Christmas Truce - December 1914 - Sabaton History 107 [Official]
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- You've all heard about it, but here are the nuts and bolts for why and how it happened- the Christmas Truce on the Western Front in December 1914, the first Christmas of the Great War.
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The Christmas Truce of 1914 was a short but magical moment of peace during WWI. What did you think of this episode?
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It shows man & God> wars & banksters
Soldiers: Maybe we don't want to fight anymore
Generals/Politicians: *Wait, that's illegal*
NOOOOO! GIB ME MOAR FEIGHT!
-Some Great War Politician
Glad to see you're still here.
War is not about what you hate in front of you but it about what you do to protect who or what behind you so enemy is come when someone being bad and hurt you not when they come and wave while they not harm or hurt you
If somebody walks up to you, pushes a weapon into your hand and says "Go fight!" You push that weapon back on them and tell them "You first!" Put the loudest warmongers in the most forward frontline of the war they want and watch the problem solve itself. Either they kill each other or they show their true colors and run the hell away.
The playground mentality of politicians honestly sickens me. You can't find a single honest politician and even if two parties who usually oppose each other share the same interest at least one of them will go against it just because the other party said yes. And it's usually the left and central parties who don't want to co-operate with the right parties. It's the same in the UN. If the major nations vote on something it never goes through because if USA says yes, then Russia says no, and vice versa. Just because they are more interested in their own gains than the greater good.
The way the band was split up made the song even more personal and emotional. As said in No Bullets Fly, "thank you gentlemen and safe travels." Merry Christmas
Just like Poles on eastern front got split into 3 armies
Small details like Tommy being on the English side is also a nice details
@@Baxteen1 The French and English fought on the same side of the war, though, so it was probably not odd for French and English to fight in the same battles against the Germans.
@Kristopher Prime in the video! They didn't split up as a band!
@@dancingwiththedead6764 phew I thought they split up as a band
I'm one of the orphans Indy saved. Merry Christmas to my hero!
"I'm from Texas, we deep fry everything" Ah Indy, you are an international treasure!
I’m from Texas and can confirm this! Merry Christmas Sharpie!
Waiting for the Scotsmen to enter the chat
Fried Oreos and fried ice cream god it’s delicious
Sabaton History is like an old friend we haven’t seen for some time and when back together that gap never existed. Well done to all and to all Happiest of Holidays.
Nice way of putting it 😉 Merry Christmas!
The soldiers of the Christmas truce found out, that they actually had more in common with the poor bastard in the other trench, than with their own generals!
Long time fan of Sabaton here. Happy to be a Patreon supporter!
According to family stories, my great grandfather was involved in a much less known Christmas Truce on the Ostfront (Eastern Theater)... He was Ukrainian and part of the Austro-Hungarian army. In 1914 or 1915 on Orthodox Xmas Eve there were a large group of Ukrainians serving under forced conscription in the Tsarist army opposing them. When the Austrian army Ukrainians heard them singing traditional Xmas songs they called out in Ukrainian and a short peace was brokered for the night with an exchange of supplies, cigarettes and time to collect the dead. This was around the Galicia Front I believe. I should make mention that this is orthodox Christmas and not the one celebrated on the 25th of December and since many of the Ukrainian s in the Austro-Hungarian Army were allowed to practise their religion, it worked out on the right day. It just goes to show that humans are humans and as terrible as the war was, respect and comradery can still happen
The Christmas Truce on the Eastern Front took place near Przemyśl, it is described in book by Max Hastings: Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes To War. As Christmas falls on different dates (in Orthodox Church it is also on 25 of December but according to Julian calendar, wich lags behind), so there was two
armistices.
My great great grandfather also fought in Galicia as an Austro-Hungarian, through shared stories in my family I also heard the same thing about the Christmas truce, it was indeed a remarkable moment in the military history showing that beneath the hatred towards the other, we are still human
One of the most beautiful and heartbreaking moments in WW history. Always makes me choke when I read poems about it.
I always find WWI poetry absolutely heartbreaking. If I'd ever need to cry on command, I'd only have to think of the fourth verse in For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon (the verse that's always recited on Rememberance Day) to get the tears going:
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
@@SaraW013 bars
@@SaraW013 no greater words describe the absolutely tragedy that was the Lost Generation. There is no greater tragedy in modern history than this very war. Every tragedy today has roots back to this very war,
It breaks my heart knowing so many soldiers were already sick of the war by the end of 1914, knowing the war only get worse and not end for another four years. Jesus. I do also wonder if any soldiers who met during the Truce ever managed to reconnect after the war? Given the levels of casualties and communications being what they were at the time it would've been near-impossible, but I wonder if there were any stories of this happening.
Merry Christmas all! And hope your nose heals up soon Indy ;)
Most of those boys would be in Valhalla before 1915 was out.
If they somehow managed to survive the entire war... possible.
I mean, partially, WWII was even more brutal, with all the further evolved weapon tech compared to WWI, but somehow some still managed to survive all the way from 1939 to 1945.
I think, our perception of war is somewhat distorted by all these many FPS shooters, where death comes easy and swift, but hardcore shooters are probably more close to reality: combat distances are larger, enemies harder to hit, if they hit, not every bullet is automatically deadly.
The games of cause stray from reality at the very latest there, they put a syringe into you and bam, you're alive and combat effective again. In the Real Life, they probably stabilized the soldier, rotated him out into the field hospital and he got to recover from his wounds for several weeks, if not months.
Or, if you got severely wounded, you were out for the entire remaining war or sitting on another position.
Since this is a Sabaton Channel: You surely remember the song "No Bullets Fly", where the German Fighter Pilot Stiegler was sent to shootdown a stray B-17, but discovered, that they were so badly shot up and combat ineffective, that out of a sense of honor instead he escorted the Bomber over the North Sea up until a point where he turned around.
The Pilots of the B17 and Stiegler reconnected several decades later during peace time and became close friends with each other.
I think, atleast some soldiers try to resist these dehumanizing urges, try to keep an honorful codex alive, like that the guys on the other side are just poor, conscripted souls just like him, raised by a living mother and father, possibly with sisters, brothers, a wife and maybe children at home and both want to see theirs again, that politicans fucked up and sent them there into this war.
War is nasty and dehumanizing enough, it doesn't have to be made more nasty as it already is.
Indy mentioned the developments of the following years like gas weaponry and such, but I think, these were not the reason they didn't attempt another Christmas Truce, High Command of cause were aware of it on both sides and probably blocked it rigorously.
Afaik some tried in 1915 to come out of their trenches on Christmas with arms in the air, but immediately got shot upon. The threat of court martial and what follows it (possibly the death sentence) and the urge to avoid that was probably greater than the wish to celebrate Christmas with the Tommies or Jerries.
I don't know, if they adhered to the little stuff like singing christmas songs together over nomans land or throwing grenades away to the side or stuff like that.
Top 3 Sabaton songs that makes me both sing along and cry at the same time:
1: Christmas Truce
2: The Balland of Bull
3: In Flanders Fields
Follow closely by "No bullets fly", "Cliffs of Gallipoli", and "The end of the war to end all wars"
@@Ice7734. no bullets fly isn’t really sad
Indeed. Long live the king from their carolus rex album is heartbreaking as well.
@@aviationgaming1564 it's heartwarming mostly
@@aviationgaming1564 different kind of tears, but tears nonetheless
Joachim is a time traveller who went to the trenches for Christmas truce to play Carol of the Bells, which was first performed in 1916 (the song's story is great, look it up!)
That song makes me tear up every single time. Such beautiful music you guys have written, once again.
Happy holidays to you, too!
Fun facts:
"Små grodorna" ("The Little Frogs") is a military march from the French Revolution called "La Chanson de l'Oignon". Text and melody are then presumed to have gone via an English sort of ironic song about the French/"frogs", loosely translated into Swedish and then ending up as a Midsummer dance and song. History works in mysterious ways.
I searched for La chanson de l'oignon and realized that it was one of the songs that my mother was singing to us when we were kids
What a story Indy! I never knew you where such a hero! Thank you for saving all those Sabaton loving nuns and orphans, shame about the door though...
This was such a fascinating video, the story of the Christmas Truce has always been a light at the end of the tunnel for me for the past few years during the snowy seasons. It sounds wierd but there was a blizzard or a storm I always thought, "Soldiers in WWI spent the holiday on the battlefield nearly freezing to death, I can handle being outside for a few minutes to shovel the driveway." It's a weird thought but the idea of soldiers enduring such hardships in the past and present to grant me such luxuries are one of the things to keep me going nowadays.
Then we are 2 persons thinking alike.
Make that 3.
Lol Indy. "I am from Texas, we deep fry everything", Indy 2021. I will have to send things to my brother who lives near San Antonio, Tx since my parents are there visiting just for the ending
Good to see this again. I have been looking so forward to this story from you guys and what it all brought.
Christmas Truce 1914 was something unique and I'm so happy because I finally got a song from my favorite band that I can play around Christmas Time.
Done with the overdone cliche songs.
My true Christmas Message to all my fellow Sabaton fans.
And today we are all brothers, tonight we are all friends!!!!
I remember back in my school days in French class, last one before Christmas, we watched a movie about this. Even the tough guy in our class cried at the end. Such a touching story.
Was the movie Joyeux Noel?
@@spyro563 of course
@@spyro563 I believe it was joyeux noël, but I'm not sure. Been a few years since then. Was in 8th or 9th grade...
Indy has the perfect "History Educator" voice
This is one of my favorite stories when talking about Military History and World War 1 in particular. A brief moment of humanity sneaking through a miserable war. Merry Christmas everyone!
In 1999, 85 years after the Christmas truce, a wooden commemorative cross was erected near Ypres. On November 11, 2008, on the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I, a monument dedicated to the participants of the events of December 1914 was unveiled in Freilighien.
This glorious achievement of setting aside your differences has inspired me to be a better person over Christmas, if men who are killing each other can shake hands and lending sympathy for your enemy. Then so can I, may it be a message for us all. Merry Christmas from Ireland.
Light a candle tonight, for those who gave their lives in wars all around the world, and for those who serve in foreign countries unable to visit their families to celebrate Christmas. Merry Christmas everyone, may your holidays be filled with love and happiness.
"...on earth peace, good will toward men." Merry Christmas all! Thanks for another fantastic episode Indie and team!
I actually got a bit emotional from the stories because I knew what followed after the truces. Sad, but an beautiful story
Always one of my favorite stories of history… it’s beautiful to always see humanity prevail…. Merry Christmas to you guys at the Timeghost Army, Sabaton , and all those in here reading this as well.
24th of December, official Christmas day for my country
Happy Holidays to everyone, including you, Sabaton and Indy!
merry x-mas to everyone out there, and thanks sabaton and Indy for this christmas gift!
I cannot imagine being the first guy to venture into no-mans land during the truce. Thats trust right there
I honestly didn't hear about the Christmas truce until a week ago and it shocks and amazes me.
This is why I love Sabaton
Thanks to Sabaton and Indy for this Wonderful video!
A Sabaton History episode about the Christmas Truce on Christmas? This made my holiday.
Merry/Happy Christmas! (And other winter holidays.)
Merry Christmas to Sabaton and to the Time Ghost team. I wish you health, happiness and all the best. Keep on your amazing work guys.
Christmas Truce is one of the most interestimg historical events and the song is one of the best Sabaton songs.
Merry Christmas from 🇬🇷🇬🇷
Me:I'm a strong man, I CAN do this
*Christmas truce plays*
Me: *sobs*
A story about the world in crisis, spending cold nights away from loved ones on Christmas.
This song hits different these days.
Hell yes! I've been waiting for this episode since the song dropped. Welcome back, gents!
Best Christmas gift from Impossible Sabaton. Extraordinary analysis of the Christmas Truce, once again congratulations to the Sabaton boys because not only did they represent a historical hevho, but they knew how to capture the emotion of the moment. I congratulate you, Merry Christmas from Caracas-Venezuela
Honestly, this video definitely got me to tear up. As a person who actively studies this war greatly. It made me sorrowful to hear all the stories and the fact that alot of the men there did not survive the war.
this is one of the most powerful instances of humanity and love that i know of
the only sabaton song to make me cry
Always good to know more about the history behind the song, and Sabaton History does this so well. God Jul to Sabaton, the only band I know that can get away with a hand grenade as a Christmas tree bauble.
wow, good notice :D
I waited for this for a long time, thank you sabaton for all the music you made and the happiness you brought,
Even though I knew that it was bullshit from the start, I still felt very entertained by Indy's story. He's a brilliant story teller
Bullshit? Next, you're going to tell me that Justinian's desk isn't actually Justinian's.
What?
@@tanker00v25 It's a Great War reference, the desk he used on that set(and that Jesse uses today) was Justinian's Desk, commissioned by the Emperor Justinian and seeing a hell of a lot of history according to Indy. It was just like the story he gave here.
@@shrillbert Thank you
Merry Christmas gang. Thanks for making this year a memorable one!!! We're all brothers here so you're not celebrating Christmas alone. :)
Was looking forward to this episode. I love the story of the Christmas Truce.
Impeccable timing to come out with the video. Thank you Sabaton History for the early Christmas present !
One of the most heartwarming, and heartbreaking moments in modern human history.
Thank you Sabaton for a great, beautiful song!!
This song is my new favorite Christmas carol
Every single time I hear this story, there's always a tear in my eye. People often forget that there were softer moments of this war. Many forgot that both sides were human, but it's things like the Christmas truce that shows that humans are hardly incapable of peace. For a few days, both sides showed and realized that they were human. Both, despite coming from different regions, shared history, and, even if it was for a few hours or days, they were able to put aside their strife and meet each other not as rivals... but as people.
Over 100 years later, it's still a beautiful story.
The World Leaders: You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees!
Average Soldier in December: So that was a f***ing lie.
I often wonder if we could abolish war if the ones who start them were forced to fight them.
I get weepy every time I hear the song and I fear I will never emotionally recover.
Great song with a deep history behind the song. Music and history comes together to make it more enjoyable. And yes... fried gummy bears lol fry em all lol
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone from south Lousiana, USA (America)
I’ve been waiting for this since the song was released.
Revisiting this video again at this time of year, and also to note 109 years later! So special and somber to remember this event in history!
Peace is the greatest weapon
I never knew that much about the Christmas Truce thank you Sabaton. And Merry Christmas!
Great to see you guys again.
Looking forward to the future videos where you delve into the history behind the other songs on the new album (especially soldier of heaven for me)
Watched this 10 times by now. I still tear up. Few things are more inspiring than warriors forcing peace, even for a moment, upon their warmongering leaders
Deep fried gummy bears sounds like a crime. Arrest Indy!
Damn sabaton should write a song about Indy saving all those orphans in the fire. A brave war hero in the war against capitalism.
tonight we are all we are friends!!!!!! the world needs this
Thankyou for the video guys, love the content.
Was waiting for this episode since te release of the song, best christmas gift a sabaton fan can have, thank you guys.
So great to see you again. Awesome song and story.
Thanks. I wished you guys would make this video and you did it! am grateful for this Mary Christmas and happy new year ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I’ve been waiting for this video since the song came out! Perfect timing to do it on Christmas Eve.
Merry Christmas everyone!
hello there fellow patreon army
Just what I wanted for Christmas another sabaton history video! And my sabaton CD coming in the mail next week! 😍😍
Thats one beautiful story. Thank you for that video. Its wonderfull. Really the best part of today.
Thank you for the Christmas gift of Sabaton History! Merry Christmas!
And today i thought if you guys would post the ep of that song and how nice it would be to be posted today.
What a great christmas present. Happy holidays, gentleman.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year and thank you for a new Christmas song that will last forever.
perfect timing to release this Sabaton. Merry Christmas!
I've been waiting for this one. Such a great topic, such a great song. I do hope a "video edition" of the song is released though, with that wonderful outro. It adds such an extra emotional punch to the end of the song.
This story always touches me and listening christmas truce today is even more emotional.
great video great song keep up the good work also love how Indy did the whole "they said" joke at the beginning
The song made me cry everytime I watched it. It was a beautiful tribute.
Happy Holidays to you all. The Song and especially when paired with the music video is not only great, it drives me to tears of joy, not many bands and singers could say that, that they evoke such large emotions within their listeners! A Master Piece, worthy to be sung under christmas trees!
This is very beautiful story, thank you Sabaton and Indy ❤️❤️❤️🤘🤘🔥🔥🎄🎄😊😊Merry christmas ❤️🎄
Can't wait for the soldier of heaven video
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!
This is my favorite Christmas miracle.
So glad this music and this video exists.
Perfect timing!
Thanks Sabaton an Indy!
Outstanding work Indy and Sabaton.
Merry Christmas guys! Awesome song, awesome video, and the topic is so unique.
Rock on, here's to a metal 2022! 🤘
I love your story telling skills. Christmas Truce story and song are both so amazing. Please continue and I hope you and your families have a wonderful Christmas and New Year. May we all strive to have a permanent truce from war.
A day before Christmas and what we get in the nation without a snow and Christmas as a gift is this video. Thx sabaton history and sabaton i appreaciate your gift to us
Merry Christmas sabaton! and merry Christmas to you to Indy!
Welcome back sabaton history
Rock and roll
Fighting on Christmas eve should be seen as a war crime. It's just one damn day of the year and if you're unable to lay down your arms for that one day you're truly lost and have no honour.
wish you have a great christmas Sabaton
A very sad but beautiful story. I wondered how you guys would incorporate something traditionally Christmas, which I usually associate with classical music and similar, into metal, and what you did worked. In fact, it worked really well; nice job.
8:41 It feels like heaven in a way.
Amazing song. Brilliant story!
Soooooo good. I love this song and this channel.
Happy Holidays everyone. Lovely video about the Christmas Truce. Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
5 years ago I was a non-denominational nun working in an orphanage, and Indy saved us all when the place went up in flames after Sister Anneka had a cheeky smoke in the boiler room. Praise Something!
What
Why am I not buying that story Indy? Who do I think you just walked into a door? LOL I adore Christmas Truce and all of you. I have learned so much from Sabaton and still think they should be playing this stuff in High School, see how fast the kids learn.
Love this song!!