American's First Time Reaction to the song "Panzerkampf" by Sabaton
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- Опубликовано: 21 апр 2022
- In this video I will be taking a first look at the song "Panzerkampf" by Sabaton. I will start with a Lyric Video. Then, I will watch the Sabaton History lesson. Finally, I will be watching a live performance.
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So a few interesting facts that they missed in the Kursk video:
If you took all the trenches the Soviets dug just for this engagement and stretched them out in a single line, you could connect Moscow to Madrid.
The Soviet defence positions were very well made. Designed as their own mini trench forts, they had anti tank guns facing in several directions - not just forward but to the sides and angles - along with anti-tank rifle dug outs. Every single defence point was dug in range of another so that if the German tanks penetrated through they’d be engaged from two sides or if a solo one was attacked they’d be able to support.
The Soviets actually took deep care in training their men for this battle. For the common infantryman they spent night and day running over their trenches with tanks - they referred to it as “ironing” - to be able to get the fear out of them when German tanks rolled over.
They scoured their entire army for the best gun layers and loaders for their anti-tank guns and trained them not on shooting at the German tank hulls but at tracks and gun barrels (if you can kill the hull, disable the weapon, again another reason the Germans didn’t lose massive tank numbers but suffered a lot of damaged ones).
This battle is also one of the first where the Soviet army would learn its craft in concealment. They had concealed all their positions so well, that when the first German tanks began rolling forward, not a single Soviet anti-tank position had been correctly identified before the battle.
This would actually be the first engagement where the new Panther tank and Elephant (Self-Propelled AT) tank would take part in. The Elephant would suffer majorly in this battle with dozens being knocked out in the first day due to track damage.
As for the Soviet Sapper units. Not only did they plant a million mines before the battle, they were formed into mobile sapper units whose duty it was, was to stay infront of the German advance and continuously deploy mines.
They got so good at this that German commanders would note just how quickly the Soviets were able to deploy entire minefields in there path during a breakthrough.
Thank you so much for taking the time to share all of this with us.
Wow! Now, THAT was thorough!
@@TouchyReactions if I can recommend a weird documentary series. It’s called Soviet Storm. It covers alot of the eastern front and a lot of the major engagements.
Note it was made for Russia and had an English dub so… it does have quite some bias to it at points and fails to go massively into details with others, but it does cover some aspects in a neutral light.
However it does give a good description of the equipment used and the battlefields.
Like all history documentaries don’t take everything as 100% factual as there is always bias in them, but using it can definitely help expand the picture of how events went down.
They also learned just how much of a monster the elephant was on defense Sadly the Germans didn't use them in the defensive role they where designed for causing most to catch fire from there transmissions over heating.
That live performance from Wacken 2019 was Sabaton's 20th anniversary, so they used both stages with past band members coming back for this show
So cool
Panzerkampf is an old-school headbanging song. It was my introduction to Sabaton, and remains a favorite.
While every member of the Allies and even some neutral countries made contributions, some large some small, there is a reason the phrase is "WW2 was won with British intelligence, American Steel, and Russian Blood."
Glad to see another fan of this song!
Personally my favorite for all the same reasons, but this song also has a special place as it introduced me to Sabaton in the first place.
Great reaction! :D
Thank you
Ah, a song about the times when things were somewhat more clear. absolutely love this!
Oh, and one more thing: In terms of the musicianship it stands as close to an Ideal, as humanly possible.
sidenote, the Battle at Kursk and the Procorovca plains, "Unternehmen Zitadelle" or "Operation Citadell" was the biggest armoured battle in History
Another great reaction
I'm still waiting for 1648 simce it's one of the few songs that focuses on my country's history
Keep up the great work
Been listening to this song for years now, and that line "into the motherland the German army marched" still gives me goosebumps.
Another great reaction, love it. Also I agree with you the Sabaton History episodes for the new album just cannot come out fast enough, very much looking forward to you reacting to the new album when we do get those history lessons finally!
Thank you 😊
I'm editing defense of Moscow right now. Damn that song is good.
@@TouchyReactions Can't wait! It's one of my favourites!
It'll be on Patreon today
@@TouchyReactions Defence of Moscow is quite a good one, I dunno if you mentioned this in the video or not, but that one is actually not a Sabaton original. The story is that Radio Tapok made a cover of Sabaton's song ""Attack of the Dead Men" and then Sabaton had him on stage with them in Russia a few years back, after all that Radio Tapok makes his own song in Russian which is heavily inspired by Sabaton's style, the song is called "Defence of Moscow" and then Sabaton makes a cover of it in English. This was a somewhat convoluted explanation of the story, but I hope I got across the gist of it.
Congratulations on 10,000 subscribers!
Thanks
Subbed, just because you always listen to the song, and then the history.
Thanks Daniel
Indy is such a gem
There's an error in the history. General Walther Model was commander of the 9th Army, Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge was commander of Army Group Centre. Kluge was the one who organised the preparations for the expected Soviet offensive towards Orel and subsequently towards Smolensk. The video talks as if Model commanded Army Group Centre, which was not the case. Model did replace Manstein as commander of his Army Group (which had several names in 1943/44) but at the time he was commanding 9th Army under Kluge's Army Group Centre.
Later on Model would replace Manstein in command of his Army Group (which was variously named Army through 1943/44). And after Operation Bagration would temporarily get command of Army Group Centre's remnants too, before commanding on the Western Front.
If you want some history I think The Great War channel, Indy's first channel (?) has a special on Stormtroopers. ;)
Regarding losses in WWII, there's a pretty good video on it that really illustrates the scope of death in the war, "The Fallen of World War II".
Here is another legendary Rock singer with his band called Alice. Song Sky of slavs - ruclips.net/video/UxF7GLd8QcA/видео.html.
You can find nice cover on it by Daria Volosevich with eng translation
Big band in Russia is Aria. It's Hard to choose one song. And it's really not easy to find it with translation on english.
Here is lyric video on song Blood for Blood - ruclips.net/video/jA1EGT9i8ks/видео.html
wolfpack introduced me panzerkampf made me fall in love
The map animations are from channel: Eastory.
Indys other channel where he cover WW2 week by week uses same maps they are now in April 1943.
About the losses of WWII.
It's still to this day unclear as to who lost the most. Russia, or the China's. Since there was like 6 China's on the United Front side & 2 of the Japanese side.
Some sources say China lost up to 24 million while the general consensus for Russia is only 22 million.
Also, fun yet scary fact : With only sending about 300 tanks to Kursk. The Germans sent more than 3 times the amount of tanks they sent to the western front from D-Day till the Fall of Berlin. Only 90 tanks ever made it to the western front. Over 90% of Germany's forces were sent to stop the Russian steam roller.
Wow
One of my favourite songs from that album... "Operation Zitadelle" was a technically a tactical victory for the German army... but a strategic loss, since they could not replenish their tanks that easily... a very interesting battle and piece of history.. nice reaction as always, thank you!
pa: Tanks are my weakness, have books from Guderian, Rommel and famous Tiger ace Otto Carius
As a russian who is interested in own history, i could say, that combined losses of red army was not so large as em usually describe. USSR lost 27millions ppl in the Great Patriotic War(now, honestly there are some talks about 42 millions, but this is fake, it seems) so, this is a huge amount and unbelievable tragedy but in the structere, only 6.5 millions were soldiers, the others are civils, which were murdered. In compare, germans lost 4 millions on this front, but Axis lost 8 millions including italians, romanians, bulgarians, Finland's soldiers, france legion, and so on. the main losses were in the beginig. BTW, there is a contry which sacrifised more than soviet union - it is China. The war started in 1937 for them and finished with the defeat of Japan on the second of september. But just try to imagine that the population of Soviet Union was about 220 millions, it is even less, than in USA, i suppose... 27 millions of ppl, true communists, peasants, workers, mothers and children - this is the strike which was a slowly bomb for soviet union
Great reaction, thanks. Im seeing them on tuesday in Mölnlycke (outside of Gothenburg) on their "Great swedish tour" \m/
Sweet. Have fun
Touchy likes an old Sabaton song. Like i always say, everyone loves Tanks.
I dont know how you'd do harsh vocals but Amon Amarth has a fun new-ish video "Put Your Back Into The Oar" and who doesnt like viking metal
You missed the Official Music Video, which I think is one of their best music videos.
There was no official MV. There were a bunch of fan made videos.
Your comments go straight to the point. While the new equipment of the German army was superior, the Soviets had the numbers. As the casualties were not an issue for them, the Soviet applied the "bleeding dry" method with success.
Tragic for the Russian soldiers lost.
Ooooh yes
Great track. If you had to play somebody 1 Sabaton track to show what the band is all about then i think this track might be the one. Regarding the new album - they have done history episodes for Christmas Truce, Soldier Of Heaven and Unkillable Soldier, so you could do those ones with offical lyric videos (I know you did the music videos already). There is a cool acoustic live version of Christmas Truce that you could include as well. Great job as always 👍
Great idea
Awesome! Tonight I’m finally seeing them live in my home town 🤘😍
Nice, can you post the set list? I'm seeing them in October and want to make sure I have listened to all the songs they'll be playing.
Sure, I’ll try! But I’m not sure they will play the same songs tho
Touchy Reactions Just got home from the show and it was absolutely awesome! This was the songs they played:
Lejonet från norden
Ett slag färgat rött (killing ground)
Stormtroopers
The last stand
Bismarck
The red baron
Poltova
Soldier of heaven
Fields of verdun
Ruina imperii
Steel commanders
Swedish pagans (the crowd forced him)
Karolinens bön (caroleans prayer)
Primo victoria
Just as a joke Tommy started playing some kids show music so Joakim got pissed and turned to Chris instead who played some highway to hell.
Then they finished off with one of my favourites, To hell and back
This is the 10th year anniversary of the Carolus Rex album so they played quite a bit of that, which was awesome for us Swedes! It was just so surreal seeing them in person and now I love them even more than I did before
Sweet. Thanks for the list. How was the crowd?
Touchy Reactions nw. The crowd was quite awesome, especially the more hardcore fans at the front/middle. The feel when we all jumped to Primo victoria and to hell and back
The Soviets did not lose more than all the other countries combined. China also had really high losses that were very close to the losses of the Soviets, but they're often forgotten for a number of reasons.
"Russia lost more people than all others combined" China lost so many that's not really true
Overall Soviet loses in WW2 to both Germans and their own were as high as 25mln, which is the most of any country, with China at around 17mln in second and Poland at 6mln being third. By % though, Poland lost the most, as much as 17% of pre war population died in the war, BUT! Overall Poland's population decreesed by over 11mln due to death, loosing territories, forced relocations, which caused 35mln population to decrease to just 24 post war.
Day one of asking him to React to Flanders Fields by Sabaton. #1
Day 1 of "I put it in the poll on Patreon every month, but my Patrons keep voting for other songs more". Hang in there. We'll get to it.
@@TouchyReactions I can't find it.
I was wrong. Patrons gave it zero votes in the last poll for May. Sorry. We will get to it.
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It surprises me still that people are still surprised by the huge losses of an army that is known to have sent its soldiers without some mush as a rifle telling them to pick one up off your dead comrade when he bites the dust three feet in front of you. That and several other factors made them lose some many soldiers by choice.
It would be a great surprise for u, that this is a myth about the luck of weapons in soviet Union. And to proof it u can just see the amount of produced the most popular soviet weapons like mosin, svt, ppsh, ppd, pps, nagants, TT and u will see, that this weapons which are still selling by Russian and in America , for example, u can buy mosin for about 100 dollars ARE the most produced weapons in the world. Its quantity just unbelievabl.Then just imagine how weapons were there after the WWI and civil war, polish-russian war... u also can compare the amount of military vehicles of USSR and Reich in the beggining and u will see, that almost in every kind of it ussr is leader. more guns, more tanks, morcaairplanes. And to finish these myth again just try to imagine that u have a country which is a second economy of the World, where in 10 years were built more than 2000 plants and factories,which rebuilt Empires roads and train roads, where everything belongs to ppls goverment - the concentration of capital, supplies, produce powers and all aged ppl involved in this production during the war from 12 to 70 makes perfect. I dont even say about Land lease. We can talk about commanders, about tactics, XP of soldiers and the organisation of army but not about the luck of weapons. This problem appears only when u is surrounded and there is no way to send anything to u. And the myth which is related with the movie about stalingrad, where the situation u have described appears could not be true becouse even logicaly thinking - u cant fight about a year in a one city against an army without weapont while ur BLOODY ANGRY RED COMMISARS shoot in ur back(wich is another myth about blocking squads)
I'm surprised you still believe in those myths.
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