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7:04 Yes, this did happen. That's why it is such a special song - in the middle of one of the most devastating wars the soldiers came together for one night of peace because it was Christmas. The German soldiers sang christmas songs in their trenches - the French and British soldiers heared that and responded by starting to sing as well.
You really need to react to Tommy Johansson and his band Majestica. Not that you will say "Where do you guys hid this singer from me" again. I recommend the song "Ghost of Marley" since it is christmas. And yes it is the same Tommy that plays guitar in Sabaton. He also has his own YT channel so check that out too he has a lot of power metal covers there.
Yes, listen to Tommy, both his band Majestica but also his solos on his you tube channel...alot of fantastic covers, now in christmastime, listen to his o holy night, both in swedish and english...
Maggie, you should really react to Sabaton - En Livstid I Krig (A Lifetime In War) live in Gothenburg (with subtitles). Its about the 30 year war and is probably the only song in Swedish that will bring you to tears❤
The reason why it sounds like Nightwish in the end, because it is Floor Jansen singing.... She is married to one of the greatest drummer, Hannes van Dahl, witch you saw in this video 😊 And yes, it´s a real story 😊
Yup, listed in the credit around 12:53. The outro by Floor is only on the music video, it's not on the studio recording. I wouldn't be surprised if it was an improvisation decided during the making of the music video, this requires Floor to have been there during the recording or at least visiting (if it was over multiple days) but that doesn't seem impossible IF Nightwish wasn't playing for a few days since well, Hannes van Dahl.
@@Torbjorn.Lindgren I dont think it was improvised, only reason it's not on the studio recording is because there's no credits portion on there, Im pretty sure they planned it for the music video
Actually the end credits is from a released and official Sabaton album called Symphony To End All Wars... Floor was definitely hired & paid for it and very likely recorded her stuff separately because it was in the middle of the pandemic + also a big reason why she would not have been on this Sabaton set in Czech Republic etc. Sabaton has infact released 3 different versions of the last 2 Sabaton albums 1) normal band recording i.e. what everyone listens to 2) history editions with a history narration before every song 3) AND the symphonic edition (no sung lyrics/words)! Floor sings on about 2-3 songs/choirs on both of the symphonic editions of 2019 & 2022 albums (Never on the band/ main album versions, those have the normal Sabaton female choir). For some reason nobody seems to know about those albums and misses out on several things she sings on... and the albums as a whole are great for "backround" music for playing, reading etc. @@Torbjorn.Lindgren
Storytime: Floor just did a concert with her sister Irene and Anneke van Giersbergen, a few days ago. Rumour says: Floor chose to sing metal, when she heard Anneke perform "strange machines" with The Gathering. Now: I saw Floor in Hamburg. Anneke was the opening act. Just a woman with an acoustic guitar and a tape recorder on stage. Floor mentioned, during the concert, that Anneke in fact inspired her to sing metal. When the concert was over, there was music played from tape. Guess, what the 1st song was? An instrumental version of strange machines. There is an interview about how Hannes met Floor. Backstage. Quote:"She is an opera singer? Listens to Pantera? Is smoking cigars and drinks whiskey? She needs to be mine!" (Rest is history, I guess.) Interview with Joakim: "I came into the band a keyboarder. But they had no singer. "You can sing? So do it, while we search for a singer." But the guys are lazy. They never found one." Haha! My 2 cents on stories.
Sabaton tells true stories without chosing a side. They own a TH-cam channel called Sabaton History where they explain the facts behind the songs. Check out the songs No bullets fly (animated video), 1916, Bismarck, The Last Stand...
The cross they rise here is a reference to a true memorial that still stands on the old frontline of where this took place. I'll take the oportunity to point out the guitarist you saw here. Tommy Johansson has his own solo channel on YT where he releases all kind of music. He's a beautiful rock tenor who you only hear doing back vocals here, as the voice of Joakim Brodén is particularily suited to Sabaton. Tommy has for instance covered Phantom of the Opera, where he takes on both parts, duetting with himself. He has also made a duet with operasinger Kristin Starkey covering Fairytales of New York. To hear Tommys amaziing range and voice it's generally a good starting point with his cover of Steelheart's She's Gone.
Yes, the actual memorial cross is featured at the beginning of The Big Red One film, if I'm not mistaken, where Lee Majors is around it as he prepares to ambush a German soldier.
Yes! Please, please, PLEASE react to Tommy, he is phenomenal! His voice is absolutely beautiful, on par with the best! Since it's Christmas I would recommend "O Helga Natt", it's the Swedish version of O Holy Night, he does both the English and Swedish versions, but the Swedish has a special surprise ending! Thank you Maggie Renee'! Great reaction, we love you! ❤
That particular cross stands in the village Ploegsteert/Frelenghien , a village on the border between France and Belgium. Note, former PM W.Churchill was a commander of a British Bataljon in that exact region.@@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay
went on the Sabaton Cruise a week ago, and Joakims Voice was so fucked up due to sickness that Tommy actually sang most songs, and it was quite cool, he sings very well!
The opera singer at the end was Floor Jansen who is married to the drummer in Sabaton. Of course this has really happened, because Sabaton only makes music about real military history. They even have Sabaton History on TH-cam where you can hear the real story of this song and many other songs Sabaton made music for.
If you haven’t seen it yet, “1916” by this band will bring you to tears!!!! Written by Lemmy Kilmeister, ( best ROCKER ever!) it is as moving as any song you will ever be witness to!! And TRUE!!
Who should you react to next? Tommy Johansson (the guitarist of Sabaton) singing "O Helga Natt" (O Holy Night" in Swedish). For a "backing singer" (!) it's awesome!
so glad u found them! their guitarist Tommy Johansson also does covers of all sorts of genres of music and even injects some humor into them. he releases covers every friday. check him out. fyi he is the big blonde guy in blue
Sabaton does truly amazing videos. Their version of Motor Head's 1916 is a masterpiece but should come with the same trigger warnings. The numbers shown at the end are staggering and more than heartbreaking. As to why can't they just make every day Christmas can sort of be summed up with this quote. War is a place where the young kill one another without knowing or hating each other, because of the decision of old people who know and hate each other, without killing each other.” - Erich Hartmann
Maybe at that time Erich Hartmann was right. Today there's a lot of relatively young people in politics and a lot of military people are not so young anymore. But still, nothing has changed. And buddy, better look around, there's a whole lot of hate among young people. Homo Homini Lupus est!
Or, as Niko Bellic says in GTA IV: "War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other." I tend to think that that sums it up rather succinctly, myself, although I like the way you put it, too.
All the things happening in the video are true things, the football, the cross, and everything. You can read about it as you can do about every happenings in Sabatons song's. They always have a historic background behind their songs and even a history channel where they break down the background behind the songs. The female you heard at the end of the video is Floor Jansen from Nightwish, which is married to the drummer in Sabaton. You should listen to more of their songs. The animated No bullets fly hava a really nice emotional story and ending.
Great reaction, Maggie. The two parts of this video that always get me are: 1. When Hannes and Chris and giving each other a hug as they head back to the trenches, and 2. When the officer stops the ball with his foot with a look of resignation on his face and the corner of his mouth slightly twitches into a grimace.
See this Sabaton song again seems appropriate during this time of year and with the world engaged in war. This is why this song will last, it's message is still relevant.
The Christmas Truce happened historically, but Command was so angry over the incident that they made sure it would never happen again and they specifically fired more artillery shells and bombings on those days in the coming years to prevent it. It just goes to show, that wars are fought by soldiers, but Wars are started and fought out between Generals and Politicians, who for the most part, never suffer the consequences of those Wars.
It would be wonderful if all could have Christmas every day during war, but sadly it is not the reality of conflict. But it was a beautiful moment in human history and this did not repeat. As far as I remember, there were no Christmas truces after this one, there might have been a time of no combating but nothing like what happened at the first time. This is one of several other emotional Sabaton songs I sing at times, because they are bittersweet but also wonderful at the same time to sing.
This truce did in fact take place although it wasn't authorized by any of the military commands on either side. It was a spontaneous act where the German soldiers took the initiative when starting singing carols. Yes they did exchange like souvenirs and played soccer/football. After the truce many soldiers refused to go back waring which is understandable and some of them even got executed for disobeying orders. Btw you should check out their guitarist Tommy Johansson if you haven't already done it he got some crazy pipes!!
Maggie: "This doesn't make any SENSE!" War itself doesn't make any sense. Especially not this one. In the words of my high-school history teacher, World War I started "because someone nobody had ever heard of killed someone nobody liked over a piece of land nobody wanted".
Sabaton is 1 of my all time favorite bands mainly because most if not all of their songs have some kind of historical event and I’m a fan of anything to do with history
on the subjects of their songs, called (if memory serves) Sabaton History.If you choose to dive deeper into sabaton, don't miss "Night Witches". Also, In addition to their music channel, Sabaton runs a YT channel of
Celtic Thunder does a real tear-jerker of a song with a similar name and theme. Very different style from Sabaton, (my first time hearing Sabaton, powerful group), but also worth listening to.
It didn't continue largely because of High Command on both sides. The days after Christmas (and each Christmas after this one) both sides had massive artillery strikes against each other to discourage the men from having another truce or days of peace. You could also be executed for refusing to fight or take part in an attack so many did out of self preservation.
Floor's vocal credit is near the very end of the credits just below the band members' names. I too always had a hard time finding it, but i spotted it this time.
My thought exactly. Why can't every day be Christmas and we can live in peace and friendship and helping each other through life? I thought that after all this time I would be trigger proof but the incongruous surprise of Vietnamese subtitles woke memories. I somehow missed that during the Live. Still the joy and hope of this season rescues me and heals me. Improvise Adapt Overcome And someday may there really be Peace on Earth. 🎹
The Christmas Truce actually happened in 1914. Soldiers from both sides stopped fighting and hung out. They played soccer, told each other of their families waiting back home. Some even exchanged contact info and adresses, vowing to reunite if they both survived the war. But they were still disobeying orders. By order of their commanders they went back to killing each other the next day.
Yes this is what will happen in any war just as soon as the ppl actually fighting it are given the chance No on will willing kill another unless they are homicidal manic. An English man put it best in 1939 when he wrote "if all those brave men where told they could go home right now they would all to the man, except foe those homicidal manic among them, would tuck their tails between there legs and run home as fast as they could" and that is that about war
As a soldier you realize that the one on the other side is probably just as much between a rock and a hard place as you are. Soldiers dont make war they are just the poor people who have to fight it out.
In December 1915, an order was passed to the British troops that anyone found fraternising with the enemy would be arrested and court-martialed. The outcome of a "guilty" verdict would very likely have been the firing squad.
Pope Benedict XV called for Christmas Day Peace. Not everyone stopped fighting but MANY SPONTANEOUSLY met in "No Man's Land" played Football/Soccer, showed pictures of their families, and shared treats they had received from home!
“Stopping and chilling“ doesn’t change who owns which physical territory, and whose political ideologies and religious ideologies become the law of the land. That’s why they went back to shooting at each other.
For 9hrs maybe a little longer, allies and axis stopped fighting. The sang they danced, played games, futbul and exchanged convefsations, stories. Some even exchanged gifts (what kind do not know). It was a little bit of Christmas for all of them. But unfortunately they retuned to the fighting. Something came overthem for a brief moment and it has never happened since.🎄🌹
Your reaction in the first pause is understandable. You have to realize that most soldiers are average joes, not the politicians and greedy militants GIVING the orders. if it had been left to the rank and file, the war may have been over right there. During the actual event, there were many who decided it was worth the risk to drop the fight and pay the consequences. i would imagine all the trials for desertion gave all military forces headaches.The others went ahead and continued fighting because the risk legally and hit in the paycheck, since combat soldiers make decent money. It doesnt mean their heart was in it.
Floor Jansen`s name is there , in the very end of it all . As you know, she is married to Hannes Van Dahl (Drummer of Sabaton=) The man with the long blond hair , who was almost blown up in the beginning of the video.
In some places the truce lasted weaks, at some point soldiers from both sides had to be sent to other places as they just couldnt fight eachother after soending Christmas together and becoming friends, this is as beautiful a Christmas song as the truce itself and should get the recognition it deserves 🖤🤘
it be hella sexy when joakim hard rolls his R's l can also see him goin "ya know what this video needs for the outro? a soprano!" and hannes sayin "hey l got 1 at home lemme give floor a call" lol this also be my fav sabaton song still canna believe they straight up and murdered that poor piano well floor does be nightwish's currant singer so that makes sence that it'd sound like nightwish but she only did the outro for the video's end credits and not on the version that went on the album
After that I think you have to check out Tommy Johansson, the guy you just saw making an acoustic guitar sound like an electric. Tommy does a lot of covers, he must have done over 100 in the last 2 years (including 24 Christmas songs last December) and you've also heard his work in the music of some of Floor's covers.
I hear some carol of the bells references at the beginning...🤓 And yes it's a true story... They made a movie about this in 2005 called Merry Christmas... With some famous german and french actors...And Rolando Villazon, the opera singer was the singing voice for Benno Fürmann...
The generals on both sides was so afraid of what this could mean so they started shooting artillery barrage the day after to encite fighting and the following Christmases during the war they made sure this wouldn't happen again by shooting artillery on Christmas. The powers that be don't want peace, there's profit in war! Sadly!
I have subbed to your channel. I love Sabaton! "1916" will make you weep. Would you consider reacting to an artist named Dan Vasc? He does amazing covers. "Adeste Fideles", "Angels We Have Heard On High", "Amazing Grace", "Bring Me To Life", "My Immortal" and dozens of others. Some he puts a metal twist on - he sings opera, show tunes, 80's and his favorite metal. Thank you for your reaction.
You should really check out Christmas 1915 performed by Celtic Thunder. It's a great song and it's one of a long list of depressing songs I've been collecting for decades. I've been putting them into 3 major categories: 1 - Tear Jerkers (Me and Little Andy by Dolly Parton is a great example of this). 2 - Cerebral Depression (songs you have to really listen to and understand like Puff The Magic Dragon or The House At Pooh Corners), 3 - Contextual Depression (songs that are depressing to me for what they mean to me or remind me of). There a quite a few that can cross over categories and some also fit into other categories, including a large number of Christmas songs.
7:25--this sort of thing stopped happening because the generals and the high commands of the various armies forbade it. After that first incident, troops were moved to other parts of the front because they would not fire on the men they had just been singing and playing with the previous day. I would imagine that soldiers were threatened with charges of insubordination, dereliction of duty, or worse if they tried to have truces like this again. The men on the lines probably all wanted peace...the bitter old men that sent the men there, absolutely not. A truth that no doubt holds to this day.,
ho from germany as my granddad said the only good thing about war is you can travel and didnt they say this is the war that ends all other wars humans never learn
Sabaton at it's best! Great song and video. As for actual event, which really happened. It was high command on both sides if I remember correctly who put a stop to the ceasefire at Christmas as the war went on. The main issue they had was telling the soldiers it was okay to meet in no man's land and sing and play games, then having to order them to attack and fight and kill the same soldiers a couple of days later. 🎹
I would recommend you check out extra history's 2 videos about the Christa truce if you want to know more of the reasons the truce happened and why it could not have happened at any other time.
8:00 Also, for context, this was the last gentleman war in Europe, perhaps the world. It used to be normal in the past, the generals would meet on the battlefield and offer surrender as and option, discuss terms etc. That is why so many films depict it from Gladiator, Braveheart to The Last of the Mohicans etc. Leave the men go free with flags and everything. This war changed the world, no one ever did that afterwards. To answer the question about not having armistice now... There is no trust anymore. Your enemy will use your morality against you. And there are many cases for it. Just research the last century on how modern warfare changed over decades. Now it changes in weeks. Life and liberty doesn't come freely and without cost, our morals are not their morals. In the future, humans will look back at us and ask, why did they do it that way.?
Its very simple... it was the ordinary soldiers that did this... it was not approved in any way by the governments and generals of the armies and in fact was condemned by them. Soldiers can make these choices in the small world but in the larger scheme of things they do not make that type of decision. It is not as simple as "oh lets stop killing each other" by some random soldiers. After this happened in 1914 it was banned by the higher ups of both sides and had soldiers tried to do it again they would have been court martialled and likely shot.
To give some perspective, most soldiers in the trenches did NOT want to be killed in battle, specifically on Christmas because, it would leave their relatives with a terrible memory at Christmas time, hence the reluctance to engage in battle.
Que maravilla,!!!!! He conocido hace poco a Tommy Johansson,y también a Sabaton,este video es tan brutalmente hermoso,el mensaje es demoledor,en este mundo hace falta valor y fuerza para dar una tregua indefinida a nuestras diferencias y actitudes para llegar a una paz duradera ,sea en Navidad o en cualquier fecha del año,que pena no tener la traducción,pero solo con las imágenes se lo que expresa y significa ,estoy llorando de emoción,es fabuloso, adoro a estos chicos y mas desde que recibi el estreno de Tommy dando homenaje a la que ha sido su familia tanto tiempo!!!!! Sabaton!!!!! Bravo bravo bravo bravo,me encantan tus reacciones eres adorable ,expresiva y auténtica,un abrazo fuerte para ti Kapmeh from Spain with LOVE Kazajistán and Suecia Tommy Johansson,and DIMASH,lovely!!!!!!✌️✌️✌️🤗🤗👏👏👏😱😱😱🤫🤫🤫💓💓💓👌👌👌🫂🫂🫂🔥🔥🔥🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🇪🇦🇰🇿🇸🇪🇪🇦🇰🇿🇸🇪🇪🇦🇰🇿🇸🇪
That is not completely right. Of course, the French were not particularly fond of the Germans because they eventually invaded their country and humiliated them in 1871. There was no great fraternization like with the British, but the French were also tired of the war. In many places, the French and Germans simply agreed not to shoot at each other at certain times. Nothing more, nothing less.
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7:04 Yes, this did happen. That's why it is such a special song - in the middle of one of the most devastating wars the soldiers came together for one night of peace because it was Christmas. The German soldiers sang christmas songs in their trenches - the French and British soldiers heared that and responded by starting to sing as well.
You really need to react to Tommy Johansson and his band Majestica. Not that you will say "Where do you guys hid this singer from me" again. I recommend the song "Ghost of Marley" since it is christmas. And yes it is the same Tommy that plays guitar in Sabaton. He also has his own YT channel so check that out too he has a lot of power metal covers there.
Yes, listen to Tommy, both his band Majestica but also his solos on his you tube channel...alot of fantastic covers, now in christmastime, listen to his o holy night, both in swedish and english...
Maggie, you should really react to Sabaton - En Livstid I Krig (A Lifetime In War) live in Gothenburg (with subtitles). Its about the 30 year war and is probably the only song in Swedish that will bring you to tears❤
Lady of the dark
"Hey guys, anyone know someone that could sing the end credits ?" Hannes: "I might know someone"
The reason why it sounds like Nightwish in the end, because it is Floor Jansen singing.... She is married to one of the greatest drummer, Hannes van Dahl, witch you saw in this video 😊 And yes, it´s a real story 😊
Yup, listed in the credit around 12:53. The outro by Floor is only on the music video, it's not on the studio recording. I wouldn't be surprised if it was an improvisation decided during the making of the music video, this requires Floor to have been there during the recording or at least visiting (if it was over multiple days) but that doesn't seem impossible IF Nightwish wasn't playing for a few days since well, Hannes van Dahl.
I think at 13:12 we can hear Maggie say "It sounded like maybe Floor and another Soprano".
@@Torbjorn.Lindgren I dont think it was improvised, only reason it's not on the studio recording is because there's no credits portion on there, Im pretty sure they planned it for the music video
Awesome band they are
Actually the end credits is from a released and official Sabaton album called Symphony To End All Wars... Floor was definitely hired & paid for it and very likely recorded her stuff separately because it was in the middle of the pandemic + also a big reason why she would not have been on this Sabaton set in Czech Republic etc.
Sabaton has infact released 3 different versions of the last 2 Sabaton albums
1) normal band recording i.e. what everyone listens to
2) history editions with a history narration before every song
3) AND the symphonic edition (no sung lyrics/words)!
Floor sings on about 2-3 songs/choirs on both of the symphonic editions of 2019 & 2022 albums (Never on the band/ main album versions, those have the normal Sabaton female choir).
For some reason nobody seems to know about those albums and misses out on several things she sings on... and the albums as a whole are great for "backround" music for playing, reading etc. @@Torbjorn.Lindgren
Storytime: Floor just did a concert with her sister Irene and Anneke van Giersbergen, a few days ago. Rumour says: Floor chose to sing metal, when she heard Anneke perform "strange machines" with The Gathering. Now: I saw Floor in Hamburg. Anneke was the opening act. Just a woman with an acoustic guitar and a tape recorder on stage. Floor mentioned, during the concert, that Anneke in fact inspired her to sing metal. When the concert was over, there was music played from tape. Guess, what the 1st song was? An instrumental version of strange machines.
There is an interview about how Hannes met Floor. Backstage. Quote:"She is an opera singer? Listens to Pantera? Is smoking cigars and drinks whiskey? She needs to be mine!" (Rest is history, I guess.)
Interview with Joakim: "I came into the band a keyboarder. But they had no singer. "You can sing? So do it, while we search for a singer." But the guys are lazy. They never found one." Haha! My 2 cents on stories.
And now we can make the the meme
Sabaton: there is an Opera singer can we get her?
Hannes: No I got one at home
But this time its actually good
Sabaton tells true stories without chosing a side.
They own a TH-cam channel called Sabaton History where they explain the facts behind the songs.
Check out the songs No bullets fly (animated video), 1916, Bismarck, The Last Stand...
The part at the end where Floor starts singing always gives me chills 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
The cross they rise here is a reference to a true memorial that still stands on the old frontline of where this took place.
I'll take the oportunity to point out the guitarist you saw here. Tommy Johansson has his own solo channel on YT where he releases all kind of music. He's a beautiful rock tenor who you only hear doing back vocals here, as the voice of Joakim Brodén is particularily suited to Sabaton.
Tommy has for instance covered Phantom of the Opera, where he takes on both parts, duetting with himself.
He has also made a duet with operasinger Kristin Starkey covering Fairytales of New York.
To hear Tommys amaziing range and voice it's generally a good starting point with his cover of Steelheart's She's Gone.
Yes, the actual memorial cross is featured at the beginning of The Big Red One film, if I'm not mistaken, where Lee Majors is around it as he prepares to ambush a German soldier.
Yes! Please, please, PLEASE react to Tommy, he is phenomenal! His voice is absolutely beautiful, on par with the best! Since it's Christmas I would recommend "O Helga Natt", it's the Swedish version of O Holy Night, he does both the English and Swedish versions, but the Swedish has a special surprise ending! Thank you Maggie Renee'! Great reaction, we love you! ❤
That particular cross stands in the village Ploegsteert/Frelenghien , a village on the border between France and Belgium. Note, former PM W.Churchill was a commander of a British Bataljon in that exact region.@@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay
went on the Sabaton Cruise a week ago, and Joakims Voice was so fucked up due to sickness that Tommy actually sang most songs, and it was quite cool, he sings very well!
The opera singer at the end was Floor Jansen who is married to the drummer in Sabaton.
Of course this has really happened, because Sabaton only makes music about real military history. They even have Sabaton History on TH-cam where you can hear the real story of this song and many other songs Sabaton made music for.
If you haven’t seen it yet, “1916” by this band will bring you to tears!!!! Written by Lemmy Kilmeister, ( best ROCKER ever!) it is as moving as any song you will ever be witness to!! And TRUE!!
And Phil Campbell and Mickey Dee (2 remaining members of Motörhead) were also in the video... 🤓
@@martinkasper197 yes they were…
An emotional punch to the guts. I love it.
@@martinkasper197and the tour manager for both motorhead and Sabaton
Who should you react to next? Tommy Johansson (the guitarist of Sabaton) singing "O Helga Natt" (O Holy Night" in Swedish). For a "backing singer" (!) it's awesome!
I concur! ❤
I concur
Tommys one octave challenge on You raise me up!!
6:58 Yes, it really happend in reality. A few times. It is very well documented. No doubts that such situations took place. Later they were forbiden
so glad u found them! their guitarist Tommy Johansson also does covers of all sorts of genres of music and even injects some humor into them. he releases covers every friday. check him out. fyi he is the big blonde guy in blue
Sabaton does truly amazing videos. Their version of Motor Head's 1916 is a masterpiece but should come with the same trigger warnings. The numbers shown at the end are staggering and more than heartbreaking.
As to why can't they just make every day Christmas can sort of be summed up with this quote.
War is a place where the young kill one another without knowing or hating each other, because of the decision of old people who know and hate each other, without killing each other.” - Erich Hartmann
Maybe at that time Erich Hartmann was right. Today there's a lot of relatively young people in politics and a lot of military people are not so young anymore. But still, nothing has changed. And buddy, better look around, there's a whole lot of hate among young people.
Homo Homini Lupus est!
Yes 1916 is amazing and is another great one too do a reaction to
Or, as Niko Bellic says in GTA IV: "War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other."
I tend to think that that sums it up rather succinctly, myself, although I like the way you put it, too.
the North German Division of the Nightwish Army reports !! We are there. greetings to the rest of the Nightwish army and the sabaton family.
All the things happening in the video are true things, the football, the cross, and everything. You can read about it as you can do about every happenings in Sabatons song's. They always have a historic background behind their songs and even a history channel where they break down the background behind the songs.
The female you heard at the end of the video is Floor Jansen from Nightwish, which is married to the drummer in Sabaton.
You should listen to more of their songs. The animated No bullets fly hava a really nice emotional story and ending.
Oh this song/vid/history gives me chills everytime.
Great reaction, Maggie.
The two parts of this video that always get me are:
1. When Hannes and Chris and giving each other a hug as they head back to the trenches, and
2. When the officer stops the ball with his foot with a look of resignation on his face and the corner of his mouth slightly twitches into a grimace.
Man, I was waiting for this video for so dang long lol
I love Sabaton doing what they do best... telling an important story through their music. Great job Maggie!
See this Sabaton song again seems appropriate during this time of year and with the world engaged in war. This is why this song will last, it's message is still relevant.
The Christmas Truce happened historically, but Command was so angry over the incident that they made sure it would never happen again and they specifically fired more artillery shells and bombings on those days in the coming years to prevent it. It just goes to show, that wars are fought by soldiers, but Wars are started and fought out between Generals and Politicians, who for the most part, never suffer the consequences of those Wars.
Yes this happened! We learned about this in school when we read about WW I in history.
sabaton is my fav band 🐕the line is that why we bury our friends rips me open every time
Always chills with this one, especially when the piano starts and when Floor sings the outro ❣️
No bullets fly, 1916, bismark, the unkillable soldier, so many other epic and heart warming tales by sabaton are so worth listening and reacting to
It would be wonderful if all could have Christmas every day during war, but sadly it is not the reality of conflict. But it was a beautiful moment in human history and this did not repeat. As far as I remember, there were no Christmas truces after this one, there might have been a time of no combating but nothing like what happened at the first time.
This is one of several other emotional Sabaton songs I sing at times, because they are bittersweet but also wonderful at the same time to sing.
Absolute favorite of mine. Never fails to move me to tears 😂
To continue this Sabaton journey, try out their guitarist Tommy Johansson on his own channel with '1 octave challenge' of 'You lift me up'
I highly recommend the movie 'Joyeux Noel' which is based on these events. It's really good
This truce did in fact take place although it wasn't authorized by any of the military commands on either side. It was a spontaneous act where the German soldiers took the initiative when starting singing carols. Yes they did exchange like souvenirs and played soccer/football. After the truce many soldiers refused to go back waring which is understandable and some of them even got executed for disobeying orders. Btw you should check out their guitarist Tommy Johansson if you haven't already done it he got some crazy pipes!!
Maggie: "This doesn't make any SENSE!"
War itself doesn't make any sense. Especially not this one. In the words of my high-school history teacher, World War I started "because someone nobody had ever heard of killed someone nobody liked over a piece of land nobody wanted".
You can hear the Scandinavian "R" in his singing🇫🇮
Sabaton is 1 of my all time favorite bands mainly because most if not all of their songs have some kind of historical event and I’m a fan of anything to do with history
The soldiers NEVER want to fight.
on the subjects of their songs, called (if memory serves) Sabaton History.If you choose to dive deeper into sabaton, don't miss "Night Witches".
Also, In addition to their music channel, Sabaton runs a YT channel of
You should check out No Bullets fly. Then if Sabaton keeps hitting you in the feels, do Pasadena 1994.
Celtic Thunder does a real tear-jerker of a song with a similar name and theme. Very different style from Sabaton, (my first time hearing Sabaton, powerful group), but also worth listening to.
It didn't continue largely because of High Command on both sides. The days after Christmas (and each Christmas after this one) both sides had massive artillery strikes against each other to discourage the men from having another truce or days of peace. You could also be executed for refusing to fight or take part in an attack so many did out of self preservation.
Bet the soldiers in WW1 had no trigger warnings :)
As for the song it is an amazing piece and the video is top notch.
Nice reaction.
It was just the ordinary soldiers who made the truce happen.
Sabaton is the best!
Floor's vocal credit is near the very end of the credits just below the band members' names. I too always had a hard time finding it, but i spotted it this time.
My thought exactly. Why can't every day be Christmas and we can live in peace and friendship and helping each other through life? I thought that after all this time I would be trigger proof but the incongruous surprise of Vietnamese subtitles woke memories. I somehow missed that during the Live. Still the joy and hope of this season rescues me and heals me. Improvise Adapt Overcome And someday may there really be Peace on Earth. 🎹
"this does sound like nightwish." and then the credits meantioning Floor Jansen as the vocal act for the credits totally went over your head. xD
The Christmas Truce actually happened in 1914. Soldiers from both sides stopped fighting and hung out. They played soccer, told each other of their families waiting back home. Some even exchanged contact info and adresses, vowing to reunite if they both survived the war. But they were still disobeying orders. By order of their commanders they went back to killing each other the next day.
Yes this is what will happen in any war just as soon as the ppl actually fighting it are given the chance
No on will willing kill another unless they are homicidal manic. An English man put it best in 1939 when he wrote "if all those brave men where told they could go home right now they would all to the man, except foe those homicidal manic among them, would tuck their tails between there legs and run home as fast as they could"
and that is that about war
This takes place the 1st year of WWI
As a soldier you realize that the one on the other side is probably just as much between a rock and a hard place as you are. Soldiers dont make war they are just the poor people who have to fight it out.
In December 1915, an order was passed to the British troops that anyone found fraternising with the enemy would be arrested and court-martialed. The outcome of a "guilty" verdict would very likely have been the firing squad.
Pope Benedict XV called for Christmas Day Peace. Not everyone stopped fighting but MANY SPONTANEOUSLY met in "No Man's Land" played Football/Soccer, showed pictures of their families, and shared treats they had received from home!
This did happen yes
“Stopping and chilling“ doesn’t change who owns which physical territory, and whose political ideologies and religious ideologies become the law of the land. That’s why they went back to shooting at each other.
this was also shown in the movie Oh what a lovely war
For 9hrs maybe a little longer, allies and axis stopped fighting. The sang they danced, played games, futbul and exchanged convefsations, stories. Some even exchanged gifts (what kind do not know). It was a little bit of Christmas for all of them. But unfortunately they retuned to the fighting. Something came overthem for a brief moment and it has never happened since.🎄🌹
Your reaction in the first pause is understandable. You have to realize that most soldiers are average joes, not the politicians and greedy militants GIVING the orders. if it had been left to the rank and file, the war may have been over right there. During the actual event, there were many who decided it was worth the risk to drop the fight and pay the consequences. i would imagine all the trials for desertion gave all military forces headaches.The others went ahead and continued fighting because the risk legally and hit in the paycheck, since combat soldiers make decent money. It doesnt mean their heart was in it.
Floor Jansen`s name is there , in the very end of it all . As you know, she is married to Hannes Van Dahl (Drummer of Sabaton=) The man with the long blond hair , who was almost blown up
in the beginning of the video.
Lest we forget. Every Canadian knows that statement.
Everything Sabaton sings about are from true stories 😊
In some places the truce lasted weaks, at some point soldiers from both sides had to be sent to other places as they just couldnt fight eachother after soending Christmas together and becoming friends, this is as beautiful a Christmas song as the truce itself and should get the recognition it deserves 🖤🤘
🤗🍒🤘🏻😘 well done,And you're right. It was Floor
it be hella sexy when joakim hard rolls his R's l can also see him goin "ya know what this video needs for the outro? a soprano!" and hannes sayin "hey l got 1 at home lemme give floor a call" lol this also be my fav sabaton song still canna believe they straight up and murdered that poor piano well floor does be nightwish's currant singer so that makes sence that it'd sound like nightwish but she only did the outro for the video's end credits and not on the version that went on the album
It did happen
After that I think you have to check out Tommy Johansson, the guy you just saw making an acoustic guitar sound like an electric. Tommy does a lot of covers, he must have done over 100 in the last 2 years (including 24 Christmas songs last December) and you've also heard his work in the music of some of Floor's covers.
I hear some carol of the bells references at the beginning...🤓 And yes it's a true story... They made a movie about this in 2005 called Merry Christmas... With some famous german and french actors...And Rolando Villazon, the opera singer was the singing voice for Benno Fürmann...
"It sounds like Nightwish"! Because it is Floor Jansen and her name is almost in the end of the credits.
The generals on both sides was so afraid of what this could mean so they started shooting artillery barrage the day after to encite fighting and the following Christmases during the war they made sure this wouldn't happen again by shooting artillery on Christmas. The powers that be don't want peace, there's profit in war! Sadly!
I have subbed to your channel. I love Sabaton! "1916" will make you weep. Would you consider reacting to an artist named Dan Vasc? He does amazing covers. "Adeste Fideles", "Angels We Have Heard On High", "Amazing Grace", "Bring Me To Life", "My Immortal" and dozens of others. Some he puts a metal twist on - he sings opera, show tunes, 80's and his favorite metal. Thank you for your reaction.
The soldiers wanted peace, the generals and politicians did not.
You should really check out Christmas 1915 performed by Celtic Thunder. It's a great song and it's one of a long list of depressing songs I've been collecting for decades. I've been putting them into 3 major categories: 1 - Tear Jerkers (Me and Little Andy by Dolly Parton is a great example of this). 2 - Cerebral Depression (songs you have to really listen to and understand like Puff The Magic Dragon or The House At Pooh Corners), 3 - Contextual Depression (songs that are depressing to me for what they mean to me or remind me of). There a quite a few that can cross over categories and some also fit into other categories, including a large number of Christmas songs.
Very good and important song. It remembers that there is little hope in mankind :)
They also have Sabaton history channel where they tell background for songs if you were sleeping in history lessons.
(12:50) Floor's name
the end is floor jansen
7:25--this sort of thing stopped happening because the generals and the high commands of the various armies forbade it. After that first incident, troops were moved to other parts of the front because they would not fire on the men they had just been singing and playing with the previous day. I would imagine that soldiers were threatened with charges of insubordination, dereliction of duty, or worse if they tried to have truces like this again.
The men on the lines probably all wanted peace...the bitter old men that sent the men there, absolutely not. A truth that no doubt holds to this day.,
If you like this you have to check out their cover of 1916. It makes me cry every single time I hear it.
Go Sabaton, Go Floor!!!!!
12:33 because ex- Nightwish vocalist perfom this opera at the end.
"It's sounds like Nightwish "..Yes,it was Laydy Floor!:)❤
ho from germany as my granddad said the only good thing about war is you can travel and didnt they say this is the war that ends all other wars humans never learn
Sabaton at it's best! Great song and video. As for actual event, which really happened. It was high command on both sides if I remember correctly who put a stop to the ceasefire at Christmas as the war went on. The main issue they had was telling the soldiers it was okay to meet in no man's land and sing and play games, then having to order them to attack and fight and kill the same soldiers a couple of days later. 🎹
Lest we forget, 2023
I would recommend you check out extra history's 2 videos about the Christa truce if you want to know more of the reasons the truce happened and why it could not have happened at any other time.
Floor Jansen did the voice at the end
8:00 Also, for context, this was the last gentleman war in Europe, perhaps the world. It used to be normal in the past, the generals would meet on the battlefield and offer surrender as and option, discuss terms etc. That is why so many films depict it from Gladiator, Braveheart to The Last of the Mohicans etc. Leave the men go free with flags and everything.
This war changed the world, no one ever did that afterwards.
To answer the question about not having armistice now... There is no trust anymore. Your enemy will use your morality against you. And there are many cases for it.
Just research the last century on how modern warfare changed over decades. Now it changes in weeks.
Life and liberty doesn't come freely and without cost, our morals are not their morals.
In the future, humans will look back at us and ask, why did they do it that way.?
Its very simple... it was the ordinary soldiers that did this... it was not approved in any way by the governments and generals of the armies and in fact was condemned by them. Soldiers can make these choices in the small world but in the larger scheme of things they do not make that type of decision. It is not as simple as "oh lets stop killing each other" by some random soldiers. After this happened in 1914 it was banned by the higher ups of both sides and had soldiers tried to do it again they would have been court martialled and likely shot.
The guitar player is Tommy Johansson!!
Outro sounds like Nightwish? Look close to the credits... sung by Floor (married to the Sabaton drummer)
Still need to do Savatage Hall of the Mountain King.
To give some perspective, most soldiers in the trenches did NOT want to be killed in battle, specifically on Christmas because, it would leave their relatives with a terrible memory at Christmas time, hence the reluctance to engage in battle.
Yeah so this is based on a true story. Highly suggest people to read upon it. Shows the good side of humanity during some of our worst years.
forgot to mention the opera is Floor and the cello is Tio Guo...
"This sounds like Nightwish" - Yeah it does, and there's a reason for that.... 😂
Que maravilla,!!!!! He conocido hace poco a Tommy Johansson,y también a Sabaton,este video es tan brutalmente hermoso,el mensaje es demoledor,en este mundo hace falta valor y fuerza para dar una tregua indefinida a nuestras diferencias y actitudes para llegar a una paz duradera ,sea en Navidad o en cualquier fecha del año,que pena no tener la traducción,pero solo con las imágenes se lo que expresa y significa ,estoy llorando de emoción,es fabuloso, adoro a estos chicos y mas desde que recibi el estreno de Tommy dando homenaje a la que ha sido su familia tanto tiempo!!!!! Sabaton!!!!! Bravo bravo bravo bravo,me encantan tus reacciones eres adorable ,expresiva y auténtica,un abrazo fuerte para ti Kapmeh from Spain with LOVE Kazajistán and Suecia Tommy Johansson,and DIMASH,lovely!!!!!!✌️✌️✌️🤗🤗👏👏👏😱😱😱🤫🤫🤫💓💓💓👌👌👌🫂🫂🫂🔥🔥🔥🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🇪🇦🇰🇿🇸🇪🇪🇦🇰🇿🇸🇪🇪🇦🇰🇿🇸🇪
I feel like I saw this exact same reaction last year around christmas.... was it re-uploaded?
The Christmas Truce only found place between British and German troops.
That is not completely right. Of course, the French were not particularly fond of the Germans because they eventually invaded their country and humiliated them in 1871. There was no great fraternization like with the British, but the French were also tired of the war. In many places, the French and Germans simply agreed not to shoot at each other at certain times. Nothing more, nothing less.
fun fact the drummers wife is floor from nightwish
Very beautiful
good choice maggie renee, maybe even those who today are fighting for the land that doesn't belong to them would listen to this song....
Onion cutting ninjas got me again
don`t forget in the end of the song Floor Jansen sings!!!
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