A few to check out... Ich Tu Dir Weh (Live from Madison Square Garden) Mein Teil - (Live Hurricane Festival 2013 Du Hast (Live in Paris) Dicke Titten(with English subtitles)...the best fun video of 2022! Rammlied (Live from Madison Square Garden) Bück dich - Live From Paris 2017 Ich Will (Hurricane Festival 2016) PROSHOT HD (with English subtitles) Links 2-3-4 / PROSHOT(Download Festival 2016) Sonne (LIVE Europe Stadium Tour 2019) [Multicam by RLR] 4K Sehnsucht (Berlin Wuhlheide 1998) ...and last but not least...Zeit (with English subtitles)...beautiful, emotional, and quite possibly the greatest music video ever made.
Translation Germany You (you must, you must, you must, you must) You must have cried (cried, cried, cried, cried) Your spirit parted (parted, parted, parted, parted) Yet united in heart (united, united, united, united) We (we have, we have, we have, we have) We have been together for so long (you are, you are, you are, you are) Your breath cold (so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold) Your heart burning (so hot, so hot, so hot, so hot) You (you can, you can, you can, you can) I (I understand, I understand, I understand, I understand) We (we have, we have, we have, we have) You (you stay, you stay, you stay, you stay)
Germany, oh my heart is burning, Yearning your love, your condemnation, Germany, your breath so cold, So youthful and yet so old, Germany!
I (you must, you must, you must, you must) I never want to leave you (you weep, you weep, you weep, you weep) You can be loved (you love, you love, you love, you love) And you can be hated (you hate, you hate, you hate, you hate) Arrogant, superior, Surpass, Overcome Surprise, Ambush, Germany, Germany above all all!
Germany, oh my heart is burning, Yearning your love, your condemnation, Germany, your breath so cold, So youthful and yet so old, Germany, your love, It's a curse and a blessing, Germany, my love, I mustn't give to you, Germany! Germany!
You I We Your You (overpower, unnecessarily) I (superman, super-weak) We (who rise, who fall from grace) Your (Germany, Germany above all)
Germany, oh my heart is burning, Yearning your love, your condemnation, Germany, your breath so cold, So youthful and yet so old,47 Germany, your love, It's a curse and a blessing, Germany, my love, I mustn't give to you, Germany!
What videos to watch from Rammstein? I have a few suggestions. If you want to see their (incredible) live performances I would suggest (in this sequence) Rammlied (live from Madison Square Garden) Du hast (live from Paris) Engel (live from Madison Square Garden) Sonne (live at Rock im Park 2017) Links 2 3 4 (live from Madison Square Garden) Ich will (live from Hurricane Festival 2016) Ich tu dir weh (live from Madison Square Garden) (don't take the lyrics too serious) Amazing official videos Sonne (Sun) heavy, screwed up fairy-tale Links 2 3 4 (left) partly heavy march Ich will (I want) heavy, simple, way to celebrity Spring! (Jump!) (animated version with english subtitles) slow, partly heavy, very dark sarcasm! Radio (Radio) catchy song (with serious background) Newest official videos from their last album "Zeit" in sequence of the tracks on the album: Zeit (Time) slow, dark, melancholic, emotional Zick Zack (Snip Snap) catchy song, sarcastic, funny Angst (Fear) very Rammstein, scary, credits at the end are helpful to understand the message Dicke Titten (Big Boobs) heavy (most of the time), catchy, funny, credits are funny too (my view) Adieu (Goodbye) dark, sometimes heavy, emotional I wish you to enjoy your Rammstein journey.
Hi, I'm from Germany. Rammstein is playing a classic "Industrial Metal" style. A 50-50 mix of synthesizers and hard metal guitars. A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman as Germania. Germania is the personification of the German nation. It isn't and wasn't a goddess or Joan of Arc. The glass coffin: It is Little Snow White from the Grimm-fairytales....and from their own video "Sonne". Only with black skin and in space. The piano song at the end is the song "Sonne", too. The words "Germania Magna" at the beginning are a Roman name for the area of Germany, that wasn't conquered by the Roman Empire at that time. Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were the Roman conquered areas (Roman provinces) of Germany. The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) means: Germany as a unified state is very young. A unified German nation is only existing from 1871 onwards. Before that year of unification Germany was made of countless, little mini-states and the people identified first and foremost as Prussians, Hessians, Saxons etc, etc, etc. and only in a second line of thought they had a lose sense of being somehow Germans, too, as a kind of unifying second identity. So the area & the landscape where the Germans are living and the Germans themselves as a people...are thousands of years old. But only recently, in 1871, there was a unified Germany as one single state. So Germany as a unified state is very young...and at the same time it is thousands of years old. The battle of the Teutoburg forest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike). That battle is of ABSOLUTE importance for the German history. The hanged bodies in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, who were gruesome sacrificed to the Germanic gods...and were partly nailed to the trees. The Varus-(Teutoburg)-Battle was already in 9 AD. In 16 AD were the vengeance campaigns of commanding field general Germanicus under Emperor Tiberius Augustus. Therefore we see here the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they are watching their dead comrades hanging in the trees or getting their heads chopped off (for nailing them to the trees). In reality the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army in the various ways they were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed at the trees. Slaves were liberated even decades after the battle. After the scenes with the Romans we saw the Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster (the burning Zeppelin in the background). The moustaches and clothing from the fight scene are from WWI and post WWI years. From the working class people in WWI and the roaring 20's. In the WWII years later on this kind of big bushy moustache was already out of fashion. The falling banknotes in the prison are not about corruption. That scene is about the hyper-inflation of the 1920's, that took away the savings of the Germans and left them in deep poverty and desperation. One had to pay a loaf of bread with a handcart full of nearly worthless banknotes back then and it hit the German people deep down inside and in their souls. Especially the poor ones and the simple workers. The V2 rocket (first manmade object in space) as technical triumph of the German spirit...and at the same time the killing of the concentration camp prisoners in the bunker factories below the mountains during the production of that rocket. This scene in the video could be a representation of a very specific concentration camp. It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein mountain. A mixture between a big, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp. The concentration camp inmates had several different markings for different kinds of convicts and their "crimes" sown to their chests, like it was in reality, too. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the star of David for Jews and two of them were marked with the double-triangles for Jehovas Whitnesses. The book burnings of the Nazis and the burning of the witches of the church. In the same scene with the book burning there is EVEN MORE going on. The cooperation of the church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA-man. The scene with the sign with the Hammer and a pair of compasses in a circle of wheat is the sign of the GDR (DDR). The socialist German state in the east that existed before the German reunification. Therefore it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene at the concentration camp). The scene with Rammstein wielding guns (the pumpgun) and taking Germania hostage was about leftwing terrorism of the 1970's. The terrorists were called the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion). My interpretation of the red scanner-like beams: There are two different kinds of beams. The massive straight red light beam that goes up into the heavens AND there were those smaller, thinner "scanner" beams. Aliens (or humans from the future) are scanning the whole German history. Like some real scientists are scanning and excarvating ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues, for example. The massive red light beam is the red ribbon of time that ties together all the historical events. PS: As for the dogs: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog-owner nation. The dog is a firm part of Germany. PPS: They didn't eat the body of the woman and her inner organs, even if it really looked that way. They were eating the national dish of Germany, that was put on the body of the black woman: Sauerkraut, Kassler & sausages. In my opinion it symbolizes the church eating itself fat on the goods and values and food of Germany during the simple people (farmers, simple workers etc) lived a long time in a kind of hell of poverty and serfdom (the red fetish area below the table with Germania on it). But that eating scene could indeed have a double meaning. It could represent the 30 years war, that was fought for religious reasons and depopulated large areas of Germany. It forced the people to commit canibalism because nobody was there anymore to produce food. Except the fat, wealthy people of the church, of course. They were still able to eat enough. Only the simple people at the bottom (farmers etc) died from hunger and had to fight and die in that war. The 30 years war was the biggest catastrophe in Germany until WWI happened. PPPS: The short scene with the dogs and their gas masks = WWI, where in reality animals (messenger dogs & horses) AND soldiers were wearing gas masks, too. PPPPS: The puppies at the end are Leonberger dogs. The Leonbergers nearly went extinct during WWI and WWII. PPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet. Till sings the famous, often misinterpreted, line of the "Deutschlandlied" (Song of the Germans), that is not forbidden in Germany but simply isn't sung anymore in our modern national anthem. Till sings in his version the line "Deutschland über allen" (Germany above everybody) What is a BIG change to the real line in the orginal Deutschlandlied-song. In the original Deutschlandlied song it is written as "Deutschland über alles" (Germany above everything). The real, whole line of that old Deutschlandlied goes "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles. Über alles in der Welt" (Germany, Germany above everything. Above everything in the world). This line is often misinterpreted by many people as chauvinism and as a looking down upon all other countries on this planet. But that is wrong and not many people know about that in Germany and elsewhere. The writer of that famous line didn't meant it in a chauvinistic way. When that song was written, Germany was divided into umphteenth mini-states, what made Germany relative powerless and defenseless. Therefore the task of German unification was the goal above any other goal for all Germans (at least the writer of the song meant it that way). So the main goal for all Germans had to be the united Germany. The goal of "(united) Germany above everything else". That was, how that line was meant by the writer of the song. The line isn't forbidden, like many people wrongly think. It's simply not sung anymore and not part of the official anthem of modern Germany anymore. This has NOT its reason in the seemingly chauvinist meaning of "Deutschland über alles", like many people wrongly think. This whole stanza of the Deutschlandlied isn't sung anymore, because in other parts of the stanza are borders and landscapes mentioned, that aren't German borders and landscapes anymore. We want to live in peace with the people and countries, who are now living in those former German lands and therefore we don't sing about those old borders and landscapes anymore. It has nothing to do with the "Deutschland über alles" line in that stanza, like many people wrongly are thinking. Finally: The scenes I'm now talking about are pretty dark and low light. The WWII submarine in the submarine bunker during the astronauts are walking by with the glass coffin. I think, the choice of the black woman as main actress was made, because: a) it makes any accusations of racism and fascism against Rammstein useless b) she represents one colour of the German flag and she is wearing the rest of the colours of our German flag as makeup and jewellery and clothes on her body: Black, Red and Gold c) it provokes many people EVEN MORE 😄 Greetings Mega
PS: UA-cam didn't allow me to integrate this information into the bigger text (above) for unknown reasons, therefore I'm posting it here: The troops, who smashed the Jewish shops during the Kristallnacht (not shown in the video) were SA (Sturmabteilung) in brown uniform and not the later SS (Schutzstaffel) in the black uniform. The SA did all the dirty work at the beginning of the Nazi rise to power...until the "Night of the long knives", an inner-Nazi power struggle, happened. The head of the SA (Ernst Röhm) was killed and from then on the SA was turned more and more into the SS under Himmler. The book burnings were part of the early Nazi years, too, and were done by the SA, too. One can see the SA burning the books and Till is watching it in a brown SA uniform. Both, Kristallnacht and book burnings were different things and happened at different times. The book burnings happened over a longer timespan at different locations at different times during the Kristallnacht was one big "event" that happened at one single day. Kristallnacht means "Crystal Night" and was called that way, because the smashed shop windows of the Jewish shops looked like thousands of crystals on the ground. But in the Rammstein video I've only seen the book burnings. PPS: The two beer drinking soldiers to the left side of the table, where Germania is lying on and where the priests are eating Sauerkraut & Sausages from her body, are not French soldiers and they aren't representing the French revolution. Those two beer drinking soldiers are Prussian soldiers and they are emphasizing the importance of Prussia for the German history. As far as I could see: They were from the era of Friedrich der Große (The Old Fritz), who was of extraordinary importance for German history. Amongst many other achievements he was the one, who brought the potato to Prussia and Germany. That saved many Germans from hunger and the potato became one of the most beloved foods in Germany on that way.
Meaning, facts: Rammstein "Germany" "Germany, Germany above all" is an allusion to the first verse of the German national anthem, which is no longer sung. Germania is embodied by a black woman who repeatedly appears as a leader and central (attractive) figure. Among other things, she can be seen in golden armor. At the end of the video, she gives birth to several dog puppies and is seen in the last scene as a rising white angel with a halo. (The wolf pups frame the beginning of the music video. Wolves are also seen at the beginning). In the song "Germany" by Rammstein, many scenes from German history are shown. These are among others: Battle of the Teutons against the Romans Medieval knights Fist and boxing fight from the 1900s to 1920s Crash of the zeppelin "Hindenburg" in New York in 1937 Scenes of the GDR government German police forces / SEK Scenes of medieval monks Scene with pyre Prison scene probably from the 19/20 century, probably before 1918 Scene of a rocket launch (probably the V2?) Concentration camp scene; Rammstein in prisoner's clothing at the gallows Third Reich scenes with clearly recognizable SS skull and crossbones Shooting scenes from the Third Reich Fights between policemen and demonstrators
Hi. Greedings from overseas.. We got a lot of good music stuff, from Germany. Try:"Jennifer Rostock - Tauben aus Porzellan" (broken love😟) /:"Aligatoah - Nachbeben,, (about daily Things, theire destroy Our souls) /:" Null positiv - wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer,, (about war).. Enjoy another language, ✌️🎸
Good reaction. 👍 You've chosen the most hard to understand video of Rammstein, even if you watch it a couple of times, with lots of references to mostly unpleasent parts of German history - and the band's feelings about their country. If you are interested in more details about some of the historical events referenced in Rammstein's video, you may take a look at this content-wise analysis: ua-cam.com/video/sc-euVL8xQs/v-deo.html Even for me as a German guy there were some details that I was not aware of. Also the lyrics are explained a bit and the assumed reason for Rammstein to come out with this video. And there is an explanation why the video caused some harsh reactions BEFORE it was fully published.
Gladly more Rammstein, see also the following songs from the official Rammstein site
Du Hast (Paris), Zeit, Angst, Adieu,
A few to check out...
Ich Tu Dir Weh (Live from Madison Square Garden)
Mein Teil - (Live Hurricane Festival 2013
Du Hast (Live in Paris)
Dicke Titten(with English subtitles)...the best fun video of 2022!
Rammlied (Live from Madison Square Garden)
Bück dich - Live From Paris 2017
Ich Will (Hurricane Festival 2016) PROSHOT HD (with English subtitles)
Links 2-3-4 / PROSHOT(Download Festival 2016)
Sonne (LIVE Europe Stadium Tour 2019) [Multicam by RLR] 4K
Sehnsucht (Berlin Wuhlheide 1998)
...and last but not least...Zeit (with English subtitles)...beautiful, emotional, and quite possibly the greatest music video ever made.
Translation
Germany
You (you must, you must, you must, you must)
You must have cried (cried, cried, cried, cried)
Your spirit parted (parted, parted, parted, parted)
Yet united in heart (united, united, united, united)
We (we have, we have, we have, we have)
We have been together for so long (you are, you are, you are, you are)
Your breath cold (so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold)
Your heart burning (so hot, so hot, so hot, so hot)
You (you can, you can, you can, you can)
I (I understand, I understand, I understand, I understand)
We (we have, we have, we have, we have)
You (you stay, you stay, you stay, you stay)
Germany, oh my heart is burning,
Yearning your love, your condemnation,
Germany, your breath so cold,
So youthful and yet so old,
Germany!
I (you must, you must, you must, you must)
I never want to leave you (you weep, you weep, you weep, you weep)
You can be loved (you love, you love, you love, you love)
And you can be hated (you hate, you hate, you hate, you hate)
Arrogant, superior,
Surpass, Overcome
Surprise, Ambush,
Germany, Germany above all all!
Germany, oh my heart is burning,
Yearning your love, your condemnation,
Germany, your breath so cold,
So youthful and yet so old,
Germany, your love,
It's a curse and a blessing,
Germany, my love,
I mustn't give to you,
Germany!
Germany!
You
I
We
Your
You (overpower, unnecessarily)
I (superman, super-weak)
We (who rise, who fall from grace)
Your (Germany, Germany above all)
Germany, oh my heart is burning,
Yearning your love, your condemnation,
Germany, your breath so cold,
So youthful and yet so old,47
Germany, your love,
It's a curse and a blessing,
Germany, my love,
I mustn't give to you,
Germany!
The scene with the puppies (Leonberger breed) is a metaphor: this German dog breed almost became extinct because of the two world wars.
My first time here and I really enjoyed your reaction to Rammstein 😍
Please 🙏 react to more Rammstein 😍
Thank you
Thank you! I plan to.
Thank you so much guys for your responses and for helping me to understand. I was a bit stumped, even after reading the lyrics. Thank you again!
What videos to watch from Rammstein? I have a few suggestions.
If you want to see their (incredible) live performances I would suggest (in this sequence)
Rammlied (live from Madison Square Garden)
Du hast (live from Paris)
Engel (live from Madison Square Garden)
Sonne (live at Rock im Park 2017)
Links 2 3 4 (live from Madison Square Garden)
Ich will (live from Hurricane Festival 2016)
Ich tu dir weh (live from Madison Square Garden) (don't take the lyrics too serious)
Amazing official videos
Sonne (Sun) heavy, screwed up fairy-tale
Links 2 3 4 (left) partly heavy march
Ich will (I want) heavy, simple, way to celebrity
Spring! (Jump!) (animated version with english subtitles) slow, partly heavy, very dark sarcasm!
Radio (Radio) catchy song (with serious background)
Newest official videos from their last album "Zeit" in sequence of the tracks on the album:
Zeit (Time) slow, dark, melancholic, emotional
Zick Zack (Snip Snap) catchy song, sarcastic, funny
Angst (Fear) very Rammstein, scary, credits at the end are helpful to understand the message
Dicke Titten (Big Boobs) heavy (most of the time), catchy, funny, credits are funny too (my view)
Adieu (Goodbye) dark, sometimes heavy, emotional
I wish you to enjoy your Rammstein journey.
I definitely plan to. Thank you!
Hi, I'm from Germany.
Rammstein is playing a classic "Industrial Metal" style. A 50-50 mix of synthesizers and hard metal guitars.
A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman as Germania. Germania is the personification of the German nation. It isn't and wasn't a goddess or Joan of Arc.
The glass coffin: It is Little Snow White from the Grimm-fairytales....and from their own video "Sonne". Only with black skin and in space.
The piano song at the end is the song "Sonne", too.
The words "Germania Magna" at the beginning are a Roman name for the area of Germany, that wasn't conquered by the Roman Empire at that time.
Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were the Roman conquered areas (Roman provinces) of Germany.
The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) means:
Germany as a unified state is very young. A unified German nation is only existing from 1871 onwards. Before that year of unification Germany was made of countless, little mini-states and the people identified first and foremost as Prussians, Hessians, Saxons etc, etc, etc. and only in a second line of thought they had a lose sense of being somehow Germans, too, as a kind of unifying second identity.
So the area & the landscape where the Germans are living and the Germans themselves as a people...are thousands of years old. But only recently, in 1871, there was a unified Germany as one single state.
So Germany as a unified state is very young...and at the same time it is thousands of years old.
The battle of the Teutoburg forest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike).
That battle is of ABSOLUTE importance for the German history.
The hanged bodies in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, who were gruesome sacrificed to the Germanic gods...and were partly nailed to the trees.
The Varus-(Teutoburg)-Battle was already in 9 AD. In 16 AD were the vengeance campaigns of commanding field general Germanicus under Emperor Tiberius Augustus. Therefore we see here the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they are watching their dead comrades hanging in the trees or getting their heads chopped off (for nailing them to the trees).
In reality the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army in the various ways they were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed at the trees. Slaves were liberated even decades after the battle.
After the scenes with the Romans we saw the Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster (the burning Zeppelin in the background).
The moustaches and clothing from the fight scene are from WWI and post WWI years. From the working class people in WWI and the roaring 20's. In the WWII years later on this kind of big bushy moustache was already out of fashion.
The falling banknotes in the prison are not about corruption. That scene is about the hyper-inflation of the 1920's, that took away the savings of the Germans and left them in deep poverty and desperation.
One had to pay a loaf of bread with a handcart full of nearly worthless banknotes back then and it hit the German people deep down inside and in their souls. Especially the poor ones and the simple workers.
The V2 rocket (first manmade object in space) as technical triumph of the German spirit...and at the same time the killing of the concentration camp prisoners in the bunker factories below the mountains during the production of that rocket.
This scene in the video could be a representation of a very specific concentration camp. It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein mountain.
A mixture between a big, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp.
The concentration camp inmates had several different markings for different kinds of convicts and their "crimes" sown to their chests, like it was in reality, too. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the star of David for Jews and two of them were marked with the double-triangles for Jehovas Whitnesses.
The book burnings of the Nazis and the burning of the witches of the church. In the same scene with the book burning there is EVEN MORE going on. The cooperation of the church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA-man.
The scene with the sign with the Hammer and a pair of compasses in a circle of wheat is the sign of the GDR (DDR). The socialist German state in the east that existed before the German reunification.
Therefore it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene at the concentration camp).
The scene with Rammstein wielding guns (the pumpgun) and taking Germania hostage was about leftwing terrorism of the 1970's. The terrorists were called the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion).
My interpretation of the red scanner-like beams: There are two different kinds of beams. The massive straight red light beam that goes up into the heavens AND there were those smaller, thinner "scanner" beams.
Aliens (or humans from the future) are scanning the whole German history. Like some real scientists are scanning and excarvating ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues, for example.
The massive red light beam is the red ribbon of time that ties together all the historical events.
PS: As for the dogs: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog-owner nation. The dog is a firm part of Germany.
PPS: They didn't eat the body of the woman and her inner organs, even if it really looked that way. They were eating the national dish of Germany, that was put on the body of the black woman: Sauerkraut, Kassler & sausages.
In my opinion it symbolizes the church eating itself fat on the goods and values and food of Germany during the simple people (farmers, simple workers etc) lived a long time in a kind of hell of poverty and serfdom (the red fetish area below the table with Germania on it).
But that eating scene could indeed have a double meaning. It could represent the 30 years war, that was fought for religious reasons and depopulated large areas of Germany. It forced the people to commit canibalism because nobody was there anymore to produce food. Except the fat, wealthy people of the church, of course. They were still able to eat enough. Only the simple people at the bottom (farmers etc) died from hunger and had to fight and die in that war.
The 30 years war was the biggest catastrophe in Germany until WWI happened.
PPPS: The short scene with the dogs and their gas masks = WWI, where in reality animals (messenger dogs & horses) AND soldiers were wearing gas masks, too.
PPPPS: The puppies at the end are Leonberger dogs. The Leonbergers nearly went extinct during WWI and WWII.
PPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet.
Till sings the famous, often misinterpreted, line of the "Deutschlandlied" (Song of the Germans), that is not forbidden in Germany but simply isn't sung anymore in our modern national anthem.
Till sings in his version the line "Deutschland über allen" (Germany above everybody) What is a BIG change to the real line in the orginal Deutschlandlied-song. In the original Deutschlandlied song it is written as "Deutschland über alles" (Germany above everything).
The real, whole line of that old Deutschlandlied goes "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles. Über alles in der Welt" (Germany, Germany above everything. Above everything in the world).
This line is often misinterpreted by many people as chauvinism and as a looking down upon all other countries on this planet. But that is wrong and not many people know about that in Germany and elsewhere.
The writer of that famous line didn't meant it in a chauvinistic way.
When that song was written, Germany was divided into umphteenth mini-states, what made Germany relative powerless and defenseless. Therefore the task of German unification was the goal above any other goal for all Germans (at least the writer of the song meant it that way).
So the main goal for all Germans had to be the united Germany. The goal of "(united) Germany above everything else".
That was, how that line was meant by the writer of the song.
The line isn't forbidden, like many people wrongly think. It's simply not sung anymore and not part of the official anthem of modern Germany anymore.
This has NOT its reason in the seemingly chauvinist meaning of "Deutschland über alles", like many people wrongly think. This whole stanza of the Deutschlandlied isn't sung anymore, because in other parts of the stanza are borders and landscapes mentioned, that aren't German borders and landscapes anymore.
We want to live in peace with the people and countries, who are now living in those former German lands and therefore we don't sing about those old borders and landscapes anymore.
It has nothing to do with the "Deutschland über alles" line in that stanza, like many people wrongly are thinking.
Finally:
The scenes I'm now talking about are pretty dark and low light. The WWII submarine in the submarine bunker during the astronauts are walking by with the glass coffin.
I think, the choice of the black woman as main actress was made, because:
a) it makes any accusations of racism and fascism against Rammstein useless
b) she represents one colour of the German flag and she is wearing the rest of the colours of our German flag as makeup and jewellery and clothes on her body: Black, Red and Gold
c) it provokes many people EVEN MORE 😄
Greetings
Mega
PS: UA-cam didn't allow me to integrate this information into the bigger text (above) for unknown reasons, therefore I'm posting it here:
The troops, who smashed the Jewish shops during the Kristallnacht (not shown in the video) were SA (Sturmabteilung) in brown uniform and not the later SS (Schutzstaffel) in the black uniform. The SA did all the dirty work at the beginning of the Nazi rise to power...until the "Night of the long knives", an inner-Nazi power struggle, happened. The head of the SA (Ernst Röhm) was killed and from then on the SA was turned more and more into the SS under Himmler.
The book burnings were part of the early Nazi years, too, and were done by the SA, too. One can see the SA burning the books and Till is watching it in a brown SA uniform.
Both, Kristallnacht and book burnings were different things and happened at different times. The book burnings happened over a longer timespan at different locations at different times during the Kristallnacht was one big "event" that happened at one single day.
Kristallnacht means "Crystal Night" and was called that way, because the smashed shop windows of the Jewish shops looked like thousands of crystals on the ground. But in the Rammstein video I've only seen the book burnings.
PPS:
The two beer drinking soldiers to the left side of the table, where Germania is lying on and where the priests are eating Sauerkraut & Sausages from her body, are not French soldiers and they aren't representing the French revolution. Those two beer drinking soldiers are Prussian soldiers and they are emphasizing the importance of Prussia for the German history.
As far as I could see: They were from the era of Friedrich der Große (The Old Fritz), who was of extraordinary importance for German history. Amongst many other achievements he was the one, who brought the potato to Prussia and Germany. That saved many Germans from hunger and the potato became one of the most beloved foods in Germany on that way.
Thank you Mega. I can hug you. 🤗
So much info. I’m going to look at it again, when I’ve read this again…with enlightened eyes. 🙂
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Meaning, facts: Rammstein "Germany"
"Germany, Germany above all" is an allusion to the first verse of the German national anthem, which is no longer sung.
Germania is embodied by a black woman who repeatedly appears as a leader and central (attractive) figure. Among other things, she can be seen in golden armor. At the end of the video, she gives birth to several dog puppies and is seen in the last scene as a rising white angel with a halo. (The wolf pups frame the beginning of the music video. Wolves are also seen at the beginning).
In the song "Germany" by Rammstein, many scenes from German history are shown. These are among others:
Battle of the Teutons against the Romans
Medieval knights
Fist and boxing fight from the 1900s to 1920s
Crash of the zeppelin "Hindenburg" in New York in 1937
Scenes of the GDR government
German police forces / SEK
Scenes of medieval monks
Scene with pyre
Prison scene probably from the 19/20 century, probably before 1918
Scene of a rocket launch (probably the V2?)
Concentration camp scene; Rammstein in prisoner's clothing at the gallows
Third Reich scenes with clearly recognizable SS skull and crossbones
Shooting scenes from the Third Reich
Fights between policemen and demonstrators
Rammstein changed here "Deutschland über alles" to "Deutschland über allen"
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Here you have an explanation of the historical details shown in the video
ua-cam.com/video/sc-euVL8xQs/v-deo.html
Hi. Greedings from overseas.. We got a lot of good music stuff, from Germany. Try:"Jennifer Rostock - Tauben aus Porzellan" (broken love😟) /:"Aligatoah - Nachbeben,, (about daily Things, theire destroy Our souls) /:" Null positiv - wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer,, (about war).. Enjoy another language, ✌️🎸
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Good reaction. 👍 You've chosen the most hard to understand video of Rammstein, even if you watch it a couple of times, with lots of references to mostly unpleasent parts of German history - and the band's feelings about their country.
If you are interested in more details about some of the historical events referenced in Rammstein's video, you may take a look at this content-wise analysis: ua-cam.com/video/sc-euVL8xQs/v-deo.html
Even for me as a German guy there were some details that I was not aware of.
Also the lyrics are explained a bit and the assumed reason for Rammstein to come out with this video. And there is an explanation why the video caused some harsh reactions BEFORE it was fully published.
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