@@burgerking2783 Actually the map in the beginning is that of the North German Confederation. We can assume he served in the Franco-Prussian war, as it was a major war at the time. The Franco-Prussian war began in 1870, which was a nice 151 years ago.
My grandpa witnessed WWI and fought in WW2 for germany on the Ostfront, he lost the ability to bend his right knee and his 7 brothers in WW2 and suffered PTSD for the rest of his life. "Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war." - Otto Von Bismarck
@@valentinlageot4101 were they? Instead of being slaves to hitler, we now are slaves to capitalist pigs. Not saying that it wasn’t good that nazi Germany is history, but can we really call this freedom?
@@Jonas-qg6jw Capitalism isn’t brilliant, but paired with effective social welfare, democracy, free speech and personal freedoms, it’s better than the alternatives
The image at 1:10 is far more heartbreaking than initially looked at. That person was a conscript in the German Wehrmacht during World War II who only wanted to go home, only to find his home completely destroyed from bombing runs and his family was nowhere in sight
@@DingDingTheTH-camBuddy do you know how brutal the eastern front was? it still didn't bring hitler anywhere, if anything the could have saved up more resources if they weren't so busy destroying foreign lands.
The lyrics make a person think as to what soldiers might feel on the battlefield. "I never met, talked or knew the person I just killed. What life did he have? What ambitions did he have later? What was he doing at home trying to feed his family? What could he have achieved?"
We right-wingers have a saying called "no more brother wars", but if i shot a commie dead, i could give less of a crap what their ambitions were, because clearly those included my nation's death.
@@fallout1953 First of all, Right-wingers never made or had such a quote they literally are against the one thing you said. Second of all, how in the world can you even imagine taking the life of a person just because they have a different ideology. Imagine how utterly monstrous you have to be. Remember that violence is never the option and must always be the last resort unlike whatever you are saying. Also, your earlier comment state that you are a racist fanatic and a Neo-Nazi or a sympathiser so, everything you say will not be taken as valid debate at all.
@@icouldbeanyone.9345 I disagree. "Muh different ideology", i could use the same argument against them, besides, their ideology is the destruction of all national bodies (they have a special bias against Europeans). No, i'm just a man who cares for his people, terms like "nazi" are just made-up slurs against people who aren't misanthropes.
@@fallout1953 What the hell are you thinking? No ideology wants to destroy European countries, preferably. What even are countries? They are political concepts created by humans to justify their actions and divide their land. And no, you are a Nazi or a proto-nazi if your think that some races are superior to others. You wrote it in one of your own comments. Stop livong in this paranoia that everyone wants to destroy your country or is an enemy of a sort just because they have a different ideology. Misanthropy means hatred towards humanity and you clearly are one if you think that killing people on ideological lines is fine and jolly. National bodies should not even exist, all humans are equal and will remain equal no matter what anyone says. You are just a paranoid fool.
Man, this song is such a true and heartbreaking one for me as a half-russian, half-german. Leaving in Russia now, in the circle of people who mostly support war or just ignore it, I am so happy to listen to this song and realise that the world is not completely cruel, and there always are people, that understand how cruel the war is. Honestly, I just agree with this song on everything. Soldat der Freiheit will ich gerne sein!
Ivan, I love your avatar its not from K-on, what series... Anyway do you know St. Alexander Schmorell? He was half Russian half German too and an Orthodox martyr during the Third Reich. I shall ask him to pray for you. ☦️ And for peace of course. Subscribed btw
Greetings from a similar binational in a similar situation..! (🇩🇪🇷🇺) И... Честно, не знаю даже, что сказать😔 Unsere beiden Länder haben schon so viel durchgemacht, waren/sind sowohl Ageessoren, als auch Opfer... И белых крестов без надписей у обеих по-хорошему должны стоять миллионы. Gott bewahre for einem neuen Weltkrieg, und möge Russland in Zukunft die Lehren daraus ziehen, die Deutschland eingepaukt wurden... Не унывайте, вы не одни..!)) 🫡
The soldier has been in Europe The Soldier has been in Africa He has been in Honolulu He has been in Samoa He has been in niederlands He has been in France He is tired and may rest
"And if I go to battle, then I must murder brothers, none of whom has ever done me any harm." Hits hard. To think that men can get the courage to kill without thinking twice simply because the other is wearing different uniform is pure madness
Germany throughout history (especially Prussia) was known as a very militaristic nation, but no wonder people didn't really want to go at war. Even in the most disciplined and militaristic powers, people just don't war, they just want friends and a happy life where everyone can come together and sing and dance as one :)
@Alturnes-Knight in europe war happened mainly because of ethnic problems, in ww1 france ,italy ,serbia ,romania ,bulgaria ,all wanted nations who incorporated all the people of their kind but this will always make other nations unhappy either because loss of land means loss if their own people or loss of power and status
Germany at the time when this song is written were quite liberal to be honest, Prussians have their fair share of liberal revolutions in 1848, even Bismarck was a big liberal before he rose to power, so its not really surprising that the ordinary Prussians were not so militaristic and don't really want war.
@@technopriest6708 allied bombers Destroyed many citys and also killed a lot civilians during the end of ww2. So a returning soldier couldnt had a home or family
@@Sir_Ravenstein I know the source of this photo,and I'm fairly certain that what he had lost was his family.Losing your home is bad,but your family is far worse
I'm from Russia and this song is so heartbreaking now... I hope I'll never go to war. Our nation don't want this harm and deaths unlike our government... Please, everybody from our planet, make love and peace, not conflicts between brothers.
@@Pr0vidence555 dude wth. There could haven been MANY assasination attempts on him, but ever thought about that peapole dont notice a assasination attempt or they dont go public? You are hateing russian peapole because they dont want to risk their life to assasinate someone. Do you even know that what he did is illegal in russia? If this comment of him whould be from russia he whould be 10 - 15 years in jail! Think about something befor you post or say something.
@@eleo8603 same if I was in Armenia... except if I was alive after the Karabakh war in 2020 my family members told me some stories I can't scratch out of my head .....
Peaceful nation... I cannot hear it anymore. We are one of the biggest arms exporters. We attend any war which was started by the US. We were 20 years in Afganistan. We send weapons to a brutal dictatorship (Saudi Arabia), where heads are gettin cut and we are proud to be a "peaceful nation". And to taro taytoman I want to say: yes, a strong economy. But there are two problems: first: one of the greatest money source are weapons. Second: the wealth doesn't come to everyone. The wealth isn't distributed fairly. We are one of the most unequal countries of the world. The only peaceful german state in german history was the GDR. It didn't attend any war and has not started any war, nor did it export weapons.
@@JohnDoe-or9gg That is very controversial question, I can say from MY persperctive, The globalist actuall government likes France, means France is basically our most important partner and friend. I believe our friends are in nordic and central europe, like Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland etc. I am personally AfD voter, and I dont like how is europe islamizing us all. I dont like arabic nations like Turkey, Our government has pretty neutral relations with them, cuz they dont really want them in EU. But from europe, our friends are mostly Central European nations and from North america, I say USA and Canada.
The Melody of this song is the same as "Soldat te souviens-tu" - "Soldier, do you remember?", About the napoleonic Wars and the legend that it was. Many years later in 1870, France lose against Germany. A lot of people started to think that the bourgeois were the responsibles. Lyrics about this trahison were written on the same Melody as Soldat te souviens-tu to compose "Paris pour un Beafsteak" - "Paris for a Beafsteak".
@Alturnes-Knight why would I do that when I can keep laughing at you and you keep going on tirades and going "u mad?". Learn to turn the other cheek. Clown 🤡
“Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are.” ~Hafsat Abiola.
War is one of those things that we can get rid of humans are too greedy and self obsessed we think of the interests of ourselves before those of people who may not be so blessed with our circumstances (I’m also guilty of this as well) humans have a very hard time of understanding the suffering of let’s say as an example an Afghani citizen in a entire different continent it’s not our faults humans just aren’t able to be the most empathetic and caring all the time especially with people we can’t even see but it helps to at least have a kind of mentality that people not just your neighbors or the people of your country can and will suffer if wars are continued to be fought
@@Dlopwoo hey not trying to start any beef or anything but you can tell by the Prussian geographic map in the beginning of the song (which is most likely from the Franco Prussian war) it would be about 150 years
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 No, you shut up, you support the suffering and murder of innocent people and go against literally everything this amazing song stands for.
"All ye brothers, whether German, or French, or Hungarian, Danish, or from The Netherlands, whether green, or red, or blue, or white your uniform instead of giving each other lead, greet each other with a brother's hand" This brings tears to my eyes because its about family split apart and then having to fight each other. This is exactly what happend to my great great grandfather in the Austro-Prussian war. May all that have died in war, rest for all of eternity.
Fun fact: The picture in 1:10 is a picture of a Hitlerjugend (Note: Hitlerjugend is a Hitler's military group that it's soldiers are consisting 12-18 years old boys that are trained to defend the Western German borderlands against the Allies) crying when he came back to Berlin just to finding out that his family are dead because of Allied bombardment.
Interesting that the song was from 1870. I assumed the song was from the Great War. Just shows how utterly destructive the 1840s-1940s were for Europe, not to mention the Cold War which tore the continent in half
@@chairmanlmao4482 Im not 100% sure, but i think he is singing about the "Bismarck-wars" which unifyed germany. (They are called "Brüderkriege" or "Brother-wars" in german)
@@hansvader4864 the song is from ww1 thought it use the melody of a French commune song 'paris pour un beefsteak' (ironically being pro war against Germany) commune song who itself use almost the same melody as 'te souvien tu' ironically being a pro french empire song
I made a Dutch version of this masterpiece! Ik ben soldaat, maar ik kan het verlakken. Of ik het wou, heeft niemand mij gevraagd. Ik werd gedwongen, gepropt in de barakken. Ik was gevangen, van mijn thuis gejaagd. Van mijn geliefden, mijn dromen en verlangen. Ik moest vertrekken, van kameraad gesplitst. Denk ik daar aan, dan voelt de tocht nog langer. Voel in mijn hart, mijn woede wordt gehitst. Ik ben soldaat, maar liever zou ik vrij zijn. Dat grijz gedracht, waar ik alleen van mok. Mensen beschieten, dat wordt voor niemand ooit fijn. Mezelf beschermen, dat kan ook met een stok. Ik vraag me af, wat moet je met soldaten? Want ieder volk, streeft alleen maar vrede na. Alleen voor hebzucht, en om het volk te schaden. Het breekt de vrede, waarvoor ik liever sta. Ik ben soldaat, moet nachten lang marcheren. In plaats van arbeid, moet ik posten staan. In plaats van vrijheid, moet ik salueren. Zal nooit de hovaard, van commandant verslaan. En in de strijd, moet ik men vermoorden. Waarvan geen een, mij ooit iets heeft misdaan. En tegen weehom, krijg ik een medaille. En mag ik roepen, ik was soldaat! oh kameraad, van Frankrijk tot aan Zweden. Uit Hongarije, of Griekenland. Al viel er bloed, in ons grouw verleden. Inplaats van strijden, geef elkaar de hand. Keer nu naar huis, laten we terugmarcheren. Tirannen tegen, ons allen zijn maar klein. Want alleen tirannen, willen oorlog eren. Soldaat der vrijheid, wil ik heel graag zijn. Soldaat der vrijheid, wil ik heel graag zijn!
I am German and live about 20 kilometres away from the Dutch-German border in a small coastal town. I also speak Low German, or "Plattdeutsch". I can almost entirely understand your comment. It amazes me how similar our languages really are.
personnally I don't consider myself equal to all of those extremist and equal to all of those fighter I'm in between them soldier being the 100 IQ poet and extremist being the worst creation of human history.
@@valentinlageot4101 wtf are you even going on about? with the sentence you just wrote i'd be hard pressed to believe that you weren't the "100 IQ poet"
No more fratricidal war ! Kein Bruderkrieg mehr ! Plus jamais de guerre fratricide! Geen broedermoord meer ! Non più guerra fratricida ! No más guerra fratricida ! больше нет братоубийственной войны ! United Europeans! Message from Belgium, I'm proud to be an european and being a part of this wonderful europeans' diversity.
We, Europeans, after all, we are brothers and shouldn't fight each other. RIP for all the brave men who died in that horrible war, I wish something like that will never happen again. (PD: I know that in WWI also fighted non-europeans, but since this song is focused in Europe, well...)
I remember visiting the German military cemetery for World War II dead in Normandy. I walked a row of headstones. They were ten on either side, two names per stone. Forty men. Of those, a quarter of the names read only "Ein Deutscher Soldat." We Americans pride ourselves on memorializing our unknown dead. It was a chilling realization that no one seems to care about those unknowns.
Probably because of how germany in ww2 was. It is rememberd very badly (mostly for valid reasons of course). German soldiers are not as often seen with pride, even if they fought as though and brave as others.
Tekst po polsku: Jestem żołnierzem, chociaż tego nie chcę, kiedy się nim stałem, nie byłem o to pytany. Zostałem wyrwany, na koszary, zostałem przejęty, jakby jakiś upolowany. Tak, z domu, z serc ukochanych, Musiałem wyjść, wyjść z grona moich przyjaciół. Zawsze, gdy o tym myślę, czuję ogromny smutek, czuję w piersi, wzrost mocnej złości. Jestem żołnierzem, ale wbrew mojej woli, nie lubię, niebieskich mundurów królewskich. Nie lubię krwawego życia z bronią, by bronić siebie, patyk powinien starczyć. Och, powiedz mi, do czego potrzebujesz żołnierzy? Wszyscy ludzie kochają tylko pokój i ciszę, Wyłącznie z żądzy władzy i by zaszkodzić ludziom, się depczą, ah, złote pola! Jestem żołnierzem, muszę maszerować dnie i noce, zamiast pracować, muszę zostać na moim posterunku, zamiast być wolnym, muszę salutować, i widzieć arogancję zuchwałych kompanów. I gdy idę na bitwę, muszę mordować braci, żaden z nich nigdy mi nie zrobił krzywdy, dlatego jako kaleka, zakładam wstążkę i medal, a gdy głoduję, krzyczę: Byłem żołnierzem! Wy wszyscy bracia, czy Niemcy, czy Francuzi, czy Węgrzy, Duńczycy, czy z Holandii. Czy zielony, czy czerwony, czy niebieski, czy biały twój mundur, zamiast dawać innym rządzić, powitajmy się braterską ręką! Chodźmy do swoich domów maszerujmy z powrotem, by uwolnić naszych ludzi od tyranów, bo tylko tyranie muszą prowadzić wojny, chcę być żołnierzem pokoju. Chcę być żołnierzem pokoju!
I'm Russian speaker, and i understand of all that in 95%! Good to see that, Slavic people still can understand each other without any translators (in each moments). But not our governments (((
Trochę bardziej poetycka (choć wciąż daleka od doskonałości, bo rymowanie tego byłoby dla mnie zbyt trudne) wersja: 1. Jestem żołnierzem, Choć o to nie prosiłem, Powołany, Nie byłem pytany, Siłą wzięty, I wsadzony w koszary, Upolowany, Niczym dziki zwierz. Tak, od ojczyzny, Od serc ukochanych, Musiałem odejść, Od przyjaciół mych, Myśląc o tym, Czuję żal i gorycz, W moim sercu, Ciepły gniewu błysk. 2. Jestem żołnierzem, lecz tylko wbrew mej woli, Nie przepadam, za błękitem mundurów, Nie przepadam, Za krwawym zbrojnym życiem, By bronić się, Starczyłby zwykły kij. Powiedzcie mi, Po co wam są żołnierze? Ludzie chcą tylko W spokoju żyć. Stroniąc od mocy Zadawania bólu, Stąpając po Złocie swoich pól! 3. Jestem żołnierzem, W dzień każdy i noc w marszu, Miast pracować, Stać muszę na warcie, Miast wolnym być, Muszę salutować, Widząc bezczelność Towarzyszy swych. Idąc na bitwę, Braci swych morduję, A żaden z nich, nigdy nie skrzywdził mnie, A wten kaleki, Medal swój założę, W głodzie zakrzyknę: Byłem żołnierzem! 4. Bracia moi, Czy Niemcy, czy Francuzi, Węgierscy, Duńscy, Czy z Holandii ziem, I niezależnie, w jakim mundurze, Miast ołowiu, Podajmy sobie dłoń, Więc nie zwlekajmy, Wróćmy do swych domów, By wyzwolić lud nasz od tyranów, Tylko tyrani muszą ważyć wojny, Ja chcę być żołnierzem wolności! Ja chcę być żołnierzem wolności!
@@РоссийскийИмператоръ Благое дело, наверное вермахт тоже делал благие дела во имя арийской расы. Не надо разделять войну и войну. Все они одинаковы, ведь только тиранам нужны войны.
Not so fun fact about the 3rd image: It’s a picture of a Wehrmact returning from a PoW camp to his home and family, only to find out they aren’t there anymore.
That is kind of the sad irony in Germanys history. It was always a place of great diversity (countelss states and regional cultures in HRE) and thinkers, philosophy enlightenment, craftsmenship and so on... but on the other hand also had a strong culture of obedience (feudalism and later especially prussia's loyalty-based militarism) to authority...
That's what I also thought, but after reading the book, I've got to say it's an absolute must, it provides a lot more different sutiations and it's overall a much more complete anti-war experience. What I also like is that there are very few times we're the characters sit down and talk about war, for the most part it's just all the horrific sutiations being portrayed very barren
There’s something about the background at 0:40 that makes me uncomfortable. I think it’s the fact the boy is so young the helmet doesn’t even fit right. World War One may have been the most brutal war since the khan invaded, everywhere. I’m 16 and I don’t think the boy in the photo is much older. I’ve been learning about World War One for the last 5 years and it haunts me how so much people went to battles in this war not having the slightest idea of how horrible it would really be. But we know.
This soldier has been in almost everywhere He has been in Russia (WW1, WW2) He has been in France (Franco-Prussian War, WW1, WW2, The Seven Years War) He has been in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg (WW1, WW2) He has been in Italy (WW1, WW2) He has been in Africa (WW1, WW2) He has been in Honolulu and Samoa (WW1) He has been in China (WW1) He has been in Papua New Guinea (WW1) He has been in Serbia (WW1, WW2) He has been Montenegro (WW1, WW2) He has been in Bulgaria (WW1) He has been in Greece (WW1, WW2) He has been in Poland (WW1, maybe, WW2) He has been in Austria (Austro-Prussian War) He has been in the Ottoman Empire (WW1) He has been a soldier for 321 years
@Мемный Чехословак How do you expect us Ukrainians to react when you destroy our cities, culture and identity, or at least attempt to. You call us fascists while following a true imperialist as your president. And then you just expect us to say thank you for the suffering you give us and accept that we're brothers? It's no surprise nobody wants to have anything to do with Russia because they don't want to be associated with a state and people that get their enjoyment from abusing others. Don't worry, soon you won't be blockaded. Soon you'll have a lot of attention, more than you have now. But not as the liberator of a free country, but as an genocidal nation, similar to a certain Reich in the 1940s.
I don't know if you notice, but from the Franco-Prussian war to WWII it seems like he's getting more and more unstable. The wait he says "Arbeit" at 1:14 just seems like he's going crazy.
Russian version: Я был солдатом, увезли туда куда я не хотел, Не хотел я сидеть в бараках грязных, Да, из дома своего пришел я, От любящих сердец и родины, Наполнен яростью великой я, Я солдат, Но против воли высшей, Ненавижу форму эту, Ненавижу оружие, которым приходится братьев ближних убивать, Зачем людям кровь войны? Ведь просят год и наш народ, но нет - хотят войны! Был я солдатом, трудился с ночь по день я, Оставаясь крепко на посту, Без свободы прежней, Салютировал постоянно я, Смотря на командиров наших, Шел я на войну, Братьев убивать родных и близких, Не сделавших мне плохо или больно, Убью я их, Возьму медаль красивую, Громко Закричав: "Я был солдатом!" Все мы братья, хоть украинец или русский, Иль уж поляк, Ну или иж ты из Беларуси, Хоть твой флаг, и красный, и даже черный, Зеленая и Синяя униформа ваша, сейчас это неважно, Протяни ты руку нам! Разойдитесь по своим домам, Давайте маршем уйдем назад, Чтоб землю нашу тиранам не оставить, Ведь именно тиранам война нужней всего, А мы хотим же быть солдатами свободы, А мы хотим же быть солдатами свободы. Не знаю, как вы оцените труд мой, но такой творческой работой я занимаюсь, что крайне грустно - только здесь, впервые.
I am originally from Lorraine(now I live in Hungary) and I have to say German sounds really cool, sadly when I still lived there I didn’t really care much when they reached German, and now my German knowledge is basically nothing. I really want to learn German one day. Anyways greetings from Hungary 🇫🇷🇭🇺❤️🇩🇪
@@germany6668 У меня с точностью до наоборот... Я немец с русскими корнями, живущий в Росси ( не знаю почему, но я тут с 3-х лет лет живу, хотя до этого жил в Гамбурге )...
@@belfigor_of А вот у меня предки переехали сюда незадолго до революции из города Мюнхен. Во время 2 мировой войны моих родственников департировали в Сибирь в город Иркутск. А сейчас, а потом бабушка и дедушка переехали обратно в Санкт Петербург , а через месяц я так сказать возвращаюсь на историческую родину в город Мюнхен.
Merci je viens de l'écouter, je suis triste en pensant à tout ces jeunes hommes morts au combat à travers le monde et à travers l'Histoire, qui n'ont même pas pu profiter un minimum de la vie, souvent pour les intérêts cupides de certains dirigeants..
This teaches that Germans are human beings. Remember, human beings are people everywhere. North Koreans are people just like you, Russians are people, and Iranians are people. All humans are good people, until they become powerful and vain. And only a few ever do.
I might have context to this 1:20 picture if I’m not mistaken its a picture of a german soldier in WW2 that managed to come home alive but found that he came home to see there was nothing left.
Люди не поняли, что плохо воевать, они поняли, что если начнется ядерная война, то будет смерть всему человечеству. Не было бы ядерного оружия, то давно бы произошли большие войны между Сверхдержавами.
Сейчас идут войны в нищенских странах Третьего Мира, поэтому более цивилизованное общество с доступом в интернет может говорить о том, как мирно мы живём.
I feel like Germany's Anti War song was heard more than the Entente's war songs. Did they even have one. ALSO LMFAO, MY MAN CHANGED THE SWASTIKA TO THE YT SYMBOL
Wth you came on this song just to talk about the current war, what the hell is wrong with you people you always come on something related to war and make a comment about the current ongoing wars today. Why can't people not talk about war so much.
@@kaisermarxistdixie6842 True, because george bush and obama are equally as bad as putin is. Honestly people are giving putin hell just cause he's the aggressor, which is reasonable but they havent gave any US President beef because they declared war on so and so
The sad thing is this song came out in 1870. And not after the world wars. people didn’t listen to this song and continued fighting which led to so much death and destruction
I'm russian. This song is just true. It's heartbreaking. And I'm dying internally every time i read news about new horrifying cruelties that ppl of my country made. And it's so painful to see and to talk to person who is brainwashed. I remember how we yelled at each other, because I'm antiwar and he's pro war, he was almost as an uncle. He went out, saying that we all (me and my family, who is also anti war) are fascists. War and propaganda makes something very terrible with people's minds. Make love, not war. ☮️
I agree with you. I was at the start of Russian invasion of Ukraine pro - Ukrainian. But now I see that war is just a dump excuse to kill people. Mihajlo Bogdanović
ukraine has oppressed Russians in the Donbas and Crimea and still does so russia warned them several times u don't need to be ashamed your country is just removing the nazis and far right extremists and liberating the poor Russians there Ukraine is in the wrong and everyone knows it they just turn a blind eye and listen to the western propaganda
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Give the man a rest he’s been a soldier for like 141 years.
Your math pains me
Dude It’s an exaggeration please actually do something useful. I didn’t do math.
@@burgerking2783 okay Idc man.
@@burgerking2783 was gonna say u must be fun at parties then I remembered u don't ever leave your basement
@@burgerking2783 Actually the map in the beginning is that of the North German Confederation. We can assume he served in the Franco-Prussian war, as it was a major war at the time. The Franco-Prussian war began in 1870, which was a nice 151 years ago.
My man has been in Honolulu
My man has been in afrika
My man is now tired, you may now rest in peace
And now it has been in Ingen
My man now has been in Ingen :)
@@joshuaauyeung that sounds wrong...
They always ask “Where is the man?” but never “How is the man?”
My man was rejected by Polish woman
My grandpa witnessed WWI and fought in WW2 for germany on the Ostfront, he lost the ability to bend his right knee and his 7 brothers in WW2 and suffered PTSD for the rest of his life.
"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."
- Otto Von Bismarck
May he and his brothers sleep well my gutmütiger Kamerad
Bismarck said that? The extremely militaristic guy?
@@thesurvivalistpotato3117 He said will think hard. Not wont start a war.
@@thesurvivalistpotato3117 I think he said that after the franco-prussian war where he rushed to the frontline beliving his son died
@@thesurvivalistpotato3117 I would believe it was a means to an end. He wasn't particularly imperialistic, all thinks considered.
'A Soldier of Freedom I wish to be', a most beautiful sentence.
American GI in WWII be like:
aren't we freedom?
This reigns especially true with german troops that’ were deployed to Afghanistan
@@valentinlageot4101 were they? Instead of being slaves to hitler, we now are slaves to capitalist pigs. Not saying that it wasn’t good that nazi Germany is history, but can we really call this freedom?
I feel you
@@Jonas-qg6jw Capitalism isn’t brilliant, but paired with effective social welfare, democracy, free speech and personal freedoms, it’s better than the alternatives
The image at 1:10 is far more heartbreaking than initially looked at. That person was a conscript in the German Wehrmacht during World War II who only wanted to go home, only to find his home completely destroyed from bombing runs and his family was nowhere in sight
Where did you get this from?
@@waragque it’s a popular image
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@@waragque F
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Even though I really like military songs, never heard anything more truer than this.
I don't think the category "military songs" is appropriate
@@DingDingTheTH-camBuddy Wrong that's only furthers the cycle of biolence.
@@DingDingTheTH-camBuddy so you are saying everybody should be Hitler in case of war?
@@DingDingTheTH-camBuddy do you know how brutal the eastern front was? it still didn't bring hitler anywhere, if anything the could have saved up more resources if they weren't so busy destroying foreign lands.
@@Zen-rw2fz their economy needed war. Nazi germany without war is like a mouse without the cheese
If WWI was a game, this should be the credits rolling music at the end.
It had more than just Germany.
@@nikolairostov3326 but it would be fitting after soldiers experienced the horrors of war
@@Kamii.1g yes, but there are many songs about the horrors of war.
And at the end, it would be nice to put "Humanity learned the lesson and a war like this never happened again".
@@MartiC988 But the game was successful, so they made a sequel…
as a wise person once said:
"War is glorious only under the eyes of those who never lived through it."
well said.
Amen.
It is ironic that those who want war the most are mostly those who has never seen combat.
Agreed, however General George S Patton and The Unkillable Soldier saw war as glorious. Although those two where somewhat crazy
@@lucaogno9047war is glorious if you win but still to the man who fought on the front line war is still horrific
The text almost made me cry, more anti-war songs please
The lyrics make a person think as to what soldiers might feel on the battlefield. "I never met, talked or knew the person I just killed. What life did he have? What ambitions did he have later? What was he doing at home trying to feed his family? What could he have achieved?"
We right-wingers have a saying called "no more brother wars", but if i shot a commie dead, i could give less of a crap what their ambitions were, because clearly those included my nation's death.
@@fallout1953 First of all, Right-wingers never made or had such a quote they literally are against the one thing you said. Second of all, how in the world can you even imagine taking the life of a person just because they have a different ideology. Imagine how utterly monstrous you have to be. Remember that violence is never the option and must always be the last resort unlike whatever you are saying. Also, your earlier comment state that you are a racist fanatic and a Neo-Nazi or a sympathiser so, everything you say will not be taken as valid debate at all.
@@icouldbeanyone.9345 I disagree.
"Muh different ideology", i could use the same argument against them, besides, their ideology is the destruction of all national bodies (they have a special bias against Europeans).
No, i'm just a man who cares for his people, terms like "nazi" are just made-up slurs against people who aren't misanthropes.
@@fallout1953 What the hell are you thinking? No ideology wants to destroy European countries, preferably. What even are countries? They are political concepts created by humans to justify their actions and divide their land. And no, you are a Nazi or a proto-nazi if your think that some races are superior to others. You wrote it in one of your own comments. Stop livong in this paranoia that everyone wants to destroy your country or is an enemy of a sort just because they have a different ideology. Misanthropy means hatred towards humanity and you clearly are one if you think that killing people on ideological lines is fine and jolly. National bodies should not even exist, all humans are equal and will remain equal no matter what anyone says. You are just a paranoid fool.
@@icouldbeanyone.9345 Your head is above the clouds, mate.
I love the way the map changes over time as the song goes on. Nice touch.
My favourite part was when the map turned to the youtube reich
@@masterdeetectiv9520TH-cam is indeed a fascist Dictatorship.
Man, this song is such a true and heartbreaking one for me as a half-russian, half-german. Leaving in Russia now, in the circle of people who mostly support war or just ignore it, I am so happy to listen to this song and realise that the world is not completely cruel, and there always are people, that understand how cruel the war is. Honestly, I just agree with this song on everything. Soldat der Freiheit will ich gerne sein!
I have the same background but I always lived in Germany. War is just terrible…
Ivan, I love your avatar its not from K-on, what series... Anyway do you know St. Alexander Schmorell? He was half Russian half German too and an Orthodox martyr during the Third Reich. I shall ask him to pray for you. ☦️ And for peace of course. Subscribed btw
Привет из Крыма!
@@sp9459yes. My great grandfather fell from helicopter and lost eyes. Let's live in peace
Greetings from a similar binational in a similar situation..!
(🇩🇪🇷🇺)
И... Честно, не знаю даже, что сказать😔 Unsere beiden Länder haben schon so viel durchgemacht, waren/sind sowohl Ageessoren, als auch Opfer... И белых крестов без надписей у обеих по-хорошему должны стоять миллионы.
Gott bewahre for einem neuen Weltkrieg, und möge Russland in Zukunft die Lehren daraus ziehen, die Deutschland eingepaukt wurden...
Не унывайте, вы не одни..!))
🫡
What a nice sounding song, I'm sure whatever they're singing about is 100% fun and happy
Ikr but Ingen put some weird war images
Not very happy
@@themolepeople955 he must have made some kind of mistake, I guess
@@romaindesmarais9975 I think it’s for the next song hes uploading
I wonder why they left a demonetization flag with red
The soldier has been in Europe
The Soldier has been in Africa
He has been in Honolulu
He has been in Samoa
He has been in niederlands
He has been in France
He is tired and may rest
Hm
He indefinitely deserves his well earned rest, only peace and happiness lies ahead for him. 🇩🇪
@@lopakacooper1668 ...in heaven of course
Indeed, to Vahalla my German bruders!!
Rest In Peace….. ⚜️⚜️🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
what about 'Ungarn, Danen'?
If humanity will have a last war ever fought, this should be the end credits
In all langauges of earth!
@@anitathakur9340 best idea
@@anitathakur9340 why is your profile pic a swastika
The last day of the last war ever fought will probably be the last day of human race.
if humanity will ever have a last war there will be no one left to hear it lol
"And if I go to battle, then I must murder brothers, none of whom has ever done me any harm." Hits hard. To think that men can get the courage to kill without thinking twice simply because the other is wearing different uniform is pure madness
Real
Germany throughout history (especially Prussia) was known as a very militaristic nation, but no wonder people didn't really want to go at war. Even in the most disciplined and militaristic powers, people just don't war, they just want friends and a happy life where everyone can come together and sing and dance as one :)
@Alturnes-Knight cope lobbyist
@Alturnes-Knight in europe war happened mainly because of ethnic problems, in ww1 france ,italy ,serbia ,romania ,bulgaria ,all wanted nations who incorporated all the people of their kind but this will always make other nations unhappy either because loss of land means loss if their own people or loss of power and status
@@user-vk1dv3pr8o what did he say?
Germany at the time when this song is written were quite liberal to be honest, Prussians have their fair share of liberal revolutions in 1848, even Bismarck was a big liberal before he rose to power, so its not really surprising that the ordinary Prussians were not so militaristic and don't really want war.
At the basest level, sure.
But there are interests and wants greater than the kinda naive desire to all be "fwends"
1:30 now that subtle TH-cam-diss is the best part of the video!
Its beautiful
@@mangonel the TH-cam KGB there even red to
1:10 1946,a soldier returns to his home to realize that his family is no longer there
Even worse, a soldier tries to return to his house while it isn't his anymore...
@@monarchistheadcrab8819 what's your source for that if I may know?
@@technopriest6708 allied bombers Destroyed many citys and also killed a lot civilians during the end of ww2. So a returning soldier couldnt had a home or family
@@Sir_Ravenstein I know the source of this photo,and I'm fairly certain that what he had lost was his family.Losing your home is bad,but your family is far worse
@@technopriest6708 its always really bad to loose something important
I'm from Russia and this song is so heartbreaking now...
I hope I'll never go to war.
Our nation don't want this harm and deaths unlike our government...
Please, everybody from our planet, make love and peace, not conflicts between brothers.
@@Pr0vidence555 wtf dude
@@Pr0vidence555 dude not cool, he literally denounced his government
@@Pr0vidence555 dude wth. There could haven been MANY assasination attempts on him, but ever thought about that peapole dont notice a assasination attempt or they dont go public? You are hateing russian peapole because they dont want to risk their life to assasinate someone. Do you even know that what he did is illegal in russia? If this comment of him whould be from russia he whould be 10 - 15 years in jail! Think about something befor you post or say something.
@Pr0vidence555 heard of the dude whos running against putin WITH civilians? reminds me of the GERMAN RESISTANCE WHO WERE ATTTEMPTING ASSASSINATION
(alexxei navaley)
I'm conscripted and listening to this song in a military base, South Korea.
It makes me cry 😢
Same for me in Israel
Stay strong, bro
same for me in Finland, sitting on a bunk bed in a military base
@@eleo8603 it's so fucked up, I feel so sorry for both of us
@@eleo8603 same if I was in Armenia... except if I was alive after the Karabakh war in 2020 my family members told me some stories I can't scratch out of my head .....
So happily singing about death and pain
They also have Wir lager vor Madagaskar if you want the sea version.
Ever heard Blood on the Risers?
*It's called "irony".*
It is not happpily, it's hopeful.
This was written during the unification of Germany.
@@kingoftheskies34 Average way to die if you a redditor
I love how straight to the point this song is, no messages in the song that we have to understand, just straight up "war bad, people want peace."
nah man, its
” *fact* *fact* *fact* ”
@@zanroid3483 Unfathomably based.
the universial truth so many people cannot fathom
This aged like a fine wine.
Not gonna ruin your 69 likes.
@@jenniferjohnson1053 ok
Ja
In a worst way as always
This song will never age
It sounds sad, yet cheerful at the end.
Glad that Germany is in peace...
And strong economy
We aren't. We're getting destroyed from within.
Indeed, average German person liek moi just want nur sien und brod! That’s all, is that too hard to ask for comrades? ✊⚜️⚜️🤍🖤
@@yaneyd93
Nope! Despite all the shortcomings, Germany is overall a better country.
Peaceful nation... I cannot hear it anymore. We are one of the biggest arms exporters. We attend any war which was started by the US. We were 20 years in Afganistan. We send weapons to a brutal dictatorship (Saudi Arabia), where heads are gettin cut and we are proud to be a "peaceful nation".
And to taro taytoman I want to say: yes, a strong economy. But there are two problems: first: one of the greatest money source are weapons. Second: the wealth doesn't come to everyone. The wealth isn't distributed fairly. We are one of the most unequal countries of the world.
The only peaceful german state in german history was the GDR. It didn't attend any war and has not started any war, nor did it export weapons.
I teared up during the song but that last line just straight up made me cry. So powerful
I assume by your name you have been conscripted?
🇵🇸 ♥ 🇮🇱
@@antonishedsp2036 based
@@antonishedsp2036 based
@Euro Hugo Perdana based
Several seconds in, it’s so catchy, Happy Armistice Day everyone!
You mean, Poppy Day?
@@kropcise You mean, remeberance day?
@@kropcise Actually it has multiple names, including Poppy Day
@@DraftTheHippies The onesI know are Remembrance Day, Veteran’s Day, Armistice Day, and Poppy Day. Are there any I am missing?
@@Lt.PotatoStudios No, that’s all the names Nov 11 has been given
I feel sad that Germany is mostly known for multiple wars, but we Germans have a good culture, pride and friends!
Friends?
@@JohnDoe-or9gg By that I mean European Cooperation and Our other German brothers.
@@itzdave1249 what countries in europe are considered as "friends" by germans? Simple curiosity.
@@JohnDoe-or9gg That is very controversial question, I can say from MY persperctive, The globalist actuall government likes France, means France is basically our most important partner and friend. I believe our friends are in nordic and central europe, like Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland etc. I am personally AfD voter, and I dont like how is europe islamizing us all. I dont like arabic nations like Turkey, Our government has pretty neutral relations with them, cuz they dont really want them in EU. But from europe, our friends are mostly Central European nations and from North america, I say USA and Canada.
*dies of cringe*
ah my fav gerne, soldiers singing about how much war sucks.
It's kinda dumb tbh
@@Imperial_stroopwafel on the contrary
Russians have a lot of these types of songs about Afghanistan and Chechnya but they're quite sad.
@@LMvdB02 Привет тебе из России, город Ижевск.
@@LMvdB02 'he'll be coming home in a black tulip'
Respect to all soldiers who died and fought in WW1.
this is probably from the franco prussian war, because of the uniforms he's talking about but indeed
@@gergelylaszlo5463 The video was uploaded on the day when WW1 ended so i assumed it was about that.
@@mhhmsmfshsmhfh The description says that it was written by an anonymous soldier in 1870 so probably during the Franco Prussian war
i have seen you in lots of random videos before
@@gergelylaszlo5463 It applies to all wars tho anyway
The Melody of this song is the same as "Soldat te souviens-tu" - "Soldier, do you remember?", About the napoleonic Wars and the legend that it was.
Many years later in 1870, France lose against Germany. A lot of people started to think that the bourgeois were the responsibles. Lyrics about this trahison were written on the same Melody as Soldat te souviens-tu to compose "Paris pour un Beafsteak" - "Paris for a Beafsteak".
Thanks for this, as a fan of Napoleonic history!
I recognized “Paris pour un beafstek” immediately! It’s sad but also sort of cool that this German poet used the melody along related lines.
Kinda true. They're both calming songs, not very loud.
There's a quote that summarizes this entire song.
"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
~ Francois Fenelon
Why does songs with depressed lyrics always have a happy beats
Because people will like it more and maybe actually think about the lyrics and change something.
From a fervent pacifist, thank you for sharing this song. This might be my new favorite anti-war song!
@Alturnes-Knight Lmao clown
@Alturnes-Knight you really didn't. I'm laughing at you pal, I hope you have a good life and grow out of this phase once you reach highschool friend.
@Alturnes-Knight why would I do that when I can keep laughing at you and you keep going on tirades and going "u mad?". Learn to turn the other cheek.
Clown 🤡
@Alturnes-Knight too long didn't read keep honking for me 🤡
@Alturnas-Knight you're the type of person to type out "soy jack" lmao clown
“Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are.”
~Hafsat Abiola.
War is one of those things that we can get rid of humans are too greedy and self obsessed we think of the interests of ourselves before those of people who may not be so blessed with our circumstances (I’m also guilty of this as well) humans have a very hard time of understanding the suffering of let’s say as an example an Afghani citizen in a entire different continent it’s not our faults humans just aren’t able to be the most empathetic and caring all the time especially with people we can’t even see but it helps to at least have a kind of mentality that people not just your neighbors or the people of your country can and will suffer if wars are continued to be fought
@@genericwd6290 おれわおちんちんがだいすきなんだよ！
Couldn't have said it better myself, Rohito *wink* *wink*.
“All wars are civil war because all men are brothers” - François Fénelon
Finally, an anti war song😩
i swear haha
I'd rate this one as anti-war as well: th-cam.com/video/Xi_vwyPRxOI/w-d-xo.html
Why finally? It's not like we needed this or something.
Wdym finally? We’ve had Wo Alle Straßen Enden for a while
I HATE WAR SONGS! I HATE WAR SONGS!
We got you surrounded, come out and listen to Shitten und Farten
my man was in the franco-prussian war, ww1,ww2 and he is still a soldier to this day
At 210 years young
@@Dlopwoo Idk where you got that number
@@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136 maths
@@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136 seems like the number i would come up with tbh
@@Dlopwoo hey not trying to start any beef or anything but you can tell by the Prussian geographic map in the beginning of the song (which is most likely from the Franco Prussian war) it would be about 150 years
One of my favorite songs of all time. Thank you for the upload!
“Instead of giving each other lead, greet each other with a brothers hand” best peace quote I ever heard
Indeed.
More relevant than ever.
Brothers kill each other once again.
The cycle of suffering will never end.
All humans are brothers and no one should ever die in war.
@@VentsislavValentinov shut up pacifist.
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 No, you shut up, you support the suffering and murder of innocent people and go against literally everything this amazing song stands for.
@@VentsislavValentinov❤
"All ye brothers, whether German, or French, or Hungarian, Danish, or from The Netherlands, whether green, or red, or blue, or white your uniform instead of giving each other lead, greet each other with a brother's hand" This brings tears to my eyes because its about family split apart and then having to fight each other. This is exactly what happend to my great great grandfather in the Austro-Prussian war. May all that have died in war, rest for all of eternity.
Such a beatiful song. Especially the lyrics.
rip aniki
"Has man gone insane?
A few will remain
Who'll find a way
To live one more day
Through decades of war?"
-Sabaton
war is hell
always have been
Always will be
War does not make men
War makes men mad
War is hell. Never will it ever be heaven.
to quote BF1, war turns men into monsters, and monsters know only war
Fun fact: The picture in 1:10 is a picture of a Hitlerjugend (Note: Hitlerjugend is a Hitler's military group that it's soldiers are consisting 12-18 years old boys that are trained to defend the Western German borderlands against the Allies) crying when he came back to Berlin just to finding out that his family are dead because of Allied bombardment.
@Guest 1337 Oh I should write it a sad fact
Another reason to hate war
So sad 😭
this needs more recognition, this is a beautiful song
@Bread Boi
lol
Agreed
Вот по этому война это плохо ! Мир всем ❤️
🇺🇦❤️🇷🇺
@@songsandanthemsinthischann9990 да , всё так и должно быть .
@@songsandanthemsinthischann9990 based
🇺🇸❤🇷🇺
@@Goodwind88 и это тоже , конечно же .
The lad from 1870 that wrote this song must have been mighty pissed at kings and wars in general, no wonder he wrote a song about it
Interesting that the song was from 1870. I assumed the song was from the Great War. Just shows how utterly destructive the 1840s-1940s were for Europe, not to mention the Cold War which tore the continent in half
@@chairmanlmao4482
Im not 100% sure, but i think he is singing about the "Bismarck-wars" which unifyed germany.
(They are called "Brüderkriege" or "Brother-wars" in german)
@@chairmanlmao4482 Great War was 1914, the German Unification wars were the 1870’s
@@hansvader4864 the song is from ww1 thought it use the melody of a French commune song 'paris pour un beefsteak' (ironically being pro war against Germany) commune song who itself use almost the same melody as 'te souvien tu' ironically being a pro french empire song
I bet some Russians soliders are singing a Russians language version of this song.
5nizza-солдат
@@pilgrim009 I fucking love that song
Gruppa Krovi
@@Brslldna rukave
I made a Dutch version of this masterpiece!
Ik ben soldaat, maar ik kan het verlakken.
Of ik het wou, heeft niemand mij gevraagd.
Ik werd gedwongen, gepropt in de barakken.
Ik was gevangen, van mijn thuis gejaagd.
Van mijn geliefden, mijn dromen en verlangen.
Ik moest vertrekken, van kameraad gesplitst.
Denk ik daar aan, dan voelt de tocht nog langer.
Voel in mijn hart, mijn woede wordt gehitst.
Ik ben soldaat, maar liever zou ik vrij zijn.
Dat grijz gedracht, waar ik alleen van mok.
Mensen beschieten, dat wordt voor niemand ooit fijn.
Mezelf beschermen,
dat kan ook met een stok.
Ik vraag me af, wat moet je met soldaten?
Want ieder volk, streeft alleen maar vrede na.
Alleen voor hebzucht, en om het volk te schaden.
Het breekt de vrede, waarvoor ik liever sta.
Ik ben soldaat, moet nachten lang marcheren.
In plaats van arbeid, moet ik posten staan.
In plaats van vrijheid, moet ik salueren.
Zal nooit de hovaard, van commandant verslaan.
En in de strijd, moet ik men vermoorden.
Waarvan geen een, mij ooit iets heeft misdaan.
En tegen weehom, krijg ik een medaille.
En mag ik roepen, ik was soldaat!
oh kameraad, van Frankrijk tot aan Zweden.
Uit Hongarije, of Griekenland.
Al viel er bloed, in ons grouw verleden.
Inplaats van strijden, geef elkaar de hand.
Keer nu naar huis, laten we terugmarcheren.
Tirannen tegen, ons allen zijn maar klein.
Want alleen tirannen, willen oorlog eren.
Soldaat der vrijheid, wil ik heel graag zijn.
Soldaat der vrijheid, wil ik heel graag zijn!
I am German and live about 20 kilometres away from the Dutch-German border in a small coastal town. I also speak Low German, or "Plattdeutsch". I can almost entirely understand your comment. It amazes me how similar our languages really are.
@@NautyCat i also speak platt
Nice work!
En nu zingen maar...
@@NautyCat lekker man
Regardless of the flag, we are all human beings and shall rightfully be treated as one. Thanks Ingen for uploading such a heart touching song.😌🙏🏽❤️
personnally I don't consider myself equal to all of those extremist and equal to all of those fighter
I'm in between them soldier being the 100 IQ poet and extremist being the worst creation of human history.
@@valentinlageot4101 wtf are you even going on about?
with the sentence you just wrote i'd be hard pressed to believe that you weren't the "100 IQ poet"
No more fratricidal war !
Kein Bruderkrieg mehr !
Plus jamais de guerre fratricide!
Geen broedermoord meer !
Non più guerra fratricida !
No más guerra fratricida !
больше нет братоубийственной войны !
United Europeans!
Message from Belgium, I'm proud to be an european and being a part of this wonderful europeans' diversity.
Yes but Wil you care for those in middle east
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers.
We, Europeans, after all, we are brothers and shouldn't fight each other. RIP for all the brave men who died in that horrible war, I wish something like that will never happen again. (PD: I know that in WWI also fighted non-europeans, but since this song is focused in Europe, well...)
Non Europeans also have been forced from their homelands to go and fight in the war and many died RIP for them too
All people are brothers, not only Asians or Europeans.
@@КириллВасилевский-й3й id rather not be brothers with some cultures
@@ryanmurray7941 why, if it isn't secret?
@@ryanmurray7941 thats stupid
I remember visiting the German military cemetery for World War II dead in Normandy. I walked a row of headstones. They were ten on either side, two names per stone. Forty men. Of those, a quarter of the names read only "Ein Deutscher Soldat."
We Americans pride ourselves on memorializing our unknown dead. It was a chilling realization that no one seems to care about those unknowns.
Probably because of how germany in ww2 was. It is rememberd very badly (mostly for valid reasons of course). German soldiers are not as often seen with pride, even if they fought as though and brave as others.
I always come to this song back to back since it was posted, this is now my favorite German song. Greetings from France
Привет из России.
Greetings right back to you from Germany!
Vive l'amitié franco-allemande! Est-ce que j'ai dit ça correctement?
@Dominik Weber
Oui mon camarade!
Tekst po polsku:
Jestem żołnierzem,
chociaż tego nie chcę,
kiedy się nim stałem,
nie byłem o to pytany.
Zostałem wyrwany,
na koszary,
zostałem przejęty,
jakby jakiś upolowany.
Tak, z domu,
z serc ukochanych,
Musiałem wyjść,
wyjść z grona moich przyjaciół.
Zawsze, gdy o tym myślę,
czuję ogromny smutek,
czuję w piersi,
wzrost mocnej złości.
Jestem żołnierzem,
ale wbrew mojej woli,
nie lubię,
niebieskich mundurów królewskich.
Nie lubię
krwawego życia z bronią,
by bronić siebie,
patyk powinien starczyć.
Och, powiedz mi,
do czego potrzebujesz żołnierzy?
Wszyscy ludzie
kochają tylko pokój i ciszę,
Wyłącznie z żądzy władzy
i by zaszkodzić ludziom,
się depczą,
ah, złote pola!
Jestem żołnierzem,
muszę maszerować dnie i noce,
zamiast pracować,
muszę zostać na moim posterunku,
zamiast być wolnym,
muszę salutować,
i widzieć arogancję
zuchwałych kompanów.
I gdy idę na bitwę,
muszę mordować braci,
żaden z nich nigdy mi nie zrobił krzywdy,
dlatego jako kaleka,
zakładam wstążkę i medal,
a gdy głoduję, krzyczę:
Byłem żołnierzem!
Wy wszyscy bracia,
czy Niemcy, czy Francuzi,
czy Węgrzy, Duńczycy,
czy z Holandii.
Czy zielony, czy czerwony,
czy niebieski, czy biały twój mundur,
zamiast dawać innym rządzić,
powitajmy się braterską ręką!
Chodźmy do swoich domów
maszerujmy z powrotem,
by uwolnić naszych ludzi od tyranów,
bo tylko tyranie
muszą prowadzić wojny,
chcę być żołnierzem pokoju.
Chcę być żołnierzem pokoju!
I'm Russian speaker, and i understand of all that in 95%!
Good to see that, Slavic people still can understand each other without any translators (in each moments). But not our governments (((
Trochę bardziej poetycka (choć wciąż daleka od doskonałości, bo rymowanie tego byłoby dla mnie zbyt trudne) wersja:
1.
Jestem żołnierzem,
Choć o to nie prosiłem,
Powołany,
Nie byłem pytany,
Siłą wzięty,
I wsadzony w koszary,
Upolowany,
Niczym dziki zwierz.
Tak, od ojczyzny,
Od serc ukochanych,
Musiałem odejść,
Od przyjaciół mych,
Myśląc o tym,
Czuję żal i gorycz,
W moim sercu,
Ciepły gniewu błysk.
2.
Jestem żołnierzem,
lecz tylko wbrew mej woli,
Nie przepadam,
za błękitem mundurów,
Nie przepadam,
Za krwawym zbrojnym życiem,
By bronić się,
Starczyłby zwykły kij.
Powiedzcie mi,
Po co wam są żołnierze?
Ludzie chcą tylko
W spokoju żyć.
Stroniąc od mocy
Zadawania bólu,
Stąpając po
Złocie swoich pól!
3.
Jestem żołnierzem,
W dzień każdy i noc w marszu,
Miast pracować,
Stać muszę na warcie,
Miast wolnym być,
Muszę salutować,
Widząc bezczelność
Towarzyszy swych.
Idąc na bitwę,
Braci swych morduję,
A żaden z nich, nigdy nie skrzywdził mnie,
A wten kaleki,
Medal swój założę,
W głodzie zakrzyknę:
Byłem żołnierzem!
4.
Bracia moi,
Czy Niemcy, czy Francuzi,
Węgierscy, Duńscy,
Czy z Holandii ziem,
I niezależnie,
w jakim mundurze,
Miast ołowiu,
Podajmy sobie dłoń,
Więc nie zwlekajmy,
Wróćmy do swych domów,
By wyzwolić lud nasz od tyranów,
Tylko tyrani
muszą ważyć wojny,
Ja chcę być żołnierzem wolności!
Ja chcę być żołnierzem wolności!
😐
@@zhylan2648 you just keep blaming a government, huh?
И снова актуально
P.S. 21.09.22. Ещё более актуально
война это плохо, но наши ребята на украине делают благое дело
@@РоссийскийИмператоръ Благое дело, наверное вермахт тоже делал благие дела во имя арийской расы. Не надо разделять войну и войну. Все они одинаковы, ведь только тиранам нужны войны.
@@РоссийскийИмператоръ нет, не делают
@@РоссийскийИмператоръ согласен, ваши солдаты делают благое дело, подыхая как скот коим они и являются, но лучше бы они это делали дома.
Virgin Erika fan
Vs
Average ich bin soldat liker
I like both....
average german military fan
vs
average peace enjoyer
@@kero-c8f who the fuck is a military fan?
@@Schnitzl_Gampa Putin as it seems
@@jakubzov well yes
but not of zhe german military
"ich bin soldat" is like a sentence you say when you are learning german.
My guy Arthur Gerlach died at the age of 19 a week before his birthday :( the war is really terrifying
Not so fun fact about the 3rd image: It’s a picture of a Wehrmact returning from a PoW camp to his home and family, only to find out they aren’t there anymore.
a song that doesnt portray the german people as obedient robots
That is kind of the sad irony in Germanys history. It was always a place of great diversity (countelss states and regional cultures in HRE) and thinkers, philosophy enlightenment, craftsmenship and so on... but on the other hand also had a strong culture of obedience (feudalism and later especially prussia's loyalty-based militarism) to authority...
Well, many of them were. Just like much russians now
@@Xeem_Padshould that offend NORMAL russians?
@@russiajopa4555 I don't know. It doesn't offend me
I wish a russian version would exist of this song right now....
@@pisaks6782 Thank you a lot!
@@pisaks6782 I see you took some inspiration from the song
@@pisaks6782 ты наверное не россиянин, так как в твоём тексте много грамматических ошибок, но мне нравится
@@historiaradiophonicus4626 Да я не Россиянин, я Латыш
@@pisaks6782 im just gonna copy this and send it on RT news videos
I listen to this while i do my compulsory millitary service and i feel the same
Where are you from if i may ask?
After All Quiet on the Western Front, this hits diffrent.
Yeah
That's what I also thought, but after reading the book, I've got to say it's an absolute must, it provides a lot more different sutiations and it's overall a much more complete anti-war experience. What I also like is that there are very few times we're the characters sit down and talk about war, for the most part it's just all the horrific sutiations being portrayed very barren
There’s something about the background at 0:40 that makes me uncomfortable. I think it’s the fact the boy is so young the helmet doesn’t even fit right. World War One may have been the most brutal war since the khan invaded, everywhere. I’m 16 and I don’t think the boy in the photo is much older. I’ve been learning about World War One for the last 5 years and it haunts me how so much people went to battles in this war not having the slightest idea of how horrible it would really be. But we know.
They boy appears 14-16 and yes,WW1 was one of the bloodiest for youth, the youngest person in the German army was a 10 year old news paper boy,
It's the same melody as a french napoleonic war song called "te souviens-tu" !
do you remember too?
This soldier has been in almost everywhere
He has been in Russia (WW1, WW2)
He has been in France (Franco-Prussian War, WW1, WW2, The Seven Years War)
He has been in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg (WW1, WW2)
He has been in Italy (WW1, WW2)
He has been in Africa (WW1, WW2)
He has been in Honolulu and Samoa (WW1)
He has been in China (WW1)
He has been in Papua New Guinea (WW1)
He has been in Serbia (WW1, WW2)
He has been Montenegro (WW1, WW2)
He has been in Bulgaria (WW1)
He has been in Greece (WW1, WW2)
He has been in Poland (WW1, maybe, WW2)
He has been in Austria (Austro-Prussian War)
He has been in the Ottoman Empire (WW1)
He has been a soldier for 321 years
He’s been in Iraq (Gulf War) Afghanistan (WiA)
He’s been in Spain (Spanish civil war)
He's been in Norway (WW2)
German Nationalists been real quiet since this banger dropped
🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🗿🇩🇪🗿🇩🇪🇩🇪🍻🍻🍻
@@TheGeneralOf501 Please elaborate further
@@owenofhb8319 No. 🗿
@@TheGeneralOf501
-enters room
-says: “🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🗿🇩🇪🗿🇩🇪🇩🇪🍻🍻🍻”
-refuses to elaborate further
I interpret that he wants to drink to the Republic with his fellow freedom loving chads
What we should all be able to agree upon is this simple truth: War is horror
Ihr Bruder all, ob Russen ob Ukrainisch……
Ob Buryat, Tschetschene oder Belarus
@Мемный Чехословак We are all friends in the end I hope.
@Мемный Чехословак How do you expect us Ukrainians to react when you destroy our cities, culture and identity, or at least attempt to. You call us fascists while following a true imperialist as your president. And then you just expect us to say thank you for the suffering you give us and accept that we're brothers? It's no surprise nobody wants to have anything to do with Russia because they don't want to be associated with a state and people that get their enjoyment from abusing others. Don't worry, soon you won't be blockaded. Soon you'll have a lot of attention, more than you have now. But not as the liberator of a free country, but as an genocidal nation, similar to a certain Reich in the 1940s.
@Мемный Чехословак as a Brazilian, I think that Insulting Russian people is Dumb and makes things worse.
Ну, украинцы сами не слишком-то хотели быть братьями россиянам. Чего только стоит их майдан.
I don't know if you notice, but from the Franco-Prussian war to WWII it seems like he's getting more and more unstable. The wait he says "Arbeit" at 1:14 just seems like he's going crazy.
one of my favourites, thank you for posting :)
Ich kann mir das den ganzen Tag anhören, danke, dass du es hochgeladen hast
Russian version: Я был солдатом, увезли туда куда я не хотел,
Не хотел я сидеть в бараках грязных,
Да, из дома своего пришел я,
От любящих сердец и родины,
Наполнен яростью великой я,
Я солдат,
Но против воли высшей,
Ненавижу форму эту,
Ненавижу оружие, которым приходится братьев ближних убивать,
Зачем людям кровь войны?
Ведь просят год и наш народ, но нет - хотят войны!
Был я солдатом, трудился с ночь по день я,
Оставаясь крепко на посту,
Без свободы прежней,
Салютировал постоянно я,
Смотря на командиров наших,
Шел я на войну,
Братьев убивать родных и близких,
Не сделавших мне плохо или больно,
Убью я их,
Возьму медаль красивую,
Громко Закричав: "Я был солдатом!"
Все мы братья, хоть украинец или русский,
Иль уж поляк,
Ну или иж ты из Беларуси,
Хоть твой флаг, и красный, и даже черный,
Зеленая и Синяя униформа ваша, сейчас это неважно,
Протяни ты руку нам!
Разойдитесь по своим домам,
Давайте маршем уйдем назад,
Чтоб землю нашу тиранам не оставить,
Ведь именно тиранам война нужней всего,
А мы хотим же быть солдатами свободы,
А мы хотим же быть солдатами свободы.
Не знаю, как вы оцените труд мой, но такой творческой работой я занимаюсь, что крайне грустно - только здесь, впервые.
Schön
Sus.
Ни в склад, ни в лад, всё переврали. Автор просто поток сознания выплеснул и всё
@@Студент-й9ы Спасибо за критику! Ну на самом деле так и есть, это просто выплеск моего сознания, если вам так угодно.
Хорошая версия.
Привет с Киева
I am originally from Lorraine(now I live in Hungary) and I have to say German sounds really cool, sadly when I still lived there I didn’t really care much when they reached German, and now my German knowledge is basically nothing. I really want to learn German one day. Anyways greetings from Hungary 🇫🇷🇭🇺❤️🇩🇪
Also I have a German family name soooooooo
German really is a beautiful language
А я русский с немецкими корнями.
@@germany6668 У меня с точностью до наоборот... Я немец с русскими корнями, живущий в Росси ( не знаю почему, но я тут с 3-х лет лет живу, хотя до этого жил в Гамбурге )...
@@belfigor_of А вот у меня предки переехали сюда незадолго до революции из города Мюнхен. Во время 2 мировой войны моих родственников департировали в Сибирь в город Иркутск. А сейчас, а потом бабушка и дедушка переехали обратно в Санкт Петербург , а через месяц я так сказать возвращаюсь на историческую родину в город Мюнхен.
I was always been a part of Anti-War Moment. And this song described it very well! Props to the one who sang this song!
War cannot bring peace. Solidarity. May peace prevail.
@@Nilessterner Pacisfism cannot peace either.
Put this master piece in Russian or Ukrainian
And Hebrew, and Palestinian Arab. Or even Chinese and English and Taiwanese...
The blue King's uniform
is this song made before the unification of Germany.
Yes, it was made during the unification wars I believe
@@Sihvonen21 the description says it was written by an anonymous soldier in 1870 so yes
@@WallaceBreenFromKentucky Yeah, it wasn't there when I wrote the comment
@@Sihvonen21 oh k
The German empire was formed 1871
Sounds like "Te souviens-tu", a French Military Song
Merci je viens de l'écouter, je suis triste en pensant à tout ces jeunes hommes morts au combat à travers le monde et à travers l'Histoire, qui n'ont même pas pu profiter un minimum de la vie, souvent pour les intérêts cupides de certains dirigeants..
Okay
Ironic
It does, there's also a french anti war song "paris pour un beefsteak" which uses the same melody
and "Paris pour un beafsteak"
This teaches that Germans are human beings. Remember, human beings are people everywhere. North Koreans are people just like you, Russians are people, and Iranians are people.
All humans are good people, until they become powerful and vain. And only a few ever do.
Yeah people always view the germans as the bad guy
@@TH-rc2nq not the point of this comment but ok
@@saturnosaturn6526 ik but my comment is related to what he says
Try telling that to a 'MURICAN
@@monarchistheadcrab8819 The uneducated americans like im a ww2 reenactor not a neo nazi
1:41 Was true, whenever you are Dutch, German, French, Austrian, Hungarian Yu should be friends instead of battle
I might have context to this 1:20 picture if I’m not mistaken its a picture of a german soldier in WW2 that managed to come home alive but found that he came home to see there was nothing left.
Its enough to make a real man cry, snd thats fine
I don't know why but this song hits me at a very deep emotional level that it has brought me to tears, what a beautiful song.
1:41 holy fuck this is so real it made me shiver, no more brother wars
Sorry to announce that Thomas Friz, Member of Zupfgeigenhansel, has died on August, 29th 2023, aged 73. He was the Singer of this Song.
This song IS from 1870 so it's not him
@@VIPERASSASSIN But he was the Singer of this Version !
F
Love that message at the end
Как хорошо, что мы сейчас живём в время, когда люди поняли, что воевать это плохо.
Ну я что-то в этом сильно сомневаюсь . Прокси войны все равно происходят
Люди не поняли, что плохо воевать, они поняли, что если начнется ядерная война, то будет смерть всему человечеству. Не было бы ядерного оружия, то давно бы произошли большие войны между Сверхдержавами.
@@sansunderfell8765 Very true. May the world stay at peace. For the most part. A war between the US, Russia, China, and Europe would be devastating.
Сейчас идут войны в нищенских странах Третьего Мира, поэтому более цивилизованное общество с доступом в интернет может говорить о том, как мирно мы живём.
Apparently not.
powerful message, i agree
edit: it COMPLETELY went over my head that this is for remembrance day (what we call it in canada, at least)
"I want to be a soldier of freedom"
US Army recruiter who tracks down every highschooler: hello
Bless that anonymous soldier who wrote this.
I feel like Germany's Anti War song was heard more than the Entente's war songs. Did they even have one.
ALSO LMFAO, MY MAN CHANGED THE SWASTIKA TO THE YT SYMBOL
russians, ukranians, they all dont deserve this. and the tyrant that started this, faces zero consiquences. do you see the dillusion?
Ikr
Neither Obama nor Biden have taken any action so far. What a shame
@@Vinni564 yeah but I wished George Bush and Obama got as much hell that Putin is getting
Wth you came on this song just to talk about the current war, what the hell is wrong with you people you always come on something related to war and make a comment about the current ongoing wars today. Why can't people not talk about war so much.
@@kaisermarxistdixie6842 True, because george bush and obama are equally as bad as putin is. Honestly people are giving putin hell just cause he's the aggressor, which is reasonable but they havent gave any US President beef because they declared war on so and so
The sad thing is this song came out in 1870. And not after the world wars. people didn’t listen to this song and continued fighting which led to so much death and destruction
Now THIS is the song that should be translated to every sigle language on earth
1:11 Funny how you used the YT logo instead of swastika. I like that!
Unfortunately it's relevant
Yes always has and will be.
It will always be relevant
Always has been
Always will be
Nothing new, it's been relevant for a long time
I'm russian. This song is just true. It's heartbreaking. And I'm dying internally every time i read news about new horrifying cruelties that ppl of my country made. And it's so painful to see and to talk to person who is brainwashed. I remember how we yelled at each other, because I'm antiwar and he's pro war, he was almost as an uncle. He went out, saying that we all (me and my family, who is also anti war) are fascists. War and propaganda makes something very terrible with people's minds.
Make love, not war. ☮️
Stay strong brother, big hugs from germany!
@@blablamann2973 thank you ❤️
I agree with you. I was at the start of Russian invasion of Ukraine pro - Ukrainian. But now I see that war is just a dump excuse to kill people.
Mihajlo Bogdanović
No to war! ☮️
Привет из Краснодарского края.
ukraine has oppressed Russians in the Donbas and Crimea and still does so russia warned them several times u don't need to be ashamed your country is just removing the nazis and far right extremists and liberating the poor Russians there Ukraine is in the wrong and everyone knows it they just turn a blind eye and listen to the western propaganda