Before I listened to the history of this song, I thought it was just a song about mass bombing and I loved that rapid grinding pace. After the history the song takes on a much more sinister and harrowing visage. If your going to do more Sabaton reactions PLEASE watch the history episode as well. I love watching both reactions.
Right! The songs are so powerful, you can't help but jam out! And then the history portion sinks in... Sabaton is epic for doing what they do, I can't thank them enough!
Dudeeee SAME! They make me sad, sometimes, they inspire! Emotions entering the soul through musical notes and riffs... What could be better?! Cheers brotha!
Oh... the Metalizer album was their first one, it doesn't really sound like anything that came after. So the album you just covered, it's their first real war-related album. Not to say that Metalizer is bad, it's not. So essentially... They were perfectly fine with slaughtering thousands of civilians... Wasn't even military targets. It is upsetting. This truly shows how little commanding officers (you know, the ones planning everything FAR from the actual battlefields) care or understand about casualties resulted by their decisions. And I said it in the music reaction video, but I say it again.... The US "revenge" on Tokyo was nothing short of mass murder. So many civilians died, only to continuously be spat in the face for years to come even after the war. And this despite the fact that when Japan attacked Pearl Harbour, they targeted military bases. Planes and ships. Yet the US attacks the most densely packed city with only civilians as retaliation. This can never be justified in my mind.
the total destruction of europe from carpetbombing by the anglo allied air forces is still a biiggg big scar here. from rotterdam (bombed both by the germans and allies) where im from to dresden,hamburg to milan,rome and berlin. and even neutral states like switzerland got bombed time and time again ''accidentally'' the priceless monuments and architectural marvels being lost forever is still a weak spot for many of us. all for an military ''strategy'' of trying to demoralize the european civilians into surrendering (by litteraly burning them to death,spoiler alert the bombings only made the germans more radical) in my opinion its a crime,maybe one of the biggest crimes of our time.
It's so sad and even worse that accountability has not, and most likely will never be upheld. Such a shame what people are capable of, and I thought time would make the human race sway away from wars. We're a dumb species... :(
Not sure why, but Indy leaves out quite a bit about Dresden in his coverage of that bombing...and gets a few things wrong. For one thing, Dresden was a major industrial city in the war, and at the time of the bombing there were over 120 medium to large factories in the city making war material. Next, the city was THE major rail hub for German troops and supplies traveling to the Eastern Front at that time, and the Soviets were practically demanding that the Allies bomb it into the stone age...American POWs moving through Dresden described the city as an "armed camp" with "thousands of German troops." And the city was hardly undefended, but since the Allies had not bombed it, the Germans had stripped most of the AA guns from Dresden to send them to cities that were getting bombed much more and also to the front to fight the approaching Soviets...so the city was very lightly defended in comparison to its importance. Something that rarely gets talked about in regard to "civilians" in Japan near the end of the war, is that the Japanese were planning on using millions of their own "civilian" people to acts as human shields for their troops in defending the beaches in the coming Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands. They had formed the "Volunteer Fighting Corps" and had been conscripting men between the age of 15 and 60 years of age, as well as unmarried women aged 17 to 40...and in April of 1945 the Japanese government officially decided that they would use the Volunteer Fighting Corps as part of the combat strategies to defeat the Allied invasion. So maybe, due to the actions of the Japanese government, there were not as many "civilians" in Hiroshima or Nagasaki as you might have previously thought. The US military definitely thought so, to the point where US Army Air Forces analysts began to declare that there were no longer any actual "civilians" left in Japan as of July 1945.
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Before I listened to the history of this song, I thought it was just a song about mass bombing and I loved that rapid grinding pace. After the history the song takes on a much more sinister and harrowing visage.
If your going to do more Sabaton reactions PLEASE watch the history episode as well. I love watching both reactions.
Right! The songs are so powerful, you can't help but jam out! And then the history portion sinks in...
Sabaton is epic for doing what they do, I can't thank them enough!
Looking forward to more sabaton history reaction !
Me too as well! 😂
great video as always though broski,am really enjoying these sabaton vids!
Dudeeee SAME! They make me sad, sometimes, they inspire! Emotions entering the soul through musical notes and riffs... What could be better?! Cheers brotha!
Oh... the Metalizer album was their first one, it doesn't really sound like anything that came after. So the album you just covered, it's their first real war-related album.
Not to say that Metalizer is bad, it's not.
So essentially... They were perfectly fine with slaughtering thousands of civilians... Wasn't even military targets.
It is upsetting.
This truly shows how little commanding officers (you know, the ones planning everything FAR from the actual battlefields) care or understand about casualties resulted by their decisions.
And I said it in the music reaction video, but I say it again....
The US "revenge" on Tokyo was nothing short of mass murder. So many civilians died, only to continuously be spat in the face for years to come even after the war.
And this despite the fact that when Japan attacked Pearl Harbour, they targeted military bases. Planes and ships. Yet the US attacks the most densely packed city with only civilians as retaliation. This can never be justified in my mind.
the total destruction of europe from carpetbombing by the anglo allied air forces is still a biiggg big scar here. from rotterdam (bombed both by the germans and allies) where im from to dresden,hamburg to milan,rome and berlin. and even neutral states like switzerland got bombed time and time again ''accidentally'' the priceless monuments and architectural marvels being lost forever is still a weak spot for many of us.
all for an military ''strategy'' of trying to demoralize the european civilians into surrendering (by litteraly burning them to death,spoiler alert the bombings only made the germans more radical) in my opinion its a crime,maybe one of the biggest crimes of our time.
It's so sad and even worse that accountability has not, and most likely will never be upheld. Such a shame what people are capable of, and I thought time would make the human race sway away from wars.
We're a dumb species... :(
Not sure why, but Indy leaves out quite a bit about Dresden in his coverage of that bombing...and gets a few things wrong. For one thing, Dresden was a major industrial city in the war, and at the time of the bombing there were over 120 medium to large factories in the city making war material. Next, the city was THE major rail hub for German troops and supplies traveling to the Eastern Front at that time, and the Soviets were practically demanding that the Allies bomb it into the stone age...American POWs moving through Dresden described the city as an "armed camp" with "thousands of German troops." And the city was hardly undefended, but since the Allies had not bombed it, the Germans had stripped most of the AA guns from Dresden to send them to cities that were getting bombed much more and also to the front to fight the approaching Soviets...so the city was very lightly defended in comparison to its importance.
Something that rarely gets talked about in regard to "civilians" in Japan near the end of the war, is that the Japanese were planning on using millions of their own "civilian" people to acts as human shields for their troops in defending the beaches in the coming Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands. They had formed the "Volunteer Fighting Corps" and had been conscripting men between the age of 15 and 60 years of age, as well as unmarried women aged 17 to 40...and in April of 1945 the Japanese government officially decided that they would use the Volunteer Fighting Corps as part of the combat strategies to defeat the Allied invasion. So maybe, due to the actions of the Japanese government, there were not as many "civilians" in Hiroshima or Nagasaki as you might have previously thought. The US military definitely thought so, to the point where US Army Air Forces analysts began to declare that there were no longer any actual "civilians" left in Japan as of July 1945.