Musicians react to hearing Rammstein - Deutschland (Official Video) for the first time!
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2023
- Hey everyone, Chris and Sam are back with another reaction video!
We decided to take a look at a newer video and song from Rammstein, boy was there a ton to discuss.
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The song is about the ambivalent relationship of Rammstein and many Germans to their country, because of the violent and cruel history with extensive human crimes ("red line of violence through german history"), especially in recent history. Therefore the video features various events from German history, including Roman times, the Middle Ages, witch hunting and burning, Protestant Reformation, the November Revolution, the "Golden Twenties" and hyperinflation, Nazi book burnings, the Hindenburg disaster, the First and Second World Wars, the Holocaust, the Weimar Republic, the Red Army Fraction (violent anti-capitalist terror alliance of young people and students against Nazis in high state and economy positions in post-war Germany), and the division of the country into West and East Germany including the Uprising June 17 in East Germany. The black woman represents Germany and one of the Colors of the German flags, sometimes as a victim, but mostly as a perpetrator. With her black skin she is also a provocation to all stupid racists
A lot of people do not understand the scenes with the dogs. This breed of dogs are not German Shepards, but Leonberger. This breed of dog narrowly escaped extinction during the First and also Second World Wars and is symbolic of the German people, whose existence was also strongly threatened in those wars (Morgenthau-Plan) - both now have a second existential chance, just like the new German democratic constitution, which in future must be protected as strongly as if it were under quarantine (Judges in red robes, Rammstein members in protective suits with the dogs)
The Holocaust was for this reason the greatest human crime because it was the first industrially organized mass murder in human history, by a country that was culturally at its highest point at this time and called itself the country of poets and thinkers. But it is precisely the high cultural and scientific level of Germany that unfortunately caused others to be viewed as subhuman who can be killed without pity, just like animals. Seeing other people as inferior has always brought a lot of suffering to people
To add: Officially the first gulag was opened in 1930, 3 years before the first concentration camp (Dachau) and can surely be seen as industrially organized mass murder.
Sorry, but it was the first holocaust in modern times - the idea of industrializing mass murder and ethnic cleansing - eradicating a whole nation has already been done hundred years before - in the US - the buying of scalps of killed Native American people and killing the Native Americans with smallpox-contaminated blankets ordered by the British officer's Sir Jeffery Amherst and his replacement, General Thomas Gage. So it has been done prior but just a different timeline and the industry has not started yet ...
While what you said was correct the holocaust wasn't the first systematic organized mass murder
But the Holocaust was a Russian Bolshevik / Jew Lie made up after WW2.
@@Silasssssssss The emphasis is on the !!!! industrial !!!! organized mass murder, above all from a country with a comparatively high level of culture, which was then known as the "land of poets and thinkers".
"I want to love you and damn you."
To me this is one of the most central parts of the song. I consider Germany and the germans fairly unique in that they both want a shared sense of national pride but also understand that shared national pride led to one of the greatest crimes against humanity in the modern era.
Consider the U.S. How many bands can say that they both want love the U.S. and hate it? The idea of national guilt is so prevalent and it elevates the song.
I agree sir, America is the land of patriotism. Here in Europe, our histories go back millennia and are soaked in blood and shame, but at the same time enlightenment and genuine forward thinking. Europe is a bizarre and wonderful place, Germans are perhaps some of the best examples of that.
@@GSF404to be fair, in recent history America has by far the most blood on its hands and the ignorance parts of their population is insane
I think a lot of bands and artists have expressed their love/hate relationship with the USA, and faced a lot of backlash for it, given America's (somewhat earned) reputation for blind patriotism.
The Dixie Chicks are the first to come to mind.
@@bareakonand the same people who unironicaly whine about cancel culture, and pretend that trump was so great for not starting wars... were the same talking heads who advocated for it as they cancelled the dixie chicks.. and who also unironicaly use born in the USA as a chant about how great the US is
People here also show national pride alot but that's usually during the World Cup or Europe Cup of football. ^^
There is a German gentleman who comments on this video and explains the entire video in depth. Hopefully he see's your reaction and posts it. He says his English is not very good, but I tell you, his grasp of English is very impressive.
The fact is that this video is stuffed to bursting with innuendos that one can write a dissertation about it. In short, it is about the history of Germany with many peculiarities and the ups and downs in it.
@@Medley3000 exactly
Three Arrows, it's a really good breakdown
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@@martinklaus2203very left wing explaination I am not taking any side but I prefer neutral facts than bais
@@voltgaming2213 ??? What is a left wing explanation?
Only Ramstein can put the history of Germany in a Song, no one else would even dare.....a Masterpiece
And only americans watch such videos and every time they show everyone how empty they are and know nothing about the world and history. Masterpiece hollow.
Hello from Germany.
You did very well. Hats off. When I first saw the video I was shocked and deeply moved. The song/video takes a very deep look into our German soul and how many of us think about our country. It's a love-hate relationship. The video is packed with countless symbols, which one often only grasps after watching them several times. In the intro you see Germania (personification of Germany) at the time of the Roman/Germanic tribes.
The red lazer represents the "red thread" of the story Astronauts from the future bring Germania in a glass coffin (Snow- white) so that she can lead through German history.
Next you observe the 1920s (Weimar Republic). The prison scene represents the rough, violent times, especially for the majority of the population struggling to survive. It's raining money / the Great Depression. And Germany's first attempt as a democratic state.
In between, Germania is dressed in knight armor and awakens her knights/band with the Lazarus spear.
Next, Germania is pushed in a wheelchair by the band with burning corpses through the Berlin Holocaust Memorial. (What a picture, Germany in a wheelchair!)
Next vignette the office scene showing the reunification of East Germany and West Germany (1989). Then you are transported back to the Middle Ages, monks / church feast on Germania. A churchman is seen involved in most of the scenes. No coincidence.
The concentration camp scene in the background you can see the V2 rocket ignition. The prisoners wear different types of stars on their chests and a sign on the gallows reads: no photos. Germania wears an eye patch first on the left eye, then on the right eye.
Then a brief change of scenery of Germania, dressed in a modern style with lots of gold, leading shepherd dogs that represent Germany's wealth. And decadence too.
The scene from the 1970s shows the RAF extremists taking Germania/Germany hostage. On the left you can see the search plate on the column.
The next vignette is the shift from witch burning to book burning. If you look closely, at minute 4:45 you can see a churchman holding up a cross and embracing a Nazi, symbolizing the churches' position on the horrific events of 1933-1945.
The Birth Scene. Germania gives birth to dogs, or "Leonbergers," a breed favored by kings and queens. The breed almost became extinct in World War I and World War II. A cardinal or federal judge (dressed in red) helps birth a new Germany.
From minute 5:50 you can see the riots against refugee homes in Hoyerswerda in the 90s. Molotovs are thrown and a car is knocked over with the help of a man in a Nazi uniform. Then the scenes/time vignettes begin to shift faster and faster, showing how often when circumstances get too extreme, everything falls apart and Germania (clad in armor) cries. The outro is the piano version of the song "Sonne" which completes how we feel when we think about our past: a feeling of sadness.
In summary:
Germany has a long, wild, violent, unique history, because we as the current state have only existed since 1989. Our roots go back very far. "Young yet so old".
With love from Germany
Und alle Sterne der Uniformen der gefangenen stehen für unterschiedliche Stellung da ist jüdisch, politisch, LGBTQ, und vieles mehr bei den gefangenen der KZ Szene
Excellent summary. These reactors should read this. Especially that self proclaimed "Germania was part of the Roman Empire history buff".
Thank you....
Rammstein best Music Videos ever! Piece of Art. ❤
Im German 🇩🇪Rammstein IS so Special because they Always have a Message in there Song you need to find it :)
German here: Everything nazi related is incredibly illegal over here and we are very, very remorseful even to this day. We even don't wave our flags in a patriotic way or show them at all. The only time you would see a german flag is probably in a sports event like soccer. Still, it is more than 80 years ago and we have to talk about and never forget what has happened to never make those mistakes again. Even I, who has nothing to do with the atrocities, am having a hard time watching the KZ clips and the credits just hit different in that particular scene. What a masterpiece!
Hi german guy don't write KZ, english speaking ppl don't understand. So KZ is for KonZentration Lager for concentration camp (hope i make no mistake)
@@kaarenine4511 It's all good. I think most people got what I meant, but sure with "KZ" I meant "concentration camps".
Why the fck are you not waving your flag ? Nazis didnt use the german flag. Its dumb if you ask me
THEY are replacing you and the same is happening to the people of Churchill, you know ? the same people who died to help THEM "supposedly" from yours
I am Dutch. My father lived through WW2 (don't ask how). His entire family has been taken to Germany. But there is one thing I learned from my father. Never dislike the common Germans. They were often forcibly sent to our country. He always said he saw ordinary German soldiers crying and those boys just wanted nothing more than to be home with their families. I was not allowed to go to Austria on holiday during his lifetime. Those were the real bad guys according to him. I was only there after his death.
You were able to grasp the video much better than many others, and you also let the video run instead of constantly interrupting it. Thank you!
Rammstein's Deutschland video explained: introducing Germania
Rammstein’s Deutschland takes us on a thrilling, violent, and moving journey through German history. At over nine minutes, it gives us a panorama of events and historical and mythical figures, and there are so many references and Easter eggs that fans and commentators will be poring over it for some time to come.
The video opens in AD 16, on the ‘barbarian’ side of the limes, the border of the Roman Empire. Roman soldiers creep through the woods in the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The Romans were ambushed by an alliance of Germanic Tribes, led by a chieftain called Arminius (the original Hermann the German). Three legionary standards were captured, a loss symbolic and moral, as well as physical, and decades were spent trying to recover them. Rome never again attempted to take the lands east of the River Rhine, known as Germania.
‘Germania’ refers not just to a place, somewhere partly defined by where it isn’t (Rome) as well as where it is, but also to a national figurehead, traditionally representing the German people. Germania (opens in new tab) is a strong woman, usually armour-clad and battle-ready. Various symbols appear with her, among them a breastplate with an eagle, a black, red, and gold flag, and a crown. Look out for these in the video - they come up again and again - and the colours of the contemporary flag are there in every scene.
We get our first glimpse of Germania here (played by Ruby Commey), who stands holding Till Lindemann’s severed head. Next, astronauts appear carrying a metal and glass box shaped like a coffin. In the background we see a U-boat - a German submarine, used in World Wars I and II. Then we move to a scene set at a boxing match which takes us to Weimar Germany (1918-1933), a period known for its political instability but also greater cultural liberalism. Here, Germania appears in the cabaret costume of a flapper girl, and the boxers fight with knuckle-dusters as a crowd cheers them on.
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Ruby Commey as Germania
Rammstein's Deutschland video explained: Marx, Lenin and the GDR
We see the former East Germany, complete with busts of Marx and Lenin, the national emblem of East Germany (opens in new tab), and a lookalike of the long-serving, insular, and repressive GDR leader Erich Honecker. There’s another astronaut, or rather a cosmonaut: Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space, who flew with the USSR’s space program (and who’s also a character in the 2003 film, Good Bye Lenin!). Medieval monks feast grotesquely on the supine Germania, tearing sauerkraut and sausage from Ruby Commey’s body, prison inmates are beaten by guards dressed in police and military uniforms from different historical periods.
The most obviously shocking scene references the Holocaust and the Nazi period. Four members of the band, in the striped uniforms of camp inmates, wait at the gallows, about to be hanged. They wear the cloth emblems used to identify their ‘crimes’: a pink triangle for homosexual prisoners, a yellow star for Jewish prisoners, a red and yellow star for Jewish political prisoners.
This sequence, teased in an earlier promo video, has already caused controversy. Have Rammstein the right to do this? Do they trivialise the suffering of Holocaust victims? How can they justify using Holocaust imagery to promote their new video? These are important questions that are part of a much bigger debate about the ethics of using the Holocaust in art and media.
Other scenes include the band walking away from a flaming airship, referring to the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster, in which 36 people died. Rats scuttle across the floor when the monks first appear, suggesting the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a legend with origins in the 13th century.
Germania walks towards the camera in a leather jacket, gold jewellery and a string of bullets across her chest, resembling the chariot drawn by four horses (the ‘Quadriga’) on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The band members’ heads are shown as white marble busts, taking us to the 19th century Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, built as German Hall of Fame, its sculpted heads of German worthies on display to this day.
In the prison, hundreds of banknotes fall from above, suggesting the devastating hyperinflation Germany suffered in the 1920s. Nazis burn books, intercut with religious fanatics burning witches. We recognise members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof group), a militant organisation active in the 1970s in West Germany. And in a blink-or-you-miss-it exchange, we are reminded of the much-criticised relationship between the churches and the state during the Third Reich.
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Rammstein's Deutschland video explained: the finale
Each scene captures in a moment the icons of an era, and the video cuts between them more and more frenetically as it goes on. Events bleed into each other, linked by the presence of the band members and the red laser beam that appears throughout the video, a ‘roter Faden’ (red thread or central theme), connecting each event.
Germany engages with its history in a very particular way. Try to imagine the video about Britain, with Britannia played by Ruby Commey. What would the equivalent events be? Quite a few of the tableaux might be similar - Romans, Crusaders, monks, 18th-century soldiers, collarless shirts and bareknuckle boxing - but would it have the same impact?
There’s no affection, and perhaps not much hope: its pessimistic tone seems to be quite an off-brand message for post-1989 Germany, which wants to acknowledge its past critically, while also looking to its future as a state at the heart of Europe. And actually, while we get a lot of medieval and twentieth-century history, the video’s tour through the past seems to stop in the late 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of East and West Germany. Instead, we jump into the future, where the space-suited band take Germania into the unknown, travelling in that coffin-shaped glass box.
There’s an echo of the video for Sonne, where Snow White is trapped in a glass coffin. In fact, a piano version of Sonne plays over the end credits of Deutschland. This is a useful link for understanding something of what Rammstein is doing here. In Sonne, where the band’s characters free themselves of Snow White (naturally, they’ve been her sex-slaves), only to realise that they have made a mistake and long for her return, the overwhelming feeling of Deutschland seems to be that when it comes to Germania (or Germany): you can’t love her, and you can’t live without her.
PS: I did not write the comment myself the Credit for it goes to:
Ingovonderluhe174 i just copyied for you, cause he did the best explanation that i saw on YouToube!
thanks for dive deep - i love your reaction!!!❤ thats how it should be!!
Actually, ‘Zeit’ is the most recent album: this song is the opening track from the (eponymous) one before that. Yes, a tour through German history. For example, if you watch it again you will notice that the ‘explosions’ that you commented on near the beginning depict the Hindenberg disaster.
Zeit is BEAUTIFUL
yes they should watch Zeit that’s a great video
7:07 Hindenburg
7:44 GDR
I've already watched some of these reaction videos on Germany by Rammstein, and I never understand why no one noticed the Hindenburg, i.e. the zeppelin that flew from Germany to America and then excised in a dramatic way
And that nobody recognizes the GDR or the GDR regime with the hammer and sickle in the background (Which has also been the symbol of the Soviet Union)
Especially when the people watching the video are guaranteed to be in their 30s, 40s, 50s and must have seen the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Who sees the common thread?
The red light... the red laser in every important scene?
Whenever something happened that had a decisive influence on German history, it was shown. Rammstein's Deutschland is a (hi)story monster!!!
I LOVE IT!
I saw Rammstein live last Thursday. It was just mindboggling! If you get a chance to see them live go for it!
Richard Kruspe (the stage left guitarist) also has his own side project band where he sings. It's worth checking out as well. That bands name is Emigrate.
I thought this was the first Rammstein reaction I've watched of yours boys and but no I've seen WidBiFs too. Sounds awesome (LOUD). Intelligent reactions! You have a clue about what you're saying! You already had the subtitles enabled! So many piss fart around trying to get them up during the reaction! Look forward to seeing so many more from you! They are the best! You have a new sub!
what make this video so important is the fact, that it translates the feelings that most younger Germans have about their country into a musical/visual code other people can' understand. The different historical eras are roughly sketched and meant to make angry. A second voice adds some despair to it. Everything comes to a halt. The painful confession has ended. All that's left is sadness. Then the piano sets in. The melody lifts the head up again demanding pride and dignity back. As long as we do not hide anything, there's no reason to feel guilty. Standing the pain while looking at the past brings us back our pride.
Great reaction guys. You got the higher level meaning of the song and video. Rammstein is exploring their and German's complex and ambivalent relationship with their country. How they can both be proud and ashamed of their country. The red laser light is a representation of time and will show up in other videos. Not familiar enough with German history to know all the periods they are showing but it is a journey through different periods. The female actress is the embodiment of Germany (she is black and wears gold and red clothing, colors from the German flag). I know the section showing the woman giving birth to dogs is referencing a breed of German dogs that almost went extinct and was saved. I am sure others will be able to give a more detailed answer. The music in the outro is an acoustic piano version of their song Sonne (a great song that you should watch the music video of, dark spin on Sleeping Beauty). They often use acoustic versions of other songs for their music video outros.
As usual, the visuals mean more than the words
You're watching Germany's history,in one video.
She is Germania,and she births the Dogs of War (my own idea of the puppies)
This was the most expensive video ever made when it was released.
It cost 6 million US dollars.
The translation is really well done. Red lasers are "a thin red line" invisible bonds that connect the past and the future. The black girl in gold symbolizes Germania - Germany as well as a depiction on a German coat of arms - a black eagle on a golden background. The video depicts all the dark, gruesome, and disturbing times in German history
In the medieval scene of cannibalism, eating the woman (Germania) it symbolizes the church taking from the nation while the people suffered. In the scenes in the office where Til os wearing the hat, its East Germany (where the group grew up), Til plays Erich Honecker, head of that state from 1971-1989, deftly, they had Germania as a Soviet officer as it was mostly a puppet state of the USSR. In the Holocaust scene, as you said the gold star (of David) is for being Jewish (worn by paul), and the pink triangle (worn by Oliver) for being gay, and as mentioned political prisoners were killed and wore the patch worn by Til. The dogs are Leonbergers which nearly became extinct working as war dogs in both world wars. (Edit for added info and grammar)
Basically is a video about important events in Germany history but their are all over the place in the video and not in chronological order. The black lady represents Germany, that´s why she´s in almost all scenes.
Hi, I'm from Germany.
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 socialst 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 😄
Well, I`d say you hit the nail... 😊
The original Mortal Kombat movie (1995) was actually quite good. The music was awesome. And Rammstein's Engel song was in the credits for this very movie. So I got to know Rammstein because of this movie.
That‘s dope!
masterpiece
He is actually right
Greeting from Germany
In Case no one answered: the music video was controversial from the start. Before the song got out the Holocaust scene has been show in a teaser. And some shots resemble an historic Foto. So people became upset, and very emotional about it. After the song came out the situation did only slowly improve
The people were mostly ignorant second grade journalists
Some good history lesson. What a masterpiece
My personal interpretation on the head kissing scene is vaguely along the lines of "Germania loves you, but she loves the violence against you too"
Which I think fits into the theme of the song idk.
The laser, is called the red line of destiny/fate. It is the mythological line through all of German history past present and future through which violence has flowed from or against the German people...
Hardly anyone realizes that's the Hindenburg, even the reactors that seem to know history.
Sehr gut gesprochen. LG from Munic, Germany
Rammstein ❤best band ever🔥🔥
There is an analyses of this video by three arrows, which does IMHO a pretty good job in explaining all those senses
2:08 "MMAATTCCHH" is simply the word "MATCH" with each letter doubled. But sure, maybe it's also Welsh. 🤣
There is a well-made analysis video out on UA-cam made by three arrows, which explains most of the historical background and the meaning of many scenes. I just watched the first reaction to that by Americans and saw some shocking parallels to current events. Might be worth watching for you guys. Greetings from Germany ❤
They are not eating A person, they are eating OF a person... this person is Germania... the country, the history, the all...
Only to say that much : The video is so full of symbolism you can not get it by seeing it one time.
I could write for hours what you can see in it and what it means.
There is dvd you can buy with all the video's on it + making off
Germania was (probably) never a province of Rome. (It may have been for a few years, evidence is unclear)
Historically, there were no Germanics. It is only a collective term of the Romans for all peoples/tribes that lived between the Rhine, Danube and Vistula.
@@tosa2522 ... who spoke germanic languges. so, yes there wasn't a unified ethnic nation of germanics, but there were peoples who were related linguistically.
Hello! That is not completly correct. Everything that was to the left of the Rhine was a Roman province! Everything that was on the right of the Rhine was barbarian land. Populated by Germanic tribes who didn't want to be part of the Roman Empire! The border was the Limes! Greetings Nephilim
That explosion was the Hindenburg disaster. During the witch burning/book burning scene the Catholic monks and the Nazi's embrace each other. I personally thought that was a very subtle but very clever way to tie the two together. Perhaps as a criticism of the catholic churches inactions during the Holocaust or the fact that they aided the escape of many Nazi's at the end of the war or how ideologically they may have been totally cool with the book burnings as a way to crush anything that would stand against the teachings of the church. Maybe all three.
"Where books are burned, people will eventually be burned," (Heinrich Heine)
The book burning was on the 10th may 1933, and in Germany people are mainly protestant, so i think you over interpret a little bit!
@@davidbroz6755 if you're familiar with Heine can you tell me if he has written about dogs.
@@kaarenine4511you don’t quite understand Germany
The girl is Germania and shown through the ages. Germania represents germany for more than 2000 years i think.
Black, Red Gold is the german flag (🇩🇪), where the official one also has an Black eagle on it.
This should explain a lot of Symbols. The ww2 Part is just a very small Part of german history and not realy important in the Video (by the way).
not from me but i think the best comment for this song :
German is my first language - so as a native pls let me explain as concise as possible many of the hidden symbols and meanings in this great song: In advance - please apologize the mistakes that I have certainly made as English is not my first language :-)
Before I go through it just some general remarks: the black lady’s persona in the video is “Germania” and she represents Germany (the nation / the people) and in many scenes where she appears the colors black, red and gold (colors of the German flag) are dominant. The video as well as the lyrics are a critical review on Germany’s history.
Main scenes of the video: The first scene with the roman soldiers refers to the battle of Teutoburg forest, the first time the German tribes untied under Arminius against the Romans and ambushed them on their march back to their winter camp + completely annihilated several legions - the romans would never return and fortify at the Rhine - this could be seen as the birth of the German identity.
The red laser beams throughout the video I think are guiding thread (German expression “roter Faden”" translates to “red thread” and translates to guiding principle / guideline of a story)
When Germania (black lady) in golden armor (black red gold as main colors of the scene pushes the standard into the ground she raises all the dead medieval knights - a reference to the strength of the German people who recovered time after time throughout history from catastrophes (especially, but not only) in the middle ages (crusades, Hunnic invasion, plague, etc.) - the additional meaning i think is the fact that German people several times followed their countries call for War - even if they were already beaten up (e.g. after WWI going into WWII)
Next scene (fistfight) is from the roaring twenties, the period between the two world wars where upper class society was decadent on the backs of ordinary people + entertainment industry was born.
Next scene shows the Hindenburg disaster (famous German Airship which blew up in flames) during a time of growing industrialization 1930s.
Next Scene is from the communist elite in eastern Germany who was indulging in party and Champaign while ordinary people were poor and the main idea of communism should be equality of the people.
Then the scene in the middle ages - where the monks (representing the church) feast on Germania (the land) and suppress the common folk (underneath the table).
The scene in the prison again refers to the roaring twenties, as Germania is dressed in a Prussian uniform suppressing the German people. Additionally money is thrown away by everybody, a reference to the big inflation in Germany after WWI.
Then the rockets (Nazi German was working on the first warfare rockets called V1 and V2 (V standing for “Vergeltung” which translates to retaliation - fitting to the picture with the rockets, the lyrics are an alliteration on “über” a german pre-syllable/prefix meaning over. “Überheblich (overbearing / presumptuous), Überlegen (superior) Übernehmen (taking over), Übergeben (handing over), überraschen (surprise), Überfallen (ambush), „Deutschland, Deutschland über allen“ (Germany, Germany above everyONE). The line „Deutschland, Deutschland über alleN“ (Germany above everyONE) is a reference to one of the verses of former national anthem of Germany which was in use from 1922 to 1945 and got excluded after WW2 for being too nationalistic. In this verse there was a line “Deutschland, Deutschland über alleS“ (a subtle difference to the line in Rammstein’s version translating to “Germany, Germany above everyTHING”). The actual verse with this line was already written in 1842, long before the formation of Germany as a Nation (which only happened in 1871) - therefore “Germany, Germany above everything” was relating to the importance of uniting the several German ministates, kingdoms and Duchies into one nation. After WWI this verse got taken into the national anthem of Germany as it spoke to the patriotism of the German people but later officially excluded fomr the anthem since it was deemed too nationalistic. Today this verse/line is generally frowned upon and would be associated with Neo-Nationalism. Using this line in the scene with the concentration camps including the subtle change from “Germany above everyTHING” (which has already the nationalistic connotation) to “Germany above everyONE” which carries an even more nationalistic / racist meaning is a very clever double-reference to the doctrine of racial supremacy in the Third Reich.
The Concentration camp prisoners have symbols sewn on their jackets for the groups the Nazis hunted and killed (yellow star for Jews, Pink triangle for Homosexuals, red symbol for political adversaries (communists). Germania is on the side of the Nazis and has an eyepatch (representing the blind eye that many Germans turned on the atrocities of the Nazi regime.
The Scene where Till is dressed as a woman refers to the left wing terrorist group called “Rote Armee Fraktion” - a terrorist association in the 1970s responsible for several political assassinations and murders as well as a famous kidnapping of German Diplomats in Stockholm.
Then there is the scene with the stake at which books are burned by the Nazis and people are burned by the church (inquisition). Later the monk (church) and the Nazi soldier hug (as the church did not go against the Nazis when they came to power and both organizations were responsible for a lot of intolerance and suffering in their times.
The scene where Germania is dressed in white with a Halo I think refers to the positive, the strength of the German people who recovered time after time from several catastrophic disasters in their history. Later she gives birth to puppies representing the German people. The puppies are from a rare breed of dogs (Leonbergers) who’s population got almost extinct in both world wars (symbolized with the dogs wearing gas masks) but recovered after the wars. In these scenes the band members wear space suits - in my view a reference to the (hopefully) better future of the German people.
In the very last scene of the outro you can once more see Germania with national colors (black, red gold) with black lipstick, red eyes and golden armor before a red/ black background holding an eagle, the heraldic symbol of Germany. Finally, please find below the lyrics of the song as the perfectly convey the message of the problematic relationship many Germans have to their homeland, wanting to be proud of it but not being able to due to it’s difficult history:
One further remark to one of the more important lines of the lyrics: The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) refers to the fact that the German people with their idenitify have been around for thousands of years, however the actual state of Germany as a nation was only founded very late (1871) thorough the unification of several mini states (Prussia, Hessia, Saxonia, Bavaria, etc.
+1 for the OG Mortal Kombat movie being good because it was bad. As someone who used to love watching the B movies when I worked at my Uncle's video rental store...(yes, I am that old).
Love this song...just learned it on my guitar...pretty easy but fun to play.
As a side note, "None of use are fluent in German"...this made me giggle as the lyrics flashed across the top of the screen. :P
The real thing that makes me crazy about history is: All we know about history since humans started to build civilization DID NOT CHANGE since thousands of years. People are more or less the same, think the same, behave the same. The only thing thant changed was the environmental conditions - partly made up by people themselves.
Think about the romans having industrial bread production, sewerage and complete road systems. Looking at colorized film clips from the late 1800s or early 1900s from europe cities you will notice that people dress different and there are next to no cars - But they still had tramways, streets, advertisment all over the shop, are visiting fairs, read their newspapers and go out for a walk on sunday.
Sometimes the environment changes, hiding knowledge and personality from the people like the church did in the dark ages - but still the same type of human, being the same and did not evolve much since the first people settled down in small cities 6000 years ago.
Maybe the most epic music video ever made...
Here are some Rammsteinlinks with live perfomances and official music videos - have fun 😉✌️😁
Rammstein - Adieu (off-vid)
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Rammstein - Deutschland (off-vid)
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Rammstein - Engel (live)
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Rammstein - mein Herz brennt (off-vid)
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Rammstein - Ich tu dir weh (live)
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Rammstein - Mutter (off-vid)
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Rammstein - was ich liebe (live)
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Rammstein - Zick Zack (off-vid)
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Rammstein - Ich tu dir weh (live)
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Rammstein - Angst (off-vid)
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Rammstein - Rammlied (live)
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Rammstein - Zeit (off-vid)
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Rammstein - Du riechst so gut (live)
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Rammstein - Dicke Titten (off-vid)
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Rammstein - Ich will (live)
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Rammstein - Benzin (live)
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Rammstein - Stein um Stein (live)
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Rammstein - Feuer Frei (live)
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Rammstein - bück dich (live)
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Lindemann (lead singer solo) - Steh auf (live)
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@Three Arrows channel has a very good video where he explains everything in great detail.
Three Arrows did a good analysis of this video.
Whilst Rammstein themselves didn’t put out a full movie, Till Lindemann has a side project and actually published a 30 minute short film called „ich hasse Kinder“ that is the long version of the music video to the song titled the same name and it’s on UA-cam, you can check that out.
greetings and love from Germany...may be it sounds strange or weird to many americans, but i´m not proud of my country. ..or better said: I cannot be proud. Cause the defenition of the word "Proud" goes like this:......".feeling deep pleasure or satisfaction as a result of one's own achievements, qualities, or possessions or those of someone with whom one is closely associated." The fact is that i was born here in Germany is nothing than a coincidence.... That's why I prefer to say: I'm happy (or lucky) that I was born in Germany. (instead of ´proud´).......have a peaceful day and stay safe, my freinds
On the comment made about Third Reich symbolism and items being illegal to display in Germany today, it extends even to the German Army Tank Museum. There they have working originals of every combat vehicle Germany ever produced, but since the Tiger 1 tank was the #1 symbol for German might at the time they're not allowed to have one one display (there is only 1 working Tiger 1 in the world, and it's at a tank museum in England). To get around this, the German Army sent crews to the sites of all remaining Tiger 1 tanks and took extensive measurements and made mold of some parts, and using the original blueprints, 'made' a Tiger 1 or display. It's made partly of metal, partly of plastic and fiberglass- and has not one single original Tiger 1 part, and is simply a shell for display only. Interestingly, though, almost every other tank in the museum can roll out under its own power- all they need is gas and they're good to go.
Hello everyone, thanks to michaelfinck for the good description. the video was discussed very controversially. here in Germany and should be banned. but the good thing is that "art" may not be banned here according to our basic law. The video now totally reflects the situation here in Germany. if we look around right now and what is happening politically in our country, we can only be ashamed. it's no wonder that the whole world is laughing at us. Ramstein is always very critical and the lyrics are always more explicit. here it is once again the art that raises the finger to point out what is wrong. As I said, years later the song is more up-to-date than when it was written. I'm also pleased in all the reaction videos that I've seen how far people already recognize the meaning just based on the pictures and want to know more about what's going on without understanding the words.
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16 AD Germania was under the constant attack by Rome,not under the Empire,yet..You can see that even Marcus Aurelius was "trying" to control Germania around that time.
MMXVIII is 2018 in roman numerals.
11:30 That´s exactly what this song is about. So much has happend in german history. As a German you want to love your country, but you can´t because so many terrible things happend, especially WW2...
song: man kann dich lieben und will dich hassen... (you can love, and want to hate you)
or: will dich lieben und verdammen... (want to love and damn you)
deine liebe ist fluch und segen, meine liebe kann ich dir nicht geben.... (your love is a curse and a blessing, my love i can´t give you)
I've been watching reactions to this vid for years... why ? Because each Time I learn one more 'timbit' of info I also like History, but yeah 1st time I saw/heard this Vid, I thought I was watching a movie trailer... " I Gotta see this Movie" Not until Til starts to sing did I realize, wait this is a song...
Apparent;y it is the 2nd most expensive music video ever produced... ( DUHHH :) lol ) I am sure lots of people will say same thing as I do, this song was from their 2nd last Unnamed Album ... Zeit , The actual music vid is amazing as well... I'll have to check your channel out later sto see whatelse you've watched reacted too... So Dudeman likes his history eh... Kewl help me and others with the helpof Rammstein ( Offical Vidz)... Radio, ( Do I need to translate? ;) and then like everyone else,( offical vidz) will want to see hear your thoughts on, Auslander ( Onceagain do I need to translate title? ;) ) , Amerika, zick zackm Dicke Tittenm and 98 ver not the 95 ver of Du reeicht so gut. ( sorry to the German's out there my creative spelling I'm obviously from The greatest country in America... and that is NOT the USA... l) lol
But Yeah love your reaction and insights on the music and video... Mortal Kombat had a decent sound track... well sorry the 2nd one did... yeah movie itself was.... well it will make you appreciate movies more if you can watvh that hole movie without laughing... next 'tik took challenge' perhaps.... lol
Check y'all later... EH!
Regarding the holocaust scene: one is wearing the yellow Star of David (jewish), another is wearing a red and yellow Star (jewish political prisoner, likely communist), and a purple triangle (homosexual).
There were a lot of sexual minorities in pre-holocaust Germany, in fact they were kinda trailblazers.
The most famous images of book burnings were outside the Hirschfield Institute, and the books being burned were studies on sexuality and early transgender affirming care.
The more you know.
Yes your até rigth😂❤
Germany..My Love I can't give You...And that's the Bottom Liiiine..Cause I am said so!!!
You guys pretty much got it. Thet are torn between loving their country and hating it due to their history. The dude on the right knows his shit.
Sam, give us ALL the history lessons. Let him cook! ;)
They don't eat her, her body is covered by typical German food: Sauerkraut and sausages. 🙂
i'm pretty sure, they really do eat her. and his interpretaion (catholic monastries, indulgences and so on) was spot on.
er hat es schön gesagt. man sollte niemals vergessen, was passiert ist. und das werden wir auch niemals....aaaaaber.....wir sind Deutschland.....und stolz drauf, nicht aus menschlichen Gründen.......so ist es nunmal....
I saw the Mortal Kombat movie in the theater in 1995...I think I was the only one in the theater.
The puppies that "Germania" gives birth to are Leonbergers. A rare German dog breed that would have almost become extinct during World War II if German and Dutch animal lovers hadn't ensured that this didn't happen.
These puppies not only represent themselves, but also the German people, who almost lost everything because of this madness.
In the scene where monks are eating off Germania the detail most non-Germans miss is that they are eating sauerkraut and sausages - very traditional German foods!
history is your most or least favorite subject based on your teacher. Sure, some people have a predisposition for it, but more than most subjects, the teacher matters SO much.
I was a German kid growing up in english language international schools. my teacher actively got me and the only other German in our class to translate German sources during our ww1 and ww2 studies. Everything was looked at with whats the bias, whats the bullshit, where do sources come from, what was the purpose behind the source. even propaganda posters have value, if you look at why they were made, by who and what the people behind them wanted to convey in a setting
one of the best examples we found was Pegasus bridge during market garden. the UK claimed to have killed hundreds of germans, knocked out a bunch of tigers. German records show there was a single machinegun nest, and the closest tanks were many KM away and no tigers present.
those lessons dont just apply to history, they apply to everything now. Origin Value Purpose Limitation. the 4 big questions
Yes I just see this, I went to summer camp with Till, back in 1982-3-4, East Germany, I was from Czechoslovakia, I remember because he asked me about Hitler!? , Back in East Germany In schools All History was erased from 1930-1989 , They have no ID s about East Germany only STACYs ( East Germany Secret Police) run by KGB, got 2 -3 kilos of Papers on erybubuy! Till was in swimming Olimpia or something I was Electronic student in Camp Yes was like 2 hours from Czechoslovakia
Ruby Commey, the woman and protagonist of this video, represents the 'New Germany' in different shapes and roles: s a military, nun, mother, black woman, leader, Teutonic knight, queen, and such as in important part of some religious rites. So, the 'New Germany' confronts ambiguous mindsets and cultures. Have a great day!
What you guys saw, is the caleidoscope the violence of European history, and why it shouldn't be forgotten. This video is a history lesson, a precautionary tale of sorts.
I`m German. They are talking about some problems from germany in the past and showing the problems in the video
These two guys invented the up-titles and I like it🤯🤯🤯
das wohl beste Musik Video, was ich je gesehen habe.
It's about Germany throughout different time periods. The woman represents Germany. "Deutschland"
You need a master’s in German history to understand everything they’re showing in this video.
Hello from Germany! The Germanic tribes did not exist as a unified people in ancient times; they were different tribes that often fought among themselves. But the influence of the Germanic tribes was very significant in Europe! The Germanic language existed before the English, Spanish, French and Italian languages! The Germanic tribes were always very warlike tribes that shaped Europe! Which brought the Roman Empire to its knees and was able to spread throughout Europe. And there is recent history that you as a German cannot be proud of! The dogs are Leonbergers, which were almost extinct, and after the war there were only 7 left. It was a gift that a new population developed from it and still exists today! Germanic (German) history is a topic that you can talk about and study for days. Greetings Nephilim
Investigate the outro.
Sonne rocks, too.
No non German can understand this song (I say this as a German) and even many or most Germans misinterpret it. One really needs a good and deep grip on german history to get it. It works with very deep german symbolisms. To me this is one of the best works of interpretng german history.
Like with all pieces of art: there is no way to misinterpret it as everyone will see something different in it and Rammstein are well known to never ever give explanations or interpretations of their own songs or videos
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You just postulated that art is meaningless and nihilistic in its essence. And this is utterly _wrong_.
I think the reason why Rammstein does not give lessons in understand their work is that they want people to start to think - and this is one of the main features of art.
@@RogerWilco66 so art is objective? That sounds to me like the 3rd Reich's approach of entartete Kunst and völkische Kunst. Art gains it's value in the eye of the beholder and tastes vary. My great-grandmother loved all the religious pictures she kept in her house, they were objectively well painted and done by a professional - I nevertheless got rid of all off them when I moved into the house as they were simply not my type of art and since I am not very religious I had a very different understanding of them than my great grandmother who was a devout Catholic
@@hmvollbanane1259Of course art is objective! Always! Your line of reasoning is wrong. You think that "true" art is meaningless and is left to the subjective interpretation of the onlooker.
And - just if you do not understand the symbolism of religion, for example, does not mean that it is worthless. It says more about you than the intention of the piece of art when it was created.
Even your statement of the 3rd Reich approach supports that notion. The art back then (or the dismission of others) had an objective, if you like it or not.
ONLY Germans... That sounds VERY elitist and ... peculiar. There are plenty non-Germans that speak the language better than some Germans, and that know their history a LOT better. Dismissing 'Ausländer' outright is a dangerous path to walk.
While people love to create direct connections to germany's history deutchland truly means "our land" and applies to everyone that thinks they own land.
The video opens in AD 16, on the ‘barbarian’ side of the lines, the border of the Roman Empire. Roman soldiers creep through the woods in the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The Romans were ambushed by an alliance of Germanic Tribes, led by a chieftain called Arminius (the original Hermann the German). Three legionary standards were captured, a loss symbolic and moral, as well as physical, and decades were spent trying to recover them. Rome never again attempted to take the lands east of the River Rhine, known as Germania.
‘Germania’ refers not just to a place, somewhere partly defined by where it isn’t (Rome) as well as where it is, but also to a national figurehead, traditionally representing the German people. Germania is a strong woman, usually armour-clad and battle-ready. Various symbols appear with her, among them a breastplate with an eagle, a black, red, and gold flag, and a crown. Look out for these in the video - they come up again and again - and the colours of the contemporary flag are there in every scene.
We get our first glimpse of Germania here (played by Ruby Commey), who stands holding Till Lindemann’s severed head. Next, astronauts appear carrying a metal and glass box shaped like a coffin. In the background we see a U-boat - a German submarine, used in World Wars I and II. Then we move to a scene set at a boxing match which takes us to Weimar Germany (1918-1933), a period known for its political instability but also greater cultural liberalism. Here, Germania appears in the cabaret costume of a flapper girl, and the boxers fight with knuckle-dusters as a crowd cheers them on.
We see the former East Germany, complete with busts of Marx and Lenin, the national emblem of East Germany, and a lookalike of the long-serving, insular, and repressive GDR leader Erich Honecker. There’s another astronaut, or rather a cosmonaut: Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space, who flew with the USSR’s space program (and who’s also a character in the 2003 film, Good Bye Lenin!). Medieval monks feast grotesquely on the supine Germania, tearing sauerkraut and sausage from Ruby Commey’s body, prison inmates are beaten by guards dressed in police and military uniforms from different historical periods.
The most obviously shocking scene references the Holocaust and the Nazi period. Four members of the band, in the striped uniforms of camp inmates, wait at the gallows, about to be hanged. They wear the cloth emblems used to identify their ‘crimes’: a pink triangle for homosexual prisoners, a yellow star for Jewish prisoners, a red and yellow star for Jewish political prisoners.
This sequence, teased in an earlier promo video, has already caused controversy. Have Rammstein the right to do this? Do they trivialise the suffering of Holocaust victims? How can they justify using Holocaust imagery to promote their new video? These are important questions that are part of a much bigger debate about the ethics of using the Holocaust in art and media.
Other scenes include the band walking away from a flaming airship, referring to the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster, in which 36 people died. Rats scuttle across the floor when the monks first appear, suggesting the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a legend with origins in the 13th century.
Germania walks towards the camera in a leather jacket, gold jewellery and a string of bullets across her chest, resembling the chariot drawn by four horses (the ‘Quadriga’) on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The band members’ heads are shown as white marble busts, taking us to the 19th century Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, built as German Hall of Fame, its sculpted heads of German worthies on display to this day.
In the prison, hundreds of banknotes fall from above, suggesting the devastating hyperinflation Germany suffered in the 1920s. Nazis burn books, intercut with religious fanatics burning witches. We recognise members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof group), a militant organisation active in the 1970s in West Germany. And in a blink-or-you-miss-it exchange, we are reminded of the much-criticised relationship between the churches and the state during the Third Reich.
Each scene captures in a moment the icons of an era, and the video cuts between them more and more frenetically as it goes on. Events bleed into each other, linked by the presence of the band members and the red laser beam that appears throughout the video, a ‘roter Faden’ (red thread or central theme), connecting each event.
Germany engages with its history in a very particular way. Try to imagine the video about Britain, with Britannia played by Ruby Commey. What would the equivalent events be? Quite a few of the tableaux might be similar - Romans, Crusaders, monks, 18th-century soldiers, collarless shirts and bareknuckle boxing - but would it have the same impact?
There’s no affection, and perhaps not much hope: its pessimistic tone seems to be quite an off-brand message for post-1989 Germany, which wants to acknowledge its past critically, while also looking to its future as a state at the heart of Europe. And actually, while we get a lot of medieval and twentieth-century history, the video’s tour through the past seems to stop in the late 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of East and West Germany. Instead, we jump into the future, where the space-suited band take Germania into the unknown, travelling in that coffin-shaped glass box.
There’s an echo of the video for Sonne, where Snow White is trapped in a glass coffin. In fact, a piano version of Sonne plays over the end credits of Deutschland. This is a useful link for understanding something of what Rammstein is doing here. In Sonne, where the band’s characters free themselves of Snow White (naturally, they’ve been her sex-slaves), only to realise that they have made a mistake and long for her return, the overwhelming feeling of Deutschland seems to be that when it comes to Germania (or Germany): you can’t love her, and you can’t live without her.
Copied from GERMANIA (youtube acc) All belongs to him because its can explain all moments in the Video
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Oh Yea , I remember Rammstein taking a lot of heat ,when that first came out..........if you are looking for another live song, here is one.............Rammstein: Paris - Wollt Ihr Das Bett In Flammen Sehen? (Official Video).................ua-cam.com/video/vqnk9HWbKRA/v-deo.html.
"is deutschland a place tho" I'm deadd 😅
The entire German history in one video।
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Deutschland über allen.
Deutschland: is that a country? Fuck me...
9:35 And that nobody seems to understand the money thing, which was a reference to the hyperinflation in Germany.
That was ONE of the important reasons why WWII took place at all.
Germany lost WWI and had to pay reparations, so much, that Germany themselves had no money to feed their own population.
Then France and Belgium made the GRANDIOSE move of simply occupying parts of Germany
No wonder, the Germans didn't like that and we very angry and that was the situation that boiled over.
The Treaty of Versailles, the massive reparations payments, and the occupation of parts of Germany made it possible for Hitler to come to power in the first place.
And then WWII followed, followed by the division of Germany, followed by the Cold War, followed by the fall of the Berlin Wall etc.
Everything in the story is related to everything. This is very clear to consider, there is never a reaction without prior action
And that's not a special German hisgo5 , that it's WORLD history, because that's the reason for WWII.
That should be taught in every country in the world.
So I really ask myself, what Americans actually get taught in school, that they don't even know the reasons for WWII. Let alone WWI, where it is always claimed that the Germans are to blame for it, because Prince Ferdinand was killed by Serbian (Bosnian) nationalist
This song was temporarily banned in Germany upon release because the chorus had the line "deutschland deatchland uber allen" which the censors thought was too close to the nazi song that said "deutschland deutschland Uber alles" the difference in translation is Germany Germany over all, or Germany Germany over everyone.... but rammstein did it intentionally to cause controversy and get the message into the news
forgive me if I'm not going through all the comments to check if somebody already said it, I certainly don't want to make this too long.
At the beginning, the woman was dressed in rags, but after that she appeared mostly in gold or white, drenched in right light. The woman is Germania, the personification of Germany, Black, Red and Gold, are the colours of Germany today. The first scene was basically the origin story. Germany defeated the Romans and came into existence.
Then we follow her through her entire life, up to where she disappears again. The history guy, sorry, didn't get your name, three times spoke about the good, the bad and the ugly, however, the video focuses heavily on the ugly.
The medieval scene, having said that the woman is Germania, the church in those times feasted on her while the rest had to live in poverty, getting only the scraps off the table of the church and getting sick because of the rats.
The execution scene, the star of David of course represents the jews that were slaughtered by the nazis and who everybody just focuses on usually. But there we also see a pink triangle which represented gays, I have to look up the other symbols but I'm sure they represented communists and other political opponents, as well as priests and then probably other peoples like slavs and gypsies, etc.
The comment I want to make here is that the world and, worst of all, the Germans themselves to this day see themselves as evil incarnate because of what we did to the jews. Some people still think today that all Germans were nazis. This scene shows that jews weren't the only victims and what needs to be said is that Germans themselves were the first victims of the nazis. What was left over were nazis and those who were too afraid to speak up because they too would have been murdered. And who can blame them? One of the meanings of life is the conservation of the species and the security of ones own survival. Communism is probably another example. Not everybody who followed the communists in the USSR or China was a communist, but they had to secure their survival.
So, what I want to say to every German and non-German, not everybody was a nazi. Also, what I would like to put into perspective is that Germans are not the most evil people on Earth in history, not even by a long shot. I don't want to excuse what nazis did in the 30s and 40s, however, to put it into perspective it is worthwhile to look at other European nations throughout history, the Spanish, the Dutch, French, Belgians, last but not least the English. The English alone are responsible for genocides on the entire planet, from Africa, Asia, North America all the way to Australia. If I remember correctly, the English and the americans are responsible for the death of up to 90% of the North American indiginous population. Similar things happened everywhere the English established colonies. Apparently, views differ between people you talk to, in Australia, the British didn't view the Australian indiginous population as humans but part of Flora and Fauna, so that Aboriginies were hunted and killed like animals without any consequences.
In the years after the nazis were already defeated, Churchill let millions of Indians starve to death because Churchill hated the Indians, he didn't care that there was a famine. And talking about famine, the British not only killed people on "foreign continents" but in Europe in Ireland as well.
Talking about defeating the nazis and liberating Europe from fashism and racism, does anyone care that blacks in America, who were descendends of slaves, only got similar rights to the white population in the 60s, some 20 years after Europe was liberated? Apartheit in South Africa took another 20 years until late 80s, early 90s. So, bury the idea that only the Germans were racists, americans and South Africans did it much longer than we did.
In terms of numbers of victims, Germany isn't even close to the top. The British over all the centuries, the Soviets under Stalin or the Chinese under Mao, was it Mao?, they are responsible for a number of deaths which dwarf the number of German victims. Heck, the number of deaths that the united states have caused SINCE 1945 is comparable to the number of jews killed in concentration camps.
All the nations have a dark history. Germany's darkest history happened in 12 years between 1933 and 1945. However, Germany's history spans nearly 2000 years. Much more of our history was bright and shining. Germany's contribution to the arts, to literature and music, to science, engineering, medicine, are unmatched by any other countries.
Germany does have a dark past, but unlike others, we don't try to sweep it under the rug, hide it, ignore it. We talk about it, we deal with it, we are still appologising even though our oldest generation now were just kids during the nazi era and hardly to blame what their fathers did. Yes, we were the first and only ones to kill on an industrial level. we always go one step too far with everything we do. Even the appologising. No other nation is so ashamed and aware of our past than us. In Australia for instance it is debated whether or not Aborigines should get full constitutional recognition and currently the No voices outweigh the Yes voices.
With all our collective guilt, I think it is time to step out of our shadow of the past, it can't be healthy long term.
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Germania was never conquered by the romans. They occupied most of the western river bank of the rhine (including founding my hometown Cologne 'Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium'). Cologne people where more practical... "what's in for me" and preferred trade and cultural exchange over confrontation. To the east of the Rhine river things where much different, people more stubborn and confrontational. What you see in the first segment (16AD) is a roman epedition to punish the germans for the battle of Teuteburg where three Legions ( about 10 to 15 thousand soldiers) were massacred. In the video you see romans hanging from the trees... modern forensics tell they were nailed to trees and mutilated in every form imaginable.
i wonder what was in those books they burned
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