WE'RE THE SAME | Rammstein - Deutschland REACTION (Re-upload)
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Another re-upload from November. Finally figured out how to not get blocked. Thanks to everyone who have been for sticking around and asking for this one. I forgot to mention just how amazingly cinematic this video is. Really incredible production value.
Glad you finally manage to upload them. Day one sub here, keep em coming
Only the introduction and the piano end credit scene are missing from the video. So nothing important. When you said you weren't one of the most patriotic americans, you made a lot of friends abroad, I think. I think that's what the rest of the world dislikes most about America. Blind patriotism. Blind to the rest of the world. Think of yourself as the best and greatest country, but have no idea about the rest of the world. If many would know more, I think they would find that you are pretty poor off. I think the last 4 years have opened some more eyes to things that have always been there. Because of that I still have to shake my head when your new president presents himself in front of the people and actually still insists that America is better than the last few years have shown. I see it differently. I think the last four years have shown what has always been there. Maybe it's getting better now. I wish you and us that, but I don't believe in it. America has never been good at self-reflection and coming to terms with past mistakes.
@Necramonium Why are you telling me this? I didn't complain. He wondered why this video is shorter and asked what's missing. I replied and that's it. I didn't ask that question. 🙂
It made me smile when you said you may not understand all the hints in the video because you're not familiar with German history. You're in good company ;-)
Fact is Germans analyzing the video had a hard time keeping track of all the hints Rammstein and the producers have put into one video. It's overwhelming and I think that's just another reason why this music video is so extraordinary.
Someone better tell Billy Joel: yeah fucker, We started the fire.
Caesar at Alesia, Schwarze Ritter, Vehm, Hindenburg, Auschwitz V2 Bunker Valentin Stasi versus BRD, GSG9 Racial Integration Genetic Engineering
this list is partial, if you want the Russian language version I can add in Barbarossa...
this videoclip is just a masterpiece of art - and the music is fantastic, too
Absolutely! ❤
For your information: The woman, Ruby Commey, represents Germania (Deutschland), the country and people throughout History.
1) Germany east of the Rhine which the Romans called Magna Germania. Battle of Teutoburg Forest where the ''barbaric'' German tribes defeated the mighty Roman Empire under the leadership of Arminius (Hermann), now a venerated German hero.
2) Astronauts escorting a U-Boat. Trademark submarine of the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) in both World Wars.
3) Boxing fight in Weimar Republic (1919-1939) an unstable and violent kind of democracy which preceded the Nazi regime.
4) Corpses in armor during the Crusades. The girl with the flag personifies Germany herself.
5) Members of the band marching in front of the ''Hindenburg Disaster'' a zeppelin which caught fire with 36 people being killed.
6) Members of the band in an office of the Stasi (Secret Police) in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
7) The girl (Germany) walks 5 dogs. It shows the love and affection Germans always had for them.
8) Monks in a cellar walking with rats around them. A reference to the bubonic plague (Black Death) which devastated Europe in the Middle Ages.
9) The monks eating from the body of Germany symbolize the devouring of the ideal of nation throughout German history.
10) The people under the table are gagged and in latex. Germans may have BDSM tendencies.
11) Astronauts around the statues of the great Germans of the past.
12) Members of the band are in chains with money falling near them. A reference to the hyperinflation of the post WWI era.
13) The rocket refers to the infamous V2 rocket weapons which Hitler claimed would crush the Allies during WWII.
14) Execution of Jew captives in a concentration camp.
15) Lead singer's crossdressing with the rest of the band carrying weapons in wigs represents the Baader/Meinhof gang, a far-left terrorist group of the seventies in West Germany.
16) Burning of the witches in Middle Ages.
17) Burning of books from Nazi officers.
18) A frame depicts a monk and a Nazi hugging each other. We see the close connection between the church and the national socialist regime.
19) Germany giving birth to dogs. Huge allusion ain't got time for that sorry.
20) Tanks passing in front of a Karl Marx facade. Allusion to communism as a dictatorship.
21) People clashing with the police with molotov cocktails. Again depiction of the political turbulence.
22) At the end the girl (Germany) becomes an angel watching over the band (her people).
I think the monks eating from the body of Germany with the people in latex under the table symbolises the catholic church getting rich on the back of the religious German population in the middle ages, keeping them silent with the threat of a bible they couldn't even read. (if you get a step further you naturally end up with Luther whose attempts to reform the church lead to a split, lead to the peasant wars and lead to the start of a common German language).
Also, small correction, the captives in the concentration camp aren't all Jews, they stand for different groups which were hunted under Nationalsocialism.
@@swanpride It could also represent the double standard of the church, acting pious and devine while hiding sinful secrets...
@@Chrinik That too.
@@swanpride yes I saw that too, the various insignias also pointed out a political dissident or two and at least one pink triangle. Would have to go back to that scene to catch them all again.
The German Navy in WWI wasn't the Kriegsmarien, instead it was called the 'Hochseeflotte' (High Seas Fleet in English) and the U-Boat seems like a WW2 one as well.
The brilliance of this song is, that it captures the spirit of Germany perfectly ☝️ we don’t want to rely on being proud of our country, because we’ve learned how this works out. BUT we are proud that we think that way. It’s pretty confusing if you’re not used to it 😅
Exactly, one could say: "We are proud of not being proud"
@@mel1one That is one of best definitions of my feelings towards my country.
Well I am Swabian and very proud of my country. You should mention that only people from the north (ex prussia) aren't proud of their homeland.
@@hanszimmer9224 Don‘t get me even started on Swabians 😂
@@markusschmitz6056 I think it's the best for all if we just leave Germany.
As a German not living in Germany anymore, this song speaks from the bottom of my heart and is one of the few that gets me tears. Dang.
Same
Die Russische Fassung ist auch sehr gut.
Same here. Dich lieben und verdammen entspricht ziemlich meinem Verhältnis zu dem Land, in dem ich geboren wurde.
Always nice to see an american who doesn't think the USA is perfect.
I like when people use their brains.
anyways. nice reaction. keep it up.
Agreed. I'm American & still get pissed when I think of what we, a mass of immigrants, did to the Native Americans. But let's gloss over that, rewrite history, teach that to our children, and now have the gall to categorize immigrants as scum. We are a nation of Hypocrites.
And yes, if I could Emigrate to Canada I would (nod to Richard's band).
we're not perfect there is a lot of things i despise about my own country but i love my country and i'm proud to be from America .. no country is perfect but everyone from every country should be proud of their homeland .
@@mynameismyname2973 basically... i would agree... but i am from germany... so.. if i say i'm proud of my country i am automatically a racist, a narcist and generally a really bad person. .... so.. i better not be proud then.^^
@@BlazingDrag00n my girl friend is German and i don't like racism but it would be a lie to say you guys aren't bad ass . every country has their atrocities some more than others fine America has plenty .. Be proud .. fuck what people say being proud doesn't mean you hate everybody elses country you just love yours !
The "Deutschland" video is jam packed full of references, side notes, condemnation, historical situations.
It is absolutely mindblowing that such a 'short' video of around 9 minute (original) could spark a conversation about the many hidden gems in it that lasts for hours.
Masterpiece. Powerful and direct, yet incredibly subtle in other aspects.
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 mother 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 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 Emperor Germanicus. 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 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: My interpretation of the glass coffin is Little Snow White in space, like I wrote before.
PPPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet.
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! 😄
Recommendation for a reaction:
The band "Igorrr" and their song "Very Noise"
Greetings 👋👋🙂🙂😎🙂🙂👋👋
Mega
Wow. I am impressed.
Germans likes to explain German, Germans and German history. Okay, mee too.
Wow. I loved this information. I had figured it was Germany and history of what Germans went through, but had no idea the level of information. My ancestors immigrated to the US at the turn of the century so I can't express enough the information you took the time to share. Thanks from Texas!
@@HiTekCowboy
I'm glad that I was able to help! :)
Amazing, thank you!!
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:-)
I'm German, living in Australia for quite a long time. It always makes me emotional when seeing someone non-German reacting to this song. The length, scale and depth of German history, especially its abyssal parts is perfectly represented within. I always get goosebumps looking at the eyes of you guys reacting, facing that you just can't comprehend what exactly is going on. And I, by all means, don't mean that in arrogance, but the mix of ancient history, guild, war crimes and a kind of patriotism, sometimes closer to melancholy is something very special. I sometimes try to explain Deutschland (the song as well as its actual history) to Australian friends ... and we usually have to stop after an hour and swallow it all down with lots of cold beer ;)
I know exactly what you mean. For people from other countries, the sentence "I am a patriot and I love my country " contains nothing but positive associations. Germans question the meaning of every single word: is this my country? Do I love it and what is the nature of love? Patriotism - What is it good for?
There is a painting from CD Friedrich. A German, standing on a rock, watching a sea of fog. For me, this kind of nails it: There is nothing visual you can describe, so others can comprehend. It's more like a "subterranean emotional connection" - yet a vital one. "Denk' ich an Deutschland in der Nacht, bin ich um meinen Schlaf gebracht", is a line from the "Winter's Tale", written by Heine in the 1840s. The relationship to this country always has been marked by ambiguity and melancholy. There is no reason for a national celebration, but a highly emotional commemoration. Today it s 11/9/21. Remember remember, the 9th of november. So many important historical events took place on this particular date. This would be. a far better date for National day than October, 3rd. But people from abroad wouldn't understand
I like what you get from the song. As a German i realy think we often feel more guilty about our own history as people in other countries because its still not long ago. But this is the wrong view on it, because people in our country getting annoyed by the feeling and try to blend it out. But its the most stupid thing you can do. Dont feel guilty but remember in a respectful way and teach people so it cannot happen again.
But as you said, we are all the same and you can say "other countries, same problems". You just can hope that people learn from their mistakes and from the mistakes of generations before them. But sometimes it looks hopeless.
True!
We don't feel overly guilty or spend too much time on the topic. It is just that most countries do it at all and thus it seems too much in our case
There is a line that I think almost no one outside of germany will get, when he says so young, but so old too. Is referring to how germany really didn't exist as an entity prior to the German Confederation and later the Weimar republic essentially it was a region of the holy roman empire, in a region called prussia. (which i'm 100 percent sure you know, since it is your history and your nation.) But that history obviously goes back hundreds and hundreds of years... so the modern germany as a country is even younger than the United States, but so much older too.
It's my favorite lyric in the song.
@@ExarchGaming i agree that it’s the best line but theres a little mistake. Prussia is just one of the Kingdoms that joined to make a (at that time) new Kaiserreich. Austria, Bavaria, Sachsen,... were a part too and most of these Kingdoms are states now.
@@amoniumhydroxidion3886 Yeah my explanation is lacking somewhat, I was trying to be just generalizing what it meant.
How Germany is a young country, with an old society/civilization.
@@ExarchGaming it’s ok you said the truth also i didn‘t want to be rude or something like that i just wanted to correct that Little detail 😄
Well congrats, you grasped the point of this song better than a disturbingly large number of people.
You're reaction pretty much matched my own when I saw this. The facial expression Till makes as he's on the gallows, and when he looks at the camera and says "uber allen" tears at my heart
You got it right. It is a ride through Germany's violent history starting with the Varus Battle 9AD, when the Romans first called us Teutons (Germans). And yes - do the full version of the video for yourself. The piano part of "Sonne" at the end is amazing (to listen). Rammstein has also done a song about America. Sarcastic. ruclips.net/video/RCmZliDQ-7c/видео.html
The Romans called germans Germanen. The Teutons are just a german tribe located at the baltic sea
@@hanszimmer9224 kind of true, _but_ the germanics (probably) also just were one tribe - that's at least tacitus's explanation in his 'germania'. also the romans refered to the alleged belligerent behavior of the germanics (teutons, but also others) as 'furor teutonicus', so marc phillip isn't completely wrong.
Rammstein “ ohne dich “ ? I just love that song ❤️
"I´m certainly not the most patriotic..." For sometimes questioning your country? Sounds quite patriotic to me. Other than those flag wavers, never questioning anything, while calling themselves "patriots" on every occasion possible.
The whole history of Germany in one music video, great, Rammstein for ever
"Deutschland "has a lot of parallels with "Sonne" song and video, not only does Sonne sound in its piano version, at the end of" Deutschland ", also the very figure of" Germany "is comparable with Snow White, the same codependent love, love and hated, he cannot love her but also cannot live without her, in the end, just like Snow White, Germany goes into space in a glass coffin.
Actually Snow White in Sonne probably represents another state other than Germany. If you know the bands history and look at something like this clip you can see their cynicism over governments and ideologies of all types. In Sonne something that looks beautiful turns up but it turns out to be cruel and corrupt - it's own corruption leads to it's death and the little people are free but then what replaces it turns out to be pretty much the same and it's back to the mines for the dwarves. It could be seen as an allegory for the Soviets coming in to get rid of the Nazi's - then turning out to be little better for the people before they fall only to be replaced by something else that again is pretty much the same for the average person. It may well be why they cast a Russian actress in Sonne - either that or they wanted to be spanked on film by a hot girl dressed as Snow White just to shock people - with Rammstein it's probably both.
You must see the full video cause it's pure art.
Being American and hearing this song/seeing the video brings a strange sense of empathy for the people of Germany because we know what it is to be both ashamed of the wrongdoings of your country and how it has been divided, while loving the ways in which it has advanced and been united. It's a very conflicting feeling to both love and detest your country, dichotomous, and there's no shame in it.
I love America for as much as I dislike what we have and continue to do wrong.
Honestly, every time I watch this, I see something new. There is a lot to learn from this and it reinforces the need to critically look at our own history with realism and clarity.
Many Germans HATE the US patriotism! It's not bad being a bit patriotic. But you have all these flags, sing your anthm everywhere, no one can be better than America. Especially these crazy MEGA fans. How can you be proud of fighting for the wrong thing in Vietnam, Afghanistan or Irak? You killed yo many civilians and brought nothing but tears and left wasted lands.
German history made it hard to be patriotic - but I love Germany nevertheless. Best regards from Wetsern Germany (near the Dutch border)!
@@Cadfael007 being American and understanding our history is a very strange feeling because I don't think I can ever be patriotic.
That said, I do have pride in my country, its people, and how we have persevered as a nation, and I do condemn the atrocities committed as well.
I think our countries can grow if we take long looks at our histories and seek to learn why they weren't right, not how they went wrong.
Hoping this finds you well,
From North Carolina, USA with love
i´m so glad, that you could re-upload Deutschland! you can watch this video a few times and any time you can find details you didnt notice. what a video!! if i remember right, i saw the hindenburg burning when i watched the 5th time x-)
Yeah, welcome to germany. Where we're too ashamed of parts of recent past that we're unable to be proud of the rest of our history.
We're at severe odds with our history. BUT! It allows for a perspective beyond our own gains, because we as people are better and achieve greater when we are united not when we are at each others throat.
As far as patriotism goes I find Germans ARE patriotic, but in a different way. Since childhood we are thought the horrors of recent history, and what Germany did, everyone understands it and knows, we have learned from it and have become people who are patriotic but also question history and learn from it.
This song reflects the best the german soul and how we feel about our country. We're torn with our feelings.
This video and music and lyrics are just an art. It's so powerful and every time I watch it I have goosebumps,it's like every time I'm watching it I feel like it's for the first time. It has so much meanings, hidden messages, and I think that this video shows a lot about what people will not read and learn in normal way. ... Everyone has love and hate relationship with their country,just as people have love and hate relationship with this art. Thank you for this.
Germany,..even just the word holds within it immense power and strength. My soul feels such connection every time I see this official video. I cant help it. Forgive me if I sound foolish for stating this openly.
I am really enjoying your content. Thank you for putting in the effort and all the best to you, brother!
Definitely one of the best made videos of all time!
Finally someone that actually informs himself about the topic and the context of Rammstein songs before engaging in reaction video.
Love this song!!!!
For context, it might make sence to listen to Jan Böhmermann's "Be Deutsch". He is a Satirist/Comedian who did a song about this topic 2 years before the song came out, in the style of Rammstein. It is also in English by the way.
We Germans are taught to be dissapointed(?) in our country, but are still proud of it. This has the effekt that the only time we show/are allowed to show patriotism is during sportsevents, especially Football and Handball.
I am german and it always feels strange to me whenever I see reactions to Deutschland from a foreigner. It is like a perspective you never get when you live in the country that is looked at. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and view! :)
As a German, I like to watch English reactions to German songs :)
Nice! I understand that there is too much going on to get them all. There are so much details. But you got the message. Thanks
This is shorter than the full version because the outtro, instrumental version of Die Sonne, has been excluded, but I think it belongs to it, it gives you time to overthink what you just saw.
It lacks the intro as well
Great reaction, love it 👍😍😍
one of the best reactions ive seen of this so far
I think the first verse reffers to the fact,that germans are cold on the outside,but can be very passionate inside.
Great reaction man, very insigthful commentary at the end. It really is a work of art but there´s SOOO much to soak in. I had to watch a whole explanation video (some people shared it in comments) to really get 90% of it and I thought I knew some of the German history :)
Great message from the video and you commenting this! Thanks, Sir! Greetings from Deutschland 🙂
So qreat only Rammstein can do this . i just love them
Rammstein für immer, ich Liebe diese Gruppe!
If history is portrayed like this, everyone will be interested to learn. Deutschland song has somehow led me to learn more about Germany.
Nice Reaction! I Enjoy your Reaction
Deutschland is one of the best songs out there just reading the lyrics sends the message so glad I am able to understand German to enjoy it in its glory.
You cannot be proud or ashamed of what you had no influence on, but you can learn from it.
Verse 1]
You (You have, you have, you have, you have)
Have cried a lot (Cried, cried, cried, cried)
Separated in spirit (Separated, separated, separated, separated)
United in heart (United, united, united, united)
We (We are, we are, we are, we are)
Have been together for so long (You are, you are, you are, you are)
Your breath's cold (So cold, so cold, so cold, so cold)
The heart in flames (So hot, so hot, so hot, so hot)
You (You can, you can, you can, you can)
I (I know, I know, I know, I know)
We (We are, we are, we are, we are)
You (You stay, you stay, you stay, you stay)
[Chorus]
Germany - my heart in flames
Want to love and damn you
Germany - your breath's cold
So young, and yet so old
Germany!
[Verse 2]
I (You have, you have, you have, you have)
I never want to leave you (You cry, you cry, you cry, you cry)
One can love you (You love, you love, you love, you love)
And want to hate you (You hate, you hate, you hate, you hate)
Presumptuous, superior
Take over, hand over/puke
Surprise, invade
Germany, Germany above everyone
[Chorus]
Germany - my heart in flames
Want to love and damn you
Germany - your breath is cold
So young, and yet so old
Germany - your love
Is a curse and a blessing
Germany - my love
I can't give you
Germany!
Germany!
[Bridge]
You
I
We
All of you
You (superior/overpowering, unnecessary)
I (Übermenschen weary)
We (The higher you climb, the further you fall)
You (Germany, Germany above everyone)
[Chorus]
Germany - your heart in flames
Want to love and damn you
Germany - my breath's cold
So young, and yet so old
Germany - your love
Is a curse and blessing
Germany - my love
I can't give you
Germany!
English translation of Deutschland ;)
i watch reactions because i wanna use everything i learned in my english curse, great video bro, i liked it, and ur pronunciation is really good, i really like.
A Masterpiece of Art.....
Another great reaction. This video is so important where and where we are right now. You hit the nail on the head.
Also, you know I have to: Morgenstern from Völkerball. Please. 🙂
Rammstein is playing a classic "Industrial Metal" style. A 50-50 mix of synthesizers and hard metal guitarrs.
A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman as Germania. Germania is the mother 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 battle of the Teutoburg forrest 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 Emperor Germanicus. 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 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: My interpretation of the glass coffin is Little Snow White in space, like I wrote before.
PPPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet.
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 😄
A copied text from me without giving me the credits for it. Not a correct behaviour, "NagaStoleMy"!
This precisely expresses how I feel about my country, though I don’t live in Germany
why
Great reaction. You understood the broader implications immediately and found them entirely uncontroversial.
Intro and outro with credits are missing in this one.
Great reaction though.
Edit: How can anybody be proud of his country or nationality? It‘s just freakin coincidence, nobody did anything to achieve it...
People are proud of 'their'football or baseball team when they
win, although they never even touched a ball.
@@patverum9051 but is it really pride in sports? or just happiness? i would think the latter.
I love the way you do reactions - and good thing the video got unblocked.
May I suggest
Wollt ihr das bett in flammen sehen (live Paris)
Heirate mich (1998 version from Rock am Ring)
Or Sonne (music video)
So much interesting stuff in there, I keep noticing new stuff. For example:
Till frequently sings 'Deutschland, Deutschland, über Allen', a phrase that has now become taboo and has been edited from the original song (the German anthem by Haydn, still played at all soccer matches). The text to this anthem (written by Hoffman) was originally 'Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt', which means: 'Germany, Germany above all, above all in the world'. It was a call to the (then not yet fuzed) smaller Monarchies to invest their beliefs in a United German nation. Actually a quite rebellious and progressive intent for that time and not at all meant to bring down other nations. (even though Nietzsche - most famously - already criticized it back then). But with the Second World War this meaning changed, as the regime used this line at many occasions such as the Olympics. And now the line is forever connected to that period of German history, and thus banned from use while singing the anthem and generally frowned upon.
What deepens this part is that Till uses 'über allen', not the original 'über alles'. That slight distinction matters, as grammar distinguishes between über alles, i.e. above all else, and über allen, meaning "above everyone else". The latter translation was used by the allies when campaining against Germany during the war. And he decides to precede it with 'wer hoch steigt der wird tief fallen', or: 'those who rise highest, fall the deepest'.
And there's more brilliant lyricism in this one. The 'über' part, where he contrasts each negative use of term with a positive one.
Also, in the whispers 'du-ich-wir-ihr', he says: you, I , we, them.
But perhaps the deepest, coolest part of the song is that it also narrates band history, as well as Germany's.
Try to catch each line and match it with a song you already know of them. Most blatantly noticeable in the opening line 'du, du hast' of course.
Yes, this is a brilliant song.
Great Video...much appreciation
Just a few Timelines the video went through:
-Romanic Empire (it is in the missing intro: Germania Magna, 16AD...was the first mention of a "German" Country, although there were about 500 different germanic tribes without any sense of Unity)
-Teutonic Knights
-References to the Hindenburg Disaster
-WW II (of course)
-the time of Terrorist Group activities in Germany (RAF = Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction))
The Red Beam throughout the Video could be an indicator for the "Roter Faden" (Red Threat) which is a mind connection for nearly everything in Germany (History, Lyrics, Stories)
Awesome thanks
As many times as I've watched the official video, I never noticed the wings from Engel until now. 8:25
one of the best songs they ever made
First time I see someone using subtitles...thank you...its annoying if reactors dont get it until they read it up after the fact...
Good review! There is a lot of thinking about and you get it! Just let us be glad to be virtual friends nowadays without thinking about the past! Lets have fun together...greetings, a normal german guy
Greetings from Germany
instant sub for this one
This video and song is a masterpiece. It shows the gravity of the feeling of nationalism and patriotism and that it is easy to fall for this "love" and seemingly warm embrace but the german history showed the extreme form where this "love" for your country leads to: genocide and destruction, a cold dystopia of love. And thus germans struggle to feel proud because of this conflicted history. because we saw what it can lead to. And they depicted this so well: Germany as state was founded in 1871 but a national movement was in the heads of the people since the Napoleonic wars. These nationalists didn't have a country to love so they "invented" a german history,, depicted in this video: the black woman as representation of Germania, supressed and fighting against Romans, leading Teutonic knights to battle and death, feeding people like Luther and the philosophers of the Era of Elightenment. These examples show the dark seduction of nationalism, people fighting for "common cause" and these examples where used to build a "german nationalism" which led to the Third Reich. And this is only one part of it. The struggle with fighting these nationalist ideas after the Nazis in form of terror of the RAF (Lindemann as woman in the elevator), the divison in DDR and BRD during the Cold War....And then Lindemann tops it all with peotic use of the first verse of the "Deutschlandlied", the forbidden part of the national anthem, where he uses the phrase "Deutschland, Deutschland über allen", (literally translating to "Germany above all" ),which was meant to represent german accomplishments and levitate the national feelings over everything else, here used as a metaphor for hubris and that Germany "fell" to that hubris at first.
The English subtitle version cuts off the opening cinematic set in AD 16 (more or less the historical founding of Germany at the Teutoburg Forest where they defeated the Romans, which put an end to Roman attempts to invade them and delineated the borders of Germania that mostly hold to today). It also cuts off the cinematic credits at the end. Both of these sections (the intro and the credits) have no singing, so there is nothing to translate. You don't miss anything by watching them. My advice for watching this music video would be to have both the Official Video from Rammstein's channel, and also the English subtitled version, open in adjacent tabs. Watch the offical one until the one minute mark, then switch over to the subtitled version which takes over at that point. Then after the end of the subtitled version, go back to the official version and start watching at about 6:45.
Re: your "What? Did she give birth to a dog?", the dogs in the video are Leonbergers, a type of German dog that nearly became extinct during both world wars (reportedly down to 5 dogs in WWI and 8 in WWII) but were re-bred enough that they survive as fairly prolific to this day. From what I can tell, the dogs are a metaphor for the German people's resilience, coming back to their own despite their rough history. I'm sure there's further symbolism to be found there, hope that helped things make a little more sense.
You get it. Deutschland, I love you, I hate you, I am you.
A song you might compare "Deutschland" to is Jimi Hendrix Woodstock version of "The Star spangeöed Banner". Jimi's version shows the destruction, the war in Vietnam, slavery +++. I think it's good that you prefered the subtitle version to "understand" the lyrics (there are double meanings and references a translation can't show). Watch the full version afterwards.
if you like the synth of this song, it is actually a tribute to anne clark (esp. her song 'our darkness'). you might want to give it a try, if you don't know it already.
"I don't know a lot about German history, so I'm afraid"
Congratulations. You have AlReADy a good grasp of the general outlines of German history!
This is the problem today. People think they know history because they vaguely know outlines of events. All context and depth disappears. It's perfect for demonization but horrible for morality.
This is why history repeats itself, the names change but the events stay the same.
@@vergil8833 there's some truth to what you say of course but then again i was joking and of course there are also those who obsess over history to distort the present.
@@QuizmasterLaw Certain communities obsess over history, but usually just the idea of events, like slavery in the US which many believe to be the worst thing that has ever happend in history simply because of how much it is obsessed over with very little actual facts in play, it's all pathos for political gain and grifting.
Very much the same case with german history. Everyone obesses over nazis and this and that with complete disregard for why WW2 actually happend because it helps the narrative if the masses just believe that germans woke up one day and decided to be evil. Those who claim to be the opposite gains power from that, which is why generational shame is nothing but a tool for those who are immoral to gain power.
@@vergil8833 selectively breeding humans like cattle for docility submissiveness stupidity and strength for around 300 years was in fact really fucking horrible.
@@QuizmasterLaw Castrating them to ensure they never live beyond their bought generation or assimilate for 2000 years is considerably worse. And so are the countless genocides of the past. Yet those are not topics because they are not beneficial.
But considering you only responded to the idea that american slavery is seen as the worst thing to happen in history I think we're done here.
I'm not German but I love this band and this song.. tattooed them on me
the red is supposed to represent the red thread of German history. a masterpiece
the intro is my favorite part
As it is always the case with Rammstein, the lyrics feature some clever plays on words or phrases that only work in German, like the "Germany, Germany above all", which is a reference to the old nationalist and now banned first verses of the German national anthem and comes back around when Lindemann sings "who rises up far will fall down deeply". Nazi Germany in that case falls down the deepest as it had declared itself the pinnacle.
By the way, keep it up, your takes on music, with attention to the lyrics and the videos, are among the most genuine on this platform.
There is nothing banned about thefirst verses of the Deutschlandlied.
or maybe the other way around, maybe it is a desire that the one who made the fall fall ?!
@@NormanTheDormantDoormat Yeah, kind of goofed up in my phrasing there, you're right. The verses themselves aren't banned, athough they were after the war, but they don't get used anymore, as they will propably forever be linked to Nazi Germany, and the former continuation, the Horst Wessel song, is the part that is still banned. Kind of complicated and would have made my original post unreadably long, but nonetheless important information.
@@agrazaj223 I don't really understand what you mean, could you elaborate?
@@AlfredSoul odlatuje w kosmos w szklanej trumnie ciche marzenie niemców i nie tylko ich !
The Original Video has a longer Intro and a pretty drawn out credits scene at the end.
Funny how the video that gives credit to the original creators gets blocked, but the one where that stuff is cut out doesn't.
Copyright Law in a nutshell.
Anyway, greetings from germany!
Like to add that the giving birth scene is quite strange but beside all the history ...this masterpiece also started a kind of shitstorms because of a by law forbidden Lyric part of the former national anthem . But Rammstein will always open up to the darkest side in ourselves and speak Out loud the wildest nightmares we all going through ...wether it's in our Dreams, past or present Life Situation. I do love their music so much . Sometimes better not to discuss ... Dive into their incredible songs. 🙏🏻🤘✨ Take good cate
The "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" part of the "Lied der Deutschen" is not forbidden, that's a common misconception. It was just decided to omit this part from the german anthem because of the implications and use by the Nazis.
Main herz in flammen 💣 это ох...но)
God I love watching people react to this song/video. Fucking beautiful song really. Also the English translation was mostly correct, but had a few mistakes, definitely captured the essence of the song though. However, I noticed at the end he changes the chorus to say: "Deutschland, your heart is in flames... Deutschland my breath is cold, so young and yet so old" so he switches the roles a bit. And there were a few other small mistakes that I don't remember at this point.
I love how he knows it’s going to backlash to call the instrumental a beat 😂
The Rammstein video depicts the history of Germany from the Tribes of Germania in Roman times to the falling of the Wall, which devided West Germany and East Germany. It is a brilliant video with a very powerful song. It's one of my favourite songs by Rammstein who are one of my favourite all time bands, Queen being the other. 💂♂️💂♂️💂♂️💂♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
The dogs that Germania gives birth to are Leonburger pups. The Leonburger dog was said to be bred to be a symbolic dog, in this case symbolising nationalism, prized by European Royal households. When she gives birth to the pups, she's giving birth to nationalism, which is what we're seeing in modern times. The severed head that's carried through the video, to me, symbolises the ideology that's carried through history leading to history repeating itself which the same tragic outcomes. Brilliantly produced video that has so much in it, I could be typing from now until this time next week and still probably miss something. Heartfelt song from Rammstein that could apply to any country in the world really-we'd all like to say that we love our respective countries, but we all have so much to be ashamed of unfortunately.
Time 6:02 Here Till sings "Deutchland, Deutschland über allen. This is a play on the former verse in the German national anthem, Deutchland, Deutchland über alles. The former verse was changed, due to the distancing them to the Nazis.
"Deatuchland überallen" means germany above everyone else
The point of giving birth to the dog has to do with the nearly extinction of a german dogbreed called Leonberger during WW1 and WW2. A few german people who loved the breed saved the population, so germany can still have this kind of breed.
Dont look at her as a woman but much more as the incarnation of Germany/Deutschland itself.
At the beginning of the video you see the origin of Germany starting with the revenge for the battle of Varus (9 A.D.) by Germanicus leading the united german tribes against the roman empire in the battle of Teuteburger Wald at 16 A.D.
Thats why Rammstein sings "germany you are so young (starting 1949 after WW2) but so old" (meaning the united tribes during battle of Teuteburger Wald at 16 A.D., what makes germany 2000 years old.)
what you said at 4:10 is so true, profound and logical yet germany still hasnt figured that out
Great reaction. I like how you deal with the text and context. Keep it up. You should take a look at "Ohne Dich" . Something completely diffrent
If you are interested, there is a detailed analysis of this video by Three Arrows in English language on yt, which highlights how individual scenes relate to German history. Just search for 'Deutschland by Rammstein: An Analysis'
If you would like to check out acts that are associated to Rammstein, I will recommend checking out Aesthetic Perfection with their song Gods and Gold. Richard Z Kruspe has featured guitars on that song! 🙂
And last year, they went on tour with Lindemann, Tills side project!
The original video features a looooong outro in an exagurated aspect ratio with Sonne played on piano in the background. Nothing special, but neat if you happen to have 3 screens glued to each other side by side.
there is the ancient romans, there is east-west germany division, Nazi germany, The explosion of the hindenburg zeppeling, the middle ages before the chism in christian church where the catholic church enriched itself on the iliterate masses, the burning of books, The dark skinne lady in golden armor and red background is some symbolism for the german flag in some way, but there was this symbolic figure "fortuna" from some poem, but fortuna is actually some roman mythology figure..., maybe some other figure i just dont know about, you mentioned the RAF thing which i never knew much about, so i didnt notice but makes sense, and lastly still bewildering is the birth of these dogs, still no idea what that should refer to, maybe just for bewildering of the audience xD
Great reaction, great song, amazing video - a true piece of art, which belongs in every school history lesson (at least in Germany), but also an honest declaration of non-patriotic love to the country ("Meine Liebe kann ich Dir nicht geben..." My love, I cannot give to you...). I like your take on patriotism - we can be patriotic, but should never be nationalistic. Pledging allegiance to the flag for example is the first step of brainwashing, trying to say "Never question the system = the country". Religion then tries to control us from the other side, instead we should be humanitarian, helping others, and not be selfish. Rammstein are often misinterpreted, but here they make it clear that they condemn nationalism. I share your views, growing up in a country gives us the emotional anchor, but it doesn't mean we cannot question its politics. Germany has tried to learn from past failures, but people forget.
All history Germany in this song)) video it's very good.
i'd like to understand the meaning of the song to be: Germania, as an idealised figure, was innocent and somewhat untouched, just going about her business. but the people of all strides made her what she is today. conflicted, contrasting, full of pride and ingenuity but also depths and horrors.
and while the innocent and aspiring idea is still "there", the actions and consequences the people of her have taken - pushed her further away, outweighing any good they did. they did it willingly - but yet they regret what they did.
tldr; it's a pretty conflicted topic. and i dare to say that i can say that, as a millenial german living in germany with family history on both sides of the most recent world war - and even some dating back to the turn of the last century. without any agenda, just living breathing and honoring the history.
The video is a "must see“, as it has the highest production quality there is and it is showing the dark history of Germany from the year 9‘bc (Varus battle at Teutoburg forest) till modern times. There is so much going on / happening, there are hidden hints, … that even I as a German (and also Dutch) cannot get everything in one, two ore three times watching it.
Therefore I strongly do suggest to read some analysis about the content of the song:
www.loudersound.com/features/we-got-an-oxford-university-professor-to-explain-what-the-fcks-going-on-in-that-rammstein-video
There was a huge controversy about especially one particular scene taking place in a concentration camp. They used a part of it for a trailer without lyrics. That was a planned scandal. If you see the full video and have the lyrics at the same time on, you’ll see that it was OK, what they did. But they just love to be provocative.
Here is an analysis of this scene including the english lyrics (the lyrics are limited, the story is told in pictures): metalreport.co.uk/rammsteins-deutschland-analysis/
If you see the photos within this article you’ll understand the discussion.
A longer video analysis is online here: ruclips.net/video/sc-euVL8xQs/видео.html
Me: Hell Yeah...let's put on Deutschland!
My Neck: Oh shit not again.....
My MAN, you gotta check out Puppe - Rammstein from their newest album.
the story and the music accompanying it is breathtaking!
First of all. This is not my comment (I only copied) but this is the most detailed description I´ve ever read before! This describes the long video! I
A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman as Germania. Germania is the mother 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 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 Emperor Germanicus. 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 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: My interpretation of the glass coffin is Little Snow White in space, like I wrote before. PPPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet. 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
Forget the lyrics, the story is told by the pictures. The beginning as barbarians to dark age with his crusades, Imperial Era and First World
War, Weimarer Repuplic, Second World War specifically the Holocaust, the terror of the so called "Red Army Fraction" in the 70s, divided Germany in east and west......
The so-called "Varus Battle" in the Teuteburger Forest, which the Teutons won because they were led by a soldier trained in Rome who lured
the Romans into the impenetrable Teutonic forests and thereby completely destroyed their usual strategies.
It was common roman practice at the time to kidnap children of Germanic tribal leaders and threaten them with death so that peace would prevail in the provinces.
Many of these kidnapped people later made careers in the Roman army and one of them even made it to the centurion before
returning to Germania to properly kick the Romans there a........... 😉
They lost three entire legions, their leader (Varus) committed suicide, and it was one of the most devastating defeats in the history of the
Roman Army.
This won battle and the "Battle of Leschfeld" under Otto the Great against the Huns are generally regarded as the birth of a German feeling
of togetherness and the beginning of the birth of a nation.
The last scene with the glass coffin, is it possible that an astronaut brought a copy of Snow white (or a collection of the Grimm's fairytales) with them to space?
Or I guess German astronauts?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_astronauts
Glad you found a way to upload this. Its an amazing video and very detailed and you are right it is about the history of violent Germany and how the band themselves feel about being German and how conflicting it is. It also has a few scenes that reference their other music scenes, the glass coffin from Sonne, the people under the priests table from Mein hertz Brennt, them crawling at the end from Mein Teil, Germania as an Angel reference to Engel. If you want to know about this video in more detail and the history behind it check out ruclips.net/video/2YNEJUN7Xyk/видео.html
It looks like the two minutes were removed from the beginning the war between Germania and the Roman Empire.