After the truce. It is said that some units were reluctant to fight against people they now knew and were moved to other points on the line. Some Polish troops on the German side, having heard Polish voices/accents on the other side refused to fight and were shot or imprisoned and there may have been some courts martial. Not sure how much of this is true but very difficult to find definite info.

@okairo

8 ай бұрын

The difficulty in finding information is due to the fact that the upper echelon intentionally sent the soldiers to worse battlefields where 90% of those who participated in the Christmas truce died. So in a way, the whole thing was also a way for them to attempt to sweep it under the rug. I think barely a handful of soldiers who were actually there in the truce survived the war itself. The only reason the entire incident became both infamous and famous back at the soldier's home countries is due to letters the soldiers had written and had sent off before they were sent off to some horrible battlefield and died. It really hit the papers when the surviving soldiers returned home and newspapers and radio could actually interview soldiers about the whole christmas truce. Such a thing never happened again as the commanders of both sides of the war gave intentional orders to continue bombardments and such on holidays so the soldiers could never meet and have another unofficial truce.

@Finkele1

8 ай бұрын

I was about to say about the same but less words. Fraternizing was common in early years of ww1 anyways. When you are pals you really don't want to shoot them. It got more intense and uglier. Then most of the men were asking what the fuck are we doing here...

@phantomreaper2057

8 ай бұрын

Yeah some were moved to other sectors or shot by superior officers as it was considered a act of treason to refuse to fight the enemy

@WaywardVet

7 ай бұрын

It's easier to flip that switch if you're a bit of a psychopath. One of my war buddies was a genuinely nice guy. He refused to fight after 1 deployment. Great soldier, so he got a relatively easy and quiet discharge with instructions on how to get it upgraded to honorable in time.

Floor's singing at the end is the topping for this great song 🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻🔥

@dr_alto_clef

7 ай бұрын

Its like a meme in the Sabaton community. Joakim: "we need some opera at the end" Johannes: *calls to the Netherlands* "hey hon, heb je misschien tijd??"

@TayR0C

7 ай бұрын

I hate that the outro is not on the regular version, just the video.

Sabaton: "We need a very good soprano singer for the end credits of our new song." Hannes: "I have one at home." not my quote, but it fits here perfectly.

the nightwish army is here too :) always at Floor, always by the valkyrie's side. special greetings to SABATON family.

Another time Sabaton hits in the feels is No Bullets Fly. Slepecially if you see the whole story.

@AlvenmodFoto

8 ай бұрын

Yes, animated story video

Damn that hits hard at 8:45!!! I'm 39 years old and still serving and the emotion just hits with that voice! Some times it just makes you wonder why!

@Angrypickle5

7 ай бұрын

That's why they say music is a universal language. Thank you for your service good sir!

@SlashleyReacts: First, this my top Christmas song. Not just because it shows that the light of humanity still flickers even in the darkness of a hellish warzone, but because it shows us that goodwill from people can happen anywhere. As for shutting off the fighting, its more turning the humanity back on. The soldiers that day just wanted to feel normal on Christmas. As for the history, this really happened in 1914. The cross Pär carved into actually stands as a monument to this day, near the field where it happened near Ypres, Belgium. To put it bluntly, after the Truce in 1914, there was a German commander who had to move his unit to another section of the line, as his men refused to shoot at the men across the line they had made friends with the day before. Lastly, I remember a commenter on another reaction who said that if not for the Truce, he would not exist. Why? Because his grandfathers met each other that day. And not only did they survive the war, after the war, they became good friends and their families married into each other.

@MalachiCo0

8 ай бұрын

Oh my goodness, that last one is so beautiful if true. That should be a movie.

I hope sbaton is one of the bands that gets remembered for at least a couple of centuries because they deserved it!!!

That first man out of the trenches was Hannes, Floor's husband. Sabaton's drummer.

"and for one day. Everyone was just... Kind." -- The Doctor

@marinamucic908

8 ай бұрын

The best scene in the whole show

As a British Army Veteran you cannot switch off. Knowing that any moment you have to do what you have to do.

@user-zp1dj7bb9z

5 ай бұрын

Now at the age of 71 still going. I have PTSD. Hey, goes with the game. Now I deal with veterans that live on the streets, minds destroyed by conflict. I too have my nightmares. Like my dad who lived through the 2nd World war, he was at the end a Colonel. His history is forgotten, but not by me. Went to Poland and met his family and learnt about our family, came away and realised what they fought for. Freedom!!

What happened was the german side started singing carols since it was christmas then the english side started singing them back and then they all met and started talking in no mans land but when the english generals back on off of the lines found out what happened they ordered artillery to start shelling no mans land (including their own people) since they knew if they did not restart the hostilities asap the soldiers would just stop fighting.

...that's why it's so important to evaluate the position of politician and parties about war and who's paying them before voting for any of them.

Nice reaction Ash to an emotional song. First a smile on your face, but then a more serious look. It is about a real event during WW1 were German, French and Brittisch troops had a truce during Christmas Eve. The soldier almost got blown by the grenade is Hannes van Dahl, drummer of Sabaton and married to Floor Jansen of Nightwish. Floor does the ending vocals.

@birrextio6544

8 ай бұрын

Well, his real name was not van Dahl, he was just called a vandal (destroyer or something) and added van as a middle name just for fun.

Now if only this song could get performed just once at the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting here in NYC, that would be beyond epic.

When this song came I had it on repeat for days.. Sabaton put Sooooo much into their videos and their songs. "Christmas Truce" was one of their most requested song to do a tribute to.. Joakim said it took them years to finally nail a fitting tribute. 2 songs definetly to check out are "bismarck" or "1916" 1916 was filmed in a working history museum of history, it's 7 mile from my house and I kicked myself for missing the museum posting it. I'd of loved to have been there to see the filming of the video Keep up the awesome work 🤘

I am the Fourth generation of my family to serve in the UK military. My great great uncle was a survivor and was part of this truce. He died before I was born but my Dad asked him once about it and all he said was he remembers the song 'silent night,' being sung by the Germans when it went silent and nothing else. That was his way of coping with what happened during that war.

Floor!!!❤

How do you turn it off? It's a military coping mechanism. You compartmentalize everything. You shut off, or shut down, things that inflict emotion so you can get the job done. Here the men are allowing themselves to become human once more if only for a day.

Next up Sabaton's cover of Motorheads 1916!

At this point the war was still young. There had been plenty of death but there would be another 3 years or so of slaughter ahead on an unimagined scale. Both sides had expected to be home by Christmas and it was just becoming obvious that those expectations were off, maybe way off. Feelings hadn't hardened yet as they would as the months tuned into years. What started as singing carols and then singing those across the lines tuned into fraternization as both sides sent out troops to recover the dead (long dead in some cases) from the battlefield during a truce. In parts of the line this turned into more than just nodding at each other as they picked up bodies. As noted by other commentators these activities were frowned on by the higher command and this was the last year anything of this scale was allowed to occur.

Both the piano and the guitar are over a century old... the guitar was only allowed on a soundstage and his solo was added from greenscreen. This song is pretty powerful. Hope you have a good break, and stay safe.

@leechowning2712

8 ай бұрын

To your question of how... that year was the last. For over 400 years, since the late 1400s, war was something fought by professional soldiers. It was not uncommon for a particularly good captain and his troop to fight for 2 or 3 different nations through his career, and people that you had served beside may have joined the other side. But because of that, they had rules of war. Even more than we do now, honestly. The soldiers knew they were soldiers, and that the civilians often did not even get to have an opinion. But then came the Great War. This first year, over half the troops were these professional soldiers... but first the German Alliance, then the Allied Powers began drafting, as their war got out of hand. This first year, for example, French, German and English troops had this truce... but those lines where US volunteers and Canadian troops were... yeah they killed the carolers. American types of war were much more brutal, and had much less friendship. They found over the next month that these drafted soldiers could not go back to killing, and many were courtmartialed for intentionally missing. So, the next year, the commanders were clearly ordered to prevent it. And since that time... nope.

Sabaton: we need a soprano for ending credits Hannes: we have a soprano at home. = Floor

large portion of WW1 was trench warfare, i believe thats why they sing about the "war that never ends" trench warfare isTHE MOST brutal form of war and it deffinetly must feel like never ending.

@kossakken

8 ай бұрын

At the outbreak, everyone thought the war would be over by Christmas, but on Christmas eve, after months of stalemate, the soldiers in the trenches saw no end to it, and it would indeed go on to last trough another three Christmases.

This is my favourite christmas-song. So powerful. Second one is obviously Walking in the air, especially by Nightwish. Very nice reaction by the way.

Hello, Greetings from the Netherlands I just wanted to say thank you for your reaction of this video, I already heard it many times, but it still gives me the chills and Floor singing at the end is just the icing on the cake. May I suggest The song "1916" from Sabaton, it's a good continuing from this song. It's also a very emotional one.

5:36 Because its easy to blame a faceless "Other side" But when faced with the reality that behind every shot is just another person who doesnt wanna be there, its hard to blame them. But sure there were some who didnt participate, or just used the truce as time to repair trenches, or gather recon. But for most of them, who are just average people its hard to blame em.

Wars are between nations not men, they all just wanted a few minutes of normalcy.

In regards to "turning it off". I think one has to turn off to be able to fight one another. I believe it's our natural state to want to get along. It gets messy when we let others tell us we should fight each other.

I believe most people don't want to fight. It is a trivial thing to say but everyone has just one life. Previous wars solved nothing, the world didn't turn into paradise. Those who died just lost their life in vain, sad to say. politicians and those with power are doing a great job in dividing people. One country vs other, religion vs religion/since, men vs women, black vs white etc. Sometimes I'm almost sure that there's a blood god or evil deity out there who demands sacrifices on a daily basis. I'm sorry but sabaton always puts me in this mood. Especially because they dedicated a few songs to the country I come from. If You enjoyed that one check another Sabaton song: 40:1 or winged hussars maybe.

"A war that never ends"... and too think that it was only a few month since war started..

The outro on repeat is Christmas enough 😊

"How do you just turn it off?" My answer/guess is this: war on a never-before seen level of brutality and efficacy. My personal guess is that, as a whole, they just wanted to remember what the point of going on even was. To remember that there was a life beyond the endless fighting and death

Both sides needed to rearrange and move the military units to other sectors of the frontline since both sides had so many soldiers that refused to fire upon their new found brothers after the christmas truce.

We will never know what these soldiers were thinking. Many probably were paranoid about “When is someone gonna pick their gun back up” but I think after months of constant fighting they just wanted one day to feel like civilians again. Both sides were just fighting for their homelands because of what a Serbian student did in Austria. None of them wanted this war. Many actually did talk about their loved ones who passed that year during a battle and others would trade items like cigarettes and stuff. The truce showed these really were just people who had no choice but to fight not because they wanted to but because it was their duty to their country. It really is sad everyone, talks about ww2 but a lot of people overlook this war.

Ash great video plz do more sabaton definitely a great band

The song/video that made me a Sabaton fan! This came out not so long after the 2018 centenary of the Armistice, when I learned that my country has sent soldiers abroad every single year since 1914. Truly "a war that never ends". When they did this live they had paper snow - their shows are proper spactacle, do go see them if you get the chance.

Sabaton-1916 is amazing. A great tribute to Motorhead, and especially, Lemmy.

Jocke and Per say... "-We need a female voice" And everyone looks at Hannes and smile...

How do you turn that off? I takes a lot to realize that we are all brothers and sisters. War is started by psychotic elites, the masses want peace. Merry Christmas

And to think, once again men are fighting in trenches in Ukraine. Lest we Forget

@Vendetta_s

8 ай бұрын

Uh trench warfare is still happening not just Ukraine

I have to be honest, while I really appreciate the beauty of Floor's performance at the end - I really wish people would just let Sabaton's performance of the while rest of the song stand on its own merit. All through here you can tell she's responding to commenters in the stream who're chiming in about Floor (even when the song has barely started). Then as he's coming to carve 2021 & "Lest We Forget" instead of recognizing that really meaningful message - it's "Floor, coming up". Or just read the comments of any reaction, it'll be full of "did you know the Sabaton drummer is married to Floor" & peons of praise to her singing apart from any mention of Joakim's singing, the rest of the band, or the song's message. Or look at any reactor who dared to skip the credits, because the Floor fans are coming for them in the comments. Doesn't matter what they thought & said about the rest of the song, skipping Floor is a travesty they will never forgive & never forget. And BTW, I know the "She's a Valkyrie Goddess" army is going to come for me for daring to say this. Don't care, I've been thinking about this for a bit & had to say it.

🐕hey Ash thanks Valtte Sabaton is my fav band

Ash Sabaton is the real thing, Like Floor Jansen real people makig great music with passion and actually have a brain. You look smart with glasses, Oh darn I wanted to say sexy, pollitic correctness kills. Yes I was crying when Floor came in.

The best from this christmas truce between the germans and the british is that it was an normal german soldier to decide going to the no mans land.Not an Order from the President or Kaiser or the Fieldmarshal.And the normal guys from the other side dont shot.And then an Domino effect startet.Off Course we win the football Match against the Tommys😉

christmas came along , people missed their families , everyone started singing carols , and some dude just came out and the other side did the same and one by one they started coming out and saw that no one was shooting so they celebrated christmas

"Our job is to not question why. Only to do and die." A soldiers life

This song gets me every time 😢

@alvaro6522

8 ай бұрын

Me too!😢

Very very beautiful, tank you

Beautiful Song, Beautiful Video.

Awesome, You’re F’ING GORGEOUS LETS GOOOO!!!!!!

@SlashleyReacts

8 ай бұрын

Thank you 🥹

@sprinkleddonuts6094

8 ай бұрын

@@SlashleyReacts You don’t need to thank me for being Gorgeous 🤓🥰

I fully agree with you and me personally being a soldier is being able to kill a stranger just because you are told do such by another stranger.... That is what it boils down to, hide it under all the excuses you want....Will you kill someone you never met, because you been told to and feel you have to? Congratulations! You are well on your way to becomming an extremist! Only difference is if you have a goverment telling you or if it is an group of civilians!

@Th3BigBoy

7 ай бұрын

Respectfully. This is a myopic view of the world. How will you enforce the laws? Or do you think protection is completely unnecessary? If 10,000 soldiers came to your town to burn and raze everything. You wouldn't resist?

I'd love you reaction to 1916, and the animated videos, like No Bullets Fly, and Lady of the Dark

Order from high Command: FIGHT or you will be punished yourself! = The soldiers couldnt really choose . So they had to be going back to fight...or else punishment awaited them . You see , the Generals on neither side liked the "Christmas truce"

@najroe

8 ай бұрын

more like "shot" than punished

Another song dealing with this type of issue Brothers in Arms (By Dire Straits - also covered by Home Free). I'd suggest listening to both versions.

I feel like any time Sabaton hits the feels too hard which they constantly do, all should listen to Naowar of Steel's song with them Pasadena 1994 about the 1994 world cup.

freakin enjoyed that so much. top level of quality. have I been living under a rock all these years? Suggestion for you. October Ends ' song is goinna go viral. React to it and join the hype train!

Beautiful song, about one of the most horrible things ever. I know everyone wants to think it was a nice spontaneous thing where soldiers stopped shooting on Christmas. But it doesn't balance the scale even a little bit against the horrors that war brought to so many people. I get that we want to focus on the one good thing and not the millions of bad things, but that bit at the end "lest we forget" is saying we should really remember the bad things most of all, so hopefully we can avoid repeating the same mistakes. I have an immense amount of respect for Sabaton, not only for their music but for the educational value of the songs and videos they produce. 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it' - George Santayana

Lest We Forget

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Things where so intence in WW1 if the bugle trumpet sounds if you didn't charge at your enemy your commanding officer could shoot you. For being a coward and dissobeying orders you could be locked up or at worst shot. Or just charge at heavy machine guns and try to capture more ground. Love the choices?.

War is not usaly personal, in the end we only want peace

More than 100 years later, and we're still equally stupid. Still playing games with human lives. Just other people and companies pulling the strings.

Thank you! This song is epic and a bit difficult to listen in these times. I’d like to recommend to you to check out Tarja’s new christmas album called Dark christmas. It has well-known christmas songs, but they are done with a dark twist. They have a spooky, gothic and almost apocalyptic vibe.

I recommend watching the film "Joyeux Noël/Merry Christmas" from 2005, it's a heavily dramatized depiction of a real event from 1914.

hi ash, he is at it again ren, wicked ways lyric vid

Well a apple was kinda one of the first things you used for a christmas tree decoration in Germany - even nowadays it's not that rare to have atleast one apple on it ( btw. christmas tree's is a german tradition which the english king's wife Queen Charlotte - who was german - introduced to Britain and after that it was all over the world ... )

The truce was never sanctioned by the higher ups in fact the generals were scared stiff that the men wouldn't keep fighting.

It sure is crazy. Crazier that this is a true event in the meat grinder of World War 1. I used to read this to my daughter around Christmas time. It's a true story of humanity under the most horrible conditions that most fo us today (fortunately) can't even imagine. A reminder of how important it is to both respect & be able to put aside our differences today. That said, I don't know if this cld happen on a modern battlefield today (for many reasons both tactical & cultural).

The energy in their music is like a raging fire that consumes everything in its path. Do yourself a favor and listen to October Ends ' new song. React to it, please 🤘

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Most of the men in the trenches where their by force from their governments, its War or jailed marked as deserter.. So they did not really have a strong hate at each other they where shooting because they were told to and had to..

Hello! Have you seen this video: SABATON - En Livstid I Krig (Live - The Great Tour - Gothenburg)

You turn it off when the commanders come and force you to continue fighting. Cause that's what happend.

ASH--you got to try some of TARJA'S DARK CHRISTMAS...dark, gothic Xmas songs! This is her second albulm doing that.

This is a real true story, but there’s a sad fact that after this truce happened, the German soldiers tried to re-create it the year after but instead it wasn’t French soldiers. It was Canadian soldiers and two German officers had left their trenches but the Canadians hate the Germans so much that the second they saw those two German officers step out they shot them in the head. They proceed to throw canned food over to the trench and then they would throw it over again but this time instead of food the cans were filled blast powder and grenades.

Awesome Reaction Video Ash Happy Saturday hope you're doing well My friend You're the best and I love you so so much for always making my day better with these videos your face is so cute 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

Lest I ever forget why Floor is married to Hannes instead of me...

@SlashleyReacts

8 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 there there

How do you turn Off wanting to kill each other. Understanding the other individual is a human being.

I might be totally wrong, but are you not the same Ash from MAFFIA NATION? :D

How to turn that off? Soldiers on neither side wanted to be there. They were fighting only because dereliction of duty would get them shot by their own officers.

Its called Orders

ASH, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO THE SINGER CALLED "ADO". THE SONG CALLED "UNRAVEL" LIVE. LIVE IS MUCH BETTER THAN THE STUDIO. THIS IS A KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF MIND BOGGLING PERFORMANCE BY "ADO". IT IS A COVER OF A SONG WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY "TK" THAT WAS AN OPENING FOR "TOKYO GHOUL", ANIME. THIS IS A MUST DO SONG BY "ADO", HER BEST PERFORMANCE = EXTREMELY EMOTIONAL AND MAY JUST BRING A TEAR.

Bring a fourth generation vet, it is about somthing bigger than what they were facing the next day, it was about God.

You are not a guy..we can do that switch to survive mentally

love your yt channel! would you be willing to check out and do a reaction on - Band: the dark side of the moon. Song: new horizons or Song: may it be. beautiful sound and singing! hope you like! all the best, apple

This would never happen in the Second World War, the Germans in the First World War generally didn’t want to be there and a lot of them were generally decent people. That’s what makes this even more heartbreaking

The arrogance to assume the other would give up befire Christmas and theybwould be home. Whay thede guys dealy with on a daily basis. The commanders where making plan far behind the front. And in most cases living way better then the grunts. I would have issues with celebrating a lame holiday with people inwas trying to kill 24 hours earlier. And then go back and like it never happened and continue with the killing

if i remember correctly, this truce only happened once and it was a Canadian who broke it . back in ww1, us Canadians were vicious

You're a guy, were built different. Its both good and extremely bad,

You never hear somitheng like this happens from Moslems only from Christians just saying....

Hurhurhur let me just stopped right in the middle of a chorus so I can talk about some dumb shit and completely disrespect the meaning of this song

Linda 🥰