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- I take a first look and listen to this famous Sabaton song about Rommel's 7th Panzer division as they invade France at the beginning of WWII. The video though...goes off on some weird tangents. But I still learned a lot and enjoyed the song. If you enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe!
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"Stormtrupper" was a Prussian thing, not "nazi". It mean "assault soldier"
the term "storm trooper" or "sturm trupen" was coined in wwi late war when Germany started using highly mobile shock troop units to conduct raids in enemy trenches... as far as i can remember... my history is a little rusty too, and i do believe this happened in 1940 when France was first invaded, and in wwi Germany never broke through the Maginot line. the knights cross predated "they who shall not be named" by almost 100 years and it was basically their highest military honor
th-cam.com/video/dslO-3GgenY/w-d-xo.html you should really react to this one.
Sabaton - No bullets fly
It's an animated music video with a short story at the start.
If you don't want to spoil it don't watch the history lesson for this, only after you watched this.
@@peterz7752 was going to suggest the same
The name Stormtroopers was used by German troops in the First World War which were specially trained to infiltrate trench defences, so this predates the Nazis
As too how popular culture things would go over....Volkswagen seems to be doing fine
@@JohnDoe-xz1mw as Hugo Boss who did the SS uniform or some others...
Also was given to Canadian and Australian troops (in WWI) for their effective trench raids.
@@Comissar_Carolus didnt mention that because the name is not a nazi "invention", while vw kinda is but fanta counts
@@Comissar_Carolus Hugo boss did not design the SS uniform he only produced them.
@ 16:55 - If you're still wondering, "Anglais" is French for "English". The French officers had approached Rommel asking hopefully that he was the British and not in fact the invading Germans. 😂😂
Because of Anglo-Saxons. Angalais, Anglo...
Well you know, americans🥴
French: anglais?
Random men:......Nein.......
Panic in french
german command: proceed with caution and probe the enemy.
Rommel: WHAT? I CANT HEAR YOU BACK THERE! **vroom vroom**
He probed and probed and probed, and then he probed back....
The "Knight's Cross" is a superiour variant of the standard medal of valor, the "Iron Cross". As with most of these accolades, it has a complicated structure and history.
i believe its full name is 'the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross'
11:16 bullets arent lit when fired, it is a special round called a tracer its basically a small amount of phosphorous or magnesium coating on the rear of a bullet so that when the powder goes off, it ignites it and causes that tracer effect to see where you are shooting, whether at night or while in a plane these are very useful, but not every round is a tracer most of the time its 1 tracer every 4 regular rounds, so multiply what you see on screen by 4 and then it helps visualize how many rounds are going down range.
It's pretty show. Especially when the ammunition bounces off obstacles and only then you see how many ricochets can fly in the air and on which sides.
This.
Multiply it by 4 for real number of bullets
bullets, shells with a phosphorus cap on them, as bullets/shells escape the barrel or cannon, the cap would open aswell, phosphor lights up when in contact with oxygen, pretty brilliant if if you ask me.
Is the goal indeed to see where you are shooting, since it also shows where you are located. I've never shot a gun but I would think you aim in the direction where you want to shoot? I dont know anything about it but I think the psychological effect of seeing everything flying is also a major part of it?
@@codex4046 In part, yes. In battle, you have stimuli coming from all sides. Adrenaline, fear, your senses become sharper. Although everyone experiences it in a different way. You hear the exchange of fire, shouting ... I had a problem that my ears were constantly buzzing because there was shooting from all sides. And at night, tracers gives a special effect, especially when yours flies more towards them than theirs towards you.
They mentioned in this video Rommel also fought in ww1 don’t know if you caught that part. Ww1 is called the Great War.
the irony being he spent alot of ww1 fighting italians, and then ended up working with them in ww2
@@matthiuskoenig3378 that was prob a awkward conversation
l'anglais - means English - The French soldiers were asking if Rommel was English. They didn't expect a German tank force to be behind them and there was a lot of chaos, so mistakenly thought/assumed these tanks were from the British army.
The Maginot line was built in the 1920s, in the same area as the frontline of the Great War. The fortifications weren't there, soldiers died in the trenches instead. If you want a harrowing Sabaton episode, check out the Attack of the Dead Men.
There is also 'Price of a Mile' by Sabaton history.
This was May 1940 and the start of the Blitzkrieg on Belgium,Holland and France.Rommel and the 7th Panzer Division were part of the spearhead of the Manstein plan attacking through the Ardennes in Luxembourg (previously thought impassable for tanks) and eventually reaching the Channel coast near Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme river.
I was hoping they would have continued a bit longer with his story. As he still had that event where he ends up running into the British Division, and his exaggerated reports back to Germany, freaks out the commanders there which sort of leads to a bit of hesitation come Dunkirk. But now that I think about it, that is in a way a whole different story.
As a Swedish dude I kind of died inside when I heard her pronunciation of Joakim.
Yes thats Joakim 😀
That 'last 10-15 mins' was because Indy asked Joakim ''what is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about the song'', the first thing that came to his mind in relation to it was obviously the epiphany about being a musician full time he had when playing it early in his career. Then the conversation took its turn from there lol. Indy didn't actually ask for a song breakdown 😄
'Winged Hussars' or 'Attack of the Dead Men' next? 😁
The Stormtroopers were originally deployed in WW1. The German military just used them again in WW2.
Old but they werent used in ww2. They were disbanded in 1923.
The ww2 version of the stormtroopers was probably the waffen-ss
11:07 That is not every round you can see, those are only the tracer rounds.
I think every fifth round was a tracer, so there are four rounds you dont see.
Yes it was every 5th round in any machine gun/anti air gun, just so you have some feedback on where the heck you are aiming at.
Others already mentioned the tracer rounds, so let me bring something else: Rommel spoke french, so when he talked to the french and ordering them to stand down (basically bluffing) he did that in french. Oh and his troops had Anti Aircraft guns with them. But used them against tanks pretty successfull. (in his whole race westwards, the AA guns saved their behind several times.)
StormTroopers were NOT Nazis, they were from WW1 and were elite assault troops famously used to lead the September Offensive towards the end of the war - surprising the Allies and nearly winning the whole thing!
This is the Battle of France in 1940, which culminated in British evacuation and French defeat.
The Maginot Line (named for War Minister Andre Maginot) was intended to prevent a German advance like WWI by fortifying the French border. The Germans had gained vast tracts of French territory in WWI, and fought a four-year war before being defeated, The bulk of French troops were either manning the Maginot line, or in Belgium trying to stem the attacks there, and the reserves could not be deployed in time to counter Rommel's advance.
Rommel is depicted wearing the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, not quite the Congressional Medal of Honour, but not bad at all.
"Anglais," is French for English. Knowing he wasn't French, they thought he was one of their British allies.
You should check out a live performance of Ghost Division in Poland. Polish people rocking out to a song about German panzer squad and loving it. That's what's great about Sabaton. That you can enjoy their song and celebrate great leaders/ soildiers/ battles etc without taking sides nor making it political. And don't forget that very few of the German soldiers was Nazis. Most of them was just regular soldiers fighting for their country. The "normal" soldiers in alot of cases disliked the nazis.
"Civil War" has multiple former members of Sabaton and their entire discopgraphy is based on American History and Conflicts, mostly the American CIvil war.
Powerwolf is a different style of band, but most of their music is inspired by the European Middle Ages and the mythical stories from back then. Powerwolf has their own story where each band member has a persona from Romania/Transylvania in the middle ages, and they describe their music as more of a "heavy metal mass", as it revovles so much around the folk tales, myths and legends, mixed with the religious aspects of the middle ages. Powerwolf is really good if you want to learn where many of the English sayings about the dead, and where the different types of monsters come from.
Most monsters comes from Romania, just ask Dracula (Transylvania is a region of Romania).
Civil Wars entire discography is not based on the Civil War or American history at all, what are you smoking? They only have a few songs about American History and like one or two about the Civil War, and others are just about random mostly European history and events.
The way you did this reaction is the exact way I approach their music. It brings a whole new way to listen to the artist and understand what and why they did the song. Thank you for the great video.
Finally I’ve been waiting for sabaton so long. :)
The Knight's Cross was a special grade of the iron cross during World War II. In fact it was a medal of valour.
The Iron Cross was an military decoration of Prussia and Germany until 1945. Today the symbol of the iron cross is the badge of the german armed forces
it must be mentioned it was first issued in 1813-17 during the wars of liberation against Napoleon. it was then recommissioned in 1970 and then made untill 1945, there was also a de-nazified version made in the 50s to allow german veterans to legally wear their medals (as nazi insignia was and is illegal in germany)
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!
6:05 they said it in the first few minutes this is 1940 when Germany invaded France.
6:58 stormtroopers is from ww1 not ww2 so I don’t know how Star Wars would get it from ww2?
During ww1 Germany had specific special units referred to as stormtroopers.
Thank you! "Sturmtruppen" in german.
@@tigeriussvarne177 just don’t want things that are related to ww1 to get confused with ww2.
Ich kann ein bisschen deutsch sprechen.
@@melkor3496 I found speaking some German, in Germany, led to being asked if I was Dutch as everyone knows English speakers do not speak languages. I speak French too, but my Yorkshire accent!
@@melkor3496 Sehr gut sogar. Yeah, i hate it when people confuse those two, too.
Both german speaking countries of WW1 had the them under the same name.
But as far as i know, the term was also used in germany after WW1. So George Lucas can claim any time between the middle of WW1 until the end of WW2 to be the origin/reason for it's use in his work i guess.
love that you react to the history first.
Basically, the Stormtrooper idea is the basis on which modern armies today work. Smaller combat units move on the battlefield using cover and suppressing fire to find weak points in the enemy lines. When confronted with a strongpoint, enemy MG position for example, the Assault Unit would bypass it and leave it for other units to deal with. Rommel used this idea for his Panzer movement. Instead of attacking a strong defence, he let his units bypass it to take ground. The strongpoint may be dealt via the Luftwaffe or Artillery or the troops at these strongpoints may consider surrendering by understanding they are cut off rather than fight to the death. The reference Indi makes towards the Maginot Line is not about the bunker complex. He referred to the french trench lines and French Forces not being breached aka broken through. In 1940 one decisive attack broke through where 25 years earlier millions of shells and hundredthousands of dead could not.
Nice to see you again!
The ones you see at 10:35 am are not ordinary bullets, they are only tracer bullets and are a World War I invention
Well normally every fifth bullet loaded is a tracer so there are more bullets you can only see the tracers
18:19 The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross is somewhat of an analogue to the US Medal of Honor with few important differences.
-Unlike the MoH which, as far as I know, has no higher commendation, the Knights Cross had a ranking system attached to it - Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. These would sort of be like upgrades over time in military service.
- Furthermore, while any rank could earn the simple Cross for bravery and exceptional valour in battle similar to the MoH, those subsequent upgrades were almost exclusively reserved for officers and commanders as the main criteria for winning it was extraordinary leadership. Rommel won them over the course of the North Africa campaign between 1941-1943, one each year, because while the campaign failed overall, over its course he had given the British and later Americans serious trouble with how he commanded the Afrika Corps
- The only exception to the officer upgrade rule of the Cross was for German pilots who got their upgrades for it the higher their kill count was even if they were only enlisted men. I'm a little unclear on the reasoning for it but I think it's because very skilled pilots eventually end up as squadron leaders so in that position the leadership criteria start to apply on top of their own personal kill count
You only see the bullets because they’re tracer ammunition, which is used to help aiming with machine guns.
Normal bullets aren’t visible and typically the bullets are mixed, thus for every tracer bullet that you see there’s most likely going to be at least one normal bullet that you don’t see.
The tracer bullets contain pyrotechnic charges that create a certain color (e.g. green, white, red,…) and thus you see where your bullets are landing.
P.S.
You can see the tracer rounds also during daytime, but of course it’s more impressive during the night.
usually mg belts have tracer every forth..many mixes loaded upp for various purposes witthe last 5 or so being tracers to warn the gun crew to get the next belt ready to load.... and riflemen leaders will sometimes use a stanag mag load of tracers for directing spotted targets.
Hello Sogal and Roger. I quite enjoyed this one as I could imagine myself playing with my toy German tank and plastic figures to it as a small kid.
7:00 stormtroopers were a German innovation in WW1, though I got into a disagreement in Great War comments, where I tried to say they were not that novel, as chosen men existed in Napoleon's time as per Sharpe. They were not a Nazi invention, though they make good WW2 film baddies, especially with a British actor as evil officer commanding.
11:00 Your fireworks background showing again - it is striking seeing night battles like this.
The Maginot Line was a WW2 thing. A scaled up version of the defensive WW1 lines you were surprised at in a Great War video. The French did not want to sacrifice another generation in head on attack and opted for strong defense. Rommel smashed through the top corner where it met the Benelux countries. The advance was unlike the fighting the stormtroopers in WW1 did as their advances were on foot, a bit at a time. Only the British had anything near this in WW1, right at the last 100 days. The French were therefore equally taken aback by the speed of this advance as they based their defense on WW1.
I stayed for a short time with the family of a German ex soldier who fought under Rommel in North Africa. It felt a bit odd with my uncle having fought there too, though he just took my hand, feeling it was something in common. I asked if the soldiers looked up to Rommel as much as the British believed and he said they did. Rommel was much admired as a good soldier and officer by the British.
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I think the whole "invention" was that the germans started selecting and training people specifically for trench raids in an organized manner, establishing a training standard. And shared that with their allies to the south (who also started doing that)
That were the Sturmtruppen/Stormtroopers: specifically trained trench-raiding/fast-sneaky-night-attack infaterists working in group sized formations (a group being 8-10 soldiers)
Sure in Napoleonic times people got chosen for special asignements, but i don't know that they were specially trained as additional kind of an infantery category.
This took a turn, but I'm glad for it!
Belgian viewer here, sabaton also has a song about called "resist and bite" about a Belgian devison that slowed the germans in the Ardennes.
Musicians, we do ramble on...
And yes, definitely was a keyboard/synth
Their end of album blooper episodes are the best. Super funny stuff
History with a beat!
Ghost Division is an older song from a period (before 2012) when they had a dedicated keyboard player in the group.
That's why some of the older tracks have a keyboard solo instead or in combination with a guitar solo.
Since then, when they play those songs live, the solos are replaced with guitar solos.
@@jeffbudd7678 Well, Daniel Mÿhr might disagree, since he played the keyboard from 2005 to 2012. He was also on stage at Wacken 2019 when they brought the past members back playing both stages, and it looked very much like he brought the keyboard with him.
I believe ghost division is mostly there in the concerts to fire the crowd up. It’s always the opening song. I think it’s also a much better live song than a song just listening to since the bands high energy matches the energy of the song. It makes it worth watching.
1/2 left,watch my tracer or different call,diff colours for diff meanings light up 20-40 yards after fired to alert mukkas to target seen
pretty like fireworks,surprisingly calming
@13:10 he's referencing the massive trench networks that were build during ww1. The maginot line itself was a ww2 defensive line build in the interwar years with the goal of delaying the germans enough so the main army could be mobilised.
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11:40 Most of the bullets you see at night are tracer bullets, those are made to be seen for multiple reasons like helping allies to see where you are firing, help you track your own line of fire or even guess when the end of the magazine is near.
While I don't dislike Ghost Division, it is one of the less interesting Sabaton songs IMO. The parts of their catalogue I enjoy the most are the songs dealing with heroism, sacrifice or unity in the face of adversity.
The Swedish version of "A Lifetime of War", especially the Gothenburg live performance you can find on TH-cam, is a real tear-jerker, "No Bullets Fly" is a very powerful story from WW2. "Union (Slopes of St. Benedict)" is a song in part about the Battle of Monte Cassino, and part about the many nations making up the western allies standing side by side, shoulder by shoulder fighting together against evil. "Hearts of Iron" and "The Last Battle" are two songs about German soldiers doing the right thing near the tail end of WW2. There are of course many more but these are some of my favorites.
PS: If you ever decide to check out No Bullets Fly, do check out the animated story video of it. It provides great context.
Fall Gelb started on 10th May 1940.
Stormtroopers are the basis of all modern infantry units and tactics, the man credited with the invention of elite shock troops in the Great War was a General Von Hutier who's tactics stressed the importance of speed, surprise and lots of controlled aggression.
check out the live from woodstock polen from 2012... 550.000 people... just amazing...
what rommel meant was that the German troops were stuck in trenches fighting french (and british) in the same area for 4 years before, and this time they simply broke through in a matter of days. They just did it.
Also you don‘t see all rounds at night, only tracer rounds which are specifically engineered to ignite when fired. Standard infantry almost never uses tracer rounds, mashin egun belts usually hold one tracer per 3 or 5 rounds.
Having tracers is supposed to help you aim at night, but having too many or only these would quickly turn into a disadvantage as the enemy can also see them and easily determine where they are fired from
You need to react to En livstid i krig by Sabaton. Live in Gothenburg with closed captions. It's about the thirty years war.
When you take Pervitin into consideration, the expression speed junkies takes a sudden literal turn. 🤣
I am not sure if it was made with synth or an actual instrument, but what you spotted as synth sounded like a theremin, an old electric instrument where you control the sound by moving your hand above the device causing disturbances in an magnetic field.
On the Final Solution there are bigger parts played with it.
Yhe video includes several tanks which had not been created as the time such as the Tigers I and II.
Germany: Stop, don't go further.
Rommel: Ha ha, tank go brrr.
France: Wot?
Germany: Wot?
Regarding your question on "storm troopers". the term "storm troopers" is not specifically a Nazi term for their soldiers. its just a name for specific German units originating in WW1 who were tasked with assaulting enemy positions, the term just simply carried over towards WW2. Storm troopers is just another one of many in which Lucas's Star Wars very clearly took ideas from history, specifically ancient Rome and Nazi Germany.
they also called canadians and others stormtroopers. its more general use for hard ass assaulters or stormers or storm troopers whp storm a position like a storm probably during a storm... swap assault for storm it still works.
storm troopers is a reference to storming a position quick as a storm and perhaps during a storm as in wind rain thunder lightning or snow... we canadians are or where used to crappy weather so made great storm troopers during the great war and others. even now I am unbotherred by weather that keep others inside. I can work through a storm... nothing new. and the word storm is a synonym for assault or attack. but indicates also that the position is being taken like a storm takes and changes ground.
The Stormtrooper divisions were formed during WW1, but were still used during WW2. Sturmtruppen are likely the most recognized type of division during WW1, as it was those division that the Allies met when the Germans attacked.
nope, they were never division strength, and they were not used in ww2. western media have often incorrectly labeled ww2 german and nazi troops as storm troopers but they were never called that by the germans. even the men of storm battalions were called storm-battalion men instead of troopers (mann in the 30s vs truppen in ww1)
Ghost division has to do a Rommel and the 7th Panzer Division that crashed through the Adine in the Battle of France 1940 ( 7th Panzer Division push through and advance faster than was expected )
Knights cross: There were three versions of the Iron Cross, the Knights Cross being the highest one. 'Oak Leaves', 'Swords' and 'Diamonds' were given as upgrades to the Knights Cross. The Knights Cross was looked at as at the Medal of Honour or the Victoria Cross. But it was given for deeds, which not only required valour, but also had greater influence on war or needed a great skill of leadership. Well, the Nazis established a quite complicated system of honours with medals and badges for a thousand things. It was one of there ways to sustain power. For WW II it is enough to remember the Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz) (with 1st, 2nd class and the Knights Cross (Ritterkreuz)), the 'Nahkampfspange' (Close-Combat-Clip in bronze, silver, and gold) and the "Verwundetenabzeichen" (a black oval badge for receiving an injury; pretty much like the Purple Heart) in three classes again.
That's tracer rounds lighting up the night sky during combat.
Details on the Maginot Line are on Wikipedia. In the link : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line
So, a little background information about the Wehrmachts "7th Panzer Division". As you probably know, befor Germany invaded France they have invated Poland. The Poland invasion was done by the "Light Divisions". A "Light Division" was the german name for light tank divisions. After the Poland invasion the "Light Divisions" were re-classified into "Panzer Divisions".
The "7th Panzer Division" was before a part of the "2nd Light Division" which has invaded Poland.
Screaming Eagles is the hardest charging Sabaton Song IMO.
There is a lot more flying around than what you see in night photos. Only every few rounds is a tracer round made to light up like that. And I doubt rifle rounds at the time had any tracers because that would not help. So basically all you see is every 3-5 machine gun rounds. The idea was to help the shooter see where rounds are going so with a weapon only able to fire 5-8 times before a reload it wouldn't be practical.
The knights cross is the german version of the 'medal of honor'
The Iron Cross was in use during WW1 and implemented by Kaiser Wilhelm. It was the equivalent of the US Medal of Honor. Upon entering WW2 the medal was redesigned and multiple tiers were added along with a new version to replace Iron Crosses that solider who fought in both wars may have been awarded. For WW2 there is the Iron Cross first class, Iron Cross second class and the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knights Cross was the highest honor a nazi soldier could be awarded and was worn around the neck, under the shirt collar, as shown in the picture they showed. The first class and second class were pinned to the tunic with the second class being attached to a ribbon (if the recipient had also won an Iron Cross in ww1 the ribbon would also have a clasp featuring the Nazi Eagle and the year 1939 being grasped by the eagles talons. The first class was simply pinned through the soldiers tunic and had several different pin backs depending on the manufacturer. Germany continued using a tiered medal system for the majority of its awards including the War merit cross, the German Mothers Cross and so forth.
The French had some forts along the frontier before WWI. During the war they dug trenches and built defences, but it was between the wars they went to town and created a comprehensive system. It wasn't considered necessary to extend it through the Ardennes forest as it would be too difficult to push an army through the. Guess where the Germans attacked? But as the video explain's, it was a small mobile force that penetrated there, not a whole army. It was enough.
As for "Stormztoopers" - it's complicated.
They descent from General von Hurtier's assault battalltions in the Great War - mobile smal, company level or below all (infantry) arms formation, equipped with carbines, tons of handgrenades, high cap pistol-carbines, later the initial submachine-guns, trench clubs and knives acting independent of hifher command on initiative.
Those where the spearheads of the 1918 "Kaiserschlacht" which almost won the war in the west.
As they bleed themselfes dry in the advance this didn't occur, but the style remained and was cultivated in the interbellum.
Similar tactics became everyone's smal unit tactics after the War so they don't seem special *today* .
The NSDAP later called it's street brawling wing of polotical hooligans stormtrooprs which, like everything they touched, sullied the phrase..,
Also... the *Knight's Cross* is the higher officers version of the *Iron Cross* . It eventually came in a couple of higher grades, signified by their, pardon me, "bling-level":
With Oak Leaves
With Oak Leaves and Swords
With Oak Leaves Swords and Diamonds
With *Golden* Oak Leaves Swords and Diamonds (awarded only once to figher ace Hans-Ulrich Rudel)
Hope this was helpful.
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
its not so mutch bleeding dry but that there was no centralised effort after the breackthrough which allowed the allies to recover and counter attack. its why ww2 german tactics so heavy focused on well 'focus-points' (schwerpunkt) in their doctrine. to ensure such wasted breakthroughs would never happen again.
also the SA were never stormtroopers, they were storm battalions (sturmabteilung) and their men were called storm battalion men (Sturmabteilung-mann) not stormtroopers (sturm/stosstruppen), its allied media that dumbed them stormtroopers because storm-men and storm-battalion-men don't sound as threatening.
True.
In both cases.
I honestey admit to have unintentionally reproduced Allied media perceptions and terminology in spite of better knowlege.
I blame the late time of the day! Erm, yes! Totally!😉
I also should have mentioned that the failure of the 1918 offensive was operational and strategic, not tactical.
Though I maintain the fact that the assaukt formations depleted themselfs substantially in the initial breakthrough operations (Citino, Robert M. in "The German Way of War").
I would also like to add that the offensive was rather typical of the Prussian/German preference for Bewegungskrieg to either acheive instant operational succes to a degree that it nulliefies strategic considerations by a devestating victorey and subsequently fails to maintain the strategic initiative should it fail.
It's a pattern we see again and again from the Silesian Wars up to the World Wars and it's also present in the Cold War era planing for a "super Kursk" of theater wide extremely fast, flowing operations to blunt the Soviet thrust come hell or high water, further conaiderations where unneccessary anyhow, given the strategic damocles sword of tactical and probably later strategic nuclear strikes...
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
If you like some more choir stuff they do more of that in The Last Stand, it has some nice church influence but still that power metal.
Storm troopers were initially part of the spearhead Prussian units in WW1 (Sturmtruppen). In the 20s and 30s the SA became the new storm troopers (Sturmabteilung). These were a paramilitary political unit causing terror and mayhem during elections in Weimar Germany. Eventually Hitler brought the SA under the wing of the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) or National Socialist German Workers' Party after assassinating all the key leaders including Ernst Roehm it’s leader. The SA came under the umbrella of Himmler’s SS (Schutzstaffel) ‘protection squad’. Under Himmler they were regimented and brought under control. Storm troopers generally were the military units under the Wehrmacht (German Army), and the SA called themselves this though they weren’t necessarily part of the army.
Importen to this - Pervetin, Communication and hight riscs
The Iron Cross is a cross symbol typically in black with a white or silver outline that originated after 1219 when the Kingdom of Jerusalem granted the Teutonic Order the right to combine the Teutonic Black Cross placed above a silver Cross of Jerusalem.
The Iron Cross was used as the symbol of the German Army from 1871 to March/April 1918, when it was replaced by the bar cross. The Iron Cross was reintroduced as an award in the German Army in 1939 with a Swastika added in the center during the Third Reich in World War II. In 1956, the Iron Cross resumed its German military usage, as it became the symbol of the Bundeswehr, the modern German armed forces. The traditional design is black and this design is used on armored vehicles and aircraft.
Iron Cross of the first class, iron cross of the 2 class and iron cross, of the knights cross, with golden oak leafs.
Still wait for the why France five republic one
The Stormtroopers were a specific special force from the German army that were developed at the end of WW1. They used new tactics and even the first bullet proof west invented by Germans. The idea was Aggressiveness, Speed and Deadlines so they were the best of the best and not normal infantry. They were supposed to get around enemy trenches and clean them up.
Also a cool fact that they had new tactics that still many countries use today. So they were very modern like everything what the Germans invented and did ;-)
And yes they were a great inspiration for the Star wars Stormtrooper.
It takes place at the beginning of the war when they first invaded france
The knights cross is the highest version of the Iron cross. An American equivalent of the Knights cross would be the Medal of Honor.
Well actually they dont see all the bullets at night only the tracers which was 1 in 4 on each belt.
2:20 into your video they state the time and date of the offensive. 05:30 AM May 10 1940.
7th panzer division, the "Ghost division"... fed by your dread, armed by my country(at the time Czechoslovakia) - they largely used Pz.38(t), originally LT vz.38, a Czechoslovak light tank, which they got straight from production line when they occupied Czechoslovakia and established Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
16:56, anglais, english. They asked if they were their english allies.
At the noght clip those are tracers and thats not allla the bullets its maybe the third or fourth bullet from the belt!
Please do Attack of the dead men
"The Ghost Division" or "what if Germans became Cossacks"
to be fair its basically standard (especially light) cavalry tactics
As you talked about Starwars, I doubt it is a coincidence that Hoth is the ice planet, and Hermann Hoth is a german general the figured here.
The stormtroopers were actually first formed during WW1, not WW2. They were used for breaking through heavily defended enemy trenches which couldn't be taken by regular German infantry. Stormtroopers were used in WW2 but they're better associated with the trench raiders of the Great War
Hey could you please do a reaction of The Final Solution by Sabaton, of course the song and the history channel. I could even propose that you could try to listen to the song first and then watch the video, because (maybe it's just my opinion) but those small parts of the song ruin the surprise and overall reaction during the original song, cuz you kind of know how the song will sound.
I would love to see you watch the whole channel and do reactions since I love TimeGhost, Sabaton and your interesting reactions + opinions. As a Pole I choose The Final Solution because its a important topic about the mass genocide in Polish territory of Poles, Polish Jews and more unwanted groups or ethnicities. It's also not only about the Jews since most of them if not almost all were Polish and they lived here. The Polish country lost the biggest percentage of their population during WW2, around 15% so every 7 people, 1 has died then. It's a hard topic but thats why I would love to see your take since I personally love the song and the tragedy it wants to tell. It has that Sabaton vibe but it still makes it so tragic and serious rather than upbeat which imo is absolutely great. Love your reactions!
Already been said to exhaustion probably, but Stormtroopers, or Strumtruppen, were first conceived in mid-late WW1. They would however go on to influence bewegungskrieg, lit. Maneuver Warfare, and what English speakers call Blitzkrieg. However, the Nazis cannot claim ownership of the development of bwegungskrieg. IIRC, the first experiments with bewegungskrieg-like tactics in Germany were in the 1920s. Hitler wouldn’t launch his successful coup, yes there had been one other in the mid 20s, until 1933, by which point quite a bit of work had gone into the development of bewegungskrieg and the thought process accompanying it. Interestingly enough, another German tactical doctrine, auftragstaktik or mission type tactics, would be so effective it would influence the doctrine of the US, UK, and basically any NATO member.
Pretty sure that all your questions have already been answered so just a comment for the algorithm.
yes this is the begining 1940 before north africa. also the ghost division was not deployed North Africa, it was sent to Russia, Rommel was promoted and given a different set of units for that operation.
also storm troopers are named after ww1 german troops not nazis, the nazis never had troops officially called storm troopers (that is infact an allied nickname for them based on ww1 germans. just like the allied nickname for ww2 german machineguns was inhereited from ww1)
the maginot line didn't exist in ww1 but it was built in the same effective area the french had a ton of fortresses in ww1 (not far from the german-french border), infact one of the major battles of ww1 was fought at one such fortress on the meuse river (verdan)
The events took place in May 1940. When the Germans assaulted France and the low countries. The blitzkrieg.
They came up with stormtroopers in WWI. They were the assault troops whose job it was to crack open the defences. They would leave isolated strong point's, prisoners, casualties or any other distractions to the followin troops. Their aim was to keep going. The term was also used in WWII and most people associate it with that conflict now.
Anglais is French for English. The French troops, seeing the unfamiliar uniform, were asking who this commanding figure was.
( I have read that the term Yankee might be a corruption of the word. The native Americans heard it being used by the French colonial's about the English settlers, and adopted it as a description of the new arrivals on the continent. )
Fighting at night is pretty risky. I've done night exercises, it's dark, if you've been moved to the area it's unfamiliar you don't know where you are or the layout of the terrain. You don't know who or what is creating any noises you hear, if you try and move, you bump into things, trip up, or fall into unseen ditches. The whole experience can be a living nightmare. When the shooting starts there are flashes in the darkness, bangs and crashes, but you haven't got a target to shoot at, and you've no idea where the enemy is. Have they got around behind you? It's a lonely, chaotic, confusing and frightening experience.
rommel was the greatest german general of the 20th century, he had honor and did no warcrimes he was basicly the only 2. ww general germans can look good at today
The Stormtrooper thing is from WW I, before the Nazis.
Anglais= english (in french). They thought he had to be an ally as no enemy should be there.
Marina Sirtis should be in mourning now because of the loss of Tottenham (Spurs) top scorer Jimmy Greaves who died Sunday, aged 81.
A player named Beckham on the right wing, drawing in football fans in the US - sound familiar?
Romeo Beckham, son of former England captain David Beckham, made his debut for American third-tier club Fort Lauderdale on Sunday.
The 19-year-old started in his famous dad's midfield position for the reserve team of Inter Miami - the Major League Soccer side owned by Beckham - in a 2-2 draw at home with South Georgia Tormenta.
"This is the personal Mailbox of Erwin Rommel.
The 7th Panzer Division is currently not here.
Please tell your Message and/or Orders to not Attack after the Signal.
The Generalfeldmarschall will call you back when the War is won."
Happened in 1940 so yes it was then.
"Sturm" (storm) is just the general German term for assault (to storm at something). So storm troopers are simply assault troops, but somewhat wrongly translated. The word is not directly associated with the 3rd Reich, because it was used in a military context long before, yet the Nazis favoured it greatly and designated almost everything a Sturm-something (including the "Volkssturm", which definitely sounded better than "last-ditch effort rabble troops"). Most notable are of course the higher officer ranks in the SS, which were themed als "Sturmführer" or assault leaders.
Hi, this took place in May 1940. The Grand Cross is the highest order of the Iron Cross, the Nazi award for valour. Anglais is French for English. I enjoyed the history but found the discussion on the band and the music, confusing i think it would have been better without that. The song wasn't my type of music, I wasn't keen on that.
anglais means english, it come from the anglo-saxons, a german tribe that arrives in britain in early 5 hundred
Multiple tribes - Angles and Saxons who each came in several groups.
I don't always listen to Ghost Division, but when I do, SO DO MY NEIGHBOURS!!
This is the first Sabaton video I've watched because, like you, I'm not a big fan of metal and I didn't think it was something I'd like. The pictures I found also looked like every generic metal band I've ever seen. But these guys are awesome! Now I have to watch all of your other Sabaton videos.
The other band I would recommend to you would be Iron Maiden the lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson has a degree in history and they started about 1980
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden