Love to Watch the history, after each song. So hope you continue in this way. Many thanks from Sweden.

@FemaleSniper86

23 күн бұрын

lol so many Swedens ^^ Tjenixen

The tech out paced the tactics. It was not just enemy that could kill you but the living conditions where pretty much just as deadly to them. The treaty of Versailles set up the events for the start of WW2. And many Officer's kept up the fighting until the last sec of the the war.

The problem is that trenches by design are meant to be close to impenetrable from most direct or frontal assaults, which then lead to the second problem and that is that the enemy now has not only fixed fortifications but has the ability to line the vast majority of their guns in one direction all the while machine gun nests are spread out along the flanks of each trench line, primarily on a vantage point or embankment giving the machine gunners a complete and uninterrupted field of fire and for anyone wanting a similar experience, look outside your window, now imagine the entire area is full of people, and you get the gist of what it was like to be a machine gunner, all the while barbed wire forces soldiers into channels and firing lanes which would make them even easier targets for a machine gunner rather than letting the enemy scatter and disperse, all the while behind said enemy about a half mile away is the enemy’s reserve trench since trenches primarily consist of two to three deep levels of trenches, the first trick is the assault trench which is where the majority of the fighting happens, after that is the auxiliary or support trenches which aren’t used directly for combat but are primarily used for things like secondary machine gun nests and sniper positions along with things like mortars or light artillery, after that would be the reserve trench half a mile away so if the assault trench does get attacked and is lost, then the fleeing soldiers can withdraw either into the auxiliary trench’s and hold them off either until the enemy has over reached their ground resulting in the enemy over attacking which more often than not results in the attacking forces sustaining and loosing too many casualties and troops, along with their ammunition and resources, since unlike call of duty you can’t simply grab ammunition from thin air and the average British soldier at the time only had access to 150 rounds of ammunition with a bolt action rifle and contrast to popular beliefs or Hollywood, battles would last several hours or even multiple days of constant nonstop fighting which again can eat through your ammunition reserves rather quickly and as a result the attackers would simply loose their momentum as they run out of bodies and ammunition, at which point the enemy would either hold their positions or counter attack, more often than not succeeding in recapturing their lost positions resulting in nothing short of SOD ALL ground being gained but a thousand dead men and a lot of wasted ammunition, not only that but the fighting in the trenches were extremely extremely brutal, where the biggest fears of a soldier wasn’t being shot or stabbed or drowned in the mud although that was pretty much part for the course, the biggest fear soldiers would have were three things. First were the artillery barrages where some of them would last entire days or even weeks, only for the stunned and dazed survivors to be immediately met with a full on enemy assault. Not only that but there was the fear of being buried alive in their bunkers as well as being ripped to shreds by shrapnel flying everywhere. The second most feared weapon were grenades, as you can imagine a bunch of people not wearing any body armor apart from a steel helmet, is scant protection from a fragmentation grenade and considering the small and confined space that’s typical of all trenches, you can imagine how you would feel if you heard a cling klang clang rumble rumble only to find a grenade at your feet, with no where to hide, noting the cover behind beside the people next to you only to be blown to pieces. Lastly chlorine gas

You said around the 7:45 somewhere that the purpose was Freedom. But I disagree. WW1 didn't have much to do with "freedom". WW2 - freedom and human rights. WW1 not so much. WW1 was the result of a world on the brink of starvation and a keg ready to blow. Why did so many join? For power. That's all it was, a power battle. In the video they talk about "why would anyone launch an attack like that on a terrain like this". Well, the answer is obvious. Make it as miserable as possible, and be the last one to give up in these conditions. Good reaction as always ^^ I wish more people would watch these snippets of history, even if they don't like Sabaton music. Because so many do not know. They may have heard of Paschendale, but they don't know beyond that it happened during WW1.

Thanks for your thoughtful reaction to this horror of a battle, amongst so many in this area and Northern France. All because Queen Victoria's grandchildren were "royals" in these countries, and they couldn't get along. They kept saying "War is inevitable" and "War will be finished by Christmas 1914." Both of these statements were lies. I'm very wary of people today who keep thinking and saying that WW3 is "inevitable." Those people don't think they will lose their homes or die in a war. They all need to go camping for a week in the basement of the Douaumont Ossuary, with a bottle of water and a baguette, and see how they feel about war after spending a week with the dead.

@cloudedreactions2578

10 күн бұрын

Ugh nothing urks me more than to hear people, WHO KNOW THEY AREN'T GOING ANYWHERE, call for war. You're right, I'll take a step further and say if anyone says ww3 is inevitable, then they should sign up right away and be deployed onto the field. Oh how the tunes shall change smh

@merryrose6788

10 күн бұрын

@@cloudedreactions2578 Excellent thing to say to people who talk about war, but have no intention of going. Thanks:)

quick calculation show that the entire battlefield is too small to hold graves enoug for all the dead, not quite 2 square meter per dead, if this is not insanity what is?

@cloudedreactions2578

15 күн бұрын

Wow... All the people that perished wouldn't even fit in the field of the battle they fought in? The disregard for human life astounds me, even to this day.

@merryrose6788

13 күн бұрын

Very good point, that the land isn't enough to bury all the people who died there (except for the mud). That's how I felt when I got to visit Northern France. So many cemeteries, hundreds of them. It's like, we can't have more wars: The Earth doesn't have more room for more war cemeteries.

"Freedom is the Price!" that's cute... it's not WW2... this was a battle royale of Empires, all equally guilty and victims. The Great War was an all out power struggle without anyone holding the morale high ground. WW2 was at least a moderately morale fight... though the Eastern Front was essentially evil vs horrible... Best regards Raoul G. Kunz

@cloudedreactions2578

16 күн бұрын

Apologies, the whole album has been based on WW2 for the most part I just assumed every song is WW2 not WW1.