us from such fates. WW3 is a matter of when, not if. May it happen only after all our relatives are dead by old age. Amen.
This is the same moral question they ask in Wehrmacht. Are the soldiers victims of the regime and propaganda or are they just normal people dragged into the war? How can we judge a whole army like this? We seem to think we have a moral high ground over the germans of that time but if time would come to defend our countries, we'd fight too and if a draft comes, we'd be at the same level as most of the wehrmacht. We prove that we have no moral high ground by simply generalizing the question instead of understanding it's intricacies. Some people believed in Hitler, most didn't, we shouldn't judge them by belief, bit by glory as an army like we judge all other armies. Nobody shuns the US army for being full of racists. Like the US army, the germans had some heroic moments and some heroes. Wenck was one of them, as well as Stigler on the human side and many more on the war side. We, as people should learn to applaud our enemies for their accomplishments (the brits seemed to learn this the first with the way they appreciated Rommel even if somewhat undeserving)
@@danikm10yt81 Also, let's be honest about something related in recent times: ukrainian army did commit several abuses over the people in Donetsk and Luhansk, from summary execution of "rebel allies" to shelling in occupied urban areas. Still, do every ukrainian soldier or citizen support such abuses, even tho they're actually fighting and doing everything alongside the abusers? Of course not. Russians are invading their country now, they won't stop protecting their homeland because they don't support the actions of some generals or even Zelensky. Amidst the ukrainian army we can now find communists, anarchists, fascists, democrats, social-democrats, liberals, theocrats...nobody gives a damn about anything except protecting the ukrainian people. They're on "survive first, politics later" mode.
@@danikm10yt81 You can't judge an army. Just a person. Takes a lot more effort but produces less hate
0:53 the German translates to “not A battle A rescue operation”
*”Not a battle, but a rescue operation” actually 🤓
Not funny@@To.Helios
Only few metal bands can make me listen with tears coming out and Sabaton does that in almost every song
It's always moving to read messages like this one. Thank you for sharing it with us!
This song and The Last Battle always make me choke up. The tales of German soldiers fighting noble battles at the end of WW2. Not Nazis...Germans. :' )
Not the end of the war yet but I think we can include No Bullets Fly as well.
@@mayalackman7581
Definitely!
For all the atrocities german soldiers committed, them fighting like hell to allow civilians to escape the russians and get to allied lines to avoid even worse atrocities at the hands of the russians is something that can be commended. I don't remember the story of that German unit specifically but I respect them. At that point it was just saving as many of their people as they could from a far more grizzly fate then they themselves had dished out the past three to four years. They knew their civilian counterparts didn't deserve the fate they did
Do you think that the Russians would have committed far worse atrocities than the Germans?
It’s not the German soldiers as a whole that were evil, just the people they worked for
@@elcaponeholyemperorofnj1169 Certainly. Jews were killed by generals, not by soldiers. It was Himmler who burned the villages, not the soldiers. Not soldiers, but Goebbels and Goering hung civilians on trees.
Of course, the Germans who went to the front because of the lack of choice and did not commit war crimes are really not guilty of anything, which cannot be said about the monsters who happily committed war crimes.
P.S: I used a translator, sorry for any mistakes.
They did what they thought was right to protect their own by following orders. Turns out it wasn't but some did realize that mistake.
@@ouzounicus6126 You are right. This explains their actions, but does not justify them.
The Chorus "Hold the corridor" gets me. I can hear the soldiers shouting it as the civilians run for their lives to get to the other side of the Elbe while the Red Army bears down on them. The 12th were on the wrong side of the war, but they fought with courage and honor.
the line "nicht eine schlacht, eine Rettungsaktion" gives me chills, im German so i do understand it and that gives me the chills
idk why
What does this mean?
@@ribshubmathur5859 it means that it is no battle but rather a mission too save as much people as they can
@@SchroediNr1 thank you
@@ribshubmathur5859 directly it means "it's not a battle, but a rescue mission"
Maybe it gives you chills from the bad grammar?
"Not a battle, but a rescue mission."
I keep coming back to this song during these days. It evokes such a sense of hope through futility, of grit through adversity, of trying to save that which really matters in a world that's burning to the ground. It's helped me stay relatively stable though a lot, and it will help keep me stable many more times.
I can't thank you enough, not just the band in general, but Joachim specifically for being the voice in my mind that says "KEEP GOING, GOOD THINGS COME IF YOU MAKE THEM COME". If it weren't for you and your music, there's a fair chance I wouldn't be here now, and intending to stay here to see good works done. Thank you.
This is my favourite song of Sabaton, they talk of the pain that was suffered on those final days, instead of doing something a ton easier like glorifying the Allies or the Comitern or both, they just song of the pain of been a German citizen and soldier on those days and what the future unfortunately waited them.
Well said! 👏👏👏
It’s easy to glorify the Allies and ignore the warcrimes they committed at times, but hard to look upon the good things some Germans did aside from the advancements in science they made, truly history is written by the victors and there are perhaps some stories we may never hear because of this
I never thought I’d cry listening to a song about the end of ww2 but here I am
YESSSSSS . This is my favourite . Discovered this song during December 2020 . I ve been listening to it everytime i go to work .
Your songs fill me with emotions I can’t describe. Thank you for gifting the world with your wonderful music, Sabaton.
Thanks a lot for your kind words Yael ;)
Was literally just battling for Berlin in Enlisted, this is good timing
@LF10 yeah exactly, now I got something to listen to while I’m fighting in the Reich Chancellery Hall
Germany gonna be going for full WW3 this time I hope
@@bagasitogitto.f1826 what?
Playing with the Germans while listening to this in Berlin hits different
These men fought not for a government, their leaders or a political idea.
not even their friends or family. Their cause was nobler. Sacrifice and preservation of a country
that Hitler had doomed to Scorched earth.
They fought to save civilians who they would never meet and could not thank them.
Thanks Sabaton for this important perspective.
I"m a history teacher in South Africa. Love my job because of this band.
So, are you black ? :d
@@atulici
What does that has to do with anything? XD
@@josegonzales9169 Just kidding 😅
He who led 12th Army and saved approximately 250k civilians, battered soldiers of 9th Army uncounted. It's neither about Berlin nor 3rd Reich. Lest we forget.
saved from whom? or from what? this people run from the Red Army to surrender to the West. Why?
I can't remember who it was, but somewhere, I read that a German artilleryman found the scene odd, because on the opposite bank of the river were American and British soldiers, watching as the Germans shelled Soviet positions in order to buy just a few extra seconds for the civilians to cross.
I don't know if it's a true story.
@@ladywaffle2210 truth is often stranger than fiction...
@@sgtreznov6525 "The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction must make sense."
@@ladywaffle2210 You haven't engaged in much modern fiction have you? lmao
The Bach-based guitar solo gives me goosebumps.
It makes me Cry 😢💔🎖🕊
Sabaton thanks for reminding us about heroism in these bleak time
2:40
After five years I finally find out it’s Bach Air on the G String adaptation. So great.
Thank you, hero!
Great song about brave men who loved their country, and not their Fürher.
If only they lived their country earlier.
Thank you as most ppl think every German soldier was the same as death head SS units.
My great Grandfather waw there in that moment, he said it was one of his proudest moments
To protect their people instead of following orders is the sign of a true hero,A soldier of the people.
And yet history is blind to such feats as it is the victor that is remembered and the heroic deeds of the ones on the enemy's side is lost between the pages of history.
They see them as nothing but enemies but in reality they are just soldiers that were following the orders of a madman.
Young and old alike get pulled into war.
Indeed who can look back with a sense of pride.
The duty of a soldier is to protect the innocent . First, last , always.
"When they face death, they're all alike"
@@stopdeletingmyaccount125 “No right or wrong, rich or poor…”
@@altf4755
“No matter who they served before.”
1:24 is incredibly bittersweet for me.
Edit: In fact the whole song is bittersweet
you guys' songs have such a positive effect on my mood. can't help but sing it all the way! love you guys so much, been a fan for around 5 years and going strong ❤
Thanks a lot for your words!
@@Sabaton you're all very welcome, my brothers! thank you for replying! love you all so much! ❤
Какая старая песня,а всё в душе играет! Спасибо большое Sabaton!
this song is sad, yet brave, and i can always feel the power behind sabaton's music whenever i listen to them.
The absolute chad and his men fought not for a falling regime, but for his homeland and it's people. Respect.
A prime example of the difference between German and Nazi.
All we want is freedom for the German people
Ya . We can respect trying your comrades to safety. Respect getting civilians to safety. Like some kid who's only crime was being born in Germany at that time. He didn't start the war. He deserved to avoid the final death and destruction and have a chance in a post war.
Exactly.
This and Castle Iter
What if its not about the reich. But about the friends we made along the way
this will make me cry every time i listen to it
Песни Сабатон, это что-то необычное, когда прослушиваешь эти треки, ты как будто погружаешься в историю…❤
Watching Downfall while knowing this song by heart really hits differently.
One of my favourite songs. You are amazing! Greetings from Italy❤🤘
Thank you very much Camilla!
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"Hans...Are we still the baddies?"
"...No. No, not today."
Yes they are
@@Schrödinger10485not every nazi soldier supported the regime. Most soldiers were forced to comply or be executed. I can guarantee you’d fight for a chance at survival rather than be given a guaranteed death via execution
I absolutely love this song, the way how it's singing about losing a war on your perspective but still make you feel like pushing on is amazing
I'm so glad Heroes is finally getting some love, it was my favorite Sabaton album for years, and the one that helped get my now-wife into power metal
By the end of the war Germany was going to lose, Walther Wench was sent his orders, to continue to fight against the approaching Soviet army in the name of the now dead Fuhrer and the remaining insane Nazi officers. At the time it mattered little to germany's leaders who died to keep them safe, for they feared Soviet reprisal and despised the shame of surrender to the allies. Any Nazi would have gone down fighting for no purpose and bringing down all the soldiers and civilians with him...but Walther Wench instead disregarded these orders and used his army to create a corridor of escape. He was responsible for the salvation of 250,000 men, women and children who would have either died in combat or been trapped in the starving Communist puppet state of Eastern Germany. Walther Wench was not a Nazi. He was a true German who put his people above the fanatic ideals of the government and worked with General Simpson to save his troops and as many civilians as he could. In his words, "Comrades you've got to go in once more. It's not about Berlin anymore, it's not about the Reich anymore." His words pulled several fanatic soldiers to save innoccents. He was one of the last to reach safety. Very few heroes were found in Germany at this time but this is one of them.
Truly the greatest HOI 4 reference of all time
It’s Important to remember in war not all of our enemies are evil they are just fighting for they country or because they are made to or else and this is something we nead to remember now more then ever.
I love how you guys can see the good and heroic deeds that were done by both sides of a conflict and then make a kick ass song about it.
This shows the desperation they felt. They would rather run and get to the allies far away, than be captured by the soviets
Because the Soviets had something to avenge
@@СлавянаЯсенева-е2ы Yeah, they will bring back their families by slaughtering innocent civilians and soldiers that have just been placed there against their will
Don't lie, the Red Army was TOO MERCIFUL towards the German population@@TheTroll10
@@СлавянаЯсенева-е2ы Because the Soviets were objectively worse, and more cruel than the Nazis could have ever hoped to have been.
@@СлавянаЯсенева-е2ы Loony bin for you, sir.
Amazing as always sabaton, keep up the amazing work!
Thank you for your support!
One of the best things happened in human history which I didnt know about. Thanks Sabaton for telling such amazing moments through your songs! Hands down, the best band in the world!
"It is not about Berlin,
It is not about the Reich;
It's about the men
Who fought for them,
What peace could they expect?"
is the hardest line in any song ever
My great grandfather fought with the 3rd army. Thank you for honoring our soldiers in this special way 🥲
A true man of honour, I don't care what side he was on.
This is what I love about Sabaton. They strive to be unbiased, and they are able to make a song even about the "dark side" if they see true heroism. They simply stand for common soldiers, for their bravery, and humanity. This is something that is not so common, I would say.
Respect for that. 👍🎸
Thank you for your words
There's a theme that sometimes comes up in Sabaton's songs, which is one of the main reasons I'm such an admirer of the band's work. It is the depiction of a specific aspect of honor and a particular sense of duty, which is not to the war or to the side for which men are fighting, but to a humanly superior conscience, to what is of deepest and noblest in the human condition.
Even amongst the "epic" or "glorious" aspects of the war themes, Sabaton never lets us forget that the war itself is a highly complex and tragic matter, and the philosophical and moral implications of it are always there, too.
There's good and bad in everything and the ability to add this layer of moral padding to what could be otherwise mere "epic awesome war songs", makes the band's work something somewhat different, outstanding and why not say, much more admirable. And the war songs even more epic and more awesome.
Always remember
Seeing the sides and soldiers of war in black and white will always leave out every part of the picture but the frame, and every soldier deserves judgment for their actions and not the actions of others.
The 12th helped my family and my grandfather ( who fought on the eastern front) to escape
My family is from east prussia btw , had to flee from the soviets while my grandfather fought on the front as a medic
One of the most emotional Sabaton songs by far. Definitely top 10 Sabaton
En livstid I krig at the top surely
@@cakespreader that's my #2 (2nd only to The End of the War to End All Wars)
I'm agree
But "in Flanders field" still better
If there were ever a WW2 game told from the German perspective, this battle would be the perfect final mission!
Calling to Activision or the company that makes battefield (i don't remember the name of the company)
@@Fellbight057 i think in battlefield 5 there was a war story where you were in a german tiger
@@altf4755 yes a really good story of the Game
I can't believe you told this story, it was a heroic moment that must be remember no matter what side.
Its not a battle, its a rescue mission. For those whp dont speak German.
The only song (and Last battle) that makes me feel patriotic for my homeland.
Holy moly, I didn't notice them uploading this!
God, this is absolutely one of my favourite Sabaton songs. It just... it hits so hard, man.
Walther Wenck was the leader of the German 12th Army during the Second World War, under his command he made the final attempt to rescue the Füther during the final stages of the Second World War during the Battle of Berlin, though the 12th Army did manage to reach Potsdam they 12th army were ultimately unable to reach Berlin itself due to superior numerical Red Army forces. Wenck managed to regroup with Theodor Busse’s 9th Army which was completely in shambles in the south of Beelez. During the confusion of the Soviet breakthrough he managed to make a opening and helped soldiers and civilians cross the Elbe River bridge. The 12th army surrendered to American forces between May 4th and May 7th 1945.
Yeah Theodor Busse and Civilians were Encircled in Halbe.
This song is about the Battle of Halbe
Everyone has that one song that isn't much popular, but it just hits u just right ! This is mine !
Thanks for making this kind of songs and made me learn about Walther Wenck. Cheers from Croatia.
Thank you for appreciating it, greetings from Sweden!
One of the things I like about this song is that it helps highlight the fact that not all Germans in World War II were blood thirsty genocidal Nazi S-O-B's, and other songs you guys have done, No Bullets Fly, and the Last Battle also highlight this fact.
Careful with that there are mountians of documentation proving the Whermacht was directly involved with the Holocaust.
Though people like Walther Wenck were certianly not evil men and even heroes, this does not discount that the Clean Whermact myth is still a myth. For every Wenck there are 100 Himmlers to look at.
@@SJ-vc6zn I know that, I'm not saying that the Whermacht was entirely good, it just wasn't, only that a few people in it were. People like Walther Wenck and Franz Stigler, he was in the Luftwaffe I know but you get the idea. A few diamonds in the rough, if you will.
@@cinderypuppetgaming837 What pisses me off is that if you even provide the IDEA that there might've been one or two Wehrmacht that didn't have a raging genocide morning wood, then somehow that makes it OBVIOUS that you're a Wehraboo and a clean wehr supporter.
Like, my guy, I have been told by some that the Nazis were not as bad as the Wehrmacht by some of these people, and pointing out that the Nazi's literally ordered them to do these things was somehow in support of the 'Clean Wehrmacht'. People have lost their minds these days.
@@liubei3058 The issue is that Hitler sent that guy to fight the Russians, while Stalin ordered two armies to take Berlin. Since it was a game to them, both were ruthlessly surrounding the city and he was completely surrounded and out gunned. There was no way that he was winning. Those armies got promised a lot for whichever took that city, they were even fighting each other that day!
But Starlin had a reputation, and the guy knew what would happen, so he gets as many civilians as possible out... He knew his priorities that day. But he also knew there was a lost cause.
If he had held things off, Hitler would have punished him. But its the 3rd Reich's fault for sending one army to protect Berlin. Disobeying the order to fight the Russians was a bold move from a guy most historians look back on and go "he made the right choice that day".
Yes, we can say these guys were the bad guys, but things are not black and white at times and this is from our perspective. At the end of the day, Walther Wenck THOUGHT he was doing good for Germany. In reality, he had no idea what he was doing was wrong. He stayed true to the German cause until the end, even when he is loosing. The fact he put civilians ahead of a futile battle shows where his true loyalties were.
Yes, the things he did in the war were bad, but always look at things from the other sides opinions; no true bad guy ever truly thinks their the bad guy. Good men do bad things at times just as bad men do good things.
At the end of the day, there were 250,000+ civilians that walked away that day to safety... And Berlin was in ruins when the Russians were done. Tell me, knowing what Putin is like right and knowing Starlin was even worst, that those civilians were safe staying there.
@@AngelEmfrbl^ at least someone got the the point I was trying to make.
Sabaton, thank you for making songs about the hard stuff, too. It's easy to speak to the heroic actions of men like Audie Murphy and the Polish defenders against the blitzkrieg, because they were on the right side of history. But you've also chosen to remind us all that heroism isn't defined by what side of history you were on, but by the nature of your sacrifices, and your reasons for making them.
Some outsiders looking in might see a metal band making a song that paints Nazis in a positive light, and be outraged. But many more who listen to you know you've written a song about men who gave their lives so that those they cared about could keep theirs. It might be a moral grey area, but that is all of history, no matter what we pretend.
the part of the lyrics that hits me the most is the one that says "who can now look back with a sense of pride?"
if you think about it, although at the time those soldiers the soldiers of the ninth and twelfth could not, but those who can do it, are those who today are their descendants.
their children, their grandchildren, great-grandchildren etc., are the ones who can now look back with a sense of pride, pride for being the descendants of such heroes.
By the way, this was one of the first songs I heard from Sabaton, the second to be more precise, and it is the one that confirmed to me that this was a group with a talent at the level of The Beatles.
thanks to you guys, for being my history teachers.
My new favorite. Hi from finland🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮. Love ur music. Best band ever best music really cool 👌👌👌 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌. Gotta listen to Sabaton
Great song, and love the inclusion of Bach at 2:40!
This is one of my favorites it has so much raw emotion and really tells the sad story of what all those people were going through. Just wish I could see you guys do this one live!