Can you make a video/song about Admiral Wilhelm Canaris? He was the chief of the Abwehr but executed by the Nazis because he strengthened military resistance in the Wehrmacht and once planned a coup against the government which didn't happen because he hadn't enough soldiers. He is a controversial person, in his position he of course was supporting the regime and he was an anti-Semite, but he positioned against the Holocaust.

That's...pretty funny thank you.

This made my day, thank you.

Finally a ww2 joke I've never heard before. You made my day, thank you!

Ok, I just love this. 😀

Shrek was the true hero of the ussr

That's a solid opening!

Yes please, that intro would be perfect.

YES

I'm going to watch some Sabaton . . you bitchs triggered me

YES PLEASE

Preach!

Its important not only just for the sake of understanding the topic so we have a clear view of history, but also to fulfill the age old adage of "those who do not look at history are doomed to repeat it". I think its very important to look and ask why the people, leaders, soldiers, etc of Germany did what they did. Just labeling them as evil doesn't solve anything, but also just excusing them does just as much harm (perhaps a little more). But looking at just the little details that Indy brought forward paints a far more grey moral area of the conflict and we see the process laid out before us. I think it's less important to judge those involved as good or evil, but understand that the outcome that ended up happening was undesirable and see how we can avoid an event like that in the future. I feel too many people gwt caught up on the idea that these are evil men doing things rather just understanding that humans are prone to these mistakes, and it's NEVER as simple as just someone being evil because they just are.

@@PANCAKEMINEZZ Here, here.

Yeah if you always worry about offending someone. All it will lead to is censorship and lowering standards to the most easily offended group. Since it super easy to say i find x offesive or claim x is offensive on behalf of y. That and normally it's only a handful of people who feel this way and not the majority. If they are not just flat out lying to try and control people. Since i could say i am offended by history right now, i don't mean it at all but i could simply say it. That and being offended by something is emotional, so might not be the best thing to allow yourself to be controlled by or base your reactions on. Since pure raw emotion, tends to lack logically thinking behind it and tends to be very short term thinking, that can often lead to bad things down the road due to lack of foreslight that more logical thinking would give you.

@@xyzzyx348 We don't take too kindly to anti-semitism here.

Same with his between 2 wars episode about Berlin Olympics.

Agreed!

Despite how wrong it is.

This video is filled with so many wehraboo tropes and falsehoods. It's also pushing a very misleading narrative of the "clean wehrmacht". This episode is really subpar to anything that they have produced earlier.

@@heno02 exactly my concerns, thank you.

Thanks for your service! -From an American

Thank you for your position! - From a Russian Military Historian

I too, think we should always be able to ask questions but given that one is not only responsible for the actions one takes but also the actions one chooses to not take, even grey is just another shade of black. Everybody who turnd there face away and did not partook in the resistance is guilty to some extend. Sure, there are several several level of guilt but never the less its guilt. In my opinion there is no such thing as an inocent Wehrmacht soldier, who just carried out orders cause he could always have choosen to disobay the orders. And yes I know that this was extremly dangerous at the time but a true pacifist is someone who lets himself get shoot to prove that the other one was the aggressor. - a fellow German

Thank you for your service man, I am glad that America and Germany are great allies now.

My Great Grandfather was a foot soldier and My Great Uncle was a StuG operator, both served in the Wehrmacht on the Easternfront. I ask my family and always want to ask questions but the knowledge was lost when closer relatives passed on. Thank you for your service, comming from the USA.

The man is powerful, can't deny that. I became a Patron right after watching this video 😅

Money money give me all your money. I laughed so hard

Is it in yet?

@@SabatonHistory I love it, y'all came back later to ask about the money :D

Well, according to my experience, people who watch Sabaton history (and WW2 channel) are usually able for intelligent debate. This is why I usually read the comments only under these two channels' videos on whole KZfaq.

Just like Poland in 1939 LMAO

If KZfaq doesn't just delete it..

It’s gonna be full of wehraboos

@@sovietapples6122 when they make a video about the final solution is gonna be a party

Ohh, you're right, I somehow remembered that Ghost divison already had an episode too, but now I realized it hasn't yet. Maybe in the 1 year anniversary episode...

Aye

Song about japanese war in china, or in asian islands would be nice to hear

@@psznaherbatka15 aue

@@psznaherbatka15 would love a song about Iwo Jima, Leyte or even Okinawa

+1 Respect

Wow....said better than I could ever dream to attempt. 👍🏻

@@Error_404_Account_Deleted It only took me 71 years, 47 of them as a teacher, to think about them. ;-) Thanks.

I'd argue that people aren't so much afraid to ask the questions, but rather are afraid of the repurcussions of asking them. Folks are very heavily opinionated nowadays, and the idea of being ostracized for simply asking a question can be mighty intimidating.

@@lilwyvern4 This is were I have an extreme problem. I'm an introvert, who started life on a cattle ranch with no children my age around. I never belonged to or wanted to belong to a group. Because of that, I couldn't teach my students (or sons) about peer pressure even after I finally believed that it was a real thing.

don't forget the wehraboos who'll make up fantasy stories that the wehrmacht was "clean" and Rommel wasn't as guilty as the nazi leadership.

@@GorrilazWarfare i am a bit of a wheraboo but i won.t say stuff like that.

@Tranhoang Long You'd be surprised how many wehraboos believe the wehrmacht was clean and rommel as welll. Obviously not both of you but I meet too many that believe in the myth of the clean wehrmacht.

@@GorrilazWarfare I'm not a Wehraboo. Yet, in every army there were good men. Not all Germans were monsters and not all Americans were saints. Simple as that. And Rommel knew about Operation Valküre, he isn't as guilty as the nazi leadership was because he literally knew about an assasination attempt on Hitler and didn't do anything about it.

@@Schneter What you are talking about is a common myth(s) created after the nazi regime by Franz Halder in his "Generals' Memorandum" which re-wrote history to make the nazi army look innocent or at least apolitical. The myth of the clean wehrmacht and myth of Rommel were created so that the allies could ignore the reality that the nazi army and the leadership wanted to exterminate Slavs and others and made them "not nazis" so they could quickly re-assemble a new German army to oppose Stalin. You can read it all here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_clean_Wehrmacht#Start_of_the_myth and here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rommel_myth and also here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism_and_the_Wehrmacht "On August 22, 1939, in a conference between Hitler and all of the Reich's senior military leaders, Hitler stated quite explicitly that the coming war against Poland was to be a "war of extermination" in which Hitler expressed his intention to "...to kill without pity or mercy all men, women and children of the Polish race or language".[46] The British historian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett wrote that whatever doubts the Wehrmacht might still have had about the sort of regime that they were about to go to war for and the kind of people that they would be fighting for in this war, should have been clearly dispelled by Hitler's genocidal comments during the conference of August 22, 1939, and that the claims made after the war that the Wehrmacht simply did not understand the nature of the regime that they fought for, are not believable.[46] Anti-Semitic and anti-Polish attitudes like the views expressed above coloured all the instructions that came to Wehrmacht during the summer of 1939 as part of the preparations for the invasion of Poland.[45] The war against the Soviet Union was presented as a war of extermination right from the start. On March 3, 1941, Hitler summoned the entire military leadership to hear a secret speech about the upcoming Operation Barbarossa in which Hitler stressed that Barbarossa was to be a "war of extermination", that the German military was to disregard all the laws of war, and that he both expected and wanted to see the deaths of millions of people.[47] With the exception of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, who protested that this was both morally and legally wrong, none of the officers who heard Hitler's speech voiced any objections.[47]"

That is my favorite song. They should have remastered it for the great war album.

Yes...I want to know it. How much is that mile, Joakim?!

@@thecommissarshatisonfirege4193 I think it's worth thousands of feet

That was the first Sabaton song I heard, and as such it will always have a special place in heart

@@halo3pro584 at least...

Just goes to show that the loudest ones are usually the ones with the smallest numbers. Well, that and the fear of the righteous wrath of Sabaton fans when a very valuable history video is unjustly removed due to 'reasons'.

I can recommend Indy's 'TimeGhost History' channel for a very nuanced breakdown of the Interwar Era.

@@SabatonHistory Seconded. Indy and Time Ghost have tons of superb content. Unfortunately, this has not escaped the attention of our Benevolent Overlords, and many of their videos have been censored due to aforementioned ‘reasons’. I think their entire channel has been demonetized at least a couple times. All the more reason to support them.

Indeed. An ever increasingly relevant sentiment of late, it seems.

That's what I like about my history teacher. He tries to make us think ourselfs and not just think that what is given in some textbook is always true.

Well but depends on the people you're asking, not all people root you close to a certain ideology, just because you ask questions. Of cause, if you repeatedly ask modern left extremists or neo nazis these questions, these answers are clear, but normal thinking people imho wouldn't root you near any ideology for asking these questions.

Depends on *how* you ask the questions as well^^

It's like that here where I live in the United states pretty much but I know a few people I could talk to about controversial stuff openly with and we can just discuss it

There was this podcast I listened to that looked at the My Lai massacre which was the slaughter of unarmed South Vietnamese citizens by US troops. It analyzed how it occurred and was very fascinating if you want I can find it? Ps: My girlfriend and I visited Innsbruck over the holidays and had a blast!

Hey, I get that reference!

Nice meme son.

Thank you! :)

That is kinda expected. Poland suffered one of longest and most brutal ocupactions among all nazi-conquered contries. They may be a bit oversensitive about that topic, but, let's be honest, they have good reasons to be so ^^.

@@ComissarYarrick Most of the occupied nations are quite sensitive about it. I don't think I've ever met a wehraboo from any of the occupied nations of WW2, probably because people here have grand-parents who experienced it directly, and war stories don't die out quite as quickly. Also because peer-pressure is a strong force against defending the wehrmacht.

I wish the US military from Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003, Panzer Battalion song) went back in time and crushed the Axis Powers in 1935!

Sorry if I shouldn’t but judging by your surname I’m guessing your family is Chinese as well? Given the help that that China was helped by the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht in the form of training and material, I’m not surprised. That, and the fact that the Nazis fought the Soviets as well as the lack of any education on Nazi atrocities in Asia has many people in Asia still admiring or downright support Nazis. I have friends from Indonesia who told me that if you wave a flag of the Imperial Japanese rising sun or the hammer and sickle, people will beat you up. But if you wave a flag of the Nazi swastika there, people might even pat you on the back.

@@HaloFTW55 Didn't Siam/Thailand support the Axis Powers during WW2?

@@HaloFTW55 War, the world, and people are weird.

@@christiandauz3742 The US military learned a lot of tactical and strategic lessons from their former German enemies.

I did notice however, that he said "keep your opinion to yourself, " .... so much for open discussion

the german army of 1944 used more horses then the german army of 1940 (thank you USAAF).

Germany used all in all around 2.8 million horses during the war. Given that Germany lacked fuel it wouldn’t have been able to motorize its entire army anyway, no matter how many trucks it could have produced.

Germany took Britain's advice of "not enough horses" from WW1 to heart in WW2.

@@thurin84 Nope, you need to say thank you to England since majority of US planes were flying from England to Germany to bomb German factories cause if Hitler finished England off to the point where England was force to surrender then means USA would have no ally in Western Europe which USA would have no locations to launch there planes from plus no Western Front opening.

@@joeyreidelbach5509 sounds like i hit a nerve...........

AD VICTORIUM!

@@Waddedupnapkin EX MACHINA!

@Niklas Ritz NON SIBI DED PATRIAE!

No you are not, they just don´ t have time to stop and comment

It is truly fascinating how Hitler and other despots saw themselves. It helps one to understand, how and why things happend.

The worst part about this is that he isn’t particularly wrong.

@@Thatonedude227 I would rather say he bend the truth to an extent, so it fitted his worldview.

@gillecroisd 92 That is brilliant. People who spend their time to truly understand and take a closer look, or better check everything they can find out are rare. Thanks for your participation in historical research.

@gillecroisd 92 Almost, but USSR never had racist propaganda and never officially declaired genocide against Germans as state ideology. At least one difference already exist. Also, USSR in 1941 wasn't antisemitic, it was a state of winned Jewish nazism against Russians and other local nations.

Ah, man, I missed that! I will have to go back and listen again.

You are a wise man

Cheers! Good luck! Check out Indy's other channels as well! (kzfaq.info and kzfaq.info)

Are you sure he’s not an electrician with double lightning symbol

@@ZaHandle those days german electricans were like that so there is a chance

shouldnt it have been "mostly only the sith speak in absolutes"?

@@thurin84 Yeah, the original quote was ironically quite absolutist.

Thank you for your support! :)

@@SabatonHistory Varsågod Sabaton History :-)

Tak!

That is the best outro I've seen. I have to give these amazing people money now when I get a chance.

Getting there

Ive got different experience. i guess it depends on where you Life in Germany. Here it is not that strict. Even in School you get told what happened, but this depends sometimes on how the teacher itself thinks about it. And i never really experienced that someone tryed to silence you for talking about it.

@@superbrain3848 That's great, then. I also was thinking in a more "general public" way. I think as a people we have way to go to work up our history and move on, without punishing ourselves and at the same time doing everything from repeating our past mistakes. But I have the feeling this will never really happen.

Well we hardly can "punish" ourselves since the last few people, that really experienced the time first hand, are dying out, most of the time they were children back then. Adult people from back then are mostly dead or in their very last years of their lives. The vast majority of Germans today are born after the war, we hold no responsibility for the second world war or anything that was done by Germans back then. But we hold a responsibility to keep the memory, to not forget, to teach, what happened back then and why it is bad and should never be repeated. Asking these questions like, if the soldiers were mad men or young boys without a proper way, is good, because you then have to think about it, you have to think about humans in general. The only correct answer is, that their is no general answer. Just as in modern armies, where some soldiers commit warcrimes (and receive criminal charges and sentences for that, if a proper military jurisdiction and ethos exists), many others are normal guys who would condemn shooting civilians. It is the same back then and I'm thankful for Sabaton and Indy and their crew to analyze these questions, because of their music they get a vast reach to influence people in a positive way. Imho if you know, that e.g. your grand grandfather was a Wehrmacht soldier, but one of the "clean" ones, who didn't commit crimes, you don't need to feel offended, if someone talks about crimes, which the Wehrmacht was an accomplice of.

@@MagiconIce We all, not just germans, also have a responsibility to make sure that it never happens again.

@@lavrentivs9891 Of cause, but we Germans especially, because some of our ancestors did commit these horrible crimes.

I was looking at the comments for this comment. :D

Looks like this reference goes over the head of most watchers of this channel.

I mean somehow the swedish are germanics, too😅

It’s from all that beer

@@clumsycommissar5260 wie sagte er so schön in Berlin letztes Wochenende: "Nicht noch ein Bier... Noch 5 Bier!"😂😂

What did he say?

@@dacevedo4617 But Wehrmacht not

I have a question for you, my distant kinsman. It's hard to get a feel for how the Deutsche view the Bundeswehr. I was an American soldier and all my friends and family who have been in Deutschland, either stationed or visiting, have only had good things to say about our brothers in arms. Given how the US Army is having trouble meeting recruiting numbers because 20 years of pointless wars, I wonder how our allues are holding up?

Truth is almost always a muddy gray, just like Wehrmacht uniforms.

Epic, isn't it?

@@SabatonHistory much so.

Had Hitler not meddled the war may have dragged on much longer and may have even had a different outcome. The German Generals (especially the Prussians) were very smart men, masterful tacticians, and led very competent troops. D-Day may have been repulsed if Hitler not demanded personal control of the Panzer formations that were near Normandy. Those Panzer units could have pushed the Allies back into the sea had Rommel had control of their movement instead.

Sorry but that won’t happen, panzer division attempt to push the Allies into the sea would have stopped dead cold after a hailstorm of gunfire from battleships on station in the channel, not to mention the hundreds of other warships with gun calibers from 4 to 16 inch. The only thing that would happen to the panzer divisions is being flipped and tossed around by 6 or 8 inch cruiser guns.

Wehrmacht was 1935 onwards - In WW1 it was just imperial german army

I know, but still thanks

Thanks!