SABATON "Christmas Truce" REACTION & ANALYSIS by a Vocalist/Opera Singer | SO EMOTIONAL

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This is one of the amazing historical events to take place that I've ever read about, Christmas Truce" occured in December 24th, 1914: Late On Christmas Eve, British Expeditionary Force heard German troops in the trenches opposite them singing Christmas carols and saw lanterns and small fir trees along their trenches. Messages began to be shouted between the trenches.
The following day, British and German soldiers met in no man’s land and exchanged gifts, took pictures and some even played football. It was a rare but magic moment of peace and harmony in the midst of one of the most atrocious events in the 20th century. Christmas Truce is about this outstanding event that is widely known today as “Christmas Truce”.
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LYRICS
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
(Yes, we were 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
(Yes, we were 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
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@TJKlownTJKlown 2 года назад

This song was the last Sabaton mom got to hear I sent it to her the 29th of October when it was released and we discussed playing it at Christmas for the family She passed away unexpectedly on Halloween I play it almost daily

@fredericleclerc9037 2 года назад

My sympathy to you and your loved one. o7

@TJKlownTJKlown 2 года назад

@@fredericleclerc9037 Thank you. It's hit the family hard

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Please, Accept my heart felt condolence.

@TJKlownTJKlown 2 года назад

@@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT Thank you very much

@Demon-4 2 года назад

I know how you feel, for I had the same "experience" with another song.... ... that we played on mom's funeral than... Always remember, she is not gone, but only a bit ahead, waiting for the ones she loved...

@VainerCactus0 2 года назад

I think Sabaton are modern day bards, using metal music to tell their stories. This particular song with the music video is their best piece of art I think.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

So admiring

@arrv544 Год назад

Amen!

@robertsheeler321 2 года назад

The 1st guy out of the trench is the drummer Hannes Van Dahl the husband of Floor Jansen , and Floor was singer the outrow over the credits

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

oh, thats beautiful

@charliethetraveller 2 года назад

Your reaction was very touching. Floor Jansen was singing in the credits part. Keep reacting to Sabaton, No Bullets fly animated story video, watch until the very end. It's also as emotional as this video.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Thanks so much, dont forget to check other videos out

@dominicnevins2144 2 года назад

That's the one that truly got me to cry!

@hellhoundactual8201 2 года назад

Months late, but something similar happened in WWII during the Battle of the Bulge. An American 3 man Patrol had gotten lost and happened upon a small house, they knocked on the door and the woman and her son let them in and fed them A bit later another knock came, and it was a 4 man German Patrol who also had gotten lost. She looked the Germans determinedly in the eye, inviting them in-but also warning them about what they would find inside. “You could be my sons,” she told the Germans, “and so could those in there. A boy with a gunshot wound, fighting for his life. His two friends, lost like you and just as hungry and exhausted as you are. This one night, this Christmas night, let us forget about killing.” For a moment in the second most brutal Instance a war, 30 years to the day after the first Truce between British and German Troops, There was a lul in the fighting, even if for a tiny pair of patrols old enough to be the sons of this German Woman, Elisabeth Vincken

@cartmanbro5530 2 года назад

Floor Jansen sings at the end

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

thats beautiful

@Zwudda12 2 года назад

And she is married to the drummer, Hannes

@lucialovecraft 2 года назад

I absolutely cried my eyes out when I saw the music video. Fantastic, Sabaton really blew this one out of the water 💜

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

It was one of the best

@fredbarnes2600 2 года назад

Some people might say you're late to the party but this is a message we need year round. Thanks so much for understanding and appriciating this epic song

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

You are welcome, thanks so much for watching

@henriklindberg1646 2 года назад

that cross is real, and stands to this day for the christmas truce

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Wow, thats awesome

@brasserasse 2 года назад

Such a warm and amazing reaction. Almost had me in tears as well. You are a perfect person, never change!

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Wow, thank you!

@johnnymac42069 6 месяцев назад

The fact this was historical fact is hopeful at the same time scary. One day of peace and unity warms the heart, but once midnight struck it was back war and that’s what absolutely wrecks you

@gladion7427 2 года назад

This event shows that in any situation one must remain human, and even wage war against human ideals and principles, without turning into absolute evil.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Hmmm

@hohuy1469 2 года назад

Joakim : "We needs a beautiful soprano voice for the ending" Hannes : "don't worry, i got you bro" *Pick up phone, call Floor* "Hey honey, would you like to sing a Christmas song ?..."

@mjolnir_swe 2 года назад

Man, when he looks at the guitar before he goes up of the trench, its like he's thinking "maybe we can be human for a little while".

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing

@mikeweppner8865 2 года назад

Every time I hear this song I have to fight back the tears. Most of the time it's a losing battle.

@binraswtor7760 2 года назад

Only the dead see a true end to the war.

@pontiacfan76 2 года назад

Sabaton has made it a habit to take suggestions from the fans of songs for events in history. This was one of the biggest request from the fans.

@TheVivaldi1970 2 года назад

another masterpiece by sabaton

@manabuhorikita1453 2 года назад

You know I think you hate war sister. So when something unexpected like this happened it gave you years of joy I'm happy for you sis Luv from India 🥰

@morrettigames5153 2 года назад

This moment in history is a moment of peace and beauty. Both sides were told the war would be over by Christmas… but sadly it wasn’t. It was in that moment that peace broke out by both sides randomly and in multiple spots. For one moment the guns were silent. Then the war was back and lasted three more years. That was in 1914, over 100 years later we see this great reaction to the story!

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Thats sad

@frenkwd1 2 года назад

I don't think you realised that it was Floor Jansen who sang the outro at the end credits. She is of course the wife of Hannes!! ( de drummer van Sabaton ).

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

That's beautiful

@petrkvapil4139 2 года назад

This amazing song was filmed in august 2021 in Czech Republic 🇨🇿 and original cross is near Ypres, Belgium ...btw Floor at the end is great.. greetings from Czech Republic 🇨🇿🤗🙏

@karlojara 2 года назад

Greetings from Peru!!👍

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Thanks for the info!

@nickyboy22071989 2 года назад

Haven't watched the whole reaction yet but have seen shorts, and yes. Tears are a perfectly acceptable reaction.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Thanks

@danielsapienza1939 2 года назад

Very emotional reaction. I love it. 10 points from Germany

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Thanks so much

@daniellehurrell6620 2 года назад

Our girl, Floor, graces us with her voice at the end 😳😍

@n0namesowhatblerp362 2 года назад

I am 3 minutes in to your reaction and YOU have my outermost respect for how you made this video. It is perfect! I bet Sabaton would love this! You are putting in the historical facts to the moments in the music that fit to them perfectly. Edit: You are explaining the ideas behind their music video perfectly in my opinion. And i dont know their ideas..but it fits so well.

@andrecostermans7109 7 месяцев назад

The sign you mentioned, that cross, was put in a village , the actual frontline, on the border between Belgium and France, Ploegsteert (B) and Frelenghin (Fr). There is still standing a memorial cross.

@WardDorrity 2 года назад

Absolutely brilliant. A true masterpiece in every respect. Sabaton is much the same as Nightwish, in that they use brilliantly crafted music to tell the story and they are so damn good at it that it hits you hard every time. It should come as no surprise that Hannes, their drummer is husband to Floor Jansen whose angelic and operatic voice you hear at the end. Sabaton, like Nightwish transcends their genre. No one matches them for their story telling and the respect they show their subject matter. Every Sabaton piece is a history lesson. Indeed, lest we forget, as there are those who as we speak are trying to erase our history and separate us from our past, and to no good end. We cannot allow that to happen. In an interview, Joakim was asked why Sabaton seems to focus on war and conflict. Joakim replied, "There are so many stories out there that are forgotten and do not deserve to. Why then should we make shit up?" Joakim has the right of it.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Awesomeness

@pg686830 Месяц назад

This event was in 1916. The battlefields of flanders, ypers (Ieper) , Belgium. The cross is replacd in 1999. Every evening they blast the last post at the gates of Ypres to remmenber this and not forget the cruel of the ware. Sorry fot my bad English.

@burning_hunter Год назад

This Song is so amazing … Greetings from Germany 🤙🏻💪🏻

@pontiacfan76 2 года назад

They need to add floor singing to the end of the song on the album it feels like it's missing something without hearing floor sing on the songs way out

@yakshemash1685 2 года назад

Nice video! Sabaton is just epic!

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

They are unique

@rokibuca 8 месяцев назад

I've learned more of history from Sabaton than I had in school they never mentioned the Christmas truce

@MusicNinja87 2 года назад

Ive watched this video dozens of times. Havent made it through with a dry eye yet.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Seriously

@englishpolishmememan8892 2 года назад

December 24th, 1914, the silent night. Where Brits, French, and Germans learned across the line, they were the same, the only barrier, being language. Even that did not stop Silent Night, Nuit silencieuse, & Stille Nacht, being heard across the line.

@gameknightjek2640 2 года назад

it's called "douce nuit" in french ;-)

@englishpolishmememan8892 2 года назад

@@gameknightjek2640 o

@fredriknilsson6042 2 года назад

It didnt stop the war it was just a hold up. They where not allowed to do that the coming Christmas. The war ended in 1918. The song is Christmas truce but not the album. The album is called The war to end all wars and releasedate is the 4:th of Mars 2022.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

So true, thanks for sharing

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

So true, thanks for sharing

@fnglert 2 года назад

I like that part with the music and the lyrics.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Thank you

@PhantomMelody1876 2 года назад

this is a beautiful song

@TheVivaldi1970 2 года назад

a great song very emotional

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Yes of course

@chrillebjork5948 Год назад

wowwww that song ....

@oliversherman2414 2 года назад

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Thanks

@oliversherman2414 2 года назад

No worries 😊

@freas8520 2 года назад

Best Christmas song from now!

@TwoStrokeViking 2 года назад

That was a great reaction from you! You should do their "No Bullets Fly (Animated Story Vid)" next, another beautiful moment in the middle of a horrible war.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

I will try

@extantsage7194 Год назад

"Our guns laid to rest among snowflakes" I love SABATON!!

@thomasbekierz8694 Год назад

what a song, what a message

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT Год назад

Yes

@brandonbowling2462 2 года назад

Hannes the drummer of Sabaton is Married to floor jansen of nightwish

@kaiknudsen3875 Год назад

IT can be desturbing to hear That masterpiece. Love from kai

@satoricrush 2 года назад

In that year, the Pope made a request to have a cease fire. Some spots didn't agree and kept fighting. Some stories are there were other places that the same thing happened depicted in the video but couldn't be confirmed. Then there's stories of soldiers from either side trying to make contact and being gunned down. From what I've been told and read, the original cross was destroyed and a monument one was erected in its place to remind all of one day in hell, enemies came together and celebrated being human.

@dreci3001 2 года назад

This is one of the most military blunders, recorded in "modern" history, however it truly shows how people felt towards each other. They were all brothers and friends. War is a disgusting thing, and when you weigh the costs, there are no winners. After this we humans decided to wage a second one, where tens of millions died. We are still primitive as a civilization, but have aspirations towards the stars. Many centuries have to pass for us to move on.

@stevecloutier8670 2 года назад

You should react to Majestica thats the band of a guitarist of sabaton he got a hell of a voice

@carinalundstrom7566 2 года назад

Second that

@philippus67 Год назад

There is also a movie about this event, check out A Midnight Clear from 1992.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT Год назад

Thank you

@petritormanen9593 2 года назад

Always lissen to end with sabaton video

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

🙏❣️

@isaiahwelch8066 2 года назад

The cross that Joakim carries actually exists, standing near Ypres, Belgium. So that future generations can know what the Great War was about... "Lest We Forget." I firmly believe that in my lifetime, not only will I see the last Great War veteran of any country pass away, but I will also see both the last Second World War veteran -- of any country -- and the last Holocaust survivor, pass away. And when those sad days come, their stories will truly become history. Never Again. Never Forget.

@stevewscott1763 2 года назад

Hi there, just a correction. You showed at the bottom of the screen that this song is from the ALBUM, Christmas Truce. The actual ALBUM is The War to End All Wars.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Noted, thanks so much

@stevehughes6097 7 месяцев назад

They do many of their videos on historical themes

@RaoulKunz1 2 года назад

This was the last time for at least 40 years, 31 of those some form of war, that Europeans still felt they where part of one culture... when the first rider sheathed his sword for a while and the fourth had already started to swing his scythe in'18 this was gone... and it would not re-emerge for a hundred years to roughly where it was culturally in "Europe's last summer" of '14 when the July crisis spiralled out of controle... Best regards Raoul G. Kunz

@gladion7427 2 года назад

I advise you to watch the clip Sabaton - Shiroyama with inserts from the film the last samurai, also quite an emotional clip, and a historical event

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

I will try if i can

@justitia257 Год назад

Sei Bellissima 🌹

@Marco-Conner 2 года назад

the North German Division of the nightwish army is here : greetings to the rest of the sabaton family!!! "24. December 1914: Late on Christmas Eve, the British Expeditionary Force heard the German troops singing Christmas carols in the trenches opposite and saw lanterns and small Christmas trees along the trenches. Messages were shouted to each other between the trenches. The next day, British and German soldiers met and exchanged gifts, took photos and some even played soccer. It was a rare but magical moment of peace and harmony in the midst of one of the most gruesome events of the 20th century. "

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Thanks

@Jonkra90 2 года назад

The guys in red pants and blue coats are french:)

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Oh okay, thanks for the info

@zannebrazeau 2 года назад

l love joakim's voice and it be sexy as hell when he hard rolls his R's tommy johansson(lead guitar) also sings and has a beautiful voice he has performed in the bands reinxeed and majestica

@danielolson5378 Год назад

This truce wasn't authorized by the military command on both sides it was a spontaneous act from the German soldiers. After the truce many refused to keep fighting and as a result of that they got executed for refusing to follow orders.

@user-qk8ii3od8i 9 месяцев назад

I love you! You are very beautiful girl!!! Hi from Syberia!

@jonathanwilliams6913 Год назад

So, im really sorry to be the one to say this I skimmed through a few comments to see if someone else had addressed it. Likely, they have but I didn't see it. But, there wasn't an end to fighting at that point. The truce that was reached was not sanctioned, allowed, or approved by each sides respective nations. As a result, they were ordered to go back to fighting not long after. These men, took it upon themselves to find peace in the midst of battle. To find what brought them all together and made them similar instead of focusing on what tore them apart and they honored that by making a truce and enjoying each other. But right after they were each ordered to continue fighting. They had to kill the men they just made friends with. They werent given a choice. Either become traitors and deserters or fight for their country which is what they were all there to do. It must have been the hardest thing in the world. But it's important to tell this part of the story, because they deserve to have their story told. The tragedy of what they experienced is a lesson for all of us. We have to look at the awful outcome of this attempt at true goodness to see the darkness of human nature and continue to try and fight it.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT Год назад

Hmm... Great thanks so much, i later read about it to get those fact, even till now, war still continue Thanks so much for the comment

@bjornrosenlund135 2 года назад

the day after theyrefused to fire upon each other whole companies had to be transferred to other front lines

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Hmmm

@ii-cu9ms 2 года назад

In the Eastern front in that time: explosions, killing..

@TheZombieman87 2 года назад

Just in the first 5 months of the war up to the Truce, more than 350.000 French, 250.000 Germans, 20.000 British, 15.000 Belgians and 200.000 Russians were killed in battle. Reaction Retreat

@Arcalargo 2 года назад

Sadly this was not universal across all fronts. There are instances of solders being gunned down by their less trusting opposition. To give even more context on this, the war is only months old at this point, true horror has not yet begun to sink in. These truces were not official in any way and the officers in charge were PISSED that it happened. Most of the troops involved in these truces were rotated to different parts of the front so they'd no longer have feelings for their opposition. By the time Christmas 1915 rolled around, Germany had started using gas and there was a lot less sympathy for the men on the other side of the line, so there there was never a repeat of the Christmas Truces of 1914.

@leechowning2712 2 года назад

To insure there was no temptation to do so, the artillery on both sides fired randomly throughout Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 1915, preventing any of the conversations which triggered the truce the year before.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Yes, it was shown the latter part of the video

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

oh, great that was nice

@KrystalHarwood-ty7rk Год назад

the only thing is why didnt they use fake names? people are gonna think hannes really dies!

@user-rt4oh2mf5x Год назад

Всё они это заслужили! Ибо нех!

@IronDragon-2143 2 года назад

Your accent is very pretty. I can't recognize it though where are you from?

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Africa... A Nigerian to be precised🤗

@IronDragon-2143 2 года назад

@@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT Oh okay 👍 By the way, for a future reaction video I'd like to recommend The Last Stand by Sabaton.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

@@IronDragon-2143 i just did "Race to the sea"

@IronDragon-2143 2 года назад

@@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT That's a really good one too but The Last Stand is my all time favorite.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

@@IronDragon-2143 @Iron Dragon 1990 would you like to sponsor the video. All their videos are copyrighted and nothing on them atall 😥

@olalundqvist9048 2 года назад

No, the Christmas Truce did in fact Not end the first world war, it went on for another 4 years.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

That was so real but short

@olalundqvist9048 2 года назад

@@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT The thing is, the 1.st workd war was calmed "The War to End all Wars".... then 21 years later the 2.nd world war broke out with England (France only joined in a few days to weeks later if my knowledge of history serves me correctly) declaring war on Germany for marching in to Poland.

@detroitpolak9904 2 года назад

I wouldn’t have been first outta the trench. Nope. No way in hell. I bet the piano regrets leaving. RIP Wagner piano.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Amen

@waragainstgreed 2 года назад

THE LESSON FROM THE STORY IS THIS: IF IT CAN HAPPEN ONCE IT CAN HAPPEN AGAIN! RUSSIAN UKRAINE? PALESTINIAN ISRAELI? doesnt have to be christmas.... just christmas for the rest of us.

@imthegoat94 2 года назад

Sabaton isn’t my favorite band...Sabaton is my only band. Do Soldier of Heaven.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Thanks amazing

@ingvartorma9789 2 года назад

To write all that explanation under the video, you'll explain the followers as idiots. It is clear in the music video about what happens without you having to write what happened, Then the followers want to know exactly what happened so they can here on RU-vid go into Sabaton's History and tell all the different stories that Sabaton's different songs are based on. For Sabaton is a hard rock band that pays homage to all the historical battles that happened during the 1st and 2nd world wars as well as the battles of other historical wars.

@ROYALTEHILLAHTVREACT 2 года назад

Thanks so much for airing you view. you are sited

@majpanik 2 года назад

I'm British and know in detail about this event, but its nice for it to be explained as I've come across so many people who don't know anything about WW1 let alone the truce.