The Most Powerful Version: Sabaton - Fields of Verdun 

It could be better: "On the 21st of February, 1916, the German 5th Army attacked the French-held defences of Verdun, a rain of artillery shells opened the battle and the French were ready for the attack..." At the end: "THEY SHALL NOT PASS"

On the 21st of Febuary, 1916, the German 5th army attacked the allied city Verdun. As the last line of defense against the Germans before they took Paris both sides fought hard. The battle would open with hundreds- if not thousands of shells of artillery, the first to come. The battle would last over 300 days and through it all hundreds of thousands of soldiers- French, British and German would be killed or lost, being shot, drowning in their trenches from being to wounded to move being blown to pieces, or losing their lungs to German gas. The French would stand strong and win the hellish battle with 4 words on their mind. "They shall not pass."

the longest battle in history thus far. Verdun should not be ignored by any single person in existence, there is always A chance that it could happen again

​@@manuelortiz2563 better NGL

The people just don't care about what they did back in the great war and the Napoleonic Wars. They don't care about those days cause they know how a nation was winning 1v5s like nothing

They won though. In fact in parts of the 18th and 19th century France was the strongest military force in existence. They fought all of Europe several times.

Tbf overall France was more of a bully during that time period

but the French were on the side of the aggressors in the Great War, Germany answered a defensive treaty.

France having the most battles and wars won in history: People constantly making France immediately surrendering jokes:

Destroyed by vandals? Explain please?

@@TheTiberianWolf I'd have thought it was self explanatory. The plaque was defaced and destroyed by vandals.

@@thatrabidpotato8800 Shows how little people in Europe care about history nowdays and even more than that..

@@TheTiberianWolf they should be impaled on a spike and displayed in public.

@@BlackDeath1973 Nah, they should get put in a room and try to explain why they did it to ppl that lost family members from both sides(Axis and Allies) why they think it is ok to do that. Try explaining a Ukrainan grandma that survived Holdomor,Ww2 and other wonderful things why you think Communisam is cool. Or a Holokaust survivor why you were laughing during Shindlers list(it happend in my class) We can go on and on but some ppl think they are better then older generations and will never learn until it happends to them.

So can I, but probably for a different reason....

that's not artillery that's just joakim hitting his knee

@@notthew4y that makes alot of sense

Look outside... Not only can you hear it- it's there.

@@C0ldD1rective orks....

Unfortunately we have lost this spirit now France is a cowardly country our ancestors unfortunately died for nothing

@@kilianaudibert8509 true

FUN FACT: the conditions at verdun were so bad that the french army there almost revolted several times. this actually lead to more rights/laws given to soldiers that outlawed many previous "motivational" practices.

My grandpa who fought in the resistance by the name "le colonel" Even without being a real one have written one things in his memories that touch me : if our army fail, they know france have another army to win the war, the french peoples. And i think it's the truth.

@@kilianaudibert8509 you shame those who still believe in it, those who believe they are cowards, want to be cowards and are naysayers whose history will have gone well, this kind of person who will support the Vichy regime for example

Ww2 was a different story....

@@mihaelsenolt5378 yeah but Verdun happened in ww1

@@mihaelsenolt5378 during ww2, it was the Vichy headquarters without the agreement of the French president, who decided to remove the 750,000 soldiers and 5,000 tanks on the Maginot line to prevent Charles de Gaulle from attacking, that's why that the Battle of France, it happened with only one million French, of whom 450,000 will die on the Maginot Line, because the staff refused to send reinforcements and especially refusing aviation. There was a very violent battle on Stonne, a French victory which could have reversed the war, except that at this time the general staff signed the armistice without the agreement of the army.

@@Beta-Class_Insurgent We should not forget that during WW1 France lost 1.5millions of men from 18 to 40 years old. How do you think they can do a second bloody world war just 20 years later ? And the trauma all the french people have to endure made them believe in peace whatever the consequences have to be.

France be like: you activated my trap card

3:41 The Best Part

As the battle started on that day, from a hundred miles away, A million shells went flying, and the green hills turned to gray! The bombardment lasted all day long, yet the force was standing strong! Heavily defended, But the trap's been sprung, And the battle's begun!

Its "thy will be done" Thy meaning you/your

@@jamesgroccia644 DECEND INTO DARKNESS 303 DAYS BELOW THE SUN FIELDS OF VERDUN

I get chills everytime he says father and sons fall one by one fields of verdun

punished for what exactly

Hawkeye: War isn't hell. War is war and hell is hell, and of the two, war is worse. Fr. Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye? Hawkeye: Easy, father. Tell me, who goes to hell? Fr. Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe. Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell, but war is chock full of them. Little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for a few brass involved, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.

Last time I checked hell wasn't run by idiots, which does differ it from WW1

@@egoravdeev670 Nothing, that's what makes war worse. A shitload of people who did nothing to deserve the horrors of war have to go through them regardless :/

@@egoravdeev670 Punished for nothing..

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@@songbreakerworkbench Thank you.

Looks like HOI4 artwork

@@Dubliner-un9lw hoi4 is ww2 not ww1

@@vandansonkar7819 I mean, it does still look like a HoI4 pic

Background strokes of deep instruments and damn awesome choir singers in the background.

@@magnusm4 i always thought about the first one bit i didnt hear the choir singers

Agreed

Hail the Kaiser

@@scottishbananaclan Why would you? In ww1 the Kaiser didn't do shit. Team Bismarck the true hero

Do you not know how hellish and dystopian the battle or verdun was?

@@lemmino1846 nyes'nt, and besides *it's my life* If I die, I fucking die.

I imagined a ww1 french soldier beating up germans with a baguette in the trenches, lol

Yes a 100% *YES*

Yes. I can’t name a single time the French surrendered without putting up at least a little bit of a fight

@Peter Parlee-Carr Then thank the Anglo-Americans for saving Germany from dismantlement at the end of WW1, and for always backing it in Hitler's murder spree through Europe leading up to the war. Of all the nations in the world, America and the UK are the most responsible for WW2 after Germany.

@Peter Parlee-Carr It has been proven that Germany could pay it's war reparations as although the total amount seems astronomical they were allowed a lot of time to pay them, so in total reparations were only a small part of the annual budget. Not only that but german wealth in industry and resources was left untouched by the war. The reasons why the economy crashed was because the governement refusing to pay out of pride defaulted on it's payments, which lead investors not to believe in them anymore and lead to a crash.

@Peter Parlee-Carr The sad thing is that if the British and French hadn't backed down over Czechoslovakia, Hitler's forces could have been crushed early. If Germany had tried to fight the war in '37-'38, even on a single front, they would have been crushed. They still hadn't built up enough materiel or men to take Western Europe /or/ the Soviets until a few years after that point. A French/British force could have rolled straight into Western Germany basically any time before mid 1940. If Germany had been trying to fight Britain, France, and the Low Countries in the west, Poland and Czechoslovakia in the east, and Denmark and Norway in the north all at the same time instead of piecemeal, the war would have come to an abrupt end. Chamberlain goes down in history as one of the most blind and cowardly leaders of all time for damn good reason.

*Crossaint!*

@@lordmilchreis1885You a little confused, but you've got the spirit.

Patein then: Ils ne passeront pas! Patein 21 years later: * insert France surrender joke *

@@mshaqed2538 it wasn't Petain who said that. It was General Robert Nivelle who said it after he replaced Petain as commander of French forces fighting in Verdun.

@@brandonarmienti7734 As far as I'm aware, sources may vary. I like to think its Petain because this line was later used as an anti fascist battle cry, which makes the whole thing a lot more ironic.

Btw, it's Apocalyptica cover on Fields of Verdun

It usually is intended with sabaton.And it seems a little too perfect to be otherwise

Ik this comment is months old, but Gericht would mean "Court" instead of Judgement, Judgement would be "Beurteilung" or simply "Urteil"

Thats debatable

@@shdx7764 well the French held out for 303 day with nearly no food and little water and still fought to the end

Ifs been a year k so. I’m drunk. But I have not changed my stance. War. Is. Hell.

@one one *Gandalf to the fascist Balrog

Actually it was Robert Nivelle who said "they shall not pass" kind of ironic considering he was the same man who sent hundreds of thousands to be butchered by the German lines during the Nivelle offensive

@@Azraeltheangelofdeath I think that the origin is disputed between Nivelle or Petain, but I like to think that it's Petain because its more ironic

@@mshaqed2538 It's Robert Nivelle but it's true that it's much more fun to think it's Pétain

There were experimental rifle grenades in ww1 however like a lot of weapons from then they didn't see wide use

WW1 saw the invention of countless prototype on and off the battlefield, even though rifle grenade didnt see a wide use they already existed, that and many other catapult and mortar made with what little they had to send grenade to the other side

Yes , this song is highly applicable for those battles as well. Indeed they are the modern day Verdun.

Not even close. No gas attacks, no massive attack of artillery, no millions of death

I don't think any of those battles had artillery firing millions of shells in the opening bombardment

Bismark?

@@archdukefranzferdinand762 in motion King of the ocean

Just search for "Fields of Verdun - Apocalyptica cover"

For full experience also play Verdun while listening to that

Marksman me literally playing Verdun while doing all theses things

Nightcore wont sound that bad either

Weeboo

nvm I have realized that god made me mentally unstable because he knew I would be to powerful otherwise.

They did early in the war, by this point they'd adopted different uniforms. Verdun was in 1916, the French started off with such uniforms in 1914

They did

​@@Lol-jp1ju Verdun was ww1. They surrendered in ww2 after all of their best soldiers were annihilated at Dunkirk, with all they had left being a small token force of less experienced troops. They literally had no choice but to surrender.

​@@Blitz0555and if they didn't surrender then they'd get the Poland treatment (aka all of their cities getting carpet bombed)

@Blitz0555 Their fault though. They didn't defend the Belgian border enough. But yeah, you're right.

I don’t think it is since you can’t use copyrighted content on a song and try to get it into Spotify. It might be on SoundCloud. I don’t know though.

imaginate comparar bajmut con verdun, lo unico similar es su duracion 😹

Aux armes, citoyens! 🇫🇷

Flak or prematurely detonating artillery shells.

Thats just because of their performance in WWII