The First World War ended on November 11, 1918. This bloody global conflict resulted in the death of approximately 9,722,000 soldiers and from 6-13 million civilians. Read more about the end of WWI 👉 www.sabaton.net/historical-facts/world-war-i-ends/ ➞ SUBSCRIBE for more Sabaton: sabat.one/UA-cam ➞ MERCHANDISE Official Store: sabat.one/ytdshop
Essence of Order You mean thanks Austria, for ww1 and Hitler? In the first war Germany was only a good ally, in the second they were only blinded by that maniac’s ideology.
@@SelfProclaimedEmperor It was because of the responsibilities imposed by the allies onto Germany at the end of WWI which caused WWII. If the fuckers didn't blame Germany who wasn't responsible for the wars outbreak in the first place, a Second World War probably would've never happened.
World War I - "The war to end all wars" World War II - "The war to end the domination" World War III - "The war to end the civilization" World War IV - "The war on sticks and stones"
_From 15 to 20 million_ _Almost half of the dead civilian_ When my family visited Edinburgh in the summer 2016, we were surprised to see a parade full of marching men. Most of them were older and it clear the parade was remembering some event. We had to ask someone what was it was about. We learned it was the 100th anniversary of the battle of the Somme. I will never forget walking beside that parade, quietly remembering the pointless loss of life. Yet in America Great War is mostly forgotten.... They don’t teach you the horrifying scale of WWI in school....
God, I am so glad I recently started listening to Sabaton more. Normally a number like "15 to 20 million" would be so large that you couldn't comprehend the size, but for some reason, when the music swelled and the whole chorus sang "From 15 to 20 million" I just felt like I got hit by an emotional train at how large a loss of life that was. Bravo, keep writing music like this, guys.
This just ticks all the boxes! 1. The calm beginning 2. The sudden *BANG* into action. 3. Connected and smooth lyrics. 4. Great solo! 5. A dramatic and heartfelt conclusion and message.
@@ZETH_27 once again i have breached containment and moved to sweden where i live a peaceful life now and make nice swedish meatballs and ikea furniture
@@johnsugar3241 Sadly for you I´m in the Swedish branch. We will look for you, we will find you, and we will contain you. My Swedish bröthers are already prepäring our forces for a full scäle investigätion. såo you better be prepäred.
Chills. But I get glacial down my back when I hear “November 11 settling the score, from 15 to 20 million, almost half of the dead civilian, a new world will dawn from empires fallen.’
@@facemcshooty6602 he really didn't. He just thought Versailles was unfair towards Germany (which it honestly is), but uh... he kinda executed his plans poorly.
@@YataTheFifteenth He did wanted the war. Otherwise he wouldnt have invaded poland, belguim, luxenburg, the netherlands, france, and the Sowjet Union. Also Germany made plans to invade the uk but that faild.
@@CaptShadow18 He did wanted the war. Otherwise he wouldnt have invaded poland, belguim, luxenburg, the netherlands, france, and the Sowjet Union. Also Germany made plans to invade the uk but that faild.
“The war ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. It had meant nothing, solved nothing, and proved nothing.” Leon Wolfe, historian
@@Darh1407 well, not quite.... they fucked up the bombing that was meant to kill, injuring the driver(or some military personal, cant remember). Ferdinand then decided to visit the injured in the hospital, the driver on that day took a wrong turn, and just HAPPEND to come across the shooter.... who took the shot... so it was.... quite a bunch of bad luck
My heart starts sinking at the lines before it. “From 15 to 20 million, almost half of the dead civilian, a new world will dawn from empires fallen.” So many dead, and a world primed for a second wave of war, worse than what came before that would define the world we live in today. On the bones of ancient empires we fail to learn and doom ourselves.
It also refers to an expression that refers to the great war as the last war (Atleast in french there's an expression "la der des ders" or "la dernière des dernières" which translates to "the last of the last (wars)")
That choir always hits me like a ton of bricks. Being a Canadian, the first world war was always something I grew up knowing about, especially considering my father and older brother are huge military history nerds. But that choir...I had never known what people meant by "goosebumps" until I heard that for the first time. Discovering this album, I was intrigued by the historical anecdotes found in the lyric videos. And so, I went through them all. I was not ready. Every time I listen to it, I tear up at the choir. I don't break down and cry, but...it really put things into perspective for me. It's more than a number. They were people.
If you haven't had a good cry recently and want one I advise you watch apocalypse, a documentary made for the 100 years of the most thouroughly pointless blood bath in history that has one tiny difference to most documentary : they use image filmed by cameraman of ww1 and only added sounds and colors to those images. I've watched it and it's heartwrenching because you know it's not make up, cgi or mannequins that you see.
The 20th century was very crazy. The end of many empires, rise and fall of very extreme ideologies such as fascism and for the most part communism. What did it cost? Tens of millions of lives from all over the world. We also have new weapons that can billions and people who would kill others for being from a different nation.
"it's more than a number. they were people." those words made me cry for the first time in years. i had been completely desensitized towards this kind of things because i have heard of these kinds of things too much in history, but those words really were a shock because they put the casualties of war in terms i had never thought of before.
@@zekrom8372 you have to be visited by our local government or local 6p and you will also use our service for our we service our for provider email service and service provider in the UK and UK NEXT WEEK AND THE NEXT FEW WEEKS AND will NEXT need WEEKS but of think email have email be I bit put than money email me so invoice stuff not OK yet the I'll 280x20 a money of for 5th 6p and a few other one in the morning and I will not work with the other guys in a few days but repeat the email 280x20 and I will not work with the company as the new contract is not going through as of now as they will be visited by a few other day to be a bit of an update for me as well and popan on a good friend for a couple of weeks so I hope you're OK with the rest will be visited and if you have a tank for more of an area or 6
@@australianword3812 Ancient Aliens and Ice Road truckers. Unless you go back to when i was 4 and they actually showed battles and History. 30+ Years ago
@Fink's Garage Indeed the good shit from that History Channel is long gone since then, I too remember watching documentaries of battles during the wars. The battles that aren’t shown to us in the school textbooks. Now it’s all filled with bullshit like what you mentioned about Ancient Aliens and such.
I wasn't expecting it. first time listen and i don't hate it. I did not like the red baron at first but man i fkn love that song. Almost like Howard is saying but it doesn't get better you just start to appreciate it more.
It`s not an... I dont know the English word for it... in German, you say "Ohrwurm". But it´s not a song, it´s an epos, and yeah,you´re f***ing right: it´s unterrated.
a single bullet fired at archduke franz ferdinand kickstarted bloodshed that would set of a chain of events to change the world over the next 80 years and permanently change everything forever... actions have consequences even a single bullet. the fact that so many things have been brought to hundreds of thousands of people through sabaton's music is amazing. if veterans of world war one were around today i feel this would hit heavy on all their hearts.
spykosaurus rex the bullet was the final factor of looooots of events summing up, even without it, something else would have triggered the war, in the near future, tensions between nations made it inevitable at that point
The death of Franz Ferdinand was just the spark. The whole world during that time was ready to explode. Hardcore History really jumps into the politics and how PTSD and TBI was so misunderstood so many where shot because of repeated concussions from the cannons, gas and watching friends fall. What really hurt me was the fact so many drowned in shells holes where gas had settled into the depression and many couldn't climb out. So pointless.
@@biomuseum6645 yes relations between powers were strained but that was still the spark, irrelevent if something else would have triggered it. that one death was still the final straw.
It's even worse when you realize, WW1 was mostly caused by hubris. One archduke assassinated, one country blamed another, and everything went downhill. Tragically massive loss of life, for such a miniscule reason.
Well, if you think about it more, assasination of the arcduke was just "casus belli" and the big war was going to happen anyway. Countries wanted to change the maps of colonies and themselves anyway
"They push, we push..." (Full Quote inside) - Battlefield 1 Singleplayer Gameplay Trailer "They push. We push. Every once and a while we push hard enough that the light breaks through the clouds and a world beyond the war glimmers. Just out of reach. The war is the world, and the world is the war. But behind every gun sight is a human being. We are those people. We are the jaded. We are the naive. We are the honorable. And the criminal. We are the bound for legend. And the loss to history. We are the knights of the sky, the ghosts in the desert and the rats in the mud. These are our stories."
To me this is the greatest song of the album, I'd agree that it's not everyone's favourite or what they would say as the best, which is why I refer to it as the greatest. Every part of the song is impactful
@@madogthefirst My comment wasn't saying it was something new. In fact, it was very clearly stating its been a long time since people talked about him. :l
@@miloschenfeld3301 Edit: in case l said shit here in the comments, don´t listen. I made these comments when l was a child years ago. yes it was treason, but it was good they lost in 45, do you want europe to be puppeted by a country that doctrined all it´s people saying the germans were superior to everyone while entire races were extinct or ensalved?
"Well you're an officer from World War One at the South Pole being pursued by an alien through frozen time. Madness was never this good." "World War One?" "Judging by the uniform, yes." "Yes, but what do you mean...one?" "Oh, sorry. Spoilers"
"A war always ends in pain, no army left to fight for what comes, no night, no day, all you can do is pray, bombs drop from the sky, I wish I didn't lie, I hoped I be back by Christmas, then the next day I get married, all of that was a lie, now remember, war does not end with shine and glory" -my great grandpa Harvey
"15 to 20 million, almost half of the dead civilians" Now that hits very hard...... respect to all the people that lost their lives in this tragic event 💔✊
the Great War may not have ended all wars, but it ended Chivalry in Warfare. Long gone are the days of Gentlemen Warfare, replaced by Mechanized Beasts, gas and bombs.
There was no glory there. It was the Tzars to throwing our lives against gas for a foreign country. In the Great Patriotic war, that was a holy war of good vs Evil, the bear vs the eagle.
My great, great grandfather on my mother's side fought in this war, surviving a mustard attack. My grandfather on my fathers side was an artilleryman in world war 2; my uncle was a marine in Vietnam. I tried to join the army to fight in iraq, but was turned down. So i joined the South Carolina State Guard to try to do my part. 5 generations of military service.
As far back as the Holy Roman Empire's collapse, the Ackermanns have fought for Germany. The family crest is three red rosters on a yellow shield symbolizing the reckless loyalty and stubbornness in attacks. In the Great War, my great great grandfather was a sturmtruppen in the kaiserschlacht. He died from rifle fire a mere three days before the truce and end of the war. My great grandfather served in the German army during the second world war, my grandpa served western Germany during the cold war, and my father the US navy. I hope to join the USMC one day to learn and to honor my heritage. We must always remember the fallen, even as they are not dead, but marching far away.
Fighting in WW2 and WW1 made sense. In Vietnam your uncle fought for political superiority but Iraq? You'd only be fighting for the profit of some oil company. Not worth it
@@deniszelentsov8582 It actually is nearing, Nuclear weapons, Trump, Kim Jun Un, Putin, Erdogan, Boris Johnson (harmless for now), Maduro, new creepy Brazilian president, lots of dictators in Africa, Phillipines. Well Nukes when will you drop? (please never drop)
I like when songs feature a degree of interconnectedness within albums. Like how some of Greenday's American Idiot album had lyrics that referenced some of its other songs. Obviously in this case, because WWI was such a massive nigh-all-consuming conflict, some of the general subjects resurface when mentioning the Great War in this song. But I feel like that just helps hammer home how utterly and hopelessly *nightmarish* this war truly was. When the nature of this song, really, truly sunk in it came out of nowhere. I had listened to this song like 50 times before, but today, I suddenly started getting choked up partway through without knowing why. Then I started getting teary-eyed, and by the end I was without hyperbole crying harder than I had in *years* (with the only other time coming close being, fittingly, rewatching a playthrough of Valiant Hearts: The Great War to the end again) because the emotion of the song just hit me like damn train: The song is about the end of the war and reflecting on all that had lead up to its end, but the callbacks to other songs help to remind us of all the smaller, more intimate stories of horror in the war. Letting us see the macro scale suffering of the war but with the added _context_ of the micro. The choir and symphonic elements of the song convey a grand sense of scale, but at the same time are reminiscent of one of the lines in "Great War": "Where is this greatness I've been told?! This is the lies that we've been sold!" Which itself was a reference to how prior to WWI war was seen as a Spec Ops: The Line-esque chance for adventure and glory to be seized only rip away those notions out from under them. That grandiose tone fits the scale of the conflict, yet also has an irony to it; that for all the talk of glory that might have preceded the war, the true "accomplishment" was how tremendously widespread the bloodshed and misery the war wrought, yet ultimately solved absolutely *nothing.* The songs "referenced" by this, "The Future of Warfare", "Attack of the Dead Men" (The lines about gas), and "Great War" felt like little callbacks leading up to the gut-punch. The struggles of an individual or small group of soldiers gives us a micro perspective that shows us how the average person was pulled in by the war's previously unmatched scale. How there was almost no nation on Earth unaffected by it in some way, and how nearly every person who fought was irreversibly changed, or consumed by it entirely. But contrasted against that final tally of "15 to 20 million" it's no longer just a statistic. It's millions upon millions of *individual* stories of people sucked into this maelstrom of war, disease, famine, and death. Millions meeting their unceremonious end drowning in mud, at the hands of a distant sniper, or a slow agonizing death alone in No Man's Land following a failed charge into machinegun fire. Millions of people left with no choice but to fight and die in a war they didn't want. Waring for control over territory so scarred and ravaged by artillery shells that once-fertile forests gave way to horizons populated by nothing but the dead they would soon join and the skeletons of trees. With "almost half of the dead civilian[s]" who didn't even fight but lost their lives _anyway._ The other thing that makes it so overwhelming is the fact that those are just the people who _died._ 10s of millions *more* had to face the ravages of war and then *live* with it until the day they died. With the distinct possibility of having to do so *alone* since the deaths of their friends and family via the Spanish Flu was very much possible given that it was _also_ killing humanity en mass at the time. Even as we reel from the deaths, economic downturn, and crowding of hospitals wrought by Covid-19 today? It looks like the *Common Cold* compared to how devastating and deadly the Spanish Flu was at its peak. And the final twist in the knife to humanity was that name that was eventually tied to it: "The War to End All Wars." The idea that the war was so terrible, cruel, destructive, and ultimately amounted to nothing but a senseless loss of life that humanity would never bring about such senseless death again... yet did so with even greater malice and efficiency than before.
As a soon-to-be-sailor, I thank you for typing this. There are no glories to be had at sea, nor glories to be had *anywhere* ashore anyway during any war. Whether it be on my deathbed 80 years hence, or 20 days forward, I will always remember the Great War. *We must remember.* There's no choice in the matter, no sense of duty, nor insipid and arbitrary tie to human history demanding we do so. Should the war be forgotten, be it at the hands of an increasingly WWII-focused curriculum or the onslaught of history-rewriters, we won't remember the sacrifices of so many for what ultimately amounts to so little in historical reflection. Can we even count them? *Can we even count the dead?* For the World Wars, I cannot find an answer that fits within the little box lined out for me by my history books and surface research. You call them statistics because that is what they've become, *statistics.* Numbers subject to opinion and bias and change and never quite concrete. Blood help us all.
@@tyrtex5108 I am a physics student, so numbers are just what I do. Numbers carry a lot of meaning and no meaning at all. Like, we all know that light speed is incredibly fast but it doesn't really carry any meaning for me besides being a number. Our brains aren't really meant to grasp numbers bigger than... 20? maybe 50? You don't ever really _have_ more than 50 of something without wrapping it up in some way (you can have 10.000 grains of rice but at that point you don't say "10.000 grains of rice" anymore). It is incredibly hard to give meaning to numbers. Hence the saying "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic". I love this song. Because it wraps the abhorrent numbers up in a way that I can grasp. Art is important. Art is what gives meaning and weight to the beauty and the horror of life that pure statistical analysis can't. Art can bridge so many different kinds of gaps, be it cultural or be it in our understanding of things that are almost impossible to grasp in any other way.
And adding upon all this, in tying in to the modern era, is the fact that this SOLVED *NOTHING*! As hindsight knows, it took only *twenty years* for a second war like this to erupt, on a MUCH GREATER scale and with even greater losses of life, thus nullifying the given moniker. Imagine the horror of not only serving in the first war only to end up not only facing something *EVEN WORSE* on the same scale, but to have your own children suffer along with you, maybe even dying because of the mistakes that you had experienced!!! And only now are we seeing such a renaissance in entertainment works based in the period. With many, if not all, of those who had personally experienced this tragedy dead, only now are we returning to fully understand the consequences and horrors because the actions of the second were in prime focus of our society for decades! We must never forget this tragedy, for everyone should know what becomes of it.
@@susangoaway it was less of a collaboration, more of a 'if you don't attack me I won't attack you' sort of scenario, however we all how that went.....
@@susangoaway So you're gonna ignore France and UK actions when Germany went to annex Austria and Czech? Oh yes, so many treaties, and they only talk about the last one, while in fact the western side contributed more in the rise of Nazi regime, as they need something to fight agaisnt communism Typical western brains
The fact the taxi not only took a wrong turn, but broke down right in front of Gavrilo as he was planning on bailing. Some think that this was not a coincidence, that some unseeable force made this domino effect that would eventually be the cause of both world wars.
Hard to imagine but some still wanted new series. Under their pressure America got the Korean and Vietnam War Series. But I think they did not really like the later, there was much criticism at the end and the show got pretty roasted.
That final chorus ALWAYS sends shivers down my spine. During those seconds I see the story of the whole war flash in front of me, the suffering, the violence, the end of an era. Maybe I consumed too much material about the Great War during the centenary, but damn if that wasn't a seminal event in world history.
I absolutely adore the end of this one, the chorus and climactic feel of it makes it truly feel like the end of an era, the world will never again be the same.
@@apyr1439 NATO never ever was a threat to Russia. So blaming NATO for their "expansion" because it's provoking Russia is the same as "NATO is bad because they expanded and now pose a threat to Armenia or Tunis.
@@solitude7585 It is a threat, NATO has more military power than Russia, and are slowly adding more members with borders in Russia, it was just a matter of time before this happened, I'm not aoying Ukraine is to blame, Russia is, though at the same time NATO does have a responsibility
@@apyr1439 dude NATO is defensive alliance. Right god damn now they can't even help Ukraine properly with weapons tf are you talking about? Even if NATO ever posed a threat to Russia, then now they have awesome chance to attack them, because all russian armies are now in Ukraine and completely doomed, but NATO do nothing. The article that NATO ever posed a threat to Russia is russian propaganda, how do you think, why countries are want to became a part of NATO? Because they want to be safe because there is a dangerous and imperialistic country right before them - Russia.
Alright! If you are here in November 11th 2022 at 11 o'clock, you are a legend. I'll be editing this for the next ten years. 2022:✔ 2023:✔ 2024: 2025: 2026: 2027: 2028: 2029: 2030: 2031: EDIT: I'm still here! See you in November 2024!
This truly is Joakim's masterpiece as he flawlessly blends Heavy Metal with epic Classical Orchestra to tell such a tragic story. This is, imo, one of the most underrated songs in the album if not all of Sabaton.
Allies: We'll blame Germany for this, what's the worst thing that happens? *21 year later* Allies: Okay, now THIS is definitely Germany's fault People n the 21st century: Man, the allies made massive mistakes
thing is quite a few of the stipulations of the treaty of Versailles was because of the rape of belgium and other atrocities where German officers were ignoring or even in complicit in having happen. Germanys blame for the war itself however is completely bullshit, that falls on an arrogant, fat and frankly quite stupid Austria Hungary.
@@norsia1946 Somehow it's OK when Germany places super harsh terms on France (Large Payments, loss of Alsace Lorraine) or Russia (Brest Litwoski, splitting the Russian Empire into various puppet states), but when it happens to Germany it's the Entente's fault.
@@kantaikessen3289 Alsace Lorraine at the time Germany took it had quite large German population, so taking it was kind of justified. However the one with Russia frankly isn't. But can we just agree that WW1 isn't Germany's but Austria-Hungary's fault?
@@kantaikessen3289 France declared war on Germany first (well Prussia and their allied kingdoms). Russia did the same thing, they backed up Serbia and co. So Germany didn't *start* the war. They escalated it. And besides, the pieces Germany sliced off from Russia were either totally not Russian (Poland) or iffy about being Russian in identity (Ukraine and Belarus and the Jewish populations there)
November 11th settling the score From 15 to 20 million Almost half of the dead civillian An new world will dawn from empires fallen The end of the war to end war That chorus gives me chills every time, especially the first 3 lines. Makes you really feel, can a war end war?
Serbia and Austro-Hungary start war “Who did that” France: Germany England:Germany Serbia: Definitely Germany Germany: Excuse me WTF?!?!?! Wow, 1k, thanks )
Jihadi Sultans 2 Considering that you use insults instead of facts, it shows your level of development very well. Germany declared war on the Russian Empire, intervening for Austria. In turn, after France and Germany declared war on each other. I would gladly continue to discuss this topic, but I'm too lazy for it
@@Cassius4 Hmm yes but the kaiser went on vacation right after, that's not really something you do if you expect a war to be honest, and the whole Balkan region was as Bismarck said, "a powder keg" (I think it was him who said it) And if your monarch in that time was just shot dead I'd think most people would want some sort of retribution, granted Austria's ultimatum was kind of impossible to agree on for Serbia. France wanted territory back, Italy wanted territory too, which is why they joined the Axis in world war 2 due to them feeling like they got left out of their promises. It was just a thing that spiraled out of control. Germany invaded Belgium to walk around the French defensive lines, which granted, was a good idea on paper, and it did almost work. The idea was to knock out France before Britan could send troops. because then it wouldn't matter too much if Britan declared war, as they would most likely sue for peace if they were fighting alone in world war 1. Back then they didn't have the tech to make a D-day landing, and if France was defeated, the Germans wouldn't really need to sink American convoys most likely, like France, like Germany is fertile land and it would make it a lot harder for Britan to blockade Germany.
0:00 you are standing there breathing the smoke and having a ptsd flash back 0:41 the artlliery fired and you had a flash back when you are in the war 1:19 you remember can hear sabaton making a music video and start having flashback 2:02 while having the flash back sabaton kept on singing 2:27 you start singing with them 2:42 you had flashback of you running threw trench to trench 3:01 and had a brutal kill montage 3:19 you start singing with them but you are sobbing 3:34 suddenly a ww2 vet help to sing with you at this part 3:50 the entire nursing home help to sing with you as you start to son at the ptsd and the song 4:22 you cried at the end of the song it's the most and beautiful and majestic song you had and your friends pick you up and calm you down
Had to listen to this today, just watched the new All Quite on the Western Front and man watching that movie on today on Nov 11th and then listing to this just hits differently
"November 11th - settling the score... From 15 to 20 million, almost half of the dead civilian. It's the end of the war to end war..." Really powerful and tragic when you consider with hindsight that no, it was not the war to end all war and as tragic as the death toll was, the lessons went unlearned... World War 2 would be histories most deadly war, 30 years later, claiming 85 million lives. We must remember the 15-20 million lives lost, we must remember that we failed to heed the lessons of the past and we must remember the consequence - 85 million - if we do not.
If it wasn't Hitler then it'd be someone else. Stalin maybe. WW2 was inevitable. Even some WW1 generals knew what was coming, hell, one even predicted the start of the war would come 20 years after the end of the first one.
Hahahahahahahahabahahahwahhwhebdn3nejdicjdenenxxor9393eicdjrnens a jensnd8dj helpdu3bdnxjee8d in nd please eudne help w,adidd9help dje 2basike me djenennenrnrnrjdif
It’s crazy how everyone in those photos and video camera clips are dead, and the last of them died only a few years ago, it’s sort of haunting And soon, the same will be for the last of the Second World War’s veterans, and victims, including my grandmother, who survived the Holocaust It’s sad that one day, all that we will have to remember them are photos, clips, and videos of old veterans, and I guess movies, books, documentaries and video games I guess I feel like everyone says that about these two wars because we know their names and we have pictures of them, and videos, looking at the last few wars before that, and I mean major wars like the civil war, we don’t have that, we have paintings, we have photos and portraits of generals and leaders, we have locations and reinactors, but we don’t have pictures and videos like this, here we can see the humanity in the eyes of every single man who looks into that camera in any of those group photos, and that’s why it’s haunting when we realize sooner or later, that man who is in that photo will be dead, wether he died in a battle afterwards or of old age Lest we forget
@@mistercomment8060 I know your comment is 2 years old but ants commit genocide on other ant colonies *every day* so we are surprisingly one of the less self destructive species out there.
The craziest thing of the great war is how much changed from the start of it to the end The first airplane was just created Many people at the time still expected to fight with cavalry and swords Cars were relatively very new and kinda bad The first machine gun, the Maxim Gun was developed only about 3 decades prior And many expected it to be some great journey to prove themselves, a conflict that would end quickly It began in 1914 and ended 4 years later in 1918 Just in four short years the world changed drastically, what started as a small conflict in the balkans resulted in millions of people from every corner of the world reaching to the American continent, Siberia, New Zealand, Australia, India, all being sent to fight in the great war. The war evolved so quickly that what was being used at the end of it would be barely recognizable to what the beginning of it was. Horses and cars were replaced with metal behemoths called tanks, the newly invented airplanes turned into massive bombers and fighters, and all kinds of horrors like the poisonous gas and massive airships
If anybody's wondering about the thumbnail picture, its called "Gassed" from painter John S. Sargent (painted 1918). It depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack.
Каждый раз, переслушивая эту песню, я думаю :" Как??? Как мы снова до этого докатились??? Под весëлое улюлюканье зажравшихся чинуш молодые ребята снова идут становится палачами...
This song still remains a fucking masterpiece, the ultimate boss battle and a horrifying reflection of the tragedy of WWI (and 2, technically) Sabaton never disappoints!
![[Countryhumans] The End of The War to End All Wars (WW1 PMV) //Slight blood warning//](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RLPJ5K7eggw/mqdefault.jpg)
The First World War ended on November 11, 1918. This bloody global conflict resulted in the death of approximately 9,722,000 soldiers and from 6-13 million civilians. Read more about the end of WWI 👉 www.sabaton.net/historical-facts/world-war-i-ends/
➞ SUBSCRIBE for more Sabaton: sabat.one/UA-cam
➞ MERCHANDISE Official Store: sabat.one/ytdshop
Great as the war
Really Nice
It's AWESOME
🤘🤘🤘🤘
"1 month ago"
"The worst thing about the great war was not the trenches, nor the machine guns, nor the deaths. But the fact it was the first"
Thanks Germany, because CLEARLY one world war wasn't enough.
Essence of Order You mean thanks Austria, for ww1 and Hitler? In the first war Germany was only a good ally, in the second they were only blinded by that maniac’s ideology.
@@SelfProclaimedEmperor You should be blaming the government, not the people.
The Seven Years War was the first world war. The Great War is the first official world war.
@@SelfProclaimedEmperor It was because of the responsibilities imposed by the allies onto Germany at the end of WWI which caused WWII. If the fuckers didn't blame Germany who wasn't responsible for the wars outbreak in the first place, a Second World War probably would've never happened.
“Over 65 Million men fought in The War to End All Wars.
It ended Nothing....”
That's the truth.
"Yet it changed the world forever... What follows is frontline combat... You are not expected to survive..."
It ended with more conflict than before the great war.....
Bf1 flashbacks
That hit me harder than my dad belt
World War I - "The war to end all wars"
World War II - "The war to end the domination"
World War III - "The war to end the civilization"
World War IV - "The war on sticks and stones"
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein
Sticks and stones
Aand repeat
World War II - "The war to end the domination"
what happend after that war? Cold war, war for domination
@@jaceksoplica5406 none of them ended anything they say going to end
_From 15 to 20 million_
_Almost half of the dead civilian_
When my family visited Edinburgh in the summer 2016, we were surprised to see a parade full of marching men.
Most of them were older and it clear the parade was remembering some event.
We had to ask someone what was it was about.
We learned it was the 100th anniversary of the battle of the Somme.
I will never forget walking beside that parade, quietly remembering the pointless loss of life.
Yet in America Great War is mostly forgotten....
They don’t teach you the horrifying scale of WWI in school....
Usa came late into the 1ww and it was a lot more impliced in ww2 (with the pacific war and the d day)
Popop Duck I know. The US was fortunate no battles occurred on our soil....
But that doesn’t change the absolute horror of the war.
Mainly because in America war is still done in schools
@@opalishmoth8591 fun fact, there was actually an axis invasion on American soil, albeit in the Aleutian Islands.
Popop Duck, USA did much more for victory in ww1 than in ww2
God, I am so glad I recently started listening to Sabaton more. Normally a number like "15 to 20 million" would be so large that you couldn't comprehend the size, but for some reason, when the music swelled and the whole chorus sang "From 15 to 20 million" I just felt like I got hit by an emotional train at how large a loss of life that was. Bravo, keep writing music like this, guys.
You maybe just found a way for me to explain why they're my favorite band
(Obviously in addition to other reasons)
I'd like to point out 52 000 000+ russians who died in ww2
They don't call it "the LOST generation" for nothing...
@@vanja2565 Only ~26 million, where'd you get that high number, huh?
@@Someone-lr6gu 25 million civilians and 27 million soldiers, idk my info could be wrong
This just ticks all the boxes!
1. The calm beginning
2. The sudden *BANG* into action.
3. Connected and smooth lyrics.
4. Great solo!
5. A dramatic and heartfelt conclusion and message.
@Yu Hin TAM Thank you.
@@ZETH_27 once again i have breached containment and moved to sweden where i live a peaceful life now and make nice swedish meatballs and ikea furniture
@@johnsugar3241 Sadly for you I´m in the Swedish branch. We will look for you, we will find you, and we will contain you.
My Swedish bröthers are already prepäring our forces for a full scäle investigätion. såo you better be prepäred.
SCP-516 would like a hard discussion about ending all wars
YES and also I love your pfp
”Great war enter, front and centre, grand endeavour, lost forever” sends chills down my spine
Same
Same
Chills. But I get glacial down my back when I hear “November 11 settling the score, from 15 to 20 million, almost half of the dead civilian, a new world will dawn from empires fallen.’
Me too
same
Notice how there’s 11 songs in the album and World War 1 ended on the 11th day of the 11th month at 11 a.m. 😉
Oh
Nice coincidence
Coincidence, I think not
I can see that
The numbers what do they mean!?!
"Over 65 million fought in the war to end all wars."
All it ended was millions of young men's lives and sanity
Ironic how hitler fought on WWI and experienced the horrors of it but even then wanted another one
@@facemcshooty6602 He didn't necessarily want another one he wanted retaliation for the Versailles Treaty
@@facemcshooty6602 he really didn't. He just thought Versailles was unfair towards Germany (which it honestly is), but uh... he kinda executed his plans poorly.
@@YataTheFifteenth He did wanted the war. Otherwise he wouldnt have invaded poland, belguim, luxenburg, the netherlands, france, and the Sowjet Union. Also Germany made plans to invade the uk but that faild.
@@CaptShadow18 He did wanted the war. Otherwise he wouldnt have invaded poland, belguim, luxenburg, the netherlands, france, and the Sowjet Union. Also Germany made plans to invade the uk but that faild.
“The war ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. It had meant nothing, solved nothing, and proved nothing.”
Leon Wolfe, historian
It proved the extent of man's ability to destroy.
@@randomcrapstudios8398 Only to be extended even further a few years later.
It proved that something as simple as just one bullet can start a war
@Complex Construct wait he missed the first time?
@@Darh1407 well, not quite.... they fucked up the bombing that was meant to kill, injuring the driver(or some military personal, cant remember).
Ferdinand then decided to visit the injured in the hospital, the driver on that day took a wrong turn, and just HAPPEND to come across the shooter.... who took the shot... so it was.... quite a bunch of bad luck
My heart sinks at the final lyric; "The end of the War to end War".
Such solemn irony.
I always end it as a very sad "The end of the War to End All...", which...somehow doesn't make it any more comforting
My heart starts sinking at the lines before it.
“From 15 to 20 million, almost half of the dead civilian, a new world will dawn from empires fallen.”
So many dead, and a world primed for a second wave of war, worse than what came before that would define the world we live in today. On the bones of ancient empires we fail to learn and doom ourselves.
Most horrific thing? Chronologicly another song is Rise of Evil...
It also refers to an expression that refers to the great war as the last war (Atleast in french there's an expression "la der des ders" or "la dernière des dernières" which translates to "the last of the last (wars)")
That choir always hits me like a ton of bricks. Being a Canadian, the first world war was always something I grew up knowing about, especially considering my father and older brother are huge military history nerds.
But that choir...I had never known what people meant by "goosebumps" until I heard that for the first time. Discovering this album, I was intrigued by the historical anecdotes found in the lyric videos. And so, I went through them all. I was not ready. Every time I listen to it, I tear up at the choir. I don't break down and cry, but...it really put things into perspective for me. It's more than a number. They were people.
If you haven't had a good cry recently and want one I advise you watch apocalypse, a documentary made for the 100 years of the most thouroughly pointless blood bath in history that has one tiny difference to most documentary : they use image filmed by cameraman of ww1 and only added sounds and colors to those images. I've watched it and it's heartwrenching because you know it's not make up, cgi or mannequins that you see.
The 20th century was very crazy. The end of many empires, rise and fall of very extreme ideologies such as fascism and for the most part communism. What did it cost? Tens of millions of lives from all over the world. We also have new weapons that can billions and people who would kill others for being from a different nation.
"it's more than a number. they were people." those words made me cry for the first time in years. i had been completely desensitized towards this kind of things because i have heard of these kinds of things too much in history, but those words really were a shock because they put the casualties of war in terms i had never thought of before.
@@zekrom8372 you have to be visited by our local government or local 6p and you will also use our service for our we service our for provider email service and service provider in the UK and UK NEXT WEEK AND THE NEXT FEW WEEKS AND will NEXT need WEEKS but of think email have email be I bit put than money email me so invoice stuff not OK yet the I'll 280x20 a money of for 5th 6p and a few other one in the morning and I will not work with the other guys in a few days but repeat the email 280x20 and I will not work with the company as the new contract is not going through as of now as they will be visited by a few other day to be a bit of an update for me as well and popan on a good friend for a couple of weeks so I hope you're OK with the rest will be visited and if you have a tank for more of an area or 6
"Judging by the uniform, you must be an officer of World War 1.
What do you mean... 'One'?"
-a scene from Doctor Who
Hahahaha
Its gotta be tragic to go through all that, and then learn so casually that it's not the only time humanity will rip itself apart.
@@submarineinthesky8946 it's crazy that our worst enemies are ourselves and germs
@@thatrandomeliteultra1158 Here's hoping that'll change in the future. Either world peace, or people gather enough science points to cure everything.
@@submarineinthesky8946 me sees plague inc. reference: Ahh I see your a man of culture aswell
Keep doing this style lyric videos. Sabaton is more history than the G'dam History Channel at this point.
What'd you expect? It's the History Channel
@@australianword3812 Ancient Aliens and Ice Road truckers. Unless you go back to when i was 4 and they actually showed battles and History. 30+ Years ago
@Fink's Garage
Indeed the good shit from that History Channel is long gone since then, I too remember watching documentaries of battles during the wars. The battles that aren’t shown to us in the school textbooks.
Now it’s all filled with bullshit like what you mentioned about Ancient Aliens and such.
The Food Network is more history than the History Channel.
Fink's Garage cos they don’t sing about aliens
They have the nicest band merch I've ever seen
I'm so buying their stuff after my next paycheck
Thanks for the support, Kevin! It means the world to us.
Someone get this man a paycheck
Damn still no paycheck
Did you get your paycheck?
@Wyieu-jz4og went on a big haul, lol
Very underrated song imo, no one seems to be talking about it, but the chorus in this song is one of the best i have ever heard!
Arsenal Fan i totally agree
Initially, didn't really care for the song, but the more I listened to it, the better it got.
I wasn't expecting it. first time listen and i don't hate it. I did not like the red baron at first but man i fkn love that song. Almost like Howard is saying but it doesn't get better you just start to appreciate it more.
The last part is great especially with the music video
It`s not an... I dont know the English word for it... in German, you say "Ohrwurm". But it´s not a song, it´s an epos, and yeah,you´re f***ing right: it´s unterrated.
a single bullet fired at archduke franz ferdinand kickstarted bloodshed that would set of a chain of events to change the world over the next 80 years and permanently change everything forever... actions have consequences even a single bullet.
the fact that so many things have been brought to hundreds of thousands of people through sabaton's music is amazing. if veterans of world war one were around today i feel this would hit heavy on all their hearts.
We can go further back in time and say that "the shot heard round the world" during the Revolutionary War kick-started all the madness we see today.
spykosaurus rex the bullet was the final factor of looooots of events summing up, even without it, something else would have triggered the war, in the near future, tensions between nations made it inevitable at that point
The death of Franz Ferdinand was just the spark. The whole world during that time was ready to explode. Hardcore History really jumps into the politics and how PTSD and TBI was so misunderstood so many where shot because of repeated concussions from the cannons, gas and watching friends fall.
What really hurt me was the fact so many drowned in shells holes where gas had settled into the depression and many couldn't climb out. So pointless.
I think there's still a few WWI gets alive. Very few though
@@biomuseum6645 yes relations between powers were strained but that was still the spark, irrelevent if something else would have triggered it. that one death was still the final straw.
It's even worse when you realize, WW1 was mostly caused by hubris. One archduke assassinated, one country blamed another, and everything went downhill. Tragically massive loss of life, for such a miniscule reason.
Well, if you think about it more, assasination of the arcduke was just "casus belli" and the big war was going to happen anyway.
Countries wanted to change the maps of colonies and themselves anyway
"They push, we push..." (Full Quote inside) - Battlefield 1 Singleplayer Gameplay Trailer
"They push. We push. Every once and a while we push hard enough that the light breaks through the clouds and a world beyond the war glimmers. Just out of reach. The war is the world, and the world is the war. But behind every gun sight is a human being. We are those people. We are the jaded. We are the naive. We are the honorable. And the criminal. We are the bound for legend. And the loss to history. We are the knights of the sky, the ghosts in the desert and the rats in the mud. These are our stories."
*Muffled Autistic Screeching* Just, just... BF1 knew what they were doing
BF1, the good videogame, and the only I remember of ww1
@@V-V1875-h sad verdun and tannenburg noises
@@TragicTester034 player count rivaling alpha testing of an indie game doesnt help
@@V-V1875-h true
To me this is the greatest song of the album, I'd agree that it's not everyone's favourite or what they would say as the best, which is why I refer to it as the greatest. Every part of the song is impactful
I consider it the actual ending of the album Flanders Field does not exist to me.
True
@@madogthefirst Why? You sound like you dislike Flander's Fields, but it's a great rendition.
@@LordVader1094 just making sure everyone understands it is nothing new. Personally it ain't my cup.of tea.
@@madogthefirst My comment wasn't saying it was something new. In fact, it was very clearly stating its been a long time since people talked about him. :l
3:33 This last bit gave me goosebumps, especially "A new world will dawn from empires fallen, the end of the war to end war"
Sama thought
In my opinion this is musically the best song from the new album.
The metal in this song is heavy, but not as heavy as the weight of responsibility imposed by the Allies on Germany in 1918
@@miloschenfeld3301 Edit: in case l said shit here in the comments, don´t listen. I made these comments when l was a child years ago.
yes it was treason, but it was good they lost in 45, do you want europe to be puppeted by a country that doctrined all it´s people saying the germans were superior to everyone while entire races were extinct or ensalved?
@@miloschenfeld3301 just wanna say it's Deutschland, not Deutscheland
@yx xy yet better than puppeted by a country that declared itself superior to everyone and wanted to extinct entire races
@@miloschenfeld3301 The lebensraum and mein kampf is a lie too? product of Hollywood?
Sigh, should've guessed someone would turn this joke into a political argument.
Happy Armistice day everyone. May everyone who died in WW1 rest in peace, regardless of their side.
"Well you're an officer from World War One at the South Pole being pursued by an alien through frozen time. Madness was never this good."
"World War One?"
"Judging by the uniform, yes."
"Yes, but what do you mean...one?"
"Oh, sorry. Spoilers"
Is this a Dr. Who reference?
@@silentjustin Yes
@@tbalciunas333 I thought so. Mind telling me which episode I can't seem to remember.
@@silentjustin Twice Upon A Time
@@tbalciunas333 Thank you
"A war always ends in pain, no army left to fight for what comes, no night, no day, all you can do is pray, bombs drop from the sky, I wish I didn't lie, I hoped I be back by Christmas, then the next day I get married, all of that was a lie, now remember, war does not end with shine and glory" -my great grandpa Harvey
there is no such thing as an unwounded solder that has seen war
@@nickblackstone5772 except that one f*cker with the eyepatch
"15 to 20 million, almost half of the dead civilians"
Now that hits very hard...... respect to all the people that lost their lives in this tragic event
💔✊
to all the people who fought for their country, no matter their nationality, we will never forget you
@Complex CR bruh
@Complex CR 🤓
@Complex CR 🤓🤓
@Complex CR 🤓🤓🤓
@@Aklmboo What did complex CR say?
Guess: Except Germans.
the Great War may not have ended all wars, but it ended Chivalry in Warfare. Long gone are the days of Gentlemen Warfare, replaced by Mechanized Beasts, gas and bombs.
Gentleman Warfare was only a thing in a few isolated cases in history (ie China some times before it's first unification)
There was no glory there. It was the Tzars to throwing our lives against gas for a foreign country. In the Great Patriotic war, that was a holy war of good vs Evil, the bear vs the eagle.
@@comradecommissar8223 based
Comrade Commissar I mean, i wouldn’t go *THAT* far.
Lets just say machine guns ended trench raids
My great, great grandfather on my mother's side fought in this war, surviving a mustard attack. My grandfather on my fathers side was an artilleryman in world war 2; my uncle was a marine in Vietnam. I tried to join the army to fight in iraq, but was turned down. So i joined the South Carolina State Guard to try to do my part. 5 generations of military service.
As far back as the Holy Roman Empire's collapse, the Ackermanns have fought for Germany. The family crest is three red rosters on a yellow shield symbolizing the reckless loyalty and stubbornness in attacks. In the Great War, my great great grandfather was a sturmtruppen in the kaiserschlacht. He died from rifle fire a mere three days before the truce and end of the war. My great grandfather served in the German army during the second world war, my grandpa served western Germany during the cold war, and my father the US navy. I hope to join the USMC one day to learn and to honor my heritage. We must always remember the fallen, even as they are not dead, but marching far away.
@@Galen55 my family have fought for Germany for as long as our records go back. Even the Germanic ancestors.
@@Suo_kongque var das vaterland.
Man stay safe just don't join a unit to join war. It's pointless.
Fighting in WW2 and WW1 made sense. In Vietnam your uncle fought for political superiority but Iraq? You'd only be fighting for the profit of some oil company. Not worth it
WW1: The war to end all wars.
WW2: Are you sure about that?
WW3: Hold my beer, I'm incoming, step by step, I am near your borders.
WW3: :P
@@deniszelentsov8582 It actually is nearing, Nuclear weapons, Trump, Kim Jun Un, Putin, Erdogan, Boris Johnson (harmless for now), Maduro, new creepy Brazilian president, lots of dictators in Africa, Phillipines.
Well Nukes when will you drop? (please never drop)
@@AlexGNR I hope we will never do it
*john cena noises*
I like when songs feature a degree of interconnectedness within albums. Like how some of Greenday's American Idiot album had lyrics that referenced some of its other songs. Obviously in this case, because WWI was such a massive nigh-all-consuming conflict, some of the general subjects resurface when mentioning the Great War in this song. But I feel like that just helps hammer home how utterly and hopelessly *nightmarish* this war truly was. When the nature of this song, really, truly sunk in it came out of nowhere. I had listened to this song like 50 times before, but today, I suddenly started getting choked up partway through without knowing why. Then I started getting teary-eyed, and by the end I was without hyperbole crying harder than I had in *years* (with the only other time coming close being, fittingly, rewatching a playthrough of Valiant Hearts: The Great War to the end again) because the emotion of the song just hit me like damn train:
The song is about the end of the war and reflecting on all that had lead up to its end, but the callbacks to other songs help to remind us of all the smaller, more intimate stories of horror in the war. Letting us see the macro scale suffering of the war but with the added _context_ of the micro. The choir and symphonic elements of the song convey a grand sense of scale, but at the same time are reminiscent of one of the lines in "Great War": "Where is this greatness I've been told?! This is the lies that we've been sold!" Which itself was a reference to how prior to WWI war was seen as a Spec Ops: The Line-esque chance for adventure and glory to be seized only rip away those notions out from under them. That grandiose tone fits the scale of the conflict, yet also has an irony to it; that for all the talk of glory that might have preceded the war, the true "accomplishment" was how tremendously widespread the bloodshed and misery the war wrought, yet ultimately solved absolutely *nothing.*
The songs "referenced" by this, "The Future of Warfare", "Attack of the Dead Men" (The lines about gas), and "Great War" felt like little callbacks leading up to the gut-punch. The struggles of an individual or small group of soldiers gives us a micro perspective that shows us how the average person was pulled in by the war's previously unmatched scale. How there was almost no nation on Earth unaffected by it in some way, and how nearly every person who fought was irreversibly changed, or consumed by it entirely. But contrasted against that final tally of "15 to 20 million" it's no longer just a statistic. It's millions upon millions of *individual* stories of people sucked into this maelstrom of war, disease, famine, and death. Millions meeting their unceremonious end drowning in mud, at the hands of a distant sniper, or a slow agonizing death alone in No Man's Land following a failed charge into machinegun fire. Millions of people left with no choice but to fight and die in a war they didn't want. Waring for control over territory so scarred and ravaged by artillery shells that once-fertile forests gave way to horizons populated by nothing but the dead they would soon join and the skeletons of trees. With "almost half of the dead civilian[s]" who didn't even fight but lost their lives _anyway._
The other thing that makes it so overwhelming is the fact that those are just the people who _died._ 10s of millions *more* had to face the ravages of war and then *live* with it until the day they died. With the distinct possibility of having to do so *alone* since the deaths of their friends and family via the Spanish Flu was very much possible given that it was _also_ killing humanity en mass at the time. Even as we reel from the deaths, economic downturn, and crowding of hospitals wrought by Covid-19 today? It looks like the *Common Cold* compared to how devastating and deadly the Spanish Flu was at its peak.
And the final twist in the knife to humanity was that name that was eventually tied to it: "The War to End All Wars." The idea that the war was so terrible, cruel, destructive, and ultimately amounted to nothing but a senseless loss of life that humanity would never bring about such senseless death again... yet did so with even greater malice and efficiency than before.
As a historian. I thank you for typing this.
As a soon-to-be-sailor, I thank you for typing this.
There are no glories to be had at sea, nor glories to be had *anywhere* ashore anyway during any war.
Whether it be on my deathbed 80 years hence, or 20 days forward, I will always remember the Great War.
*We must remember.*
There's no choice in the matter, no sense of duty, nor insipid and arbitrary tie to human history demanding we do so. Should the war be forgotten, be it at the hands of an increasingly WWII-focused curriculum or the onslaught of history-rewriters, we won't remember the sacrifices of so many for what ultimately amounts to so little in historical reflection.
Can we even count them?
*Can we even count the dead?*
For the World Wars, I cannot find an answer that fits within the little box lined out for me by my history books and surface research. You call them statistics because that is what they've become, *statistics.* Numbers subject to opinion and bias and change and never quite concrete. Blood help us all.
@@tyrtex5108 I am a physics student, so numbers are just what I do. Numbers carry a lot of meaning and no meaning at all. Like, we all know that light speed is incredibly fast but it doesn't really carry any meaning for me besides being a number. Our brains aren't really meant to grasp numbers bigger than... 20? maybe 50? You don't ever really _have_ more than 50 of something without wrapping it up in some way (you can have 10.000 grains of rice but at that point you don't say "10.000 grains of rice" anymore). It is incredibly hard to give meaning to numbers. Hence the saying "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic".
I love this song. Because it wraps the abhorrent numbers up in a way that I can grasp. Art is important. Art is what gives meaning and weight to the beauty and the horror of life that pure statistical analysis can't. Art can bridge so many different kinds of gaps, be it cultural or be it in our understanding of things that are almost impossible to grasp in any other way.
And adding upon all this, in tying in to the modern era, is the fact that this SOLVED *NOTHING*! As hindsight knows, it took only *twenty years* for a second war like this to erupt, on a MUCH GREATER scale and with even greater losses of life, thus nullifying the given moniker. Imagine the horror of not only serving in the first war only to end up not only facing something *EVEN WORSE* on the same scale, but to have your own children suffer along with you, maybe even dying because of the mistakes that you had experienced!!!
And only now are we seeing such a renaissance in entertainment works based in the period. With many, if not all, of those who had personally experienced this tragedy dead, only now are we returning to fully understand the consequences and horrors because the actions of the second were in prime focus of our society for decades! We must never forget this tragedy, for everyone should know what becomes of it.
"The future of warfare has dawned" with a tank on the side is such a neat reference, perfection!
"The war to end all wars..." Sadly, this was only the beginning.
Came to watch this on 11/11. Really gives whole new meaning to the term "Heavy Metal". Thank you Sabaton for telling the stories.
Can we all admire how powerful that thumbnail is
I am really happy. UA-cam notified this song, Oops, this art.
This is not art, nor a song, nor a story.
It is perfection
i dont like your name. nobody wants to know that you are "really" happy... maybe we met someday, if you understand
@@Acronym1985 Nice.
Listening to this on November 11th makes me cry…
Great War : *ends*
Some angry austrian : Wanna trouble?? And make it double!!
I would make Japan "and make it double" bit.
Not Japan but Russia/Stalin the make it double bit
Reminder that Russia was collaborant in starting WW2
@@susangoaway it was less of a collaboration, more of a 'if you don't attack me I won't attack you' sort of scenario, however we all how that went.....
@@loganmarriott514 It was though
The Lwów defense line has been broken by Soviet troops, not German troops
@@susangoaway So you're gonna ignore France and UK actions when Germany went to annex Austria and Czech?
Oh yes, so many treaties, and they only talk about the last one, while in fact the western side contributed more in the rise of Nazi regime, as they need something to fight agaisnt communism
Typical western brains
105 years have past. Perfect day to listen this masterpiece once again
November 11th settling the score..
102 years ago today they did just that.
3:15
One poet from my country have verse in one of his songs:
Only the first fallen are spared,
All others are prisoners of nightmares.
Where r u from? Who is the poet?
@@marika421975 Serbia. Đorđe Balašević. Poem is Čovek s mesecom u očima/ The man with the moon in his eyes.
@@yuslaven89 thank u! I will check it out
Lyrics:
Are in the video.
Had us in the first not gonna lie
Good one.
... and in description
And on the captions
And in your head
“November 11th settling the score” what a powerful line
The war to end all wars. Lest we forget
“The year is 1914. A taxi driver took a wrong turn, and now 20,000,000 people are dead.”
Fr
The fact the taxi not only took a wrong turn, but broke down right in front of Gavrilo as he was planning on bailing. Some think that this was not a coincidence, that some unseeable force made this domino effect that would eventually be the cause of both world wars.
@@bobsmoothie6445 I ain’t readin allat
i must admit, this is the first song that has ever given me actual chills and actually emotionally hit me, great job
the pure horror and despair of the great war portrayed through this song, easily one of the greatest sabaton songs of all time
These lyrics really hit hard. That’s all I can really say, I’m just blown away.
Sabaton: *The End of the War to End all Wars drops*
Hitler: I want a sequal.
All of Europe: Hold up.
I want a prequel and be the last us president to lead the marines on the battlefield
@@leafymarmot6348 Prequel Trilogy : War of Spanish Succession, 7 Years War, Napoleonic War
@@MasonGreenWeed oh yeah forgot about them
Hard to imagine but some still wanted new series. Under their pressure America got the Korean and Vietnam War Series.
But I think they did not really like the later, there was much criticism at the end and the show got pretty roasted.
That final chorus ALWAYS sends shivers down my spine. During those seconds I see the story of the whole war flash in front of me, the suffering, the violence, the end of an era. Maybe I consumed too much material about the Great War during the centenary, but damn if that wasn't a seminal event in world history.
Без слезы это не получается слушать, спасибо Сабатон!
This man’s voice in this particular song brings me to tears. It’s a combination of pain and power and it’s beautiful.
I absolutely adore the end of this one, the chorus and climactic feel of it makes it truly feel like the end of an era, the world will never again be the same.
They died for us to live. Lest we forget.
Listening to this, wondering how we never learned
More like russians never learned
@@solitude7585 I support Ukraine, but we can't ignore the fact that NATO is also pushing Russia to act this way, by expanding their border with NATO
@@apyr1439 NATO never ever was a threat to Russia. So blaming NATO for their "expansion" because it's provoking Russia is the same as "NATO is bad because they expanded and now pose a threat to Armenia or Tunis.
@@solitude7585 It is a threat, NATO has more military power than Russia, and are slowly adding more members with borders in Russia, it was just a matter of time before this happened, I'm not aoying Ukraine is to blame, Russia is, though at the same time NATO does have a responsibility
@@apyr1439 dude NATO is defensive alliance. Right god damn now they can't even help Ukraine properly with weapons tf are you talking about?
Even if NATO ever posed a threat to Russia, then now they have awesome chance to attack them, because all russian armies are now in Ukraine and completely doomed, but NATO do nothing.
The article that NATO ever posed a threat to Russia is russian propaganda, how do you think, why countries are want to became a part of NATO? Because they want to be safe because there is a dangerous and imperialistic country right before them - Russia.
Never forget.
even 104 years later
Today they found peace.
Lest we forget
Im still a simple man. I see sabaton, i click on sabaton
simple*
@@localcrazyrussian4511 shit sorry
Alright! If you are here in November 11th 2022 at 11 o'clock, you are a legend.
I'll be editing this for the next ten years.
2022:✔
2023:✔
2024:
2025:
2026:
2027:
2028:
2029:
2030:
2031:
EDIT: I'm still here! See you in November 2024!
you forgot it😢
You reminded me. Thanks@@dakoz3298
@@dakoz3298 It's not yet November 11
This truly is Joakim's masterpiece as he flawlessly blends Heavy Metal with epic Classical Orchestra to tell such a tragic story. This is, imo, one of the most underrated songs in the album if not all of Sabaton.
Allies: We'll blame Germany for this, what's the worst thing that happens?
*21 year later*
Allies: Okay, now THIS is definitely Germany's fault
People n the 21st century: Man, the allies made massive mistakes
thing is quite a few of the stipulations of the treaty of Versailles was because of the rape of belgium and other atrocities where German officers were ignoring or even in complicit in having happen. Germanys blame for the war itself however is completely bullshit, that falls on an arrogant, fat and frankly quite stupid Austria Hungary.
@@norsia1946 Somehow it's OK when Germany places super harsh terms on France (Large Payments, loss of Alsace Lorraine) or Russia (Brest Litwoski, splitting the Russian Empire into various puppet states), but when it happens to Germany it's the Entente's fault.
@@kantaikessen3289 Alsace Lorraine at the time Germany took it had quite large German population, so taking it was kind of justified. However the one with Russia frankly isn't. But can we just agree that WW1 isn't Germany's but Austria-Hungary's fault?
@@kantaikessen3289 France declared war on Germany first (well Prussia and their allied kingdoms). Russia did the same thing, they backed up Serbia and co. So Germany didn't *start* the war. They escalated it. And besides, the pieces Germany sliced off from Russia were either totally not Russian (Poland) or iffy about being Russian in identity (Ukraine and Belarus and the Jewish populations there)
Nobody was in the right in WW1. It was a war about imperialism and the working class got dragged into it for nothing. No more brother war.
Though I like this song a lot, I can't get over the fact it was released less than a hour ago and Sabaton commented a damn month ago.
Captain Obvious for flanders fields watch the comment be like 8 years ago
They probably upload all of the songs in the album on private at the same time, and make them public one at a time.
That's *magic* :3
@@militaryzoned2964 no its a comment
November 11th settling the score
From 15 to 20 million
Almost half of the dead civillian
An new world will dawn from empires fallen
The end of the war to end war
That chorus gives me chills every time, especially the first 3 lines. Makes you really feel, can a war end war?
2:27 The part we were all waiting for
My favorite part
Also 3:34
Tommy)
Serbia and Austro-Hungary start war
“Who did that”
France: Germany
England:Germany
Serbia: Definitely Germany
Germany: Excuse me WTF?!?!?!
Wow, 1k, thanks )
So true! Oh and your profilepicture says that you are a man of culture aswell!!
Basically how the treaty of Versailles was
Well look at Germanic history they like to invade
Jihadi Sultans 2 Considering that you use insults instead of facts, it shows your level of development very well. Germany declared war on the Russian Empire, intervening for Austria. In turn, after France and Germany declared war on each other. I would gladly continue to discuss this topic, but I'm too lazy for it
@@Cassius4 Hmm yes but the kaiser went on vacation right after, that's not really something you do if you expect a war to be honest, and the whole Balkan region was as Bismarck said, "a powder keg" (I think it was him who said it) And if your monarch in that time was just shot dead I'd think most people would want some sort of retribution, granted Austria's ultimatum was kind of impossible to agree on for Serbia.
France wanted territory back,
Italy wanted territory too, which is why they joined the Axis in world war 2 due to them feeling like they got left out of their promises.
It was just a thing that spiraled out of control. Germany invaded Belgium to walk around the French defensive lines, which granted, was a good idea on paper, and it did almost work. The idea was to knock out France before Britan could send troops. because then it wouldn't matter too much if Britan declared war, as they would most likely sue for peace if they were fighting alone in world war 1. Back then they didn't have the tech to make a D-day landing, and if France was defeated, the Germans wouldn't really need to sink American convoys most likely, like France, like Germany is fertile land and it would make it a lot harder for Britan to blockade Germany.
0:00 you are standing there breathing the smoke and having a ptsd flash back
0:41 the artlliery fired and you had a flash back when you are in the war
1:19 you remember can hear sabaton making a music video and start having flashback
2:02 while having the flash back sabaton kept on singing
2:27 you start singing with them
2:42 you had flashback of you running threw trench to trench
3:01 and had a brutal kill montage
3:19 you start singing with them but you are sobbing
3:34 suddenly a ww2 vet help to sing with you at this part
3:50 the entire nursing home help to sing with you as you start to son at the ptsd and the song
4:22 you cried at the end of the song it's the most and beautiful and majestic song you had and your friends pick you up and calm you down
Who knew a single bullet would be able to kill so many people.
Oh damn that kinda made me really sad.
"How peculiar that a single bullet can trigger such a chain of events..." (intro to this song on the history version of the album)
@@tigeriusmaximus9297 Never listened to that version before. Is it good?
@@rockythesnailracechampion7144 Its the same music, but every song has its own intro, except ... (i guess you know which one doesnt need one)
@@tigeriusmaximus9297 In Flanders Fields?
Had to listen to this today, just watched the new All Quite on the Western Front and man watching that movie on today on Nov 11th and then listing to this just hits differently
"November 11th - settling the score... From 15 to 20 million, almost half of the dead civilian. It's the end of the war to end war..."
Really powerful and tragic when you consider with hindsight that no, it was not the war to end all war and as tragic as the death toll was, the lessons went unlearned...
World War 2 would be histories most deadly war, 30 years later, claiming 85 million lives.
We must remember the 15-20 million lives lost, we must remember that we failed to heed the lessons of the past and we must remember the consequence - 85 million - if we do not.
"The war to end all wars"
Some artist with a funny moustache: Hold my beer
ViridianBlue Treaty of Versailles ensures there world be WW2. It was all by design. Ww2 was bigger than just the Austrian Painters fault.
If it wasn't Hitler then it'd be someone else. Stalin maybe. WW2 was inevitable. Even some WW1 generals knew what was coming, hell, one even predicted the start of the war would come 20 years after the end of the first one.
Samuel Lennon Albert Pike?
NEIN! NEIN! NEIN! NEIN!
1904: "I'm gonna become a famous artist."
1939: "I'm gonna invaid Poland."
Lest We Forget.
Lest we forget... Thank you for making such great music that helps to learn history.
In 1914: this war to end all wars
In 1939: ah shit, here we go again
When I first listened the line "almost half of them civilian" hit me so hard I cried.
С визуалом песни намного тяжелее и ближе воспринимаются, словно прочувствовал их, побывал там, прожил то время. Спасибо большое Сабатон.
1:34 sabaton makes references to its own song
Hahahahahahahahabahahahwahhwhebdn3nejdicjdenenxxor9393eicdjrnens a jensnd8dj helpdu3bdnxjee8d in nd please eudne help w,adidd9help dje 2basike me djenennenrnrnrjdif
spoopy turtle no
@@JohnWayneHildebrand [Deleted]
Pretty much every artist starts doing that once their catalogue of songs gets large enough.
@Adolf Hitler could you not
It’s crazy how everyone in those photos and video camera clips are dead, and the last of them died only a few years ago, it’s sort of haunting
And soon, the same will be for the last of the Second World War’s veterans, and victims, including my grandmother, who survived the Holocaust
It’s sad that one day, all that we will have to remember them are photos, clips, and videos of old veterans, and I guess movies, books, documentaries and video games I guess
I feel like everyone says that about these two wars because we know their names and we have pictures of them, and videos, looking at the last few wars before that, and I mean major wars like the civil war, we don’t have that, we have paintings, we have photos and portraits of generals and leaders, we have locations and reinactors, but we don’t have pictures and videos like this, here we can see the humanity in the eyes of every single man who looks into that camera in any of those group photos, and that’s why it’s haunting when we realize sooner or later, that man who is in that photo will be dead, wether he died in a battle afterwards or of old age
Lest we forget
We are one of the last generations that can talk to the veterans of WWII. We should not lose the opportunity like we did with WWI.
Lest we forget
This war on it's own changed the course of history for who knows how long.
Lest we forget
This is by far my most favourite Sabaton song ever! Awesome!
"No matter who wins or loses a war, humanity will always lose"
Earth is a Game with different Species but Humans discovered that friendly fire is on.
@@mistercomment8060 I know your comment is 2 years old but ants commit genocide on other ant colonies *every day* so we are surprisingly one of the less self destructive species out there.
The side that wants to protect the vulnerable, is the side that should win.
103 years ago, the war has ended. Lest we forget
What traumatic end to such a timeless album. Very sobering to learn so many lives lost. Rest In Peace to the fallen.
The drop into metal with that photo was.... just.... man I just can't
These times are why we need guys like you talking about the horrors of war. Never stop doing what you do!
The craziest thing of the great war is how much changed from the start of it to the end
The first airplane was just created
Many people at the time still expected to fight with cavalry and swords
Cars were relatively very new and kinda bad
The first machine gun, the Maxim Gun was developed only about 3 decades prior
And many expected it to be some great journey to prove themselves, a conflict that would end quickly
It began in 1914 and ended 4 years later in 1918
Just in four short years the world changed drastically, what started as a small conflict in the balkans resulted in millions of people from every corner of the world reaching to the American continent, Siberia, New Zealand, Australia, India, all being sent to fight in the great war.
The war evolved so quickly that what was being used at the end of it would be barely recognizable to what the beginning of it was. Horses and cars were replaced with metal behemoths called tanks, the newly invented airplanes turned into massive bombers and fighters, and all kinds of horrors like the poisonous gas and massive airships
This was truly *THE FIRST*
Lest we forget.
Listening to this on November 11 at 11:00
the snap into action after the beginning part sounds like boss music
This is my favorite song
Great to read that!
Me too I love how powerful it is
If anybody's wondering about the thumbnail picture, its called "Gassed" from painter John S. Sargent (painted 1918). It depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack.
The choir part sounds so good. I can't stop listening to it❤
3:34-4:06 is my favorite part of the song, I like replaying that part
Same here
Watching this November 11th 2023. I plan to return every year henceforth
Каждый раз, переслушивая эту песню, я думаю :" Как??? Как мы снова до этого докатились??? Под весëлое улюлюканье зажравшихся чинуш молодые ребята снова идут становится палачами...
Ничего, всех палачей скоро денацифицируют. А ещё лучше, трибунал.
Google translate makes it seem like you guys are having a stroke
Согласен
Как Израиль посмел убивать людей в Секторе Газа?!
@@ОзорнойГуляка-м6у sho?
@@VeNoMjek, трибунал, родной, трибунал.
"Those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it."
-Winston Churchill
The cruel irony of the title “The War to End All Wars…”
Notice when the starting music is so calm and then the fierce music begins?
This song still remains a fucking masterpiece, the ultimate boss battle and a horrifying reflection of the tragedy of WWI (and 2, technically)
Sabaton never disappoints!
Watching on november 11th...i feel the losses..the devestation..the 20 year truce