Primo Victoria – The D-Day Landings – Sabaton History 075 [Official]

On D-Day, 6th June 1944, Operation Overlord began. The Western Allies unleashed their gigantic amphibious landing on the coast of Normandy. Preluded by a nightly airborne attack and supported by a massive armada of bombers and fleet artillery, their landing-crafts reached the fortified beaches. Against a hail of machine-gun bullets, the Allied soldiers stormed the beaches and overran the German bunkers and trenches. A new front was opened and the battle for France began.

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Written by: Markus Linke and Indy Neidell
Directed by: Astrid Deinhard and Wieke Kapteijns
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Sound Editing by: Marek Kaminski
Music by: Sabaton

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[SabatonHistory]

The day had come for the The Allied Forces to play their hand. Recognaisance had been thorough, but they still couldn’t know exactly what cards Nazi Germany was holding. It was a no limit game, and The Allies were prepared to go all-in in order to bring it home…

D-day was the beginning of the end of German occupation of France. If you’re curious about how they got to that position in the first place, you can find that out in these episodes of WW2 Week by Week on the World War Two channel:

Blitzkrieg in the West - The Invasion of France:

The Allied Clusterf**k - The Battle of France:

Nazi Europe?! - The Fall of France:

Hitler ❤️Paris - German Victory in France:

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[MrBabydove]

"Pretty much everything that had a cool name was to be thrown against the German Atlantic wall."

[Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

5:31 great, now I'm just imagining high command going:
"What's that thing's name?"
"Typhoon, sir."
"PERFECT. Sounds badass. Have squadrons of those sortie out."

[bensmith]

Fun fact: my great-Granddad fought in WW2 like many others. He was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940 and spent the next three years fighting in North Africa, Burma and Italy. On the sixth of June 1944 he was on one of the first landing craft to land on the beaches. In some weird way you can say that he was one of the first Britons off France and one of the first back onto French soil.

[Mildnumber]

On the subject of conscripts in the Wehrmacht, one of my favorite moments of "Saving Private Ryan" is when the two "German" soldiers try to surrender after the initial Normandy invasion and are shot while doing so. Careful listening, however, reveals that the two are speaking Czech, meaning that they are most likely conscripts forced into the German ranks after the Czech Republic was annexed by Germany in 1939. There is just so much history going on in that one little scene, and it perfectly illustrates the true tragedy of the war. The fact that Spielberg didn't feel the need to directly point this out in the movie and just left it there for history nerds to find has always amazed me.

[One-Watermelon]

Each year on that day.. I have to listen to this. Today it has been 80 years

[popit]

Indy: "And you guys are going to switch to a different type of History for the next album right?"
Joakim: "Yes! Pornographic History"
IM DEAD this is probably the funniest thing I've heard from this man 😅😅

[ScileSc]

15:40 I came for a history lesson and I found Joakim turning into a Disney Princess.

[ironwolf]

Indy: "What's the next album?"

Joakim: "PORN HISTORY!"

The intellectuals of a generation.

[KaykGer]

Sabaton history in the near future:
Indy: The famous words of an actor: "warum liegt hier stroh?" marked the beginning of a meme still known today
Joakim: and yes we did a song about it (points towards cam)
*intro starts*

[ChrischiTutorialLPs]

The best part about seeing Sabaton live is to see how Joakim is just grinning widely.

[JojokimVT]

Look, Hannes made an appearance. Well, his name at least

[darthcalanil]

"anything that had a cool name was thrown at the Germans"
And that's why cool names matter!

[tejesedeny]

I read D-day from Stephen E. Ambrose (ok, not the full book), and there was a story about American soldiers attacking a German bunker. Once the shots from the bunker ceased and they heard shouting that definitely wasn't German. Only one shot could be heard and then the soldiers of the bunker came out and surrendered. It turned out they were Polish and other nations' soldiers and they decided they had enough of war. They shot the German officer who ordered them.
And a personal story about this song: at the concert in Januray, in Budapest, the venue was quite hot and out of air for the end of the show. I was standing relatively close to the stage and during the teasing break before the ending songs, I felt I'm not ok, and I was thinking if I should try to get out before I faint. But then I heard 'Through the gates of hell...' and I was like 'oh, no way I leave during this song' so I just started to jump and sing along as loud I could. Finally there wasn't any problem and I could stay until the end of the show. :)

[mileenz]

In the USA:
"The British name their aircrafts after their cities, shall we name ours after our cities?"
- No.
"How about naming them after our pets?"
- No, you fool!
"Alright, then what do you suggest we name those flying fortresses?
- Yes!

[Zivon]

So we've seen "Ghost Division" and "Primo Victoria" now, so long as we're doing all the most popular songs, might I make a suggestion?

ohh-OHH-ohh...

[TheMmus]

I accidentally discovered Sabaton a year ago when I was watching some video where pigeons were eating seeds in a silo and Primo Victoria was playing in the back. I was blown away instantly:
Oh my, this sounds gorgeous!
Wait, it's about the Normandy landings?
Wait, almost all their songs are about military history?
Wait, they have their own history channel? Where have you been all my life?! It felt like pieces were finally coming together. And so I've been a passionate fan ever since!

Thank you for this episode, and the music of course! ❤️

[seangutierrez]

Happy 80th anniversary of D-Day! The day when the Allies began the liberation of Europe!

[TheExecutorr]

"pretty much anything that had a cool name"
yeah that sounds about right xD

[woadshaman]

Years ago, I was doing some research on the Normandy landings when I happened upon Peter Johansson's Sabaton - Primo Victoria [Saving Private Ryan] video. Out of curiosity, I played the video and I have been a Sabaton fan ever since!