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"The atom bomb, so the argument went, might actually be more humane." That sent chills down my spine...

First part: "In total war, there are no true 'good guys'. The best you can get is a light grey." Second part: "Hey Joakim, how massive do you think the Hulk's dong is?"

"What did the Romans ever do for us?" "Toilets"

I absolutely love that Joakim is wearing a Monty Python shirt. And it's honestly one of my favorite skits of all time.

In 1946, American analysts reviewed the destruction from the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, and concluded "the damage was not nearly as bad as in Hamburg".

>be me >have a ton of homework with deadline ruthlessly approaching >sabaton history releases a video >homework can wait

This is "almost every single song" The last one - SWEDISH PAGANS

Joakim seems to learn only really essential and useful sentences of other languages :D

Last one to wait: SWEDISH PAGANS!!! (This is how to trigger Joakim off)

14:10 "Death from above" -Sun Tzu, Art of War

Time for a *_Beasts of War_* album, guys! Hannibal's elephants The Great Emu War Sergeant Stubby (America's first and most highly decorated war dog) Cher Ami (the pigeon that saved the 77th in the Argonne) Wojtek etc.

That interview section had some of the biggest whiplash I've ever experienced in Sabaton History. Going from a depressing topic like carpet bombing to Sun Tzu riding a flying carpet, the phone call skit with Indy, and the talk about the Incredible Hulk's package was certainly an experience. I think I was genuinely laughing at some points during the discussion, like when Pär (yes, with an 'ä') butted in.

Talking about Bomber Harris there always reminds me of a line from his American counterpart in the Pacific Theater, Curtis LeMay who organized similar incendiary attacks against Japanese residential districts and civilian targets that were well beyond declared sacrosanct by international treaties like hospitals and emergency services. If I remember it came about after the war, 1950 or so. And he said something to the effect of: "If we hadn't won the war me and my ilk would have been tried as the greatest war criminals in history."

"If it is strategic when you do it to your enemy, but terrorism when your enemy does it to you, that is all the answer you need to your question."

I didn't even realize the regular songs were through already

This is gonna be an Arthur “ fire up the lancers” Harris video isn’t it?

If you are finished with all regular songs of the albums, that can mean one thing: Time for a new album :)

Man, I fear the day the channel runs out of songs, tho there are still topics Sabaton could cover, Seven Years War, Napoleonic Era, Franco-Prussuan War, Sengoku Jidai, Roman Empire, 100 years war, man humanity has a long history...

A normal conversation: *exists* Indy: but what is the Hulk packing tho? 🤔

I always thought this was about the us firebombing Japan, damn

Can we get a history of ‘Camouflage?’ Telling the stories of literal ghosts in warfare

I left the room for 45 seconds and the subject went from an album's play to inviting the Hulk to have relations in the kitchen. Still more historical than The History Channel.

Nearly done. Always wondered why this track wasn't covered in lineups. Now, I know.

I have the absolute blessing of having a German keyboard so that I can easily type PÄR with the correct umlaut XD

SUN TZU ON A FLYING CARPET IS THE BEST THING I'VE SEEN ALL YEAR! I choked on my tongue I laughed so hard. And then the mixups with the Dutch language followed by the corrections, despite the subject being incredibly horrifying (I never knew the US firebombed Tokyo, we never learned that in school, I only ever learned we bombed HIroshima and Nagasaki), I laughed so much during this episode. Thank you guys so much for adding levity to the video despite the serious nature of the song. It always makes me smile, even if I'm havin a tough time right now cause I've had 5 finals this month with my 5th and final one tomorrow. I'll keep soldiering on, but these videos are always a bright spot in my week.

"Messups in the high command", understatement of the century, the army and navy where pretty much literally at each others throats

I hate to say it, but I'm learning more history from a heavy metal band than some guy standing in a classroom with 20-30 kids

I own a bass and an ä-key so I guess I am qualified and will be expecting a call. #JoakimKilledPär

It's time for: "History of Sabaton." "History of Rockstad:Falun/Sabaton open air." Special: "History of Indy and Spartacus." And as a curveball: "History of Sabatons hometown Falun."

One of my more favorite songs from The Art of War album, not just for its adrenalin pumping music, but also the dreadful and terrifying lyrics. Seriously if you guys ever performed this song live again, you better have sirens going off when the lyrics "the sirens scream out loud" come up. That would just send chills down my spine. Also, did anyone else expect this song to be about Napalm bombing runs during Vietnam? At least at first glance?

16:30 poor Pär...

Did you ever do an Episode about the song Camouflage? Or is it not invluded because it's a bonus track?

"We can't get an illustration of flying carpets dropping bombs." You underestimate the power of the Internet, Indy.

- "How many war crimes do you wish to commit?" - "Yes!"

You could do an episode about Shadows. It could cover the writing of and\or the cultural impact of Lord of the Rings. It could also be a Bio Special of sorts for Tolkien.

Now this was dark. Indy gave me the chills summing up "An atom bomb might have actually been more humane." But anyhow, what I'm mostly thinking about right now, is Neuken in de Keuken.

You should do Shadows and make the history part about the history of the Nazgul

Even as a german I never heard about this. Thank you for covering this Edit: especially the Hamburg part. Dresden I knew

16:50 Looks at bass: *My time has come!*

You know what this means right, Sabaton needs to do another album to keep Indy busy.

I think you missed The Hammer Has Fallen Please cover that too I love the song

I demand "shadows" next 😂

The warning at the beginning of this video was so you don't get hit with a ban hammer from evil KZfaq?🤔😥

Thank you for doing one of my favorite songs from Sabaton

I can binge watch and listen your history vids indefinitely! SUBSCRIBED.

5:35 I live in Cologne. Shocking that it was a war zone 80 years ago

I adore this song, always makes me put my foot down just a little bit while driving.

I where on the Sabaton cruise that year when you played 7734.. The thing is, I was so extremely surprised that you played it, (because it's one of my top three favorite Sabaton songs) that it took me half way trough the song to enjoy it to the max.

Indy: We've done e'm all! Meanwhile Glorious Land crying in a corner

Please keep on coming with the history episodes! Maybe go into further detail of existing songs which you already covered? Looking forward to sabaton history each week!!

Started dark ended light. Every Sabaton history episode

I have been waiting for this for so longggggg

I love this editor so much!

I’m from the Netherlands and I just watched this episode. It was really fun hearing you guys mention a tour you did in the Netherlands and trying to speak Dutch! I will see you for the first time in March next year! I’m VERY excited!

A great song from my favourite sabaton album.

You know you’ve got an obsession when you at least recognize all the Metallizer songs when they mention them.

Fire arrows weren't a thing used to light the enemy on fire. They blow out when the arrow is loosened due to the speed. Even if they hadn't blown out, it would be hard for the arrows to light anything on fire. There were specially designed fire arrows that didn't blow out, but they were most likely used for signalling.

Never expect going from carpet bombings to the Hulk's junk

The answer? Yes. Its both. There cannot be one without the other.

One of my favourite Sabaton song! Good history behind the song, and Indy Neidell it’s an awesome storyteller!!! I like him very much! Great job to Indy and Sabaton history channel!!!

Could you guys do the Sabaton song Shadows and just talk about Lord of The Rings history

Britain designed some crazy shit during and before the war. The first nuclear weapons program, the earthquake bombs, radar, cavity magnetron for radar, proximity fuzes, first jet engine, etc. Stalin was right when he said that the war was won with “British brains, American brawn, and Russian blood”. Britain’s Tube Alloys project was sent over to America where it was renamed the Manhattan Project. Britain needs more recognition!

This is the first time they gave a warning that is how good this song is

This just means they needed to release another album, maybe even make it a double album. In this case, we all win, more awesome Sabaton songs and more episodes of Sabaton history.

History rocks keep it up 👍

Such a dark chapter in history and yet I can't stop giggling at that quote on Joakim's t-shirt! I love that scene and that movie xP

I saw a Reddit comment about a Dutch poem of the bombing of Rotterdam. "Reminds me of a Dutch poem about the German bombing of Rotterdam in 1940, made as a reaction to a German poster telling us that the Allied bombers are merciless: Er kwamen vliegers aangevlogen, There, the pilots came flying over, Haast als lammetjes zoo zacht; Oh, as soft as lambs; Die hebben vol van mededoogen, They, filled with compassion, 'n Bezoek aan Rotterdam gebracht. visited Rotterdam. Ze lieten daar hun bommen vallen, There, they dropped their bombs, Door liefd' en teederheid bezield...... filled with love and tenderness.... De vliegers, die genade kennen, The pilots who know mercy, Die hebben Rotterdam vernield! they destroyed Rotterdam! Daar werd een ziekenhuis getroffen, There, they hit a hospital, (waarop een Roodekruisvlag stond!) (which was flying a Red-Cross flag!) Daar was het, dat men alle eischen There it was, that all requirements van Recht en van Beschaving schond. to be Just or Civilized, were ignored. Daar stonden duizendtallen huizen There stood thousands of houses In weinig tijds in vuur en vlam...... shortly after turned into fire and flame... De vliegers, die genade kennen, The pilots who know mercy, Die bombardeerden Rotterdam! they bombed Rotterdam! Daar werden vrouwen, grijsaards, kind'ren There women, elderly, children Door dat GENADIGE geweld, through that MERCIFUL violence, Bij 't ijdel vluchten door de vuurzee, while fleeing through a sea of fire, Door vallend steen ter neer geveld. were killed by falling rocks. Daar vluchtten angstig opgejaagden There the frightened refugees fled Over de vuur'ge straten voort...... through the burning streets... De vliegers, die genade kennen, The pilots who know mercy, Die hebben duizenden vermoord! have murdered thousands! Vanuit de Rotterdamsche puinhoop From the ruins of Rotterdam Stijgt fel en rauw de schelle kreet, fierce and raw the loud cry goes up, ‘Zie en onthoud, wat hier geschied is, 'See and remember, what happened here, Wie hier genade gelden deed!’ who subjected us to their mercy!' Die kreet weerklinke allerwege That cry went up everywhere Door ons geknechte Nederland: through our subjugated Netherlands: De vliegers, die genade kennen, The pilots who know mercy, Die hebben Rotterdam verbrand! have burned Rotterdam!" Edit: everything in quotes was not written by me.

Sabatons show of Heroes on tour at Amsterdam, was by far the most amazing show I have ever seen! BROEK UIT, OP JE HOOFD! \m/.

Therapist: every dream has meaning My dreams: 14:08

I'm glad that none of this is being forgotten.

Can't wait to see what happens next

Not doubting any right the Allies hat to go to war. But considering an attack on Tokyo as retaliation for an attack on a military target just does not sound just...

This song is just underrated

I love this song- my favorite one!

I know it is sort of a cover, but by when could we expect the video for "Långa bollar på Bengt"?

Can you make episodes about the bonus like Glorious Land and Camouflage ?!

I actually like ''collecting'' songs I heard live and i always love when they play something unexpected :)

There is the song The Hammer has Fallen maybe that could be a song you take a look in

Strategy or terror? well rather tragedly. Those two are not mutually exclusively.

They covered Amon Amarth's 'Twilight of the Thunder God' as a bonus track on one of their albums. Would love to see it here - an episode on Norse history and folklore - the battle of Ragnarok!!

"Sun Tzu said to use fire to confuse the enemy and put them into disarray, not turn a city into literal hell!" Arthur Harris: "HAHA! Hamburg? More like, Hamburn!"

Birds of war! Finally tell us if it really is about Chaos Raptors from Warhammer 40k.

Great history lesson! Seriously, I would not care what songs you guys would sing! I love them all! Even Metalizer!

I’m still waiting for the camouflage episode. It’s a bonus song but it’s great.

I live near Hamburg and just last week an unexploded WW2 bomb was disarmed in my town. Today they announced another one was found, so that‘s going to be taken care of some time in the next weeks. Fitting for that Video to come out today

Would be a cool one for 7734, reading through youtube comments on the song theres a ton of different peoples interpretations of the song and it would be interesting to see some of those and yours explored as a song that could pottentially have a few different meanings/fit with them.

Sabaton History-Shadows! And What par said speeder

"If I destroy a FW190 it will take one week to replace, but if I kill a worker, it will take 18 years to replace"A Higher Call

I love how they go from talking about thousands dying in a firestorm and the question of whether it was ethical or not to talking about whether or not the Hulk has a massive Schlong or not within minutes

Can we have a Swedish pagans episode PLEEEEEAAASSEEEE

Its the evolution of war. WW2 saw an unprecedented fast track of military technology, while unfortunately strategy and tactics were not in place to employ these weapons without mass loss of life. Also in hindsight its easy to say it was unnecessary but fighting such a determined enemy can cause extreme reactions especially with people like Harris in charge.

Awesome.

BROEK UIT OP JE HOOFD! Finally seeing the Dutch Sabaton tradition mentioned. I was at the Amsterdam Great War show and was introduced to it. Great to see and hopefully the guys tackle dutch history soon!

This is absolutely insane Edit- Sabaton needs to make a new album by the looks of things

I am not tough enough for this episode,because so many of my relatives died in the firestorm,still see it as a criminal act against civilians who had nothing to do with the war at all

I love the Life of Brian T shirt lmao

You can tell its from one of the old albums by the almost complete lack of any rhyming in the lyrics. Again, I'm glad they've improved so much since then.

It's time for Sabaton History to connect what individual events (in history) has done to make modern day times normal.

Regarding the question implied by the title, I would argue that terror bombing is, in fact, a strategy, and that firebombing tactics used in Hamburg and Tokyo were both. Terror bombing is an inhumane strategy, and it is now a war crime to do so as of the Protocol 1 amendment to the Geneva Conventions in 1977, as it involves deliberate targeting of civilians. It's also debatable if it's a particularly effective strategy - it was used in WWII by both German and British air forces, and while bombings of places like Warsaw were effective for the Germans, the Blitz seems to have largely just steeled Britain's collective stiff upper lip rather than breaking them. The British also had relatively little success with their efforts on a morale front. One could argue that Britain's resolve would have been broken had the Luftwaffe been able to effect their campaign of terror bombing more effectively, and that Britain's only failed due to the fact that people feared the Nazi Party more than they did the bombs, but one could also take the simpler opinion that it did not work. The only instance that I can think of where one can unequivocally state that terror bombing worked as a strategy was the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - both cities were picked because they had been left relatively intact by bombing campaigns to date, enabling effective assessment of the bombs' destructive potential from the air, but this also implies they were not major strategic targets as such a strategic target would have been targeted in bombing raids being planned by Air Force generals when they were not yet privy to what the Manhattan Project was about to give them. But even here, one could argue it was less the impact of terror bombing in the traditional sense so much as the Japanese realizing that a bomb that destroys most of a city in a single blow, that can be delivered to the next city every few days is not a fight you can win - that their surrender was less one of terror than one of pragmatism finally winning out over their honour codes. Or it could be that the Japanese were already considering the Potsdam ultimatum and Hiroshima and Nagasaki were one hell of a good argument in favour of accepting its demand for unconditional surrender. (The Potsdam ultimatum was a message sent from the allies to Japan, demanding unconditional surrender and threatening "prompt and utter destruction" otherwise. They did translate it into Japanese before sending it, which...may or may not have been a good thing - that one's hard to figure. However, since it was a public demand, the Japanese press knew about that, and one of them asked the Japanese PM about it, to which he responded with a phrase that includes " _Mokusatsu_ ". In English, this has a variety of meanings depending on context. The dictionary definition is "take no notice of, treat (anything) with silent contempt, ignore [by keeping silence], remain in a wise and masterly inactivity," but in press conversations, and in the phrase used, the total meaning is the equivalent of saying "no comment" in English. Which doesn't mean "I'm deliberately ignoring it," so much as "I don't want to tell you (the press) anything." Which is perfectly reasonable: any inkling of the idea of surrendering is something you want to make sure is announced properly, not blurted out in response to a question at a press conference. Thing is, the Americans got ahold of it, translated it using the dictionary definition of _Mokusatsu_ and read it as a middle finger raised in their direction. Of course, everyone who knows the truth of what the Japanese government was doing with the Potsdam ultimatum during those days before the bomb fell is dead, and they took that secret to their graves. We have no way of knowing how Japan would have responded. We know that they had no chance from a strategic perspective even without the atomic bomb - in addition to American efforts that had been relentlessly advancing despite Japan's vigorous opposition that had proceeded almost non-stop since the Battle of Midway, Soviet forces were being redeployed from Europe for developing Soviet invasion plans...but WWII's European theatre shows that having no strategic path to victory is by no means a predictor that a country will surrender.)