On December 24, 1914, an unofficial Christmas Truce was enforced on the Western Front. An act of trust and harmony, British and German soldiers mingled and played games together in the midst of one of the most atrocious events of the 20th century - World War I. Read more about the Christmas Truce of 1914 👉 www.sabaton.net/historical-facts/christmas-truce-was-enforced/ ➞ SUBSCRIBE for more Sabaton: sabat.one/RUclips ➞ MERCHANDISE Official Store: sabat.one/ytdshop
There is a plenty of metal Christmas song or at least covers out there Christopher Lee even made some covers of Christmas songs with his band before he passed my he rest in peace
@Vergil749 correct. Seeing so many ppl I know that raise their voice for every injustice be quiet on this. Knowing thr US is funding it. And seeing the atrocities from Motaz and others every day.
Sabaton hat letztens ausversehen was öffentlich gemacht und dann schnell unlisted gemacht, aber ich hab den link ruclips.net/video/gR4a09NXuL0/видео.html
Every Christmas during school, my German teacher would always tell the story of the Christmas truce of 1914. He would tell the story of the events somberly and proceed to sing silent night in German then English. Thank you Sabaton for making this and forever treasuring this memory. The song is just perfect!
My German teacher that was in the Africa Corp told me of the same story. Brothers in arms celebrated together, and the next day they all shot over each others head. They all realised that no body wanted to be there and that they had more income with each other than divided them. It is politicians that pit us against one another.
I saw a film about this event. “Merry Christmas” is a cross-border production. It would be too nice if this event were to repeat itself today. My thoughts are with the people who cannot experience Christmas in peace.
-my grandfather told me once, when he was on france defending a city, on that day of 24th there was a cease fire of 3 days, 3 days both sides smile, eat and play togheter, 2 weeks later the enemy fall back for a reason: they could not shoot their new friends... Thanks Sabaton, let us all remenber this truce and those who die for that day
This shows how devastating war is for a human. My family used to watch over a 96 year old man-who has sadly passed away now-and he would tell stories about WW2 every now and then. He mentioned the Chrismas truce once or twice,every time he did I would just cry like a baby. May him and all soldiers rest in peace
it makes me shed tears too, I believe we are all brothers and sisters on this earth. We do not need to fight each other ever regardless of what our politicians and world leaders tell us
its a moment that shows everything good with humanity a brief beam of light to keep up hope for our species that good is still outthere in us even if the grimness and violence of reality trys to push us to cynism and depresison
I'm stealing that, it's hilarious. Interesting enough, as the others have said, in both World Wars, notably more countries were on the Allied powers than the Central/Axis powers. WW1; Allies; Britain (which at the time included Austalia), USA, Italy, France, Serbia and Russia Central powers; Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman empire. WW2; Allies; USA (E-fucking-ventually), Britain (again with Australia), France, Russia (who joined six months before America) and China. Axis; Germany, Italy, Japan.
@@Lord_Numpty There's several other powers that signed on the Axis side. Romania and Bulgaria both their armies involved in the invasion of the Soviet Union. Indeed, the operation that turned the tide in Stalingrad (Operation Uranus - the encirclement of German forces in Stalingrad) involved cutting through the Romanian Third and Fourth armies, which were guarding the Germans' flank. Finland was also an ally of Germany in what they called the Continuation War, but unlike Romania and Bulgaria, they weren't ultranationalist nutjobs like the Nazis, they just wanted to reclaim territory lost to the Soviets in the Winter War of 1939. And if you start including minor international powers rather than the ones on the front lines in Europe (and the Pacific in WWII) you get multiple representatives on every continent (except Antarctica, due to the lack of countries) picking sides. Canada, Brazil, Peru, the fighting in Africa (mostly because they were colonies and getting dragged into the war by their European overlords)...a full list of belligerants for either war is *very* long.
As long as it is the mere calling of men to be men... in prevention of falling into a decline of socialism/communism.... we good. God bless you Granny ;)
Ich war 10 Jahre alt und hörte diese Geschichte von einem Kriegsteilnehmer. Damals verstand ich sie nicht. Es gab auch den sinnlosen Tod seines Kameraden.Jeder Krieg ist ein Verbrechen, keine Mutter gibt ihren Sohn für den Krieg
None of us are truly enemies of each other. personal pride, petty excuses and child-like antics of politicians and people of influence are the cause of all of it. In the end we put aside all of that and attain Men of Real honor, Real love for family and Real understanding of what all of these things can cause only then can war truly be brought to an end
Just used this song to teach my 7 yo daughter that an enemy in war is not necessarily a bad person but a human being. On the 1st of november we allways visit Henri-Chapelle War Cemetery and visit an unknown soldier. Now she starts to realize the madness ... I'm so glad she 's allready a fan of Sabaton (especially of Hannes) and I can use the music we love to teach her things that matter in life ... thanks Sabaton
Once she gets old, she will share your wisdom and the things that you teach, to his son or her daughter, and may the things that you said to her will be sent to more and more generations
This...made my day. If hope springs eternal, then where there is darkness, that darkness can never win as long as there is but a glimmer of light that exists. If that light exists, then hope exists, and it shall never fade. You, sir, give me hope that future generations will never forget the sacrifices and stories of the men who have fought, and given, so much. Sacrificed so much. If for no other reason, than to give the future a chance to shine so much brighter than it did in their day. Bless you, and especially your little one, these holidays in 2021. May they find you well, and find you safe.
The Christmas Truce was a series of unofficial ceasefires that took place only 5 months after the war had begun. Gaps in the fighting took place as materiel supplies ran low and commanders began to reconsider their plans following the stalemates at Marne and Ypres. Pope Benedict XV had suggested a temporary ceasefire for the celebration of Christmas, but the warring countries refused to commit to any official ceasefire. The Open Christmas Letter was also sent around this time, being an open letter signed by a group of over 100 British suffragists at then end of 1914 as the First Christmas of the Great War approached. The letter was written in acknowledgement of the horror of war and as a direct response to letters written to the president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance by a small group of German Suffragists that also had called for peace. The week before Christmas soldiers from the German side of the trenches began to sing carols, play in brass bands, and eventually, on the dawn of Christmas Day, some German soldiers emerged from their trenches and approached the Allied lines. Calling out "Merry Christmas" In their enemies' native tongues. Initially the allies feared it was a trick, and in some sections of the trenches the allied lines simply fired upon those wishing for peace, quickly ending the momentary ceasefire. In most areas, particularly lines that weren't British (If I'm recalling it correctly) The allied soldiers held their fire upon realizing that the moment was not an attempt at subterfuge and soon came to meet their momentary friends in the middle of No-Man's Land. They exchanged gifts of tobacco, pudding, buttons, helmets, and even chocolate as they sang carols and even had some German Soldiers light Christmas trees around their trenches and played games. Not every part of the trenches was as good natured, some simply agreed to momentary ceasefires at a distance, permitting their opponents to rest and relax in their own trenches, exchange prisoners with one another, or set about the grim task of recovering the dead from No Man's Land. Unfortunately, in the subsequent years the commanding officers on both sides had issued strongly worded orders against such fraternization, and come the Christmas of 1915, when British soldiers heard carols coming from the trenches on the other side, artillery was directed to fire upon the position the sound came from, putting a stop to any future Christmas Ceasefires.
This song needs to be number one worldwide for Christmas as a reminder that even during one of the most horrific conflicts in recent history that moments of humanity still existed. Especially in a world of social media where it feels like people strive to divide rather than unite
ironically' though we are not shooting each other, there is less in common between the sides now than there were during ww1 the cultures were basicly exactly the same but with different languages. We no longer can agree on basic morality.
Christmas Truce" Silence Oh, I remember the silence On a cold winter day After many months on the battlefield And we were used to the violence Then all the cannons went silent And the snow fell Voices sang to me from no man's land We are all, we are all, we are all, we are all friends And today we're all brothers, tonight we're all friends A moment of peace in a war that never ends Today we're all brothers, we drink and unite Now Christmas has arrived and the snow turns the ground white Hear carols from the trenches, we sing O Holy Night Our guns laid to rest among snowflakes A Christmas in the trenches, a Christmas on the front far from home Madness (Madness) Oh I remember the sadness (Sadness) We were hiding our tears (Hiding our tears) In a foreign land where we faced our fears (Faced our fears) We were soldiers (Soldiers) Carried the war on our shoulders (Shoulders) For our nations (Nations) Is that why we bury our friends? (Bury our friends) We were all, we were all, we were all, we were all friends (We're friends) And today we're all brothers, tonight we're all friends A moment of peace in a war that never ends Today we're all brothers, we drink and unite Now Christmas has arrived and the snow turns the ground white Hear carols from the trenches, we sing O Holy Night Our guns laid to rest among snowflakes A Christmas in the trenches, a Christmas on the front far from home We were all, we were all, we were all, we were all friends (We're friends) And today we're all brothers, tonight we're all friends A moment of peace in a war that never ends Today we're all brothers, we drink and unite Now Christmas has arrived and the snow turns the ground white A Christmas on the frontline, we walk among our friends We don't think about tomorrow, the battle will commence When we celebrated Christmas we thought about our friends Those who never made it home when the battle had commenced
I can not believe Sabaton traveled back in time just to record a music video! This has been a very beautiful tribute to one of the most human episodes among the craziness of War. Mycket bra!
Because when we see the video and hear the music it hits us hard as we no all the pain and suffering that went through and it hits us hard and then we think of what’s going on today 😢😢 it’s a shame that we all can’t live together in peace the world bigger enough
The Christmas Truce: one of the most uplifting stories in a war full of misery, but then also one of the most heartbreaking gut-punches when you remember these men had to resume fighting as soon as that day was done.
@@mcklub Yes, especially since commanders specifically ordered attacks and artillery barrages before Christmas to make sure both sides hated each others enough. And I guess by 1915 average soldier had too many dead friends and relatives to even want to try it
@@guerney2000 There still were cases of soldiers fraternizing going on, or at least attempting to, sides developing "live and let live" policy, agreeing not to attack during morning washing times and such. SOldiers simply trying to make their own situations slightly more bearable. Because let's be honest, a grunt at the front line doesn't give a damn what some high-ranking medal-sporting prick miles and miles away from the front lines, sitting comfortably in their officer quarters, enjoying warm meals... a front line grunt doesn't care what such brass "wants" A soldier in ww1 wants to survive.
May we never forget this truce, for it is proof that, even in the most violent of battlefields, our love for each other as friends, family, brothers and lovers will forever live on, for as all life that calls this planet home, it will always find a way to both survive and thrive. And may one day, there's truly an event where all wars truly come to an end. Until that day. Till All Are One
One of the things I love about Sabaton, listening to their music does 2 things to me. 1:puts a fire in my blood and motivates me to finish whatever it is I start 2: pulls on my heartstrings with their lyrics until a lump is in my throat and a tear in my eyes. If you guys are reading this, you're awesome. Please don't stop putting out your music.
@@Sabaton on the contrary, you guys continue to inspire me. It's your music that helps me fight on through my toughest of work days. I don't think I could ever thank you enough for that.
@@SabatonWatching your “Christmas Truce” has become a Christmas tradition for me. I’m featuring it in one of my stories, too! I hope you don’t mind that
Here in India, in our 8th Grade English textbook, our first chapter is actually a story about the Christmas Truce! I don't know if any of my friends remember it, but reading it always touched my heart. I loved it, though I ultimately didn't look much into it, thinking it was another one of those too-good-to-be-true stories. I thought that, till I saw this video. And realized it actually happened. I've been crying for an hour now. But I'm happy. Thank you, Sabaton! From the bottom of my heart, I thank you!
It might be difficult to find a copy of it in India, but I would love to recommend a movie about this event to you: “Joyeaux Noël”. It does a very good job of depicting the Christmas Truce from the point of view of the British, French and Germans, and is also one of the most emotional movies I’ve ever seen.
Hello, Hex. It is too good to be true...and yet it's true anyway.. If you study history closely, somehow during our darkest hours, humanity finds a way to shine through regardless.
If I remember correctly some of the Indian troops held a seize fire for German troops on the western front so they could celebrated Christmas. While they didn’t celebrate with them it was honorable
@@mileshill7196The reigning monarchs were my cousins. I bear the burden of such guilt, this war was a stupid, stupid family feud among my kin. I'm so sorry it came to all that...
@@Jmeon4evaSort of? There were easy resolutions to the Balkan events. Basically all the powers agreed that Austria should be allowed to seek out the terrorists in Serbia, even Russia. And since Austria didn't want more Serbian land, there wasn't even a reason to fight.
This is the war that broke civilization. Everything that came afterwards, from World War II, to all the genocides, to the Cold War, and the modern nihilism and despair, is a consequence of World War I.
We must NEVER forget this song. Not only does it show that there can be humanity in war, but it shows that the soldiers on the front aren't fighting each other, but fighting because their higher powers told them to. This is such a beautiful song that tells such a powerful story. Excellent job Sabaton!
Putting the actual Truce aside, I love, truly love how Sabaton never takes sides. They tell a story and play good music, they don't choose one or the other. I cherish Sabaton so much for doing something most bands can't, teaching history while providing good music. I've learned more from Sabaton's songs and Sabaton history than I have in a long time.
"They never pick a side", then they make a song named 'The rise of Evil', they make a song celebrating war criminal Witold Pilecki, they call Saddam insect of terror while repeating data proven fake that was used to justify the II Gulf War, they literally tell every battle from the pov of one single side and it all perfectly aligns with Western narrative.
@regi grenski I'd say that there's a large difference between the evils of men like Hitler and most common soldiers, even though they were enabling and perpetuating his evil. On the other hand, WW1 was terrible, and both sides did kill quite a few civilians (though Russia and the Ottomans take the prize). However, today we don't think of it as death camps, slavery, and fascism. Because it wasn't about that, and was not the goal. My personal takeaway is that WW2 is remembered more for the cartoon insane level of villainy than anything else. The death toll was massive, but that's not going to be the first thing we think of when it comes to that war.
@@apollo1694 No, they don't. Sabaton making a song that focuses on one side or one person doesn't mean they are taking sides. They TEACH HISTORY via their songs. Y'all need to use your brains.
This was the song that got a 57 year old grandma to listen to metal music. I am in the process of listening to All of your songs! I am a lover of History and wish that more people would inform themselves about it. We Must Remember or we are destined to Repeat it! I wish I could see you in concert when you come to New York but I am afraid I won't have the money to do so . My Heart is with you gentlemen you make a Difference and I thank you!
This song makes me shed a tear. Especially now, being a Russian, I really hope that the next Christmas we can finally say "We are all friends". We need such a miracle now. Upd: Guys, I thank you all for your kind words. It really gives me hope and will to believe in the future. You're amazing. Upd 2: Alas, it seems like this is not going to end this way. But let us hope we see the end of this terrible war soon enough. Stay true to yourselves, everyone. Merry Christmas.
This is what I always say, Russians aren’t bad. You had no choice in this war, I will say your lucky your not on Ukraine’s side, since as far as I’m aware Russia isn’t getting attacked too much, but good luck to all that you this war ends
Imagine a world where the Christmas Truce was the end of the war. Not because the powers that be declared an end, but because all of the soldiers on both sides collectively refused to fight anymore.
Yes, that's what we want. What if people listened to Christmas Truce and Tommy's A Christmas Carol, with the Dickens story advising us all to live everyday as if it is Christmas, to keep Christmas in our hearts every day of the year.
Love how "Carol of the Bells" was incorporated in the piano and the song revolves around it. It's a perfectly melancholy yet joyous song. Sabaton has created yet another masterpiece.
Carol of the Bells" is a popular Christmas carol, with music by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1914[1] and lyrics by Peter J. Wilhousky. The song is based on the Ukrainian folk chant "Shchedryk".His plans to leave the country, along with the fact that he was killed by a Soviet agent, also indicate political reasons for his death
This song moved me so much it inspired me to write a poem about the event. There is something both so beautiful and tragic about this day in history. Somewhere in this, I believe, is a hint to both the meaning and folly of life. Thank you Sabaton! All the guns were silent Use your heart to set the scene, it’s Christmas eve, 1914 The Western Front, in trenches deep, synonymous with violence They shiver in the winter snow, soldiers young and soldiers old Thoughts are full with dreams of home, and all the guns are silent They smiled when they could hear a man, across the reach of No Man’s Land A voice in carol, stripped of clan, this night ‘when angels sing’ They joined each other line for line, chorused into Auld Lang Sine Then met upon the dread divide, to speak of simpler things Upon the stretch where days before, lives were lost in tolls of war They brought their hopes up to the ‘fore, and wished each other well They traded gifts and lifted flasks, ignored the future’s dire tasks And prayed upon their lives to last, Joyeux Noël A joyous union there to catch, a foe turned friend, a football match No frightful orders to attack, grudges fell forgotten Raising arms but just to toast, in Christmas spirit all engrossed In various tongues for all to host, Frohe Weihnachten So much grief to see such growth, the Central and the Allies both Wishing Christmas by their troth, in lands of trenches scarred A night to make descendants think, these men whose lives were on the brink Still with love to share their drink, with foe upon death‘s yard Now time to go, farewell my chum, I’ll see you from behind my gun Back to your trench, do not relent, rejoin your war machine Thank you for the hearty schnapps, Au revoir, take care, I trust That all our songs were quite enough, my friend, auf Wiedersehen Remember well these songs we sang, at war, we dared we dream
"We were soldiers Carried the war on our shoulders For our nations Is that why we bury our friends?" People we are living in the best English lyrics Sabaton has ever written.
My great grandfather fought in that terrible war. He was sent to fetch an AWOL soldier who ventured into a nearby forest. Upon meeting that soldier, he heard him explain how pointless and cruel the war was. After hearing him speak, my grandfather decided to stay in that forest with him.
Yeah, he saw bodies twitching and moving on the battlefield (they were filled with rats). He even saw cheese they had to eat move (they were filled with maggots). He was captured by the Germans at one point, and when it happened he successfully prevented one of his comrades from aiming his rifle, thus keeping them from getting killed and preserving his bloodline (he has 100s of descendants now). After his capture and getting marched by the Germans, he once tried to pick up a head of cabbage from the ground but was rifle-butted for doing so.
When I hear this song I remember as if it was yesterday, when as a little boy I always went to my great-grandpa after school and he told me stories from the wars just like in the song. He had to fight both world wars as a soldier. His stories were mostly as moving as your song. Thanks to you I can see him in front of me and hear his voice. Thank you very much for this epic journey through time. His name was Paul, rest in peace .
We have a lot to learn from our elders. I lost two great grandfathers and a great uncle in the trenches of WW1. most ordinary soldiers on all sides were manual workers who had never experienced the military or war. It must have been awful, a hell on Earth that they had been thrust into. @M - v - P I’m glad your great grandfather survived both wars and was able to pass on his wisdom and experiences to you.
The Christmas truce is one of the historical events that always brings a tear to my eye and gives me *some* hope for humanity. In all of us is a part that just wants the contention to stop, but are forced to continue struggling by those in charge.
"The men were all fraternizing in the middle (we naturally did not allow them too close to our line) and swapped cigarettes and lies in the utmost good fellowship. Not a shot was fired all night" - Captain Robert Patrick Miles, 1st King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. If there was ever a song that was needed at this time, it would be this. It's rare that music moves me in the way that this song did. Fantastic job Sabaton, Crew, and all who were involved. Thank you
Imagine the confusion those soldiers had back then... It is truly one of the best stories of mankind, one that shows that despite all the terrors a human being can endure, at the end of the day is still a human being, not a machine made for war. I, personally, have the utmost respect for Sabaton because with their powerful music they manage to show us very important moments from our history and we shall remember what our ancestors did and what shall we do in the future. Once again, congratulations and keep up the good work! Epic as always!
I like to think sometimes, war was not meant for us. I don't know how to explain it well in words other than, the only reason war exists is cause the factors that lead to it always will, and we are forced to answer the call, the reason I say forced is due to the fact, no one wants to die, but they will die fighting. I hope that gets my idea out respectfully.
Society during the great war had a very different morality and code of honor than during IIWW, that is why you had british soldiers bury the Red Baron with all the honors after finally defeating him, it truly was the last major conflict with a sense of knighthood. Sure there were awful moments and the use of chemical weapons an asshole move, but the stories of IWW have a different feeling to them, more heroic in my opinion
The only song in many years to make me tear up, not only for its beautiful composition. But for the sheer effort and story it tells, while also being a hell of joy to listen too. Thank you and Merry Christmas everyone!
the fact that this actually happened is amazing, and it shows that people CAN put aside their differences to make peace. even if it is just for a moment
Sad thing is, neither side wanted to fight each other afterwards, so they're commanders moved them to different parts of the trench and forbid any type of peace forming again.
WWI was a weird one for sure. Many of the pilots and officers came from high ranking and adjacent royal families... many of them were related to each other, cousins at least. So 3 months prior you may have been at a large party with all these people and not you're supposed to fight them. Hard for any man to do. Same thing with the pilots in WWI. The goal was to shoot down planes, not murder pilots. Those who kept aggressively attack planes that were no long combat capable, or shooting at pilots on the ground were seen as very dishonorable men. Many of them were reprimanded for doing things like that. It was not a thing gentlemen did. Even the Red Baron was that way. He turned it off once the fight was over.
@@MrClarkisgod I watched a movie about him and there was a scene when a German pilot shot a plane a lot of times wjen clearly it was out of action. The people on the ground even said let the pilot land and the Red Baron reprimanded the pilot who shot the plane
The fact is that there are less differences between worker Hans from Bavaria, postman Jean from Normandy and peasant Ivan from Smolensk than between each of them and "ruling elites" which send millions to die for their interests.
This song has now become a tradition for me every year in December, the lyrics make it feel like you are experiencing first hand a slight amount of humanity, in an otherwise terrifying time on the front lines of the Great war. Happy Holidays Sabaton 🤘
Sabaton will always be one of my most important metal bands I have ever discovered. To bring history back to life with their music, to never forget these stories of humanity is a wonder to behold. These guys are incredible.
C'est le problème avec la guerre : se sont des gens qui ne se connaissent pas qui se battent et s'entretue pour des gens qui se connaissent . Notre époque devrait prendre exemple sur tous ces héros Merci Sabaton🤘
My English grandfather was a WW I veteran. ... The story of this brave truce from that war has fascinated me for years - I have taught it as an English teacher in school, I have read about it, seen a (french) film about it - and now for the first time heard a song about it - And this video does the story justice. Great work, Sabaton ! You help us remember ! Thanks a lot!
The snoopy and the red baron song is lightly based on it too and was how I learned about it through that song and my dad telling me about what the song actualy ment. Ever since learning about the Christmas Miracle it's been one of my absoulte favorte moment in human history where men realised even if just for a brief moment war is pointless and only helps bureaucrats who don't even know they exist. It was a moment were solders chose instead of being wariors but to be human and to give their fellow man a rest from the hell their foolish leaders had thrust them into and just enjoy a nice quiet Christmas espacly since they knew for many it might be their last. It was a moment of true courage that showed that even in the darkest of times there's always a little glimer of light.
@@demi-fiendoftime3825 There was also a WWII incident involving Franz Steiger and- I kid you not- Charlie Brown. Brown’s plane was damaged after a bombing run, and Steiger escorted him out of the area rather than shoot him down. After the war, the two apparently found each other and became friends. Steiger was lucky his commanders likely never heard of it, or else he would have been treated as the German, French, Scots, and English were after the WWI Christmas Truce.
@@demi-fiendoftime3825 Wow, so I googled about the Franz Stigler (correct name) and Charlie Brown incident, and apparently this same man or band has a song about it, too. Had no idea because I’ve never heard of him/them, I only found this video looking for a History Channel documentary about the Christmas Truce. I’m going to listen to it now, too.
The very traditional sounds of the holidays combined with fascinating history and powerful new music and lyrics. This song needs a big push on mainstream radio and I need to be singing it with 30 or 40 friends in a bar Christmas Eve. This should be a holiday classic for years to come.
Вся в мурашках, сопли.. слезы... настолько тронуло, все, ребята вы большие молодцы! Сегодня мы живем в непростое время и очень хочется, чтоб мир на земле настал 🙏❤
Why is it that Sabaton is the only band that can bring me to tears with songs about battlefield kindness. This song did it. No Bullets Fly got me for all of 2014 and 2015, but it still gets me now and then. Uprising is another one that hits me with that mental visual … maybe because I have four sons. Powerful, Sabaton. Very powerful. The imagery measures up to the song. Amazing job.
Inmate 4859 is my kryptonite (and now this one of course). The chorus sends me every time. The fact that they tried to strike his name from the history books and then at the end of the song when they say "WE know his name."
This might just be a perfect song. It has a positive message about peace and enjoyment of life, it sounds amazing, and it's made by passionate people who actually care about what they do. 10/10 the only Christmas song I'll play year round.
That end part gave me goosebumps, once again Sabaton stepping out of their comfort zone and demonstrating their talent. Im sure this will be the best album they've ever done
Merry Christmas to everyone. Thank you Sabaton for your masterpiece of a song. I get emotional every time I hear it. Thank you for keeping the memories of so many brave men and women, from all over the world, Alice with your music.
For years “the last stand” was one of Sabaton’s most epic songs by far, but “christmas truce” is an absolute masterpiece of music. I hope that this song reaches as many people as possible in the world and lets them go through their minds. Merry Christmas
I feel the christmas truce is one of the most beautiful and underappreciated moments in the whole of modern history , showing that even during the hardest moments of humanity's history, humanity was well and alive and that regular people , who had nothing against each other, were forced to fight each other
@@mikoto7693 because the high brass forced them to fight or else got shot with treason charges iirc those who participated in the truce were punished in some sort for their seeking for peace
@@mikoto7693 It's what we do. Humans are very flawed creatures. I mean that in a lot of ways. For example we seem hell bent on destroying the very ecology that keeps us alive. While Humankind was great potential, i think we are too selfish as a species to survive unless we evolve to be better humans.
Well, now we have another example of humanity of modern history - Ukraine war and help that is given by polish people. This initiative is coming from the "bottom", not from the "Top" - government have nothing do with it. They just doing "political marketing" based on that - whole support for Ukraine is coming from private pockets of whole polish citizens.
This has to be the most production I've ever seen on a music video, and it absolutely delivers. Cannot wait for this album and to see what they come up with after this one. These guys are the MASTERS of storytelling in music, and I love this band so damn much.
"We tend to forget, that behind every sight of every gun there is a human being." -*a clever man* Sabaton this song is, as always, pure amazement. The whole jingle style of piano actually adds a lot of awareness about what you're singing. Thank you very much for your work!
At long last, the Christmas song has landed. Now I can celebrate the season properly, and subject my family to this beautiful melody because it is technically a Christmas song, much like Die Hard is a Christmas Movie
That "Bury our friends" followed by "We were all friends" just breaks my heart every time I hear it. Such a great song. I can't wait to hear the rest of the album. Thank you Sabaton, for choosing to re-visit the Great War. You were right. There are so many stories left to tell.
@@jadonlimoges1830 They're done a lot of WW2 songs, but I have a feeling they could create a concept album focused on a particular theatre of the war. My pick would be one about the pacific theatre, as we don't have many Sabaton songs about the island campaigns or naval battles there outside of "Midway", "Ballad of Bull", and "Nuclear Attack." Or, they could create a Korean War Concept Album.
It is close to the time of the year again. This song has become one of my Christmas time songs that will play on Christmas Truce day. Merry very early Christmas to everyone and may the warriors of the past rest in peace as they shall forever live on
I’m in tears. Sabaton, I had expected Christmas Truce to be fantastic; as all your music is, and I have been waiting for this for ages… but this is so much more than I was expecting. This is phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal. You always said how difficult it was to write a song about this topic, well let me tell you. You have done it justice. Thank you so much.
I feel absolutely the same. I have heard this now 10 times. I am in tears every. Damn. Time. They have not only done it justice, they have exceeded what I thought possible. It's a whole other level of Sabaton but really shows what the 'modern Sabaton' sound is going to be: symphonic, classical mixed with heavy, metal support. It is completely baffling. This is the new song that I will show and play for people who want to hear what the Sabaton fuzz is about. I feel so humble and privileged to experience this band in my lifetime and it feels they are constantly reaching new peaks with every new single, and every new album they release.
@@Sabaton Joakim seems to have a keyboard cat vibe about him in some parts of this. Like pure bliss while playing. As it should be in music. Another facet of the video crafted in& appreciated❤😊
Never thought a Sabaton song whould bring to tears. Sitting on a train in Sweden smiling and tears running. What an awsome and buityful song. Hope this is played on the next Sabaton cruise.
En Livstid i Krig, I don't even speak Swedish but the live version is a critical hit to the feels every time I hear it. You know they're a great band when their music can inspire feelings like that across the whole spectrum.
German soldier here: Thank you so much for that visualisation of history. I teared up but although it was sadness about those cruel wars we fought back then and also so little years after that one a second time it were also tears of joy that we at least in Europe have overcome that madness and are united in friendship nowadays. May humankind finally learn that we all have to settle our differences without violence and that war never brings any good for anybody in the long term. Only together in friendship and peace we will have a future as a species.
@Denis Winter Thank you, kind Sir. I am not a fan of stating such clear numbers of how many were monsters in those times. We will never know and stating such high percentages of monsters in the rows of the former eney can raise hatred of living people thinking of their great-grandfathesr or even great-great-grandfathers, remembering them as a good man to them when they were a child after the war and getting angry about such statements. What will we get out of newly raised hatred by thinking bad of alread deceased men? Right, only new hatred. We shall overcome the negativ feelings that rise in us when thinking of that cruel past of humankind but we shall never forget what humans are capable of doing against each others. We still have not changed in general. You see that by watching the news and seeing all that wars all over the world or even the little wars in our societies. Hatred and arguments are everywhere between fellow humans and even parting families. We have to develope our minds and very souls not to fail again as our ancestors did and by that I mean failing on every side of the great wars. Everywhere there was monsters and fellow humans who have not forgotten that they are all brothers and sisters even in most dire times of war, death and cruelty everywhere. Lest we ever forget and finally learn from the mistakes of our past.
Unfortunate that people go to war with each other like this, Esp England and France, Germany; which are brother countries. Men dying because the leaders ordered them to.. May we learn from the past to never repeat this again.
Only when we depose our rulers throughout the world will our nations finally know peace and friendships, the rich start wars and the sons and daughters of the common folk die for petty squabbles of the ruling classes, Just thinking about how many young men women and children have died to the greedy rich makes me sad and Angry
@@gravynavy516 Our rulers are humans as well. In democratic societies the ruler of today were the common folk of the past therefore I am not a fan of that pointing with fingers to others. We all have to work on ourselves to get humankind on a next level of evolution. Everyone is called to work on themselves. Oh and we will not achieve this goal during a lifetime. It is evolution, new behaviour passend down from parent to child slightly developing ourselfs as a species. We need patience and love as the force that has to guide us. Nothing more, nothing less.
This. This is the truest meaning of Christmas - friendship, brotherhood. For months, the world went mad... then on the Western Front, these men did the only thing that made sense in all the madness: they laid down their weapons and celebrated Christmas. I'm a US vet... and this means a lot to me. Sabaton, we thank you.
Aye, I raise a drink in your name, our veterans, and brothers and sisters that didn't make it home through out the centuries. Thank you for your service. HEAR HEAR!! 🥹🥹🍻🍻
A Christmas on the frontline We walk among our friends We don't think about tomorrow The battle will commence When we celebrated Christmas We thought about our friends Those who never made it home When the battle had commenced As a veteran, these words hit home for me. What a powerful message. Thank you Sabaton, for everything!
The Christmas Truce was a story that stuck with me forever since learning about it 20-something years ago in elementary school... Seeing and hearing this piece of art about it gave me goosebumps from start to end! Wow! Amazing! Sabaton, you guys are awesome!
Is there anyone who can't shed a tear to this song? Thank you Sabaton for a song that brings such raw emotion from a grown man in his 30's. Truly a masterpiece.
2024, I'd come back and revisit this song once or twice a year. One of the very few songs that will have me cry every time. The lyricsm and the combination of vocals hit the heart and soul, and it just gets me every time.
Silence Oh, I remember the silence On a cold winter day After many months on the battlefield And we were used to the violence Then all the cannons went silent And the snow fell Voices sang to me from no man’s land We are all, we are all, we are all, we are all friends And today we’re all brothers Tonight we’re all friends A moment of peace in a war that never ends Today we’re all brothers We drink and unite Now Christmas has arrived and the snow turns the ground white Hear carols from the trenches, we sing O holy night Our guns laid to rest among snowflakes A Christmas in the trenches, a Christmas on the front far from home Madness Oh I remember the sadness We were hiding our tears In a foreign land where we faced our fears We were soldiers Carried the war on our shoulders For our nations Is that why we bury our friends? We were all, we were all, we were all, we were all friends A Christmas on the frontline, we walk among our friends, we don’t think about tomorrow, the battle will commence When we celebrated Christmas, we thought about our friends, those who never made it home, when the battle had commenced
A monument. A memory. A lesson we as a species failed to learn. But the tale will never be forgotten, so long as there are people left to remember that if our fear of one another can be overcome... Hatred can be left to flicker and fade away. You've succeeded at making me weep again, Sabaton. But I thank you. These are lessons I will never stop teaching those around me, for if I can convince even one to put aside their anger and remember that we are all human, I'll have achieved my purpose.
I love the fact that they paraphrased actual statements ,from a soldier who witnessed the event, with the opening lines: "Silence, oh I remember the silence"
@@MadAtGasCar Actually, most of the chorus is based on a poem Audie Murphy himself composed. If you check out the Sabaton History episode, Indy recites it.
I wish more than anything that everyone could see this and understand its message. The wars NEVER change, the us vs them the "good guys" vs "bad guys" when we could all CHOOSE PEACE.
I cannot thank you guys enough for keeping the memory of these soldiers alive. I will soon be visiting the grave of my great grandfather who fought at Ypres in 1917, Private William Barber of The Duke of Cornwall's light infantry lost his arm in that battle .i had the privilege of knowing him until he died at 92 the man will always be my hero, never forget always remember they gave their today for our tomorrow.
@Jaomir Courtar Kirchhoff's law was not the result of fighting, just as Ohm's law or labor theory of value. We are human kind, collectivism is in our nature. Fighting is the result of social evolution. It was inevitable. It is inevitable right now (I hope it it won't remain so). Fighting is the result of rich bastard's struggling to secure and augment their riches. It won't last forever. Progress can be gained not just by fighting, USSR had shown it. Sorry for my bad English :)
Also a cold reminder that the power always lied in the workers and soldiers of the world. If the soldiers refuse to fight, can there be a war? Even if all the politicians and generals demand it, if all the soldiers refuse, no shots will be fired.
Perfectly happy to admit i cried over this. Those men of Germany, of Britain, of Belgium and of France (and all their far flung empires), who had been murdering eachother and the command of their government, and would spend four years murdering eachother after the 25th of December 1914, managed to spend most of a day in fellow-feeling and comradeship, in spite of and despite the will of their rulers. This story's always touched me deeply, and given me hope that we might rise above the petty hatreds that dictate our lives. That we could reach a day where there is no more war, and no more pain. And just a group of friends, playing footy and getting drunk, and having a good time.
@@Unknown_Genius Have you ever read the sci-fi book Enders Game. While I don't truly agree with it, one of the key ideas was that to defeat an enemy you must know them to the point of in some ways loving them. Most soldiers are not murderous psychopaths. In fact, I'd say those are the last people who militaries want on the front lines. Many are killing not because they hate the other side, though that may naturally develop as friends are wounded and die, but rather because it is their duty/job. War is a terrible thing, but there are reasons it exists. However, the truce is truly an inspiring story. Even if the leaders and nations as a whole have agendas, individuals can set aside their differences.
I read somewhere that when the officers ordered the soldiers who had spent Christmas 1914 with the ones who they were supposed to see as the enemy mutinied to the point of having to be replaced with new troops from the back of the lines. Nobody could move them to go and kill the men they'd played football with, shook hands with and took pictures with the day before.
Easily the best moment of human history. Through all the hatred, all the doubt, all the fear, humanity showed that it hadn't completely lost its mind. In the end, we're all the same. We just wear different uniforms.
@@denisjankovic2164 I forget which year it was, but aye it wasn't a permanent arrangement. It did have some positive lasting effect, however: both sides had to relocate the units that participated in the truce because they flat-out refused to fire at each other anymore. That just makes me happy lol, being a soldier myself. Being able to respect your enemy is a key part of the good soldier's mindset.
@@denisjankovic2164 From what i learned about it, The truce happened in either the first or second year, i think you are correct by saying the first year. It was also before they started doing massive conscription. Most of the people in the battlefield at this point in history where professional solders. They where trained to fight, But not to hate the enemy. They where (Mostly) All people who volunteered to be in the military and they could understand that this is just a job. Once people start being conscripted they just want the war to end. They have been seeing propaganda about each other to make them want to hate each other Then there is the fact that the generals did not want it to happen a second time either. Personally. This should happen in every conflict. If it is a major holiday, especially one that both sides celebrate, the fighting should be put on hold to celebrate life.
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On December 24, 1914, an unofficial Christmas Truce was enforced on the Western Front. An act of trust and harmony, British and German soldiers mingled and played games together in the midst of one of the most atrocious events of the 20th century - World War I. Read more about the Christmas Truce of 1914 👉 www.sabaton.net/historical-facts/christmas-truce-was-enforced/
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I'm going to add this to my Christmas playlist. Thanks. This is one of the biggest Christmas.miracles in hundreds of years.
Rip i have at this time school
@@lucaslochau2447 me too mate... I feel your pain...
So it's gonna go live in the morning where i'm from.
i would watch live, but its at 4 am for me
I can finally add Sabaton to my Christmas playlist.
There is "Screaming eagles" that is close to this theme
What about Screaming Eagles, that's a christmas song aswell.
@@spinosaurusiii7027 it isn't
oh...i already did, long ago...
cuz one can listen to them always
Yes.
Finally. . . we can replace Mariah Carrey's "All I want for Christmas is you" with a song we can actually listen to on repeat and not get sick of it.
yea lets play this in malls and stores
This song literally kills Mariahs Carrey’s “ all I want for Christmas is you” lol this song is epic!
@@ScaleModel_Creations Sure, why the fuck not!
Sabaton - best band ever
There is a plenty of metal Christmas song or at least covers out there Christopher Lee even made some covers of Christmas songs with his band before he passed my he rest in peace
A metal, historical Christmas song. They have truly ascended
I think it would be cool if they did a song on Washington crossing the Delaware to attack the mercenaries on Christmas night
@@josephrupsis4623 has no American band done this?
I think I play it on christmas
@@kikedli it's in my top 5. Neck & neck w/Bing & co.
Sabaton the best history teacher you never had in school.
I think the Christmas Truce proves to me that even at humanities lowest point, we prefer to be kind to one another.
Amen it really restores my faith in humanity
I thought that too, until this last month :(
What happened bro?@@fatcarl76
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@Vergil749 correct. Seeing so many ppl I know that raise their voice for every injustice be quiet on this. Knowing thr US is funding it. And seeing the atrocities from Motaz and others every day.
1. No bullets Fly
2. Christmas Truce
This songs makes me cry so hard
En Livstid i Krig?
And a hammer has fallen
Soldiers are still humans not monsters. In a way soldiers from both sides are the victims of failed diplomacy or other failures by their rulers.
@@Skeletronik-cz1op That song is dramatic too. But not enough for make me cry
@@Drag0nvil How they fight each other after treaty? This is so heavy.
That piano sound and fade into the guitar was absoluitely legendary!
Agreed, absolutely stunning. The rest too, of course. Another stunning masterpiece. Also Nordern, balds together strong?
Wow,you,hi nordern.
Oh hello, Norden!
Bald
I agree, it's also nice that Joachim can still slam his knee with a piano too.
*"We were soldiers, carried the war on our shoulders"*
It can't be more Sabaton-ish than this...
Sabaton hat letztens ausversehen was öffentlich gemacht und dann schnell unlisted gemacht, aber ich hab den link ruclips.net/video/gR4a09NXuL0/видео.html
@@marvin-dailyhacksundmehr9546 yeah that looks a bit sketchy.
Und was willst Du uns damit sagen? Daß Sabaton das spielt? ;) Kann ich mir irgendwie nicht vorstellen...
Eden's gate
@@marvin-dailyhacksundmehr9546what's the video called? RUclips broke links, the link doesn't work
The time has come... to blast this masterpiece over the neighbors boring Christmas jingles
Metal Christmas spirit calls for it 😎
@@SabatonReally cool to hear from you guys. You absolutely hit this out of the park.
thought of doing the same thing, hope one of my neighbors is epic enough to recognize it and sign
@@Sabaton I will blast this so loud and long. This is my offical
Christmas Song.
Same here!
Love it and proud to be a small part of this! 🔥
Great song and Great vocals at the end Floor!!!
I knew I recognised that powerful female voice at 6:50 into the clip. Just never guessed :)
Absolutely spellbinding vocals at the end. Knew it was you right away
Your vocals floor me every time
Your voice was a great addition to the outro, lovely, thank you Floor.
Every Christmas during school, my German teacher would always tell the story of the Christmas truce of 1914. He would tell the story of the events somberly and proceed to sing silent night in German then English.
Thank you Sabaton for making this and forever treasuring this memory. The song is just perfect!
And thank you for remeber the brave Soldiers on both sides
Silent Night the only Christmas Carol I learned in three languages English, German, and Spanish.
Sie haben einen geilen Lehrer.
Wholesome
My German teacher that was in the Africa Corp told me of the same story. Brothers in arms celebrated together, and the next day they all shot over each others head. They all realised that no body wanted to be there and that they had more income with each other than divided them. It is politicians that pit us against one another.
Finally, a Christmas song that I actually want to hear outside of December.
Ikr
I wholeheartedly agree
@aswer huio Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe this year is 107 year anniversary this Christmas
It's "Shchedryk" - Christmas Russian-Ukrainian folk song
You f*cking said it! This is what I’m talking about.
Two years later and I still tear up when I watch this. Merry Christmas, my fellow metal heads.
I saw a film about this event. “Merry Christmas” is a cross-border production.
It would be too nice if this event were to repeat itself today.
My thoughts are with the people who cannot experience Christmas in peace.
Same. It's a tear jerker
You are not the only one...
I am not a metal head, merry Christmas brother.
-my grandfather told me once, when he was on france defending a city, on that day of 24th there was a cease fire of 3 days, 3 days both sides smile, eat and play togheter, 2 weeks later the enemy fall back for a reason: they could not shoot their new friends... Thanks Sabaton, let us all remenber this truce and those who die for that day
Most of the units that partook in a truce ended up being moved to different areas because they wouldn’t fight.
@@deathdragon2283 I heard that too, but is allways a great story...
@@deathdragon2283 I guess that´s the exact reason why there was the threat of court mashals for anyone who partook on possible future truces.
This shows how devastating war is for a human. My family used to watch over a 96 year old man-who has sadly passed away now-and he would tell stories about WW2 every now and then. He mentioned the Chrismas truce once or twice,every time he did I would just cry like a baby. May him and all soldiers rest in peace
Also, this "Great War" is nothing but politics and it was a war against brothers
Not gonna lie, this video made me shed tears - having read about this tiny spark of hope in history's war-torn times amplified the emotional impact.
it makes me shed tears too, I believe we are all brothers and sisters on this earth. We do not need to fight each other ever regardless of what our politicians and world leaders tell us
I had the same feeling just watching I had tears.
its a moment that shows everything good with humanity a brief beam of light to keep up hope for our species that good is still outthere in us even if the grimness and violence of reality trys to push us to cynism and depresison
Same
Frenchies in the Trenchies it's always special
"Warfootball is a simple game: 22 soldiers chase a ball for 90 minutes and, in the end, unlike wars, the Germans always win". - Gary Lineker
You gotta admit though, it takes a lot of effort to defeat them.
Everyone keeps ganging up on them though lol
I'm stealing that, it's hilarious.
Interesting enough, as the others have said, in both World Wars, notably more countries were on the Allied powers than the Central/Axis powers.
WW1;
Allies; Britain (which at the time included Austalia), USA, Italy, France, Serbia and Russia
Central powers; Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman empire.
WW2;
Allies; USA (E-fucking-ventually), Britain (again with Australia), France, Russia (who joined six months before America) and China.
Axis; Germany, Italy, Japan.
@@Lord_Numpty There's several other powers that signed on the Axis side. Romania and Bulgaria both their armies involved in the invasion of the Soviet Union. Indeed, the operation that turned the tide in Stalingrad (Operation Uranus - the encirclement of German forces in Stalingrad) involved cutting through the Romanian Third and Fourth armies, which were guarding the Germans' flank.
Finland was also an ally of Germany in what they called the Continuation War, but unlike Romania and Bulgaria, they weren't ultranationalist nutjobs like the Nazis, they just wanted to reclaim territory lost to the Soviets in the Winter War of 1939.
And if you start including minor international powers rather than the ones on the front lines in Europe (and the Pacific in WWII) you get multiple representatives on every continent (except Antarctica, due to the lack of countries) picking sides. Canada, Brazil, Peru, the fighting in Africa (mostly because they were colonies and getting dragged into the war by their European overlords)...a full list of belligerants for either war is *very* long.
@@Lord_Numpty it was the British Empire with a fuck ton of colonies, that alone is a formidable enemy.
I am a 76 year old Granny and this brought tears to my eyes. The stupidity of war.
As long as it is the mere calling of men to be men... in prevention of falling into a decline of socialism/communism.... we good. God bless you Granny ;)
Ich war 10 Jahre alt und hörte diese Geschichte von einem Kriegsteilnehmer. Damals verstand ich sie nicht. Es gab auch den sinnlosen Tod seines Kameraden.Jeder Krieg ist ein Verbrechen, keine Mutter gibt ihren Sohn für den Krieg
None of us are truly enemies of each other. personal pride, petty excuses and child-like antics of politicians and people of influence are the cause of all of it. In the end we put aside all of that and attain Men of Real honor, Real love for family and Real understanding of what all of these things can cause only then can war truly be brought to an end
Also shows that metal can reach all ages. Thank you, you are probably the coolest grandma ever.
they fight for friends family and nation. never for government that used them. abuse the power and it will strike back
Just used this song to teach my 7 yo daughter that an enemy in war is not necessarily a bad person but a human being.
On the 1st of november we allways visit Henri-Chapelle War Cemetery and visit an unknown soldier. Now she starts to realize the madness ... I'm so glad she 's allready a fan of Sabaton (especially of Hannes) and I can use the music we love to teach her things that matter in life ... thanks Sabaton
Thanks for sharing this!
reading this made my day
Once she gets old, she will share your wisdom and the things that you teach, to his son or her daughter, and may the things that you said to her will be sent to more and more generations
This makes me so happy! We homeschooled our sons. And Sabaton music is a perfect way to teach children history! 💕🙏 from OH 🇺🇸
This...made my day.
If hope springs eternal, then where there is darkness, that darkness can never win as long as there is but a glimmer of light that exists. If that light exists, then hope exists, and it shall never fade.
You, sir, give me hope that future generations will never forget the sacrifices and stories of the men who have fought, and given, so much. Sacrificed so much.
If for no other reason, than to give the future a chance to shine so much brighter than it did in their day.
Bless you, and especially your little one, these holidays in 2021. May they find you well, and find you safe.
The Christmas Truce was a series of unofficial ceasefires that took place only 5 months after the war had begun. Gaps in the fighting took place as materiel supplies ran low and commanders began to reconsider their plans following the stalemates at Marne and Ypres. Pope Benedict XV had suggested a temporary ceasefire for the celebration of Christmas, but the warring countries refused to commit to any official ceasefire. The Open Christmas Letter was also sent around this time, being an open letter signed by a group of over 100 British suffragists at then end of 1914 as the First Christmas of the Great War approached. The letter was written in acknowledgement of the horror of war and as a direct response to letters written to the president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance by a small group of German Suffragists that also had called for peace.
The week before Christmas soldiers from the German side of the trenches began to sing carols, play in brass bands, and eventually, on the dawn of Christmas Day, some German soldiers emerged from their trenches and approached the Allied lines. Calling out "Merry Christmas" In their enemies' native tongues. Initially the allies feared it was a trick, and in some sections of the trenches the allied lines simply fired upon those wishing for peace, quickly ending the momentary ceasefire. In most areas, particularly lines that weren't British (If I'm recalling it correctly) The allied soldiers held their fire upon realizing that the moment was not an attempt at subterfuge and soon came to meet their momentary friends in the middle of No-Man's Land. They exchanged gifts of tobacco, pudding, buttons, helmets, and even chocolate as they sang carols and even had some German Soldiers light Christmas trees around their trenches and played games.
Not every part of the trenches was as good natured, some simply agreed to momentary ceasefires at a distance, permitting their opponents to rest and relax in their own trenches, exchange prisoners with one another, or set about the grim task of recovering the dead from No Man's Land.
Unfortunately, in the subsequent years the commanding officers on both sides had issued strongly worded orders against such fraternization, and come the Christmas of 1915, when British soldiers heard carols coming from the trenches on the other side, artillery was directed to fire upon the position the sound came from, putting a stop to any future Christmas Ceasefires.
Seems to me the humane thing would've been to turn rifles on commanders giving orders against such fraternisations. Oh well
@@deptusmechanikus7362 unfortunately that would be considered a mutiny and probably end with a court martial case or even execution
@@deptusmechanikus7362 well the commanders were rich or upper class bellends at the time so yeah it would have been a good idea
@@deptusmechanikus7362 Trust, God never fails his judgment.
@@deptusmechanikus7362 most war are between the elites, not the footsoldiers....
This song needs to be number one worldwide for Christmas as a reminder that even during one of the most horrific conflicts in recent history that moments of humanity still existed. Especially in a world of social media where it feels like people strive to divide rather than unite
Yes, it brings me to tears, even thinking that it started off with soldiers singing "Silent Night" in their own language, and the guns went silent.
Yes we need to make this number one!
You said it all. Congratulations.
then lets get it there my friend :D
ironically' though we are not shooting each other, there is less in common between the sides now than there were during ww1 the cultures were basicly exactly the same but with different languages. We no longer can agree on basic morality.
This is what I love about Sabaton. They aren't pro-war. They're very much anti-war, but with a strong idea for the sacrifice and bravery of these men.
They don't promote War, but they do aknowledge the courage & sacrifice of those that fought.🥲🫡🫡
Lest we forget. I'm in gen Y.
All these guys of the 1914 christmas truce are legends but the first guy to step out of the trench with his hands up is an absolute legend
He was a 16 year old British soldier who stepped out
@@VanyawwdIt's was just a kid...
@@Vanyawwddamn
Imagine. He could easily have been shot at, by any of the more than dozen armed men on the other side. He took a serious risk.
There are Accounts that it was german from saxony , they was also the first who sang and kaiser Willhelm was the one who gave the Xmas trees
Christmas Truce"
Silence
Oh, I remember the silence
On a cold winter day
After many months on the battlefield
And we were used to the violence
Then all the cannons went silent
And the snow fell
Voices sang to me from no man's land
We are all, we are all, we are all, we are all friends
And today we're all brothers, tonight we're all friends
A moment of peace in a war that never ends
Today we're all brothers, we drink and unite
Now Christmas has arrived and the snow turns the ground white
Hear carols from the trenches, we sing O Holy Night
Our guns laid to rest among snowflakes
A Christmas in the trenches, a Christmas on the front far from home
Madness (Madness)
Oh I remember the sadness (Sadness)
We were hiding our tears (Hiding our tears)
In a foreign land where we faced our fears (Faced our fears)
We were soldiers (Soldiers)
Carried the war on our shoulders (Shoulders)
For our nations (Nations)
Is that why we bury our friends? (Bury our friends)
We were all, we were all, we were all, we were all friends
(We're friends)
And today we're all brothers, tonight we're all friends
A moment of peace in a war that never ends
Today we're all brothers, we drink and unite
Now Christmas has arrived and the snow turns the ground white
Hear carols from the trenches, we sing O Holy Night
Our guns laid to rest among snowflakes
A Christmas in the trenches, a Christmas on the front far from home
We were all, we were all, we were all, we were all friends
(We're friends)
And today we're all brothers, tonight we're all friends
A moment of peace in a war that never ends
Today we're all brothers, we drink and unite
Now Christmas has arrived and the snow turns the ground white
A Christmas on the frontline, we walk among our friends
We don't think about tomorrow, the battle will commence
When we celebrated Christmas we thought about our friends
Those who never made it home when the battle had commenced
How u know the lyrics?
@@alfredalfiesiv7082 probably a very good listener
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Thanks, man
@@riccards oh. :I
I can not believe Sabaton traveled back in time just to record a music video! This has been a very beautiful tribute to one of the most human episodes among the craziness of War. Mycket bra!
Well they did it before with verdun
Maestro de Lys un placer verlo aquí
Waiting for a r/whooosh
@@101BULLET me too but ill still have hope that it does not happen
Hola, podrías sacar video de está canción?
We are men. We don't cry on Titanic. We cry on Sabaton.
Because when we see the video and hear the music it hits us hard as we no all the pain and suffering that went through and it hits us hard and then we think of what’s going on today 😢😢 it’s a shame that we all can’t live together in peace the world bigger enough
Так и есть
It's true brother😢
Amen
I cried on titanic too, man. even though I was literally holding hands with my gf when I watched it. ah, good old days.
Fantastic as always. A great reminder that men can still find their humanity in the midst of inhumanity.
agreed! #lestweforget
I hope you're going to make a video on this song
@@absolutelybased3251 ruclips.net/video/RHLvNVzYJ4M/видео.html
@@VloggingThroughHistory Well damn, ask and you shall receive!
#lestweforget
The Christmas Truce: one of the most uplifting stories in a war full of misery, but then also one of the most heartbreaking gut-punches when you remember these men had to resume fighting as soon as that day was done.
And the next year the people who tried for another truce were fired upon
@@mcklub Yes, especially since commanders specifically ordered attacks and artillery barrages before Christmas to make sure both sides hated each others enough. And I guess by 1915 average soldier had too many dead friends and relatives to even want to try it
@@guerney2000 There still were cases of soldiers fraternizing going on, or at least attempting to, sides developing "live and let live" policy, agreeing not to attack during morning washing times and such. SOldiers simply trying to make their own situations slightly more bearable. Because let's be honest, a grunt at the front line doesn't give a damn what some high-ranking medal-sporting prick miles and miles away from the front lines, sitting comfortably in their officer quarters, enjoying warm meals... a front line grunt doesn't care what such brass "wants"
A soldier in ww1 wants to survive.
It is not as uplifting when you realize that it had nothing to do with not harming each other but rather giving themselves a day off.
@@mcklub "If you should falter, remember that captain Darling and I are behind you."
"About thirty five *miles* behind you."
It's official: This is the best (and most emotional) Christmas song in years! Well done once again, Sabaton!
Thank you!
You can say that again! Was bawling.
the Brown-Stigler incident happened days before Christmas, so No Bullets Fly is also an emotional Christmas song!
In years?!
Century's mate, Century's
@@SCAR_the_Band Well we are early in the second one, so at this point of history no one made better so could we say Millenium ?
May we never forget this truce, for it is proof that, even in the most violent of battlefields, our love for each other as friends, family, brothers and lovers will forever live on, for as all life that calls this planet home, it will always find a way to both survive and thrive. And may one day, there's truly an event where all wars truly come to an end.
Until that day.
Till All Are One
One of the things I love about Sabaton, listening to their music does 2 things to me.
1:puts a fire in my blood and motivates me to finish whatever it is I start
2: pulls on my heartstrings with their lyrics until a lump is in my throat and a tear in my eyes.
If you guys are reading this, you're awesome. Please don't stop putting out your music.
We appreciate you inspiring message Jon, thank you fror writing! 😎
Same emotions!
@@Sabaton on the contrary, you guys continue to inspire me. It's your music that helps me fight on through my toughest of work days. I don't think I could ever thank you enough for that.
True!
@@SabatonWatching your “Christmas Truce” has become a Christmas tradition for me. I’m featuring it in one of my stories, too! I hope you don’t mind that
Here in India, in our 8th Grade English textbook, our first chapter is actually a story about the Christmas Truce! I don't know if any of my friends remember it, but reading it always touched my heart. I loved it, though I ultimately didn't look much into it, thinking it was another one of those too-good-to-be-true stories.
I thought that, till I saw this video. And realized it actually happened. I've been crying for an hour now. But I'm happy.
Thank you, Sabaton! From the bottom of my heart, I thank you!
Thank you for sharing your story!
It might be difficult to find a copy of it in India, but I would love to recommend a movie about this event to you: “Joyeaux Noël”. It does a very good job of depicting the Christmas Truce from the point of view of the British, French and Germans, and is also one of the most emotional movies I’ve ever seen.
Hello, Hex. It is too good to be true...and yet it's true anyway.. If you study history closely, somehow during our darkest hours, humanity finds a way to shine through regardless.
If I remember correctly some of the Indian troops held a seize fire for German troops on the western front so they could celebrated Christmas. While they didn’t celebrate with them it was honorable
@@RadioactiveAutism I need to look into that!
"We were soldiers."
"Carried the war on our shoulders"
That quote hits hard
Ради чего мы хороним своих друзей..
Honestly every single line hits hard in this masterpiece
@@viktorgombos4975 thats true
@@arnhwow7962we were all friends!
That quote always drives me into tears! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
This song actually makes me cry. I mourn this war, which should have never been fought.
And its consequences are still felt to this day. If only our leaders could’ve followed the soldiers example.
@@mileshill7196The reigning monarchs were my cousins. I bear the burden of such guilt, this war was a stupid, stupid family feud among my kin. I'm so sorry it came to all that...
@@aarondevaldez9134The family feud exacerbated it, but the start was "some damned bs in the Balkans"
@@Jmeon4evaSort of? There were easy resolutions to the Balkan events. Basically all the powers agreed that Austria should be allowed to seek out the terrorists in Serbia, even Russia. And since Austria didn't want more Serbian land, there wasn't even a reason to fight.
This is the war that broke civilization. Everything that came afterwards, from World War II, to all the genocides, to the Cold War, and the modern nihilism and despair, is a consequence of World War I.
The only Christmas song we need
indeed
Forget “all I need for Christmas is you” we need to play this 24/7 in the stores
We must NEVER forget this song. Not only does it show that there can be humanity in war, but it shows that the soldiers on the front aren't fighting each other, but fighting because their higher powers told them to. This is such a beautiful song that tells such a powerful story. Excellent job Sabaton!
Thank you for your message!
@@Sabaton No, thank YOU for putting out this absolute MASTERPIECE!
how did they get by with using their actual names? could have made them up
@@KrystalHarwood-ty7rk Idk. It probably helps that they aren't named something jim "Jimbob III Jr." or "Thimothy Bobule" lol
not funny!
Putting the actual Truce aside, I love, truly love how Sabaton never takes sides. They tell a story and play good music, they don't choose one or the other. I cherish Sabaton so much for doing something most bands can't, teaching history while providing good music. I've learned more from Sabaton's songs and Sabaton history than I have in a long time.
"They never pick a side", then they make a song named 'The rise of Evil', they make a song celebrating war criminal Witold Pilecki, they call Saddam insect of terror while repeating data proven fake that was used to justify the II Gulf War, they literally tell every battle from the pov of one single side and it all perfectly aligns with Western narrative.
@regi grenski fax
They definitely take sides haha
@regi grenski I'd say that there's a large difference between the evils of men like Hitler and most common soldiers, even though they were enabling and perpetuating his evil. On the other hand, WW1 was terrible, and both sides did kill quite a few civilians (though Russia and the Ottomans take the prize). However, today we don't think of it as death camps, slavery, and fascism. Because it wasn't about that, and was not the goal.
My personal takeaway is that WW2 is remembered more for the cartoon insane level of villainy than anything else. The death toll was massive, but that's not going to be the first thing we think of when it comes to that war.
@@apollo1694 No, they don't. Sabaton making a song that focuses on one side or one person doesn't mean they are taking sides. They TEACH HISTORY via their songs. Y'all need to use your brains.
This was the song that got a 57 year old grandma to listen to metal music. I am in the process of listening to All of your songs! I am a lover of History and wish that more people would inform themselves about it. We Must Remember or we are destined to Repeat it! I wish I could see you in concert when you come to New York but I am afraid I won't have the money to do so . My Heart is with you gentlemen you make a Difference and I thank you!
It was so wholesome to read your message 😎 Thanks a lot for writing! We hope to see you from the stage one of these days ;)
This song makes me shed a tear. Especially now, being a Russian, I really hope that the next Christmas we can finally say "We are all friends". We need such a miracle now.
Upd: Guys, I thank you all for your kind words. It really gives me hope and will to believe in the future. You're amazing.
Upd 2: Alas, it seems like this is not going to end this way. But let us hope we see the end of this terrible war soon enough.
Stay true to yourselves, everyone. Merry Christmas.
😭
Yes we do. Hopefully God opens the hearts, eyes, and minds of our leaders. NO WAR
I understand that feeling
This is what I always say, Russians aren’t bad. You had no choice in this war, I will say your lucky your not on Ukraine’s side, since as far as I’m aware Russia isn’t getting attacked too much, but good luck to all that you this war ends
I hope you can too! From a Ukrainian Canadian who would gladly embrace you as brother or sister!
Imagine a world where the Christmas Truce was the end of the war. Not because the powers that be declared an end, but because all of the soldiers on both sides collectively refused to fight anymore.
Yes, that's what we want. What if people listened to Christmas Truce and Tommy's A Christmas Carol, with the Dickens story advising us all to live everyday as if it is Christmas, to keep Christmas in our hearts every day of the year.
That's actually what would've happened until the captains were all court-martialed. Very sad.
Im trying to write a fantasy story based ariund the WW1 era, and frankly Im tempted to use that idea.
@@369destroyer go for it if you want to use it!
That would have been so beautiful
Love how "Carol of the Bells" was incorporated in the piano and the song revolves around it. It's a perfectly melancholy yet joyous song. Sabaton has created yet another masterpiece.
Exactly, and at 6:06 it even switches completely to carol of the bells for a moment. :D
That’s what I thought! Awesome.
Completely agree with you on that.
Carol of the Bells" is a popular Christmas carol, with music by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1914[1] and lyrics by Peter J. Wilhousky. The song is based on the Ukrainian folk chant "Shchedryk".His plans to leave the country, along with the fact that he was killed by a Soviet agent, also indicate political reasons for his death
This song moved me so much it inspired me to write a poem about the event. There is something both so beautiful and tragic about this day in history. Somewhere in this, I believe, is a hint to both the meaning and folly of life. Thank you Sabaton!
All the guns were silent
Use your heart to set the scene, it’s Christmas eve, 1914
The Western Front, in trenches deep, synonymous with violence
They shiver in the winter snow, soldiers young and soldiers old
Thoughts are full with dreams of home, and all the guns are silent
They smiled when they could hear a man, across the reach of No Man’s Land
A voice in carol, stripped of clan, this night ‘when angels sing’
They joined each other line for line, chorused into Auld Lang Sine
Then met upon the dread divide, to speak of simpler things
Upon the stretch where days before, lives were lost in tolls of war
They brought their hopes up to the ‘fore, and wished each other well
They traded gifts and lifted flasks, ignored the future’s dire tasks
And prayed upon their lives to last, Joyeux Noël
A joyous union there to catch, a foe turned friend, a football match
No frightful orders to attack, grudges fell forgotten
Raising arms but just to toast, in Christmas spirit all engrossed
In various tongues for all to host, Frohe Weihnachten
So much grief to see such growth, the Central and the Allies both
Wishing Christmas by their troth, in lands of trenches scarred
A night to make descendants think, these men whose lives were on the brink
Still with love to share their drink, with foe upon death‘s yard
Now time to go, farewell my chum, I’ll see you from behind my gun
Back to your trench, do not relent, rejoin your war machine
Thank you for the hearty schnapps, Au revoir, take care, I trust
That all our songs were quite enough, my friend, auf Wiedersehen
Remember well these songs we sang, at war, we dared we dream
Wow, thank you for sharing that. Goosebumps!
That's great actually
Great poem man! Love it!
"We were soldiers
Carried the war on our shoulders
For our nations
Is that why we bury our friends?"
People we are living in the best English lyrics Sabaton has ever written.
I love how they can honor moments in war without glorifying the horror that comes with it. It always just feels honest.
My favorite lyric
I’m so happy that you guys are doing another WW1 album. Too much to talk about just to have one album.
Agreed
On the other hand, there is so much other history to make albums of!
Good part its Christmas
@@sleepytt9537 Which means they will be releasing plenty of albums in the future :)
I think this is only a single
This is one of the only Christmas songs I can listen to even when its nearly summer
A song for all seasons 😎
@@Sabaton yes!
@@Sabaton my man is still replying after 5 months
@@Sabaton
Indeed. Hope you enjoyed Easter guys
@@Sabaton "A song for all seasons" sounds like a great Sabaton lyric, or even song title.
My great grandfather fought in that terrible war. He was sent to fetch an AWOL soldier who ventured into a nearby forest. Upon meeting that soldier, he heard him explain how pointless and cruel the war was. After hearing him speak, my grandfather decided to stay in that forest with him.
Do you have any stories about your great grandfather?
Yeah, he saw bodies twitching and moving on the battlefield (they were filled with rats). He even saw cheese they had to eat move (they were filled with maggots). He was captured by the Germans at one point, and when it happened he successfully prevented one of his comrades from aiming his rifle, thus keeping them from getting killed and preserving his bloodline (he has 100s of descendants now). After his capture and getting marched by the Germans, he once tried to pick up a head of cabbage from the ground but was rifle-butted for doing so.
When I hear this song I remember as if it was yesterday, when as a little boy I always went to my great-grandpa after school and he told me stories from the wars just like in the song. He had to fight both world wars as a soldier. His stories were mostly as moving as your song. Thanks to you I can see him in front of me and hear his voice. Thank you very much for this epic journey through time. His name was Paul, rest in peace .
We have a lot to learn from our elders. I lost two great grandfathers and a great uncle in the trenches of WW1.
most ordinary soldiers on all sides were manual workers who had never experienced the military or war. It must have been awful, a hell on Earth that they had been thrust into.
@M - v - P I’m glad your great grandfather survived both wars and was able to pass on his wisdom and experiences to you.
Cherish these stories. Use them as lessons. Many thanks and much respect to your great grandfather.
awesome
@@freyallarganswald4746 he lives on in my heart
The Christmas truce is one of the historical events that always brings a tear to my eye and gives me *some* hope for humanity. In all of us is a part that just wants the contention to stop, but are forced to continue struggling by those in charge.
"The men were all fraternizing in the middle (we naturally did not allow them too close to our line) and swapped cigarettes and lies in the utmost good fellowship. Not a shot was fired all night" - Captain Robert Patrick Miles, 1st King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
If there was ever a song that was needed at this time, it would be this. It's rare that music moves me in the way that this song did. Fantastic job Sabaton, Crew, and all who were involved. Thank you
I'm from Great Britain🇬🇧 love Sabaton🇸🇪🇨🇿
Me too. They are superb. Love this song. Immense.
Вау! Круто! Я из России 🇷🇺 Люблю Sabaton🇸🇪🇨🇿
I honestly think this is the most Sabaton song you've ever made. Beautiful, historical, human.
couldn't have said it better myself. #lestweforget
This is one of those Sabaton songs that bring tears to a man's eyes!
Sabaton is the best!
Salute!
yes sir!
So true!
try listening to The Hammer Has Fallen by Sabaton
Really true
Imagine the confusion those soldiers had back then... It is truly one of the best stories of mankind, one that shows that despite all the terrors a human being can endure, at the end of the day is still a human being, not a machine made for war. I, personally, have the utmost respect for Sabaton because with their powerful music they manage to show us very important moments from our history and we shall remember what our ancestors did and what shall we do in the future. Once again, congratulations and keep up the good work! Epic as always!
I like to think sometimes, war was not meant for us. I don't know how to explain it well in words other than, the only reason war exists is cause the factors that lead to it always will, and we are forced to answer the call, the reason I say forced is due to the fact, no one wants to die, but they will die fighting. I hope that gets my idea out respectfully.
@@wonderdakka I see what you are getting at
Society during the great war had a very different morality and code of honor than during IIWW, that is why you had british soldiers bury the Red Baron with all the honors after finally defeating him, it truly was the last major conflict with a sense of knighthood. Sure there were awful moments and the use of chemical weapons an asshole move, but the stories of IWW have a different feeling to them, more heroic in my opinion
@@wonderdakka "war was not meant for us" I'm stealing that for the next thing I write.
@@sikness1924 there are stories like that from ww2 though.
The only song in many years to make me tear up, not only for its beautiful composition. But for the sheer effort and story it tells, while also being a hell of joy to listen too. Thank you and Merry Christmas everyone!
Thanks for appreciating it, it's really our privilege to tell these stories. Merry Christmas! 🤘
"we where Soldiers, Carrying the War on our Shoulders" Hits Different...
100% my new Favorite Sabaton Song! Thank you guys!
Were*
the fact that this actually happened is amazing, and it shows that people CAN put aside their differences to make peace. even if it is just for a moment
Sad thing is, neither side wanted to fight each other afterwards, so they're commanders moved them to different parts of the trench and forbid any type of peace forming again.
простым солдатам эта война не нужна была. и у них не было личной ненависти к тем, кто сидит в окопах по ту сторону.
WWI was a weird one for sure. Many of the pilots and officers came from high ranking and adjacent royal families... many of them were related to each other, cousins at least. So 3 months prior you may have been at a large party with all these people and not you're supposed to fight them. Hard for any man to do.
Same thing with the pilots in WWI. The goal was to shoot down planes, not murder pilots. Those who kept aggressively attack planes that were no long combat capable, or shooting at pilots on the ground were seen as very dishonorable men. Many of them were reprimanded for doing things like that. It was not a thing gentlemen did. Even the Red Baron was that way. He turned it off once the fight was over.
@@MrClarkisgod I watched a movie about him and there was a scene when a German pilot shot a plane a lot of times wjen clearly it was out of action. The people on the ground even said let the pilot land and the Red Baron reprimanded the pilot who shot the plane
The fact is that there are less differences between worker Hans from Bavaria, postman Jean from Normandy and peasant Ivan from Smolensk than between each of them and "ruling elites" which send millions to die for their interests.
This just FEELS like a Christmas song, but is still just as uniquely Sabaton as any of their other music!
For some reason the tune reminds me of the song ‘Carol of the Bells’.
This song has now become a tradition for me every year in December, the lyrics make it feel like you are experiencing first hand a slight amount of humanity, in an otherwise terrifying time on the front lines of the Great war. Happy Holidays Sabaton 🤘
👍🎄🧑🎄❄️☃️⛪🙏🎁✌️🌟😇
We love becoming part of your everyday life habits 😉 Thanks a lot!
@@SabatonС Рождеством 🎄🎉🌟🎆🎅❄️
Me and bois putting aside our differences for a game of footie
The War was Thundering in your head.... but then it stopped... for a day.
can't wait to see the live performance audiences playing football while Joakim tapping the piano keys
@@bernardreinhartkoper8917 bringing a football ball on a performance both in Belfast and Dublin. When they come.
Well the war would only intensify if they brought football to the Caucasus front
Just a good game of soccer with friends
Sabaton will always be one of my most important metal bands I have ever discovered. To bring history back to life with their music, to never forget these stories of humanity is a wonder to behold. These guys are incredible.
Preserving memories one song at a time
They also created the most epic christmass song.
This is the only Christmas song ill allow to play before Halloween.
Agreed
The only song allowed to play in malls 100 times a day 3 months in a row
So magestic...
@@NuggetsAutomotive quack!
C'est le problème avec la guerre : se sont des gens qui ne se connaissent pas qui se battent et s'entretue pour des gens qui se connaissent .
Notre époque devrait prendre exemple sur tous ces héros
Merci Sabaton🤘
My English grandfather was a WW I veteran. ... The story of this brave truce from that war has fascinated me for years - I have taught it as an English teacher in school, I have read about it, seen a (french) film about it - and now for the first time heard a song about it - And this video does the story justice. Great work, Sabaton ! You help us remember ! Thanks a lot!
There is a also the gemrna movie "Merry Christmas" about that topic.
The snoopy and the red baron song is lightly based on it too and was how I learned about it through that song and my dad telling me about what the song actualy ment. Ever since learning about the Christmas Miracle it's been one of my absoulte favorte moment in human history where men realised even if just for a brief moment war is pointless and only helps bureaucrats who don't even know they exist. It was a moment were solders chose instead of being wariors but to be human and to give their fellow man a rest from the hell their foolish leaders had thrust them into and just enjoy a nice quiet Christmas espacly since they knew for many it might be their last. It was a moment of true courage that showed that even in the darkest of times there's always a little glimer of light.
@@demi-fiendoftime3825 There was also a WWII incident involving Franz Steiger and- I kid you not- Charlie Brown. Brown’s plane was damaged after a bombing run, and Steiger escorted him out of the area rather than shoot him down. After the war, the two apparently found each other and became friends.
Steiger was lucky his commanders likely never heard of it, or else he would have been treated as the German, French, Scots, and English were after the WWI Christmas Truce.
@@demi-fiendoftime3825 Wow, so I googled about the Franz Stigler (correct name) and Charlie Brown incident, and apparently this same man or band has a song about it, too. Had no idea because I’ve never heard of him/them, I only found this video looking for a History Channel documentary about the Christmas Truce. I’m going to listen to it now, too.
@@HB-rx1le such a fantastic song. Make sure you watch sabatons animated video about it.
The very traditional sounds of the holidays combined with fascinating history and powerful new music and lyrics.
This song needs a big push on mainstream radio and I need to be singing it with 30 or 40 friends in a bar Christmas Eve.
This should be a holiday classic for years to come.
the problem is, do you have 30+ friends?
@@tanyavondegurechaff8773 Christmas everyone is your friend. It's right there in the song. The whole bar will sing along 😋
@@tanyavondegurechaff8773 when you get drunk everyone is a friend
@@comradesam3382 you’re not wrong
I think it will be.
Вся в мурашках, сопли.. слезы... настолько тронуло, все, ребята вы большие молодцы! Сегодня мы живем в непростое время и очень хочется, чтоб мир на земле настал 🙏❤
Amen
Friede für uns alle!
Мир навсегда
I agree with you neighbour :) We're living the most peaceful times currently, but we can still improve it even more.
Пускай мир будет всегда, а вайна учитилем
(Сори за ошибки)
This song really hits every time.
The blood that was spilt for nothing.
Rest in peace brothers.
Only for it to happen a second time. A beautiful song, an ugly war.
Why is it that Sabaton is the only band that can bring me to tears with songs about battlefield kindness.
This song did it. No Bullets Fly got me for all of 2014 and 2015, but it still gets me now and then.
Uprising is another one that hits me with that mental visual … maybe because I have four sons.
Powerful, Sabaton. Very powerful.
The imagery measures up to the song. Amazing job.
The Ballad of Bull is another one. For me at least.
Your not alone having Sabaton bring you to tears with their music👍
@@generalerica4123 yes its so underrated
In battlefield, all kinds of emotions will be shown, from loyal kindness to evil from hell
Inmate 4859 is my kryptonite (and now this one of course). The chorus sends me every time. The fact that they tried to strike his name from the history books and then at the end of the song when they say "WE know his name."
This might just be a perfect song. It has a positive message about peace and enjoyment of life, it sounds amazing, and it's made by passionate people who actually care about what they do. 10/10 the only Christmas song I'll play year round.
This song should play in malls during Christmas.
@@ZeusGamingAOM you're God dude! Make that shit happen!
@@ZeusGamingAOM would have been so epic!!!
I can already feel some Gamers screaming "PEACE WAS NEVER AN OPTION"
@@DreadEyed yeah lol they will wait for them to leave the trenches disarmed to free kill them
That end part gave me goosebumps, once again Sabaton stepping out of their comfort zone and demonstrating their talent. Im sure this will be the best album they've ever done
Merry Christmas to everyone. Thank you Sabaton for your masterpiece of a song. I get emotional every time I hear it. Thank you for keeping the memories of so many brave men and women, from all over the world, Alice with your music.
It is our privilege. Thank you for writing!
For years “the last stand” was one of Sabaton’s most epic songs by far, but “christmas truce” is an absolute masterpiece of music. I hope that this song reaches as many people as possible in the world and lets them go through their minds. Merry Christmas
I feel the christmas truce is one of the most beautiful and underappreciated moments in the whole of modern history , showing that even during the hardest moments of humanity's history, humanity was well and alive and that regular people , who had nothing against each other, were forced to fight each other
I don’t know how, after the truce and realising we’re just humans that they could just go back to trying to kill each other.
@@mikoto7693 because the high brass forced them to fight or else got shot with treason charges
iirc those who participated in the truce were punished in some sort for their seeking for peace
@@mikoto7693 It's what we do. Humans are very flawed creatures. I mean that in a lot of ways. For example we seem hell bent on destroying the very ecology that keeps us alive.
While Humankind was great potential, i think we are too selfish as a species to survive unless we evolve to be better humans.
I think this shows how flawed our systems are, those leading the fights in war should chose wether it ends in a truce or not. It’s happened before.
Well, now we have another example of humanity of modern history - Ukraine war and help that is given by polish people. This initiative is coming from the "bottom", not from the "Top" - government have nothing do with it. They just doing "political marketing" based on that - whole support for Ukraine is coming from private pockets of whole polish citizens.
This has to be the most production I've ever seen on a music video, and it absolutely delivers. Cannot wait for this album and to see what they come up with after this one. These guys are the MASTERS of storytelling in music, and I love this band so damn much.
We gonna see a reaction to this masterpiece, tech? :)
best damn world history teachers ever!!
I say that should go to the Bismarck video, but this is incredible too.
Deutschland by Rammstein pips it from a production point of view, but I always love the Sabaton video clips. Brilliant video.
Tank reaction please!
I return to this song every year and it brings tears to my eyes every single time
"We tend to forget, that behind every sight of every gun there is a human being." -*a clever man*
Sabaton this song is, as always, pure amazement. The whole jingle style of piano actually adds a lot of awareness about what you're singing. Thank you very much for your work!
"You are not expected to survive"
Floor jansen finishes this off superbly
At long last, the Christmas song has landed. Now I can celebrate the season properly, and subject my family to this beautiful melody because it is technically a Christmas song, much like Die Hard is a Christmas Movie
and home alone
Play Screaming Eagles too
Don't forget, Tommy Johansson made a Christmas Album. Give it a listen if you haven't already!!
That "Bury our friends" followed by "We were all friends" just breaks my heart every time I hear it. Such a great song. I can't wait to hear the rest of the album.
Thank you Sabaton, for choosing to re-visit the Great War. You were right. There are so many stories left to tell.
I can never imagine how those soldiers felt the days following the armistice. It's cruel what humans put each other through.
now they need to do an album devoted to World War 2
@@jadonlimoges1830 , in World War II, things were a little more complicated. However, this is a good idea, my friend.
@@jadonlimoges1830 They're done a lot of WW2 songs, but I have a feeling they could create a concept album focused on a particular theatre of the war. My pick would be one about the pacific theatre, as we don't have many Sabaton songs about the island campaigns or naval battles there outside of "Midway", "Ballad of Bull", and "Nuclear Attack."
Or, they could create a Korean War Concept Album.
It is close to the time of the year again. This song has become one of my Christmas time songs that will play on Christmas Truce day. Merry very early Christmas to everyone and may the warriors of the past rest in peace as they shall forever live on
These men will be missed
These men will be missed
Igual 😁
I’m in tears. Sabaton, I had expected Christmas Truce to be fantastic; as all your music is, and I have been waiting for this for ages… but this is so much more than I was expecting.
This is phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal. You always said how difficult it was to write a song about this topic, well let me tell you. You have done it justice.
Thank you so much.
I feel absolutely the same. I have heard this now 10 times. I am in tears every. Damn. Time. They have not only done it justice, they have exceeded what I thought possible. It's a whole other level of Sabaton but really shows what the 'modern Sabaton' sound is going to be: symphonic, classical mixed with heavy, metal support. It is completely baffling. This is the new song that I will show and play for people who want to hear what the Sabaton fuzz is about. I feel so humble and privileged to experience this band in my lifetime and it feels they are constantly reaching new peaks with every new single, and every new album they release.
@@magnushansen1238 I'll drink to that, mate!
I too shed tears. The combination of the music and video reallÿ did touch my soul!
Более сильной антивоенной песни, я не слышал уже много лет. И уж от кого ожидал ее услышать, так точно не от вас. Спасибо парни. Вы все понимаете.
Я смотреть между строк то весь Sabaton это яркая антивоеная агитация.
За это мне и нравятся. Чуть ли не каждая песня не превозносит войны, а показывает их ужасы и лишения.
Так Сабатон же всегда против войны
@@RulerGluer так то парни всегда говорили, что они воспевают подвиги, а не упиваются самой войной как таковой.
Ты хотел сказать, ожидали не от вас а от тапка?)
What can I say? Yes, this song is deep and can touches every soul. Bravo!
Thank you!
@@Sabaton Joakim seems to have a keyboard cat vibe about him in some parts of this. Like pure bliss while playing. As it should be in music. Another facet of the video crafted in& appreciated❤😊
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Going to try to blast this through my schools intercom before Christmas break wish me luck
And you better touch the English dictionary or something, seriously, learn English.
С Рождеством Христовым!
Frohe Weihnachten!
Never thought a Sabaton song whould bring to tears. Sitting on a train in Sweden smiling and tears running. What an awsome and buityful song. Hope this is played on the next Sabaton cruise.
We appreciate your words Alexander
Their song "The Final Solution", is only song I've ever heard that puts me to tears, and I have a hard time watching, but this is great one no doubt.
Same... But I'm not on a train in Sweden.
En Livstid i Krig, I don't even speak Swedish but the live version is a critical hit to the feels every time I hear it. You know they're a great band when their music can inspire feelings like that across the whole spectrum.
"Fields of Verdun" for a while would bring tears to me eyes too.
German soldier here:
Thank you so much for that visualisation of history. I teared up but although it was sadness about those cruel wars we fought back then and also so little years after that one a second time it were also tears of joy that we at least in Europe have overcome that madness and are united in friendship nowadays.
May humankind finally learn that we all have to settle our differences without violence and that war never brings any good for anybody in the long term. Only together in friendship and peace we will have a future as a species.
@Denis Winter Thank you, kind Sir.
I am not a fan of stating such clear numbers of how many were monsters in those times. We will never know and stating such high percentages of monsters in the rows of the former eney can raise hatred of living people thinking of their great-grandfathesr or even great-great-grandfathers, remembering them as a good man to them when they were a child after the war and getting angry about such statements.
What will we get out of newly raised hatred by thinking bad of alread deceased men? Right, only new hatred.
We shall overcome the negativ feelings that rise in us when thinking of that cruel past of humankind but we shall never forget what humans are capable of doing against each others. We still have not changed in general. You see that by watching the news and seeing all that wars all over the world or even the little wars in our societies. Hatred and arguments are everywhere between fellow humans and even parting families.
We have to develope our minds and very souls not to fail again as our ancestors did and by that I mean failing on every side of the great wars. Everywhere there was monsters and fellow humans who have not forgotten that they are all brothers and sisters even in most dire times of war, death and cruelty everywhere.
Lest we ever forget and finally learn from the mistakes of our past.
Unfortunate that people go to war with each other like this, Esp England and France, Germany; which are brother countries. Men dying because the leaders ordered them to.. May we learn from the past to never repeat this again.
@@brentw0681 it will happen again sooner or later people never learn from their mistakes especially germans.
Only when we depose our rulers throughout the world will our nations finally know peace and friendships, the rich start wars and the sons and daughters of the common folk die for petty squabbles of the ruling classes, Just thinking about how many young men women and children have died to the greedy rich makes me sad and Angry
@@gravynavy516 Our rulers are humans as well. In democratic societies the ruler of today were the common folk of the past therefore I am not a fan of that pointing with fingers to others.
We all have to work on ourselves to get humankind on a next level of evolution. Everyone is called to work on themselves.
Oh and we will not achieve this goal during a lifetime. It is evolution, new behaviour passend down from parent to child slightly developing ourselfs as a species.
We need patience and love as the force that has to guide us. Nothing more, nothing less.
This. This is the truest meaning of Christmas - friendship, brotherhood. For months, the world went mad... then on the Western Front, these men did the only thing that made sense in all the madness: they laid down their weapons and celebrated Christmas.
I'm a US vet... and this means a lot to me. Sabaton, we thank you.
Hear hear!
Aye, I raise a drink in your name, our veterans, and brothers and sisters that didn't make it home through out the centuries. Thank you for your service. HEAR HEAR!! 🥹🥹🍻🍻
Usa soldiers terrorised all World
I am not crying, you are crying.
We're all crying.
A Christmas on the frontline
We walk among our friends
We don't think about tomorrow
The battle will commence
When we celebrated Christmas
We thought about our friends
Those who never made it home
When the battle had commenced
As a veteran, these words hit home for me. What a powerful message. Thank you Sabaton, for everything!
Thank you for your service, sir!
Thank you for your service lad
As a fellow veteran, I know what you mean. Thank you for your service as well
thank you for your service, legend
Amen brother.
The Christmas Truce was a story that stuck with me forever since learning about it 20-something years ago in elementary school... Seeing and hearing this piece of art about it gave me goosebumps from start to end! Wow! Amazing! Sabaton, you guys are awesome!
Is there anyone who can't shed a tear to this song? Thank you Sabaton for a song that brings such raw emotion from a grown man in his 30's. Truly a masterpiece.
Thanks for your words Matt
I don’t shed a tear then again, since my father died in my arms, I’ve basically been dead inside.
I struggle with basic empathy most of the time, so I didn't. Still a great song though.
Officially the 20th century started in 1900 but in reality I believe it started in 1914
@@brettweltz8135 i am sorry for your loss
2024, I'd come back and revisit this song once or twice a year.
One of the very few songs that will have me cry every time. The lyricsm and the combination of vocals hit the heart and soul, and it just gets me every time.
Really happy to hear that this song moves you!
Silence
Oh, I remember the silence
On a cold winter day
After many months on the battlefield
And we were used to the violence
Then all the cannons went silent
And the snow fell
Voices sang to me from no man’s land
We are all, we are all, we are all, we are all friends
And today we’re all brothers
Tonight we’re all friends
A moment of peace in a war that never ends
Today we’re all brothers
We drink and unite
Now Christmas has arrived and the snow turns the ground white
Hear carols from the trenches, we sing O holy night
Our guns laid to rest among snowflakes
A Christmas in the trenches, a Christmas on the front far from home
Madness
Oh I remember the sadness
We were hiding our tears
In a foreign land where we faced our fears
We were soldiers
Carried the war on our shoulders
For our nations
Is that why we bury our friends?
We were all, we were all, we were all, we were all friends
A Christmas on the frontline, we walk among our friends, we don’t think about tomorrow, the battle will commence
When we celebrated Christmas, we thought about our friends, those who never made it home, when the battle had commenced
Wonderful job guys. An excellent remembrance of these soldiers 107 years ago who almost ended the 1st World War.
A monument. A memory. A lesson we as a species failed to learn. But the tale will never be forgotten, so long as there are people left to remember that if our fear of one another can be overcome... Hatred can be left to flicker and fade away.
You've succeeded at making me weep again, Sabaton. But I thank you. These are lessons I will never stop teaching those around me, for if I can convince even one to put aside their anger and remember that we are all human, I'll have achieved my purpose.
I love the fact that they paraphrased actual statements ,from a soldier who witnessed the event, with the opening lines: "Silence, oh I remember the silence"
Something they also did with "To Hell and Back."
@@Thomas.Wright what’s the line in to hell and back
@@MadAtGasCar Actually, most of the chorus is based on a poem Audie Murphy himself composed. If you check out the Sabaton History episode, Indy recites it.
Is that from storm of steel? Can’t remember
I wish more than anything that everyone could see this and understand its message. The wars NEVER change, the us vs them the "good guys" vs "bad guys" when we could all CHOOSE PEACE.
I cannot thank you guys enough for keeping the memory of these soldiers alive. I will soon be visiting the grave of my great grandfather who fought at Ypres in 1917, Private William Barber of The Duke of Cornwall's light infantry lost his arm in that battle .i had the privilege of knowing him until he died at 92 the man will always be my hero, never forget always remember they gave their today for our tomorrow.
Here's to his memory.
Greetings from Germany.
This is the only song that do force me to tear up. Truly perfection. I don't get how Sabaton did it but this is a masterpiece
Thank you so much! 🤘
Same
The final solution too
Same 😭
If you haven't already, you should listen to their cover of '1916'.
Не ожидал услышать от Sabaton Рождественскую песню ! Очень душевно ! Когда же человечество научится жить без войны ? Мы все братья !
В том то и дело, что никогда, пока не убьём друг друга
Одни парни и девушки с красными звёздами предлагали это. Будем надеяться, что когда-нибудь их предложение примут.
@Jaomir Courtar Kirchhoff's law was not the result of fighting, just as Ohm's law or labor theory of value. We are human kind, collectivism is in our nature. Fighting is the result of social evolution. It was inevitable. It is inevitable right now (I hope it it won't remain so). Fighting is the result of rich bastard's struggling to secure and augment their riches. It won't last forever. Progress can be gained not just by fighting, USSR had shown it. Sorry for my bad English :)
The only Christmas song that make grown men cry. 🤘🎄
The Christmas Truce was one of the most important events in history in my opinion. It showed that we can be better, We need something like this today.
Too bad they didn't made truce for ortodox christmas in Serbia in any war. Even NATO bombing started at Easter day....
Have to say that the event could happen among nations that have smth in common.That never happend when Eurounion#2 who attaked the USSR
you got the attention of the bots 🎉
@@DIABULUSKIRA 👏 👏 👏 👏
Also a cold reminder that the power always lied in the workers and soldiers of the world.
If the soldiers refuse to fight, can there be a war? Even if all the politicians and generals demand it, if all the soldiers refuse, no shots will be fired.
Perfectly happy to admit i cried over this.
Those men of Germany, of Britain, of Belgium and of France (and all their far flung empires), who had been murdering eachother and the command of their government, and would spend four years murdering eachother after the 25th of December 1914, managed to spend most of a day in fellow-feeling and comradeship, in spite of and despite the will of their rulers.
This story's always touched me deeply, and given me hope that we might rise above the petty hatreds that dictate our lives. That we could reach a day where there is no more war, and no more pain.
And just a group of friends, playing footy and getting drunk, and having a good time.
The last gasp of innocence and humanity from the lost generation
@@Unknown_Genius Have you ever read the sci-fi book Enders Game. While I don't truly agree with it, one of the key ideas was that to defeat an enemy you must know them to the point of in some ways loving them.
Most soldiers are not murderous psychopaths. In fact, I'd say those are the last people who militaries want on the front lines. Many are killing not because they hate the other side, though that may naturally develop as friends are wounded and die, but rather because it is their duty/job. War is a terrible thing, but there are reasons it exists. However, the truce is truly an inspiring story. Even if the leaders and nations as a whole have agendas, individuals can set aside their differences.
I read somewhere that when the officers ordered the soldiers who had spent Christmas 1914 with the ones who they were supposed to see as the enemy mutinied to the point of having to be replaced with new troops from the back of the lines. Nobody could move them to go and kill the men they'd played football with, shook hands with and took pictures with the day before.
If only all Wars could be settled over a football match! Pointless slaughter of human life on all sides.
Well I didn't cry but I started fighting the tears when the soldiers were eagerly walking out of the trenches in the second chorus.
Easily the best moment of human history. Through all the hatred, all the doubt, all the fear, humanity showed that it hadn't completely lost its mind. In the end, we're all the same. We just wear different uniforms.
I dont want to be mean but wasnt the truce only in the first year?
@@denisjankovic2164 I forget which year it was, but aye it wasn't a permanent arrangement. It did have some positive lasting effect, however: both sides had to relocate the units that participated in the truce because they flat-out refused to fire at each other anymore. That just makes me happy lol, being a soldier myself. Being able to respect your enemy is a key part of the good soldier's mindset.
"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other" Paul Valery
@@masonwingate7683 wait i didnt know about the rearengment part. Makes more sense then just starting to fire again tho.
@@denisjankovic2164 From what i learned about it, The truce happened in either the first or second year, i think you are correct by saying the first year. It was also before they started doing massive conscription. Most of the people in the battlefield at this point in history where professional solders. They where trained to fight, But not to hate the enemy. They where (Mostly) All people who volunteered to be in the military and they could understand that this is just a job. Once people start being conscripted they just want the war to end. They have been seeing propaganda about each other to make them want to hate each other
Then there is the fact that the generals did not want it to happen a second time either.
Personally. This should happen in every conflict. If it is a major holiday, especially one that both sides celebrate, the fighting should be put on hold to celebrate life.