The whole Video will understand only Historians and Germans and these people also have to watch the video several times. 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 Rammstein is one of the most famous metal bands and are living legends with the same line-up for nearly 30 years. They are a german band and are considered the best live band in the world, especially when it comes to showmenship, pyro and fire. Above all, Rammstein uses pyro quite differently than all other bands. Rammstein's music is a mixture of techno (electronic music) and metal (= industrial metal), although Rammsteins origins are in punk music. Rammstein concerts are a life time experience that you will never forget. Their videos are art but also often controversial. Rammstein also refers to classical German literature, e.g. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's. Several of their songs are related to controversial and taboo subjects such as sadomasochism, homosexuality, intersexuality, incest, pedophilia, necrophilia, cannibalism, pyromania, religion and sexual violence. Also several of their songs are allegedly inspired by real-life events or politics. Rammstein lyrics are very deep and are also often used in school and universities around the world to learn German. There are people who learn German only because of Rammstein. Rammstein fans are considered to be the craziest and most fanatical fans in the world. In concerts from the hardcore fans all over the world it is expected that you can sing along with the German lyrics even if you don't speak German.
Having watched this clip dozens of times I cannot detect a plot behind the different scenes. Some of the symbols are quite far out, like the dogs. Never heard of Leonbergers. While the shepherds are very aggressive, the "Leon's" are the opposite. And almost died out in both WWs. The closest I can get to a storyline is, that Germans from the future travel back in time to ensure the survival of the peaceful Germans. A second line tells the story of two brothers, fighting each other. Anyway, I don't think it was the intention of the band to teach history. They adress primarily the heart, to share the feelings they have to their country with the audience. They use this caleidoscope of really exciting historical snippets to induce anger, disgust, in the end also pain and sadness, crescendoing to chaos. But the Leonbergers are safe. Then the outtro sets in. There is no more action, it's the camera that moves around the actors, while the piano plays a melancholic tune. The whole scene reminds me more and more of a music box with figurines. The actors turn into pawns of a greater game. Tied to the spot, they have little options. It's the world that's turning, and determining whom they meet ans what trouble they step into.
This song in German and about German history was a mega hit in… Poland (among others) as well as Germany itself. I think this says a lot about Rammstein’s view of German history. Unbiased, just saying it as it was in a beautiful way, non political, but pure art.
great reaction with some deeper thoughts, also to the band itself. Sonne for sure is good choice to be the next song/video...but there is a ton more to explore ;-) Greetings from germany
Hi, I'm from Germany. Rammstein is playing a classic "Industrial Metal" style. A 50-50 mix of synthesizers and hard metal guitars. A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman as Germania. Germania is the personification of the German nation. It isn't and wasn't a goddess or Joan of Arc. The glass coffin: It is Little Snow White from the Grimm-fairytales....and from their own video "Sonne". Only with black skin and in space. The piano song at the end is the song "Sonne", too. The words "Germania Magna" at the beginning are a Roman name for the area of Germany, that wasn't conquered by the Roman Empire at that time. Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were the Roman conquered areas (Roman provinces) of Germany. The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) means: Germany as a unified state is very young. A unified German nation is only existing from 1871 onwards. Before that year of unification Germany was made of countless, little mini-states and the people identified first and foremost as Prussians, Hessians, Saxons etc, etc, etc. and only in a second line of thought they had a lose sense of being somehow Germans, too, as a kind of unifying second identity. So the area & the landscape where the Germans are living and the Germans themselves as a people...are thousands of years old. But only recently, in 1871, there was a unified Germany as one single state. So Germany as a unified state is very young...and at the same time it is thousands of years old. The battle of the Teutoburg forest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike). That battle is of ABSOLUTE importance for the German history. The hanged bodies in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, who were gruesome sacrificed to the Germanic gods...and were partly nailed to the trees. The Varus-(Teutoburg)-Battle was already in 9 AD. In 16 AD were the vengeance campaigns of commanding field general Germanicus under Emperor Tiberius Augustus. Therefore we see here the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they are watching their dead comrades hanging in the trees or getting their heads chopped off (for nailing them to the trees). In reality the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army in the various ways they were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed at the trees. Slaves were liberated even decades after the battle. After the scenes with the Romans we saw the Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster (the burning Zeppelin in the background). The moustaches and clothing from the fight scene are from WWI and post WWI years. From the working class people in WWI and the roaring 20's. In the WWII years later on this kind of big bushy moustache was already out of fashion. The falling banknotes in the prison are not about corruption. That scene is about the hyper-inflation of the 1920's, that took away the savings of the Germans and left them in deep poverty and desperation. One had to pay a loaf of bread with a handcart full of nearly worthless banknotes back then and it hit the German people deep down inside and in their souls. Especially the poor ones and the simple workers. The V2 rocket (first manmade object in space) as technical triumph of the German spirit...and at the same time the killing of the concentration camp prisoners in the bunker factories below the mountains during the production of that rocket. This scene in the video could be a representation of a very specific concentration camp. It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein mountain. A mixture between a big, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp. The concentration camp inmates had several different markings for different kinds of convicts and their "crimes" sown to their chests, like it was in reality, too. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the star of David for Jews and two of them were marked with the double-triangles for Jehovas Whitnesses. The book burnings of the Nazis and the burning of the witches of the church. In the same scene with the book burning there is EVEN MORE going on. The cooperation of the church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA-man. The scene with the sign with the Hammer and a pair of compasses in a circle of wheat is the sign of the GDR (DDR). The 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 😄 Greetings Mega
PS: RUclips didn't allow me to integrate this information into the bigger text (above) for unknown reasons, therefore I'm posting it here: The troops, who smashed the Jewish shops during the Kristallnacht (not shown in the video) were SA (Sturmabteilung) in brown uniform and not the later SS (Schutzstaffel) in the black uniform. The SA did all the dirty work at the beginning of the Nazi rise to power...until the "Night of the long knives", an inner-Nazi power struggle, happened. The head of the SA (Ernst Röhm) was killed and from then on the SA was turned more and more into the SS under Himmler. The book burnings were part of the early Nazi years, too, and were done by the SA, too. One can see the SA burning the books and Till is watching it in a brown SA uniform. Both, Kristallnacht and book burnings were different things and happened at different times. The book burnings happened over a longer timespan at different locations at different times during the Kristallnacht was one big "event" that happened at one single day. Kristallnacht means "Crystal Night" and was called that way, because the smashed shop windows of the Jewish shops looked like thousands of crystals on the ground. But in the Rammstein video I've only seen the book burnings. PPS: The two beer drinking soldiers to the left side of the table, where Germania is lying on and where the priests are eating Sauerkraut & Sausages from her body, are not French soldiers and they aren't representing the French revolution. Those two beer drinking soldiers are Prussian soldiers and they are emphasizing the importance of Prussia for the German history. As far as I could see: They were from the era of Friedrich der Große (The Old Fritz), who was of extraordinary importance for German history. Amongst many other achievements he was the one, who brought the potato to Prussia and Germany. That saved many Germans from hunger and the potato became one of the most beloved foods in Germany on that way.
@@megatwingo I´ve done that already! That is the reason why i said that!. The casting of Ruby commey was historical acurate and not some nonsense about racism. Timestamps for the original video In the scene af 0:32 she is Artemis ( Greek Mythology) or Diana (Roman Mythology) In the scene at 1:25 she is Josephine Baker In the scene at 2:33 she is Angela Davis In the scene at 4:50 she is Diana Göttin der Jagd (German Mythology - The exact same strory repeated like the greek Artemis or the roman Diana) History repeat itself, is the message
The creation of a female personification for a country is based on the greek Artemis,. So based on the origin Germania is more acurate in this music video, but this is not history!
It's very confusing for Americans since many people of German descent spell their names differently. If you watch the Mel Brooks movie "Young Frankenstein", they actually made a joke of it.
Just for the future.. you don't skip the outro of a Rammstein song. That's blasphemy. It's like reading a novel in class and then not discussing what the author meant.
You can't feel the love-hate relationship if you don't listen to the outtro guys! And the pronunciation is "Rumm-shtine".! Beer-shtines" are unknown in Germany, we call it "Beer Croog" btw.
0:20 The first one is correct and actually pretty good - not entirely correct but close enough. The second pronounciation is completely off. If you see "ei" in a German word it is always pronounced like you did in the first attempt. "Ei" standing by itself is also a word btw, meaning egg.
I would question the whole 'committed nationalists' thing. If anything, it's the opposite. Europeans have a lot of nationalist baggage that caused the continent to rip itself apart. It's just that Germany is their home, and most people love their home despite it's faults. This video, to me, exposes this demon candidly, and honestly. As a British person, I just wish we could grow up enough to do the same about our no less shocking history. Peace
The most basic thing Rammstein does to attract naziism comments is the rolling R that Till uses when singing. A lot of germans associate that with Hitler. Of course a ton of other people used the rolling R and especially in southern Germany people tend to roll their Rs more than usual elsewhere even today. Also their aesthetics sometimes remind of nazi propaganda. If you know anything about their background though, or just listen to the lyrics it becomes quite obvious they are leaning to the left, not the right. I believe chosing a black Germania for this video has a lot to do with Rammstein not wanting the neo nazis to use their imagery to promote extremist right hate. If you want to know how to pronounce "Rammstein", they have 4 Songs where they tell you. Rammlied, Rammstein, Ram4 and my favorite "Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen?" (Do you want to see the bed in flames).
Hi.. Greedings from Germany.. ✌️So try :NullPositiv -,, Wo Rauch ist ist auch Feuer(Metall ith female strong voice).. or :die toten Hosen -,, mehr davon, live Rock am Ring, Hals und Beinbruch,, (🤔long Word,, See what the singer s doing 😮☠️).. /Broilers-keine Hymnen,, (anti-Nazi Song..) Enjoy with a german beer 🍺🇺🇦
So sad, you skipped the outro. That's so disrespectful! All Rammstein fans will never forgive you! That is a Sakrileg, a sin! Just a slap in the face of all Rammstein addicted people!
quite the opposite actually, I judged the music based on a person I didn't like. Which is why I wanted to listen to them because that is not fair to the band and I ended up really liking it. 🤘
Never in my life did I think I would see a video that would show the failures of a Republic, a Socialist state, and a Communist state all in less than 9 minutes!!
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The whole Video will understand only Historians and Germans and these people also have to watch the video several times. 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
Rammstein is one of the most famous metal bands and are living legends with the same line-up for nearly 30 years. They are a german band and are considered the best live band in the world, especially when it comes to showmenship, pyro and fire. Above all, Rammstein uses pyro quite differently than all other bands.
Rammstein's music is a mixture of techno (electronic music) and metal (= industrial metal), although Rammsteins origins are in punk music. Rammstein concerts are a life time experience that you will never forget. Their videos are art but also often controversial.
Rammstein also refers to classical German literature, e.g. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's. Several of their songs are related to controversial and taboo subjects such as sadomasochism, homosexuality, intersexuality, incest, pedophilia, necrophilia, cannibalism, pyromania, religion and sexual violence. Also several of their songs are allegedly inspired by real-life events or politics. Rammstein lyrics are very deep and are also often used in school and universities around the world to learn German. There are people who learn German only because of Rammstein. Rammstein fans are considered to be the craziest and most fanatical fans in the world. In concerts from the hardcore fans all over the world it is expected that you can sing along with the German lyrics even if you don't speak German.
Having watched this clip dozens of times I cannot detect a plot behind the different scenes. Some of the symbols are quite far out, like the dogs. Never heard of Leonbergers. While the shepherds are very aggressive, the "Leon's" are the opposite. And almost died out in both WWs. The closest I can get to a storyline is, that Germans from the future travel back in time to ensure the survival of the peaceful Germans. A second line tells the story of two brothers, fighting each other. Anyway, I don't think it was the intention of the band to teach history. They adress primarily the heart, to share the feelings they have to their country with the audience. They use this caleidoscope of really exciting historical snippets to induce anger, disgust, in the end also pain and sadness, crescendoing to chaos. But the Leonbergers are safe. Then the outtro sets in. There is no more action, it's the camera that moves around the actors, while the piano plays a melancholic tune. The whole scene reminds me more and more of a music box with figurines. The actors turn into pawns of a greater game. Tied to the spot, they have little options. It's the world that's turning, and determining whom they meet ans what trouble they step into.
This song in German and about German history was a mega hit in… Poland (among others) as well as Germany itself. I think this says a lot about Rammstein’s view of German history. Unbiased, just saying it as it was in a beautiful way, non political, but pure art.
great reaction with some deeper thoughts, also to the band itself.
Sonne for sure is good choice to be the next song/video...but there is a ton more to explore ;-)
Greetings from germany
Thank you for being here and we're so glad you liked the video and our thoughts! We will for sure be exploring more with this band.
Rammstein are the best at everything, also guys never cut the outro it’s just not done, thanks 🙏
Understood!! We will not make that mistake again 🤘
Hi, I'm from Germany.
Rammstein is playing a classic "Industrial Metal" style. A 50-50 mix of synthesizers and hard metal guitars.
A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman as Germania. Germania is the personification of the German nation. It isn't and wasn't a goddess or Joan of Arc.
The glass coffin: It is Little Snow White from the Grimm-fairytales....and from their own video "Sonne". Only with black skin and in space.
The piano song at the end is the song "Sonne", too.
The words "Germania Magna" at the beginning are a Roman name for the area of Germany, that wasn't conquered by the Roman Empire at that time.
Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were the Roman conquered areas (Roman provinces) of Germany.
The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) means:
Germany as a unified state is very young. A unified German nation is only existing from 1871 onwards. Before that year of unification Germany was made of countless, little mini-states and the people identified first and foremost as Prussians, Hessians, Saxons etc, etc, etc. and only in a second line of thought they had a lose sense of being somehow Germans, too, as a kind of unifying second identity.
So the area & the landscape where the Germans are living and the Germans themselves as a people...are thousands of years old. But only recently, in 1871, there was a unified Germany as one single state.
So Germany as a unified state is very young...and at the same time it is thousands of years old.
The battle of the Teutoburg forest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike).
That battle is of ABSOLUTE importance for the German history.
The hanged bodies in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, who were gruesome sacrificed to the Germanic gods...and were partly nailed to the trees.
The Varus-(Teutoburg)-Battle was already in 9 AD. In 16 AD were the vengeance campaigns of commanding field general Germanicus under Emperor Tiberius Augustus. Therefore we see here the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they are watching their dead comrades hanging in the trees or getting their heads chopped off (for nailing them to the trees).
In reality the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army in the various ways they were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed at the trees. Slaves were liberated even decades after the battle.
After the scenes with the Romans we saw the Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster (the burning Zeppelin in the background).
The moustaches and clothing from the fight scene are from WWI and post WWI years. From the working class people in WWI and the roaring 20's. In the WWII years later on this kind of big bushy moustache was already out of fashion.
The falling banknotes in the prison are not about corruption. That scene is about the hyper-inflation of the 1920's, that took away the savings of the Germans and left them in deep poverty and desperation.
One had to pay a loaf of bread with a handcart full of nearly worthless banknotes back then and it hit the German people deep down inside and in their souls. Especially the poor ones and the simple workers.
The V2 rocket (first manmade object in space) as technical triumph of the German spirit...and at the same time the killing of the concentration camp prisoners in the bunker factories below the mountains during the production of that rocket.
This scene in the video could be a representation of a very specific concentration camp. It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein mountain.
A mixture between a big, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp.
The concentration camp inmates had several different markings for different kinds of convicts and their "crimes" sown to their chests, like it was in reality, too. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the star of David for Jews and two of them were marked with the double-triangles for Jehovas Whitnesses.
The book burnings of the Nazis and the burning of the witches of the church. In the same scene with the book burning there is EVEN MORE going on. The cooperation of the church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA-man.
The scene with the sign with the Hammer and a pair of compasses in a circle of wheat is the sign of the GDR (DDR). The 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 😄
Greetings
Mega
PS: RUclips didn't allow me to integrate this information into the bigger text (above) for unknown reasons, therefore I'm posting it here:
The troops, who smashed the Jewish shops during the Kristallnacht (not shown in the video) were SA (Sturmabteilung) in brown uniform and not the later SS (Schutzstaffel) in the black uniform. The SA did all the dirty work at the beginning of the Nazi rise to power...until the "Night of the long knives", an inner-Nazi power struggle, happened. The head of the SA (Ernst Röhm) was killed and from then on the SA was turned more and more into the SS under Himmler.
The book burnings were part of the early Nazi years, too, and were done by the SA, too. One can see the SA burning the books and Till is watching it in a brown SA uniform.
Both, Kristallnacht and book burnings were different things and happened at different times. The book burnings happened over a longer timespan at different locations at different times during the Kristallnacht was one big "event" that happened at one single day.
Kristallnacht means "Crystal Night" and was called that way, because the smashed shop windows of the Jewish shops looked like thousands of crystals on the ground. But in the Rammstein video I've only seen the book burnings.
PPS:
The two beer drinking soldiers to the left side of the table, where Germania is lying on and where the priests are eating Sauerkraut & Sausages from her body, are not French soldiers and they aren't representing the French revolution. Those two beer drinking soldiers are Prussian soldiers and they are emphasizing the importance of Prussia for the German history.
As far as I could see: They were from the era of Friedrich der Große (The Old Fritz), who was of extraordinary importance for German history. Amongst many other achievements he was the one, who brought the potato to Prussia and Germany. That saved many Germans from hunger and the potato became one of the most beloved foods in Germany on that way.
It is sad to see how much you got wrong and you post it everywhere.
For example: The battle of the Teutoburg forest was 9 A.D. not 16.
@@DoktorUebel So you haven't read my posting. Because that isn't what I wrote.
Try to read my posting again. This time more thoroughly, please.
@@megatwingo I´ve done that already! That is the reason why i said that!.
The casting of Ruby commey was historical acurate and not some nonsense about racism.
Timestamps for the original video
In the scene af 0:32 she is Artemis ( Greek Mythology) or Diana (Roman Mythology)
In the scene at 1:25 she is Josephine Baker
In the scene at 2:33 she is Angela Davis
In the scene at 4:50 she is Diana Göttin der Jagd (German Mythology - The exact same strory repeated like the greek Artemis or the roman Diana)
History repeat itself, is the message
The creation of a female personification for a country is based on the greek Artemis,. So based on the origin Germania is more acurate in this music video, but this is not history!
Rammstein ❤❤❤❤❤❤🔥
"Rammstein" is NOT pronunced like "Rammsteen". "Stein" (stone) is pronunced, like the Stein (beer mug) for beer.
It's very confusing for Americans since many people of German descent spell their names differently. If you watch the Mel Brooks movie "Young Frankenstein", they actually made a joke of it.
@@alexandrorocca7142 fantastic movie, great example!
Thank you for the correct pronunciation!
@@RyanSquared You are welcome! :)
@@alexandrorocca7142 Ah, I see. I even remember that scene from Mel Brooks... :-))
Let her see their live shows
I've just seen them on Wednesday, front row and it was amazing
ooohhh I bet that was awesome! We will for sure put live versions on our list, thanks for the rec!
Well said I’m going in just over a week to see them again
@@stephenmiller195 I hope you have an amazing time!!
@@RyanSquared thanks man
Just for the future.. you don't skip the outro of a Rammstein song. That's blasphemy. It's like reading a novel in class and then not discussing what the author meant.
Understood! I (Sam) think this video will move right into the next song and we'll pick it up from there.
Ja!🥰 Nein!😲 Rammstein!🔥🤘🔥
please more RAMMS+EIN!!!!!
you got it!
Outro song is Sonne piano version
United in heart. ♥
You can't feel the love-hate relationship if you don't listen to the outtro guys! And the pronunciation is "Rumm-shtine".! Beer-shtines" are unknown in Germany, we call it "Beer Croog" btw.
oh awesome, thanks for the pronunciation break down!!! I think we are going to finish up the ending as it will go right into the next song
0:20 The first one is correct and actually pretty good - not entirely correct but close enough. The second pronounciation is completely off. If you see "ei" in a German word it is always pronounced like you did in the first attempt. "Ei" standing by itself is also a word btw, meaning egg.
Big fault..you miss the outro
Do "Ich will" live, the 2016 video with captions :3
I will add it to the list, thanks for the rec!! 🤘 (and yes, we need to do captions)
Don't skip or leave an outro or credits of an Rammstein video. Never!
I would question the whole 'committed nationalists' thing. If anything, it's the opposite. Europeans have a lot of nationalist baggage that caused the continent to rip itself apart. It's just that Germany is their home, and most people love their home despite it's faults. This video, to me, exposes this demon candidly, and honestly. As a British person, I just wish we could grow up enough to do the same about our no less shocking history. Peace
The most basic thing Rammstein does to attract naziism comments is the rolling R that Till uses when singing. A lot of germans associate that with Hitler. Of course a ton of other people used the rolling R and especially in southern Germany people tend to roll their Rs more than usual elsewhere even today. Also their aesthetics sometimes remind of nazi propaganda. If you know anything about their background though, or just listen to the lyrics it becomes quite obvious they are leaning to the left, not the right. I believe chosing a black Germania for this video has a lot to do with Rammstein not wanting the neo nazis to use their imagery to promote extremist right hate.
If you want to know how to pronounce "Rammstein", they have 4 Songs where they tell you. Rammlied, Rammstein, Ram4 and my favorite "Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen?" (Do you want to see the bed in flames).
Luv Ur background informations
Thank you! There are also some amazing comments that go into further detail, lots of stuff we didn't know! 🤘
more Rammstein..😍
will do!!
Rahm Schtine is the best way I can say to pronounce their name.
THank you!🤘
you missed a lot cut off the credits 😱
Till
Lindemann
German
Prisoner
Dauchland
Dauchland
Rammstein
Rammstein
you have to know a lot of german history to understand wath is there going on....!
very true!
Hi.. Greedings from Germany.. ✌️So try :NullPositiv -,, Wo Rauch ist ist auch Feuer(Metall ith female strong voice).. or :die toten Hosen -,, mehr davon, live Rock am Ring, Hals und Beinbruch,, (🤔long Word,, See what the singer s doing 😮☠️).. /Broilers-keine Hymnen,, (anti-Nazi Song..) Enjoy with a german beer 🍺🇺🇦
Cool reaction , please react to Gojira : l'enfant sauvage (official video) thanks
Cutting off the credits is a sin.
Rammstein
Dauchland
Ruby
Commey
try "Zeit"
Neuer cut a rammstein song short . We true Fans HATE that .
Girl
Germania
Blind
Eye
The credits is what gets likes!!! why didn't you play them? That's what fans care about! Sorry, thumbs down from me! You missed your chance!
Lol
Blödsinn. Fans kennen die und müssen die nicht dauernd sehen.
So sad, you skipped the outro. That's so disrespectful! All Rammstein fans will never forgive you! That is a Sakrileg, a sin! Just a slap in the face of all Rammstein addicted people!
So you judge people on the music they listen to? I listen to Infant Annihilator does that make me a bad person?
quite the opposite actually, I judged the music based on a person I didn't like. Which is why I wanted to listen to them because that is not fair to the band and I ended up really liking it. 🤘
Reactors who only react to a part of a song get a Thumbs Down automatically.
Never in my life did I think I would see a video that would show the failures of a Republic, a Socialist state, and a Communist state all in less than 9 minutes!!