It seems like you cannot imagine at all, that there is no patriotism in a country - that one cannot love ones own country. But that's how it is in Germany and this song is about the Germans' inability to love "Deutschland". The reasons why Germans cannot love their home country are the unprecedented crimes committed in Germany's name - especially the Holocaust and the war of extermination against Poland and Russia from 1939 to 1945, which costed about 50 Mio. peoples lives. And no - you definitely can speak about the disasters of German history with Germans - mainly because they don't love their country and therefore don't feel offended when being confronted with the fails of German history.
Germania is the black woman and she represents the strength of Germany. Hence she is strong in the first encounter with Rome and then joins Rome and wears a crown of strength, but under the Holy Roman Empire she is beginning to be consummed as strength is in Rome and the religious who represent Rome. She is happy between WWI and WWII as Woodrow Wilson's "determinism" allowed Germany to attack other political views, but even stronger during WWII Nazi Germany's third Reich, and is captured by the Bader Meinhof RAF by accident in their terrorism in Western Germany, but is also gleeful at seeing strength also in the West, for she merely bids her time in Eastern communism as a soldier, but yells out her pride in being German. She has riches and dogs in this present age, but can also be in a wheelchair as she is weak in rejecting nationalism (I cannot give you my love), and she gives birth to dogs through interbreeding of the races and the white man is on his hands and knees as a dog before the lesser breed of race because of it. GERMANY OVER ALL. Now what was it all about? Finally, in the future with laser like in "Freejack" they are zeroing in on Germania to take her strength for the future and begin the cut while the crown is on her head inside the concentration camp, but she is dead and in a casket without the spaceship for the future at the very end. This is because only the spirit of THE ACT OF THE WILL is loved as the human is unnecessary in the future. Some Nazi who is rich, must have wanted to give forth this imagry knowing the demons are all that exist in hell as man is working towards no flesh as man is merely a beast (Psalms 49:20) as for humans the second body and soul are destroyed in hell fire (Matthew 10:28).
This is the best music video ever. I am a history teacher and I am Czech. My nation borders Germany. And the history of my nation is very often a story of how to survive this neighborhood with a larger German nation. So my relationship with Germany is ambivalent as well. I admire German culture and also this ability of deep self-reflection. But at the same time, it is difficult for me to love Germany, which has caused so much suffering. Anyway, I love Rammstein's music and this video is fascinating
I was born in Communist East Germany. In 1986, Mine Grandfather got us out, and to the US somehow, using forged papers, passes and documents. I was only 7 when we all left. Es war ein schrecklicher und bedrückender Ort!
@@tfs203 ich hab erst jetzt gefunden dass es ne Serie über Schiffsreisen gab in der DDR. Im Prinzip sind die in Kuba gewesen ständig und haben das als anderen Ort dargestellt. Jaja freies reisen aber nur in die "sozialistischen Bruderstaaten" There was a series about ship travelling in GDR. The plot took always place on Cuba in fact, just disguised as another foreign place / country :D
I am part german and i both love and hate the nation half my family is from. This country is extremely conflicted and aware of its own failure of what it wants to be. The people are extremely sensitive about these topics as it ofcourse shows a very dark past wich they hope to forget and bury, yet learn from it so it won't happen again
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 Second World Wars and is symbolic of the German people, whose existence was also strongly threatened in those wars - both now have a second existential chance. 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, 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, sometimes as a victim, but mostly as a perpetrator. With her black skin she is also a provocation to all stupid racists 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 in the world 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
Personally,I've always thought that when she was giving birth to the puppies,she was giving birth to the Dogs of War. Which were,in the video,on leashes. Reminding me of the term: "Cry havoc and let slip the Dogs of War". Said by Mark Antony,in William Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar". As Hitler held immense admiration for the Roman Empire and its legacy,I took the puppies and grown Dogs to mean this term. Just my own opinion though.
the birth of the dog symbolizes the birth of the legal act... the obstetrician in red is a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court in the area of the RAF terrorists you can see that the legal act is fully grown and valuable
German is my first language - so as a native pls let me explain as concise as possible as many of the hidden symbols and meanings in this great song: In advance - please apologize the mistakes that I have certainly made - English is not my first language :-) Before I go through it just some general remarks: the black lady’s persona in the video is “Germania” and she represents Germany (the nation / the people) and in many scenes where she appears the colors black, red and gold (colors of the German flag) are dominant. The video as well as the lyrics are a critical review on Germany’s history. Main scenes of the video: The first scene with the roman soldiers refers to the battle of Teutoburg forest, the first time the German tribes untied under Arminius against the Romans and ambushed them on their march back to their winter camp + completely annihilated several legions - the romans would never return and fortify at the Rhine - this could be seen as the birth of the German identity. The red laser beams throughout the video I think are guiding thread (German expression “roter Faden”" translates to “red thread” and translates to guiding principle / guideline of a story) When Germania (black lady) in golden armor (black red gold as main colors of the scene pushes the standard into the ground she raises all the dead medieval knights - a reference to the strength of the German people who recovered time after time throughout history from catastrophes (especially, but not only) in the middle ages (crusades, hunnic invasion, plague, etc.) - the additional meaning i think is the fact that german people several times followed their countries call for War - even if they were already beaten up (e.g. after WWI going into WWII) Next scene (fistfight) is from the roaring twenties, the period between the two world wars where upper class society was decadent on the backs of ordinary people + entertainment industry was born. Next scene shows the Hindenburg disaster (famous German Airship which blew up in flames) during a time of growing industrialization 1930s. Next Scene is from the communist elite in eastern Germany who was indulging in party and Champaign while ordinary people were poor and the main idea of communism should be equality of the people. Then the scene in the middle ages - where the monks (representing the church) feast on Germania (the land) and suppresses the common folk (underneath the table) The scene in the prison again refers to the roaring twenties, as Germania is dressed in a prussian uniform suppressing the German people. Additionally money is thrown away by everybody, a reference to the big inflation in Germany after WWI. Then the rockets (Nazi German was working on the first warfare rockets called V1 and V2 (V standing for “Vergeltung” which translates to retaliation - fitting to the picture with the rockets, the lyrics are an alliteration on “über” a german pre-syllable meaning over. “Überheblich (overbearing / presumptuous), Überlegen (superior) Übernehmen (taking over), Übergeben (handing over), überraschen (surprise), Überfallen (ambush), Deutschland, Deutschland über allen (Germany, Germany above all). The Concentration camp prisoners have symbols sewn on their jackets for the groups the Nazis hunted and killed (yellow star for Jews, Pink triangle for Homosexuals, red symbol for political adversaries (communists). Germania is on the side of the Nazis and has an eyepatch (representing the blind eye that many Germans turned on the atrocities of the Nazi regime. The Scene where Till is dressed as a woman refers to the left wing terrorist group called “Rote Armee Fraktion” - a terrorist association in the 1970s responsible for several political assassinations and murders as well as a famous kidnapping of German Diplomats in Stockholm. Then there is the scene with the stake at which books are burned by the Nazis and people are burned by the church (inquisition). Later the monk (church) and the Nazi soldier hug (as the church did not go against the Nazis when they came to power and both organizations were responsible for a lot of intolerance and suffering in their times. The scene where Germania is dressed in white with a Halo I think refers to the positive, the strength of the German people who recovered time after time from several catastrophic disasters in their history. Later she gives birth to puppies (a rare breed of dogs (who represent the German people) which got almost extinct in both world wars (symbolized with the dogs wearing gas masks) but recovered after the wars. In these scenes the band members wear space suits - in my view a reference to the (hopefully) better future of the German people. In the very last scene of the outro you can once more see Germania with national colors (black, red gold) with black lipstick, red eyes and golden armor before a red/ black background holding an eagle, the heraldic symbol of Germany. Finally, please find below the lyrics of the song as the perfectly convey the message of the problematic relationship many Germans have to their homeland, wanting to be proud of it but not being able to due to it’s difficult history: - one remark to one of the more important lines of the lyrics: The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) refers to the fact that the German people with their identity have been around for thousands of years, however the actual state of Germany as a nation was only founded very late (1871) thorough the unification of several mini states (Prussia, Hessia, Saxonia, Bavaria, etc.) Here now the lyrics (copied from the internet): [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 everything [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 (translates to “superior humans” - a term the Nazis implicitly used for themselves as the calles other races “Untermenschen” - translating to “inferior humans”), weary) We (The higher you climb, the further you fall) You (Germany, Germany above everything) [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!
Yes, Baader-Meinhof gang... it was indeed a very sad period for all of Europe and for their alliance with Italian "Brigate Rosse" and French "Actione Directe " 😢
An amazing and thorough explanation. Thank you for taking the time to explain everything completely. I’ve visited Germany twice (I’m from the US) beautiful country and such wonderful people. First time I went alone to visit a friend in Ulm, the second time I brought my then ten year old daughter. No matter where we went, we felt welcomed and part of whatever we were doing at the time. I look forward to visiting again soon
I learned so much with that explanation and it’s amazing that they fit it into one video. Thank you so much for taking the time to really write that out!!
As a german i can Tell you that you do not have to Worry about crossing the lines with history. We are quite open about it. Its the only way to honor the fallen and the victims.
Germany's history is so much more than WW2 :) I really like that they also showed Beider Meinhoff, Hindenburg and the important battle against the Roman empire :)
Only 1% history of Germany is showed in this videoclip, snd i'm very dissapointed by Rammstein that are brainwashed like 80% of Germans by UK & USA propaganda
@@mandibiedermann2246 I have never heard this critique before. do you care to elaborate? As far as I know the entire band grew up in East germany and the song is about their difficult relationship with how to feel about their country, which they want to love but some things make that difficult.
@@mandibiedermann2246 Germany itself is a very young nation and yet so old. What do you expect a 200 hour history series from a Metal band ? Go Holy Roman Empire! Go fight Marcus Aurelius or something. tjeeezzz
@@mandibiedermann2246 Perhaps those 80% of Germans are decent enough human beings to be able to analyse their history without any propaganda from USA and UK.
@@Lizardboy68 Which parts do you mean? From what I understand, America has a long "tradition" of glossing over history and omitting or justifying important parts. Only in the 1960s did people start talking about what was done to the Native Americans, before that they were always just the bad guys .... or I've heard too many excuses for which "absolutely important reasons" Dresden of all places was wiped out or low-flying aircraft attacked from the American side to German refugee treks in WW2, which are officially demeaned to this day (despite numerous eyewitnesses)..... Just as examples. I think today's finger pointing and whining about the "old white man" or "all white people... blah blah...it's their fault... blah blah blah..." just as counterproductive, but where's the problem? listen to a different perspective on history? That doesn't really tear you out of a "healing world bubble" does it?
I swear every time I listen to the piano rendition of Sonne during the credits I shed a tear. It's fucking beautiful, but it makes me feel nothing but loss. Could really feel your emotions during this too. Keep up the excellent work!
I'm not German, but I studied German history in college and I studied there for a bit. Where I'm wrong please, correct me, but this is what I understood from those years of study and this video. Germans have a very tense relationship with their country and history. Going from one end, you have some of the finest thinkers in history being German. Brilliant and respected scientists, philosophers, musicians, the list goes on. But German history also is incredibly tragic and malevolent. And these extremes makes it very difficult for modern Germans to look back on their history with pride. So much of German greatness has been tainted by atrocity. And that's what this music video does a great job of showing. Deutschland... Will dich lieben und verdammen (Germany...I want to love you and damn you) Deutschland, meine Liebe kann ich dir nicht geben. (Germany, I am unable to give you my love). When you go back and watch the video with the knowledge that Ruby (the black woman) is Germany incarnate, this becomes even more clear. Watch what she's doing or what's being done to her and when. She's the old Germany that, according to this video, has two possible futures. Either she's practically deified to the point that Germans reduce themselves to animals in her name. Or she's cast out so that a new German identity can rise in her absence.
This is probably the most amazing clip in the music industry at all. It is showing almost all historical events from German history , First, Second World Wars , the Communist party in Germany , the camps , FAU 2 rockets that are going in the sky , these were the most advanced weapons at the time....Roman times at the beggining... just peace of art. The piano at the end is phenomenal , the melody from Sonne, delivered in a hell of a instrumental..... Just piece of art.The puppies , Leonberger breed that are almost lost between the wars, As I know only 5 dogs were saved,and the breed was continued,also the puppies in the clip are 5...amazing, I've watched this clip many many times and every time gives me chills, the voice of Till and the music...... just amazing...
Just as a friendly correction: It's V2. It's pronounced as you have written, but it's just how the letter v is pronounced. V was short for Vergeltungswaffe which translates into something like "weapon of retribution". The original name was A4 (Aggregate 4). I'm not too sure about the most advanced weapon of the time... Definitely the most advanced rockets, first in space, basis for US as well as Soviet space technology, but I don't think too important in terms of the war. About 8,000 people got killed by V2s. At least 16 to 20k died making them, so like twice to thrice as many. It was definitely important for German propaganda, which called it a "Wunderwaffe" (miraculous weapon). Thanks for coming to my TED talk. 😅
@Arno Nym Thank you for the correction,Brother :) , The V2 it is indeed, just on English mostly the description of the rockets is FAU 1 and 2.... I know the statistics that you mentioned, also the RAF pilots learn how to shut down the rockets, but one way or another there were if not the most, one of the most advanced weapons during the WW2.... It is a fact that the sound of the rockets drove pure English citizens scared...... but anyway, the Important think is the clip, and the clip and the song itself are out of this world....Honestly,my opinion is that this is the most epic clip of them all,no matter wath genre of music we talking about....
@@vasilnanev-peltekov1786 It was the V1 that RAF pilots developed effective strategies against, and which made that characteristic sound. The V2 was way too fast to be intercepted and couldn't be prepared for, as it couldn't be heard before its impact.
@Mandi Biedermann If you say so...... I'm from Bulgaria , and believe me that we are the last people that are brainwashed still... at least compared to the western countries and the modern day tendencies..... Also our countries were allies both wars , so We know something about the war also.... but hey, we are all living in a free world now, everybody can have an opinion and to express it Best wishes to you
"The song is pretty much about the love and hate german people feel about Germany" is actually all you need to know .... a pretty accurate description about the song and the message it tells...
2 little clarifications: -the black skinned lady symbolizes Germania the personification of Germany -the guys' striped uniforms are lager deportees uniforms - the part where they seem eating the lady's organs, the priests are eating Sauerkraut and Würstel on the lady symbolizing the church eating Germany's havings while letting her starve powerless P. S: I'm an Albanian lady who learned German at school
You living in our country and showing interest and compassion despite both of our countries' pasts is what is most powerful. More powerful than any video. Thx for that and greetings from Bergisch-Gladbach. 😊👏
Rammstein didn't release an Album for 10 years. 2019 Album Release is close and the first new song of an Album was released 'Deutschland' and the first words of Till were 'Du Hast' That's Rammstein
The video opens in AD 16, on the ‘barbarian’ side of the lines, the border of the Roman Empire. Roman soldiers creep through the woods in the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The Romans were ambushed by an alliance of Germanic Tribes, led by a chieftain called Arminius (the original Hermann the German). Three legionary standards were captured, a loss symbolic and moral, as well as physical, and decades were spent trying to recover them. Rome never again attempted to take the lands east of the River Rhine, known as Germania. ‘Germania’ refers not just to a place, somewhere partly defined by where it isn’t (Rome) as well as where it is, but also to a national figurehead, traditionally representing the German people. Germania is a strong woman, usually armour-clad and battle-ready. Various symbols appear with her, among them a breastplate with an eagle, a black, red, and gold flag, and a crown. Look out for these in the video - they come up again and again - and the colours of the contemporary flag are there in every scene. We get our first glimpse of Germania here (played by Ruby Commey), who stands holding Till Lindemann’s severed head. Next, astronauts appear carrying a metal and glass box shaped like a coffin. In the background we see a U-boat - a German submarine, used in World Wars I and II. Then we move to a scene set at a boxing match which takes us to Weimar Germany (1918-1933), a period known for its political instability but also greater cultural liberalism. Here, Germania appears in the cabaret costume of a flapper girl, and the boxers fight with knuckle-dusters as a crowd cheers them on. We see the former East Germany, complete with busts of Marx and Lenin, the national emblem of East Germany, and a lookalike of the long-serving, insular, and repressive GDR leader Erich Honecker. There’s another astronaut, or rather a cosmonaut: Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space, who flew with the USSR’s space program (and who’s also a character in the 2003 film, Good Bye Lenin!). Medieval monks feast grotesquely on the supine Germania, tearing sauerkraut and sausage from Ruby Commey’s body, prison inmates are beaten by guards dressed in police and military uniforms from different historical periods. The most obviously shocking scene references the Holocaust and the Nazi period. Four members of the band, in the striped uniforms of camp inmates, wait at the gallows, about to be hanged. They wear the cloth emblems used to identify their ‘crimes’: a pink triangle for homosexual prisoners, a yellow star for Jewish prisoners, a red and yellow star for Jewish political prisoners. This sequence, teased in an earlier promo video, has already caused controversy. Have Rammstein the right to do this? Do they trivialise the suffering of Holocaust victims? How can they justify using Holocaust imagery to promote their new video? These are important questions that are part of a much bigger debate about the ethics of using the Holocaust in art and media. Other scenes include the band walking away from a flaming airship, referring to the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster, in which 36 people died. Rats scuttle across the floor when the monks first appear, suggesting the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a legend with origins in the 13th century. Germania walks towards the camera in a leather jacket, gold jewellery and a string of bullets across her chest, resembling the chariot drawn by four horses (the ‘Quadriga’) on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The band members’ heads are shown as white marble busts, taking us to the 19th century Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, built as German Hall of Fame, its sculpted heads of German worthies on display to this day. In the prison, hundreds of banknotes fall from above, suggesting the devastating hyperinflation Germany suffered in the 1920s. Nazis burn books, intercut with religious fanatics burning witches. We recognise members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof group), a militant organisation active in the 1970s in West Germany. And in a blink-or-you-miss-it exchange, we are reminded of the much-criticised relationship between the churches and the state during the Third Reich. Each scene captures in a moment the icons of an era, and the video cuts between them more and more frenetically as it goes on. Events bleed into each other, linked by the presence of the band members and the red laser beam that appears throughout the video, a ‘roter Faden’ (red thread or central theme), connecting each event. Germany engages with its history in a very particular way. Try to imagine the video about Britain, with Britannia played by Ruby Commey. What would the equivalent events be? Quite a few of the tableaux might be similar - Romans, Crusaders, monks, 18th-century soldiers, collarless shirts and bareknuckle boxing - but would it have the same impact? There’s no affection, and perhaps not much hope: its pessimistic tone seems to be quite an off-brand message for post-1989 Germany, which wants to acknowledge its past critically, while also looking to its future as a state at the heart of Europe. And actually, while we get a lot of medieval and twentieth-century history, the video’s tour through the past seems to stop in the late 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of East and West Germany. Instead, we jump into the future, where the space-suited band take Germania into the unknown, travelling in that coffin-shaped glass box. There’s an echo of the video for Sonne, where Snow White is trapped in a glass coffin. In fact, a piano version of Sonne plays over the end credits of Deutschland. This is a useful link for understanding something of what Rammstein is doing here. In Sonne, where the band’s characters free themselves of Snow White (naturally, they’ve been her sex-slaves), only to realise that they have made a mistake and long for her return, the overwhelming feeling of Deutschland seems to be that when it comes to Germania (or Germany): you can’t love her, and you can’t live without her. Copied from GERMANIA (youtube acc) All belongs to him because its can explain all moments in the Video ruclips.net/video/sc-euVL8xQs/видео.html
Hi cutie! Been watching you. Really is a graphic video. I think the most disturbing scene, where you stopped at 7:07, pertains to the men with torches and shows the remains of a burned human. On a cheerier note - love and hugs to ya!
You found out a lot of things in this song and don´t be afraid of saying anything wrong. You did not. As a German I know that the German history is very complex and a lot of things happened during the last centuries. Rammstein did a very good job with this song to show this complexity even with showing the dark chapters of our history.
The dogs are symbolic. They aren't shepherds, they're Leonbergers. This breed almost became extinct between the 2 world wars. Only a few had survived. The same could have happened to Germany after the wars.
The dog-symbolism can be extended even further: These "noble" dogs are - after getting almost extinct - artificially resurrected and highly regarded, but still nothing else but brutal, submissive animals and thus another image for the Germans populous. But I'm not yet sure about the involvement of the red cardinal... This video is a big puzzle, and I still haven't figured out all the details.
@@ReadersOfTheApocalypse True, the hat threw me off a bit. But a judge would make a lot more sense in that scene, considering it is supposed to be the "birth of a new nation" (either after the war or the reunification), where the church played no role at all, but the constitutional court did. It is these little puzzles that make me love this video so much.
Hi Bisscute, thanks for making all this great Rammstein reaction videos! I really enjoy them. I don't know why you think we (Germans) don't talk about our history (also the horrible parts of it) We speak about it very much. There is always something in the news about remembrance, there are always documentaries on TV, there are several years spent in school only talking about this in history classes. I think we are one of the nations that has worked through their history best :) Greetings from Munich
I'm not usually one for avoiding difficult subjects, but your approach to discussing this is thoughtful, respectful, and actually quite effective. My own takeaway is just the enormous depth of the culture and history. Just studying German music/composition is a project that could keep me busy the rest of my life (and likely will).
This is the best music video ever created, period. And the fact they ended it with Sonne, their other famous song, piano version, it just hits the feels. Wow.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts about the song and on Germany history. Your emotions were obviously true. No need to apologize for that . This is what Rammstein (and music in particular) can do. And thanks for showing the complete outro. Not many reactors do that. Greetings from The Netherlands.
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.
This is such a wonderful song! As a history teacher I really admire Rammsteins courage to make a song like this. Not only showing what they love about their country but also what they hate about it. it's so well made and all the details hidden in every scene are a gold mine for people like me! I had a ball when I first saw the four "vampires" hanging from the roof at 2:46. 😅 There's so much history in this video and the band clearly cares slot about it. I'm not even German but I burst out crying by the end of the video the first time I watched it. It's so fucking well done!
This is my favorite song of theirs. That piano at the end is so haunting. I'm glad there were some Germans in the comments to help with us understanding it fully. I'm American, my great-great grandfather moved us here from Bavaria around 1880. They were devout Catholics, and not fond of Prussia becoming the dominant German state in the latter half of the 19th century. This is also part of the story of Germany, that a lot of peace-loving Germans left for America, and it left them with a population that preferred a more militaristic approach to their neighbors.
I already love the view count, number of comments, etc. Secondly, thank you for reacting to this. Thirdly, your smile as soon as the beat kicked in... it made me smile and laugh at the same time. Keep this up, Bisscute. You're growing very quickly. Love the reaction :)
The message in this song is world wide in my opinion. Many countries have dark periods in their history, maybe all do, I don't know all world history so lol. I live in America, we have many horrible acts, and periods in our past. Things no american should be proud of, or want to happen again. So I relate in that way. Loving your country, but hurt by its history. That is why history is so important to understand, and remember. History is there to learn from, and become better.
I think it was great of Rammstein to showcase so many parts of German history I'm sure most would rather forget. The problem with forgetting history is it allows history to repeat. I also think it was great of Germany to embrace this video " and Rammstein " rather than banning this fantastic work. As far as I'm concerned, this is by far the greatest music video ever made.
You are correct. This is a little history lesson. They show diferent times in German history. They go from the Roman times of Germania until the fall of the Berlin Wall. The lady represents Germany itself, that´s why she is the boss. You can see the concentration camps, the first Riech, the big depresion, the cold war. They even when so far has to use the a part of the German National Anthem that is no longer used: "Deutchland, Deutchland uber allen/ Germany, Germany above all". And yes, those are the wings from "Engel"; there are also many references to their music videos.
the original line of the german hymn is not "Deutschland Deutschland über alleN" like they used it in the song, but "Deutschland Deutschland über alleS" and i am very sure they made that slight change on purpose.. there is also a slight difference in the meaning.. one basically means "above EVERYONE" (allen), while the other means "above EVERYTHING/above ALL"
The third verse of "Das Lied der Deutschen" wich is the german national anthem since the ending of the 1. WW and the Kaiserreich, was misused by the nazis. The words:"Deutschland, Deutschland über alles! " in its original sence means : love your country more than anything else. The nazis turned the meaning to : Germany is more worthy then any other country. It stands above all other nations. For that reason it is forbidden and not longer part of the official anthem.
@@walterh.6958 neither the single line nor the verse is forbidden.. nothing about the "Deutschlandlied" is forbidden... it is just not sung anymore, because of the bad history.. nowadays only the third verse is considered to be the german national anthem.
@@walterh.6958 In fact, the line "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" meant "(the idea of) Germany as a whole is more important than everyone of your small states". It is from a time where Germany (as in all the German speaking states unified as a single German state) existed only as a utopia. In that sense, it is also outdated as a national anthem.
No idea whom in germany you know, I live here and in 40 years I never met a fellow who not open speaks about the Nazi time. But hey thousands of years in a 9 Minute Video and finally you recognized a part of that history besides the Romans, middle age, 20ies, Weimarer Republik, 70ies ....
Don't hold back, Rammstein didn't and that's the right way i think. German history is dark and that's a fact for many other nations too. I'm glad we have a band like Rammstein who isn't afraid of doing such art.
You are the first reactor i saw who recognized the wings, i was so confused about noone ever mentioning them since i got so hyped when i saw them. Besides that, you should never be affraid of asking a german about our history, the worst thing that can happen is that you find out that you dont want to be arround that person, because when it comes to the interpretation of the role of germany in WW2 there is very little room and arguing against this will mostly mean you are wether a nazi or verry ignorant. Thank you for talking about this matter, its rare to see someone from another country who lives here openly sharing their opinion, even more a reflected one. Sadly most poeple i know that come from eastern europe, tend to avoid germans in general or got involved into the rightwing scene somehow, sharing their hate for the middle east.
The woman is playing Germania, she is a very old personafication of germany. I don't think Germania was ever potrayed as a black woman but with colour of her skin, golden armour and the red background you get the colours of the german flag. It's an interesting concept and it lookd amazing.
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 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 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 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 umphteeth 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
I think this song describes really well how we understand our country and history. The lines with "Ich, du, wir" tell, that while germany and its history is part of every single german, it is something that we don't want to be part of us, hence the "du" (eng. you) showing that we push it away. The "wir" (eng. We/Us) on the other side shows that we can also be proud of being a part of germany and we have to stand united against what happened. This also shows, why we get defensive if someone connects that you being german means you have to be a Nazi. While it is simply not true, it is facing us with this contradiction of having but not wanting it. The context of the line "Will dich lieben und verdammen" (eng. want to love you and condemn you) and each of the variations show how germany does good to us, but we cannot be proud of the way it took. Basically showing that the path matters just as much as the goal, else it is not something you can be proud of. The lines starting with the prefix "Über-" (eng. over-/super-) describes how germany was treating everyone else, and the final line of that part "Deutschland, Deutschland über allen" (eng. 2xGermany over everyone/-thing) basically shows that it all comes from that way of thinking of being superior. That said we as germans know, that superior thinking is the root of all the bad. This knowledge by now is a subconscious knowledge just as much as conscious knowledge. Combining the previous 2 paragraphs you get a very progressive picture: while being proud of your country is a goal to reach, being proud has to be disconnected from superior thinking, which naturally is a really hard thing to do. (Think of yourself: Are you ever looking down on someone after performing better? Change that!) The black woman, "Germania", is a personification of germany. From that knowledge it is easier to understand what several of those scenes mean. While cannibalism never was a thing here, that scene with germania as the food is a metaphor for toxic pride, destroying ourselfs by satisfying what we felt to be necessary to live. As this happened several times in german history, it is just a general metaphor. The birth of dogs ("Hund" -> eng. dog is widely used as an insult to someone who is behaving dirty) shows that it is basically a flowchart of consequences starting way back, with so many bad decisions, leading into the birth of cruel idioty (hence the insult) and eventually a near selfdestruction, as the leonberger breed symbolizes (read Michael Finck's comment for further information on that). This is supported by the space coffin, that you might know from post-apocalyptic shows like "the 100" where extinction got prevented by escaping into space. Meanwhile this part in specific also shows how much progression germany did, especially regarding technology. You pointed out in the beginning of the video, that german history is a bit of a non-existent topic, which is not exactly true. In school we learn everything about it (except for strategies used) and it is the main topic in every subject, that widely touches it. We learned our history, so there is not much left to talk about after school, however if you start a discussion about it, people will join in. Which is an important part about the music video, is that at no point, you see anything funny. Everything is extremely violent and horrible, and it hurts to realise that it is all true. That is precisely, why we get defensive if someone makes a joke about those horrible topics. There is nothing to be laughed at, and if you want to laugh, then don't talk about these topics. It is 2 things that don't go together, like milk and orange juice.
I can see that it pays attention to various historical points covered and meanings of things, that's music is very deep, I understand you were thrilled, I was too the first time💕🤘
Even if you check this wonderful musical piece of art several times, you keep discovering more and more. Thank you for your very refreshing and honest reaction!
Bisscute, you are great!👍 i love your Reactions to Rammstein and i hope that you will react to more Rammstein videos. I send you greetings from Germany 🙃
Germany is a great example of how to deal with your past. We Germans are pretty aware of our History and we learned of it. In schools our history is a big part of the curriculum and gets a lot of attention. In countries like Japan or USA they dont care about there mistakes but condem us for our past. In this Song there are so many reffrences to our past and shows us germans our darkest mirror. The Song deals with our emotions to our country: We want to love you yet we want to condemn you. Is a line in this song. But tbh I am proud to be german and living in this country and I think thats ok. Notional pride is really rare in Germany because of our past.
Greetings from you neighbour to the North: Dänemark. I get why the director and Rammstein choose the imagery in "Deutchland", but yes it leaves out positive sides of the history what is today called Germany. But as you state it's so very complex, and impossible to tell in 5 minute music video. And I get that you are proud to be German. There's a hell of a lot to like about Germany and especially its people. And YES! to the way US and the way they are taught history ... and Japan too. But I feel we in Denmark are only now beginning to come a little bit to terms with the darker sides of our old nation. And I recon that is true in most nations.
I’m Swedish and I agree with your points. Most countries history is filled with violence and unspeakable things done. Still we should learn about them. Like our history with our lovely neighbor Denmark has been filled with so many horrible events that never really are mentioned. Thankfully for all of us it is the past and people living now can’t take the blame for the past, but we can learn from it.
As an American, we have no room to condemn anyone. We have many horrible parts of our history, just like many countries do. Also, many here are very aware of US mistakes, not all Americans are willingly ignorant, or don't care. Maybe some how that is how we are portrayed to you, but it's not all true. Many here are very aware, and care more then you would think.
@@MrSkullHead1250 yeah I think you are right,but I would still say that in germany it is way more important to show the atrocities that we did. But I would agree that many things are potrayed wrong in many countries.
The actress, Ruby Commey, is presented throughout as Germania, a representation of the spirit of Germany itself. This is a deeply personal piece for Rammstein, who speak about their countrymen's dual love and shame for what their land has come to represent over the years, and while hard to watch at times it's still a masterpiece which deserves to be praised.
A lot of bands couldn’t do this type of song. Honestly here in the U.S. if you tried, a lot of hate would come from it. But it shouldn’t be that way. We can talk history, but say I love this place I live at. When this song came out, I was very much moved.
Wow great reaction! I am impressed how deep your reaction goes. And believe me you know much more about our history as many Germans. Don't worry about saying something wrong. We are much more open about our history than many people think.
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You said people don't really speak about the WW2 aspect of history in germany. That might be true in everyday live. But it is taught in school, endless documentaries, everyone knows about it. Unlike other countries (like the US for example) we don't deny the atrocities... we accept them as part of our history. We don't feel guilt about it, we weren't even born then. But we have a responsability to not let it happen again... and we accept that.
Would love to see you react to Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust (their most well known song and the music video got voted as the best Finnish music video ever back in 2006 when the song was released). Truly an underrated band from here in Finland. Also a band with many different sounds all the way from slow melodic songs to full on rock. Although if you want to immediately hear a song that showcases how crazy good the lead singer Marko Saaresto's voice can be (and while his vocal range might not be the most dynamic out there he is an amazing example of what you can achieve by having absolutely perfect control of your vocals especially the raw emotion that his voice is able to convey) then i recommend listening to their song Daze. His vocals on the chorus are something out of this world. I just think that so many more people would love their music if they just ever heard them but since their from Finland it rarely happens. Although many have heard their songs in Remedy's video games Max Payne 2, Alan Wake, Quantum Brake and Control (Also every single reactor i have seen reacting to them has been pretty much blown away by their music so i'm very confident you'll like it) also... also... lot's of deep and meaningful lyrics and wordplay in their songs sorry for the long rant i just really want more people to know about them :D
Actually we speak a lot about that subject here in Germany and you will learn all about it in the 12 years you go to school here. The last time witnesses are dying right now, but a lot of people could talk to their grandparents and parents who went through it. NEVER FORGET and NEVER AGAIN :)
I have an English translation of the lyrics. It really does express how torn they are between their deep love for the motherland and the shame for past errors. Quite honestly, pretty much every other country on earth can feel the same way about their own past. Yes, what happened during WWII was horrible but making the new generation pay for the mistakes of their predecessors is pointless. It is time for forgiveness but never forget. Thus hopefully ensuring that we humans, don't repeat the same mistakes.
i so much love how u call the "woman" the boss, which she realy is, BUT not as a woman it self but like germania, which i can describe the best as the german soul, combined with the fact that Deutschland means the land of the people, which brings u to "germanialand" --- Germany ----- Deutschland ----- the land of the ppl and its soul germania
I'm Dutch and also most likely part German, since i live near the border. I love this song it gives me pride! I will not!!! talk about H**ler in a good way!!! But germany needs to be praised for their inovation!
Great reaction. I like that you didn't just reacted to the musical part but although to the story behind it. Some other great band I would like to recommend are Oomph! ("Tausend Mann udn ein Befehl" or "Labyrinth"), Eisbrecher ("Was ist hier los?" or "FAKK") and Hämatom ("Made in Germany"(and "Made in USA") or "Warum kann ich nicht glücklich sein").
It is sweet and interesting how you were reluctant to speak openly about negative parts of German history. There is no need for that though. We all know what happened.
Us Germans actually learn a lot about our history without sugar-coating any of it. But I'm also really impressed with how much you seem to know about it. The general message of the song is the love-hate-relationship that many Germans have with their country and their national identity. The hook can be translated to: "Germany, your love is curse and blessing. Germany, my love I cannot give you".
The video mirrors some of my personal family history. My dad was big into amateur genealogy and traced his roots only a short way back. My great grandfather was from Germany. We apparently had an ancestral estate in Germany that the German government, during WWII, wanted as a facility for training military officers. They accused my family of being Jews, killed them all, and confiscated the estate. Now, the only relatives with our family name all live in the US and come directly from my great grandfather who came to the US after WWI.
how sweet of you to apologize for the video confusing you. It's probably the same for everyone and it was no different for me. There are many scenes and details about German history. But I'm sure that you will be enlightened with the comments .... Super good and factual reaction from you
It´s so sad, that people don´t say what they really think, but i can understand you. Because only of watching a video of music that you like, to be sentenced because of a comment. But nevertheless a real good reaction. Thx. i love the song, because that´s exactly what i feel about Germany.
I think I am really starting to like this style of singing, Sprechgesang, spoken singing. What I find so attractive about it is the ability to focus on annunciating the words with richness. The rolling of the R's for instance is greatly enhanced. Or I could be completely wrong, but I do like it.
Lol..this has nothing to do with the video and isn't significant,those are simple & common mistakes by the Art Department and Make up crew, or some parts of the video are mirrored.
Biscute your reation i can tell you care alot your so sweet it endearing and not just a perrty face your special i hope you have the king as your friend❤😊
I read an interesting thought somewhere about the dogs in this music video. It said that almost every German family has a pet dog, so they depicted German Shepherds as children. It makes sense
You do a great job with your reactions. I recently subbed and will continue to watch your videos. I especially loved your reaction at 11:02. Not everyone catches what’s happening there probably. Lol
You (you have, you have, you have, you have) You've cried a lot (cried, cried, cried, cried) Separated in spirit (separate, separate, separate, separate) United in the heart (united, united, united, united) We (we are, we are, we are, we are) Have been together for a very long time (you are, you are, you are, you are) Your breath cold (so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold) The heart on fire (so hot, 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) (Germany) my heart in flames I want to love you and condemn you (Germany) your breath cold So young and yet so old (Germany) I (you have, you have, you have, you have) I never want to leave you (you cry, you cry, you cry, you cry) You can be loved (you love, you love, you love, you love) And I want to hate you (you hate, you hate, you hate, you hate) Arrogant, superior Adopt, hand over Surprise, Raid Germany, Germany above all (Germany) my heart in flames I want to love you and condemn you (Germany) your breath 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) You I We You You (overpowering, superfluous) Me (superman, tired) We (he who climbs high will fall low) You (Germany, Germany above all) (Germany) your heart in flames I want to love you and condemn you (Germany) my breath 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)
One very long take on the history of Germany's last 1000 years. The Ups and the horrible downs. To me the song is about singing about the country you love, but that same country's struggles of identity [and Germany has had HUGE struggles with who it is as a nationality, from preunification, reformation, the 20th century and Nazism]. To love one's country but to see the strain between the old nation and yet so young in its own adaptation.
I know about the Berlin Wall. I'm old enough that my childhood was during the cold war, and with none of the sides loosening down, my generation thought this was going to last at least 50 years more than it did. I remember when they used to ask Roger Waters when he was going to perform "The Wall" again, he used to say "when the Berlin Wall falls", meaning never. The two main characters in the end of the cold war that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall were Gorbachev and Reagan, so when I went to visit the Ronald Reagan presidential library and museum, they have a section of the Berlin Wall there. Watching the graffiti in one side, knowing that one day that wall divided ideologies, nations, a country, families, people died trying to get to the other side..., it is impacting how something inanimate can bring such deep feelings and reflection.
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It seems like you cannot imagine at all, that there is no patriotism in a country - that one cannot love ones own country. But that's how it is in Germany and this song is about the Germans' inability to love "Deutschland".
The reasons why Germans cannot love their home country are the unprecedented crimes committed in Germany's name - especially the Holocaust and the war of extermination against Poland and Russia from 1939 to 1945, which costed about 50 Mio. peoples lives.
And no - you definitely can speak about the disasters of German history with Germans - mainly because they don't love their country and therefore don't feel offended when being confronted with the fails of German history.
I was born in Communist East Germany back in 1979. My Grandfather forged papers to get us all out, and to the US in 1986.
Germania is the black woman and she represents the strength of Germany. Hence she is strong in the first encounter with Rome and then joins Rome and wears a crown of strength, but under the Holy Roman Empire she is beginning to be consummed as strength is in Rome and the religious who represent Rome. She is happy between WWI and WWII as Woodrow Wilson's "determinism" allowed Germany to attack other political views, but even stronger during WWII Nazi Germany's third Reich, and is captured by the Bader Meinhof RAF by accident in their terrorism in Western Germany, but is also gleeful at seeing strength also in the West, for she merely bids her time in Eastern communism as a soldier, but yells out her pride in being German. She has riches and dogs in this present age, but can also be in a wheelchair as she is weak in rejecting nationalism (I cannot give you my love), and she gives birth to dogs through interbreeding of the races and the white man is on his hands and knees as a dog before the lesser breed of race because of it.
GERMANY OVER ALL. Now what was it all about?
Finally, in the future with laser like in "Freejack" they are zeroing in on Germania to take her strength for the future and begin the cut while the crown is on her head inside the concentration camp, but she is dead and in a casket without the spaceship for the future at the very end. This is because only the spirit of THE ACT OF THE WILL is loved as the human is unnecessary in the future. Some Nazi who is rich, must have wanted to give forth this imagry knowing the demons are all that exist in hell as man is working towards no flesh as man is merely a beast (Psalms 49:20) as for humans the second body and soul are destroyed in hell fire (Matthew 10:28).
@@outdoorolli5754, hey, can you explain in your theory why a white man is fucking a dog in a room of chaos in your theory of this video?
@@tfs203, good for you. America is a good place in general.
This is the best music video ever. I am a history teacher and I am Czech. My nation borders Germany. And the history of my nation is very often a story of how to survive this neighborhood with a larger German nation. So my relationship with Germany is ambivalent as well. I admire German culture and also this ability of deep self-reflection. But at the same time, it is difficult for me to love Germany, which has caused so much suffering. Anyway, I love Rammstein's music and this video is fascinating
Greetings from Bavaria we like you
I was born in Communist East Germany. In 1986, Mine Grandfather got us out, and to the US somehow, using forged papers, passes and documents. I was only 7 when we all left. Es war ein schrecklicher und bedrückender Ort!
@@tfs203 ich hab erst jetzt gefunden dass es ne Serie über Schiffsreisen gab in der DDR. Im Prinzip sind die in Kuba gewesen ständig und haben das als anderen Ort dargestellt. Jaja freies reisen aber nur in die "sozialistischen Bruderstaaten"
There was a series about ship travelling in GDR. The plot took always place on Cuba in fact, just disguised as another foreign place / country :D
Naprostý souhlas 👍🏻
I am part german and i both love and hate the nation half my family is from.
This country is extremely conflicted and aware of its own failure of what it wants to be. The people are extremely sensitive about these topics as it ofcourse shows a very dark past wich they hope to forget and bury, yet learn from it so it won't happen again
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 Second World Wars and is symbolic of the German people, whose existence was also strongly threatened in those wars - both now have a second existential chance.
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, 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, sometimes as a victim, but mostly as a perpetrator. With her black skin she is also a provocation to all stupid racists
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 in the world 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
Sehr gut erklärt und erläutert.👍
Brilliant!
Personally,I've always thought that when she was giving birth to the puppies,she was giving birth to the Dogs of War. Which were,in the video,on leashes. Reminding me of the term: "Cry havoc and let slip the Dogs of War". Said by Mark Antony,in William Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar".
As Hitler held immense admiration for the Roman Empire and its legacy,I took the puppies and grown Dogs to mean this term. Just my own opinion though.
You put this perfectly!
the birth of the dog symbolizes the birth of the legal act... the obstetrician in red is a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court in the area of the RAF terrorists you can see that the legal act is fully grown and valuable
German is my first language - so as a native pls let me explain as concise as possible as many of the hidden symbols and meanings in this great song: In advance - please apologize the mistakes that I have certainly made - English is not my first language :-)
Before I go through it just some general remarks: the black lady’s persona in the video is “Germania” and she represents Germany (the nation / the people) and in many scenes where she appears the colors black, red and gold (colors of the German flag) are dominant. The video as well as the lyrics are a critical review on Germany’s history.
Main scenes of the video: The first scene with the roman soldiers refers to the battle of Teutoburg forest, the first time the German tribes untied under Arminius against the Romans and ambushed them on their march back to their winter camp + completely annihilated several legions - the romans would never return and fortify at the Rhine - this could be seen as the birth of the German identity.
The red laser beams throughout the video I think are guiding thread (German expression “roter Faden”" translates to “red thread” and translates to guiding principle / guideline of a story)
When Germania (black lady) in golden armor (black red gold as main colors of the scene pushes the standard into the ground she raises all the dead medieval knights - a reference to the strength of the German people who recovered time after time throughout history from catastrophes (especially, but not only) in the middle ages (crusades, hunnic invasion, plague, etc.) - the additional meaning i think is the fact that german people several times followed their countries call for War - even if they were already beaten up (e.g. after WWI going into WWII)
Next scene (fistfight) is from the roaring twenties, the period between the two world wars where upper class society was decadent on the backs of ordinary people + entertainment industry was born. Next scene shows the Hindenburg disaster (famous German Airship which blew up in flames) during a time of growing industrialization 1930s.
Next Scene is from the communist elite in eastern Germany who was indulging in party and Champaign while ordinary people were poor and the main idea of communism should be equality of the people.
Then the scene in the middle ages - where the monks (representing the church) feast on Germania (the land) and suppresses the common folk (underneath the table) The scene in the prison again refers to the roaring twenties, as Germania is dressed in a prussian uniform suppressing the German people. Additionally money is thrown away by everybody, a reference to the big inflation in Germany after WWI.
Then the rockets (Nazi German was working on the first warfare rockets called V1 and V2 (V standing for “Vergeltung” which translates to retaliation - fitting to the picture with the rockets, the lyrics are an alliteration on “über” a german pre-syllable meaning over. “Überheblich (overbearing / presumptuous), Überlegen (superior) Übernehmen (taking over), Übergeben (handing over), überraschen (surprise), Überfallen (ambush), Deutschland, Deutschland über allen (Germany, Germany above all).
The Concentration camp prisoners have symbols sewn on their jackets for the groups the Nazis hunted and killed (yellow star for Jews, Pink triangle for Homosexuals, red symbol for political adversaries (communists). Germania is on the side of the Nazis and has an eyepatch (representing the blind eye that many Germans turned on the atrocities of the Nazi regime.
The Scene where Till is dressed as a woman refers to the left wing terrorist group called “Rote Armee Fraktion” - a terrorist association in the 1970s responsible for several political assassinations and murders as well as a famous kidnapping of German Diplomats in Stockholm.
Then there is the scene with the stake at which books are burned by the Nazis and people are burned by the church (inquisition). Later the monk (church) and the Nazi soldier hug (as the church did not go against the Nazis when they came to power and both organizations were responsible for a lot of intolerance and suffering in their times.
The scene where Germania is dressed in white with a Halo I think refers to the positive, the strength of the German people who recovered time after time from several catastrophic disasters in their history. Later she gives birth to puppies (a rare breed of dogs (who represent the German people) which got almost extinct in both world wars (symbolized with the dogs wearing gas masks) but recovered after the wars. In these scenes the band members wear space suits - in my view a reference to the (hopefully) better future of the German people.
In the very last scene of the outro you can once more see Germania with national colors (black, red gold) with black lipstick, red eyes and golden armor before a red/ black background holding an eagle, the heraldic symbol of Germany. Finally, please find below the lyrics of the song as the perfectly convey the message of the problematic relationship many Germans have to their homeland, wanting to be proud of it but not being able to due to it’s difficult history: - one remark to one of the more important lines of the lyrics: The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) refers to the fact that the German people with their identity have been around for thousands of years, however the actual state of Germany as a nation was only founded very late (1871) thorough the unification of several mini states (Prussia, Hessia, Saxonia, Bavaria, etc.) Here now the lyrics (copied from the internet):
[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 everything
[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 (translates to “superior humans” - a term the Nazis implicitly used for themselves as the calles other races “Untermenschen” - translating to “inferior humans”), weary)
We (The higher you climb, the further you fall)
You (Germany, Germany above everything)
[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!
Wow! Danke for your explanation, it helped a lot.
This is an amazing comment!!Thank you so much 🥰
Yes, Baader-Meinhof gang...
it was indeed a very sad period for all of Europe and for their alliance with Italian "Brigate Rosse" and French "Actione Directe " 😢
An amazing and thorough explanation. Thank you for taking the time to explain everything completely. I’ve visited Germany twice (I’m from the US) beautiful country and such wonderful people. First time I went alone to visit a friend in Ulm, the second time I brought my then ten year old daughter. No matter where we went, we felt welcomed and part of whatever we were doing at the time. I look forward to visiting again soon
I learned so much with that explanation and it’s amazing that they fit it into one video. Thank you so much for taking the time to really write that out!!
As a german i can Tell you that you do not have to Worry about crossing the lines with history. We are quite open about it. Its the only way to honor the fallen and the victims.
The proud and mutige German soldiers too
dude, she is german too.
Germany's history is so much more than WW2 :) I really like that they also showed Beider Meinhoff, Hindenburg and the important battle against the Roman empire :)
Only 1% history of Germany is showed in this videoclip, snd i'm very dissapointed by Rammstein that are brainwashed like 80% of Germans by UK & USA propaganda
@@mandibiedermann2246 I have never heard this critique before. do you care to elaborate? As far as I know the entire band grew up in East germany and the song is about their difficult relationship with how to feel about their country, which they want to love but some things make that difficult.
@@mandibiedermann2246 Germany itself is a very young nation and yet so old. What do you expect a 200 hour history series from a Metal band ? Go Holy Roman Empire! Go fight Marcus Aurelius or something. tjeeezzz
@@mandibiedermann2246 Perhaps those 80% of Germans are decent enough human beings to be able to analyse their history without any propaganda from USA and UK.
@@frankjensen5991 Trolls will never elaborate.
i'm german...and have always tears in my eyes watching this.....but so thankfull for this..
never be scared to speak about the past, we are quit opend to talk about the nazi time. BTW like your reaction! greetings from Lübbecke
Unfortunately here in the states they're trying to rewrite our history and erase parts of it.
All this...n worship.
@@Lizardboy68 Which parts do you mean?
From what I understand, America has a long "tradition" of glossing over history and omitting or justifying important parts.
Only in the 1960s did people start talking about what was done to the Native Americans, before that they were always just the bad guys .... or I've heard too many excuses for which "absolutely important reasons" Dresden of all places was wiped out or low-flying aircraft attacked from the American side to German refugee treks in WW2, which are officially demeaned to this day (despite numerous eyewitnesses).....
Just as examples.
I think today's finger pointing and whining about the "old white man" or "all white people... blah blah...it's their fault... blah blah blah..." just as counterproductive, but where's the problem? listen to a different perspective on history?
That doesn't really tear you out of a "healing world bubble" does it?
@@tatumergo3931 biggest
prejudice about Germany that you can probably have
give back what you have taken, and after try „speaking”. otherwise just stfu.
I swear every time I listen to the piano rendition of Sonne during the credits I shed a tear. It's fucking beautiful, but it makes me feel nothing but loss.
Could really feel your emotions during this too. Keep up the excellent work!
The contrast with the rest of the song makes its impact so much greater
I'm not German, but I studied German history in college and I studied there for a bit. Where I'm wrong please, correct me, but this is what I understood from those years of study and this video.
Germans have a very tense relationship with their country and history. Going from one end, you have some of the finest thinkers in history being German. Brilliant and respected scientists, philosophers, musicians, the list goes on. But German history also is incredibly tragic and malevolent. And these extremes makes it very difficult for modern Germans to look back on their history with pride. So much of German greatness has been tainted by atrocity. And that's what this music video does a great job of showing. Deutschland... Will dich lieben und verdammen (Germany...I want to love you and damn you) Deutschland, meine Liebe kann ich dir nicht geben. (Germany, I am unable to give you my love).
When you go back and watch the video with the knowledge that Ruby (the black woman) is Germany incarnate, this becomes even more clear. Watch what she's doing or what's being done to her and when. She's the old Germany that, according to this video, has two possible futures. Either she's practically deified to the point that Germans reduce themselves to animals in her name. Or she's cast out so that a new German identity can rise in her absence.
I am from The Netherlands and I love how clear he sings German. I can understand it sehr gut.
Because Dutch and German are related languages - Germanic languages.
@@martingerlach_1990 And the singer pronounces the words very clearly while he sings.
This is probably the most amazing clip in the music industry at all. It is showing almost all historical events from German history , First, Second World Wars , the Communist party in Germany , the camps , FAU 2 rockets that are going in the sky , these were the most advanced weapons at the time....Roman times at the beggining... just peace of art. The piano at the end is phenomenal , the melody from Sonne, delivered in a hell of a instrumental..... Just piece of art.The puppies , Leonberger breed that are almost lost between the wars, As I know only 5 dogs were saved,and the breed was continued,also the puppies in the clip are 5...amazing, I've watched this clip many many times and every time gives me chills, the voice of Till and the music...... just amazing...
Just as a friendly correction: It's V2. It's pronounced as you have written, but it's just how the letter v is pronounced. V was short for Vergeltungswaffe which translates into something like "weapon of retribution". The original name was A4 (Aggregate 4). I'm not too sure about the most advanced weapon of the time... Definitely the most advanced rockets, first in space, basis for US as well as Soviet space technology, but I don't think too important in terms of the war. About 8,000 people got killed by V2s. At least 16 to 20k died making them, so like twice to thrice as many.
It was definitely important for German propaganda, which called it a "Wunderwaffe" (miraculous weapon).
Thanks for coming to my TED talk. 😅
@Arno Nym Thank you for the correction,Brother :) , The V2 it is indeed, just on English mostly the description of the rockets is FAU 1 and 2....
I know the statistics that you mentioned, also the RAF pilots learn how to shut down the rockets, but one way or another there were if not the most, one of the most advanced weapons during the WW2.... It is a fact that the sound of the rockets drove pure English citizens scared...... but anyway, the Important think is the clip, and the clip and the song itself are out of this world....Honestly,my opinion is that this is the most epic clip of them all,no matter wath genre of music we talking about....
@@vasilnanev-peltekov1786 It was the V1 that RAF pilots developed effective strategies against, and which made that characteristic sound. The V2 was way too fast to be intercepted and couldn't be prepared for, as it couldn't be heard before its impact.
@@dirtyoldcommie814 Yes, correct.My mistake .You are absolutely right
Cheers :)
@Mandi Biedermann If you say so...... I'm from Bulgaria , and believe me that we are the last people that are brainwashed still... at least compared to the western countries and the modern day tendencies..... Also our countries were allies both wars , so We know something about the war also.... but hey, we are all living in a free world now, everybody can have an opinion and to express it
Best wishes to you
"The song is pretty much about the love and hate german people feel about Germany" is actually all you need to know .... a pretty accurate description about the song and the message it tells...
Thank you. I see people writing novels on the meaning of the song.
2 little clarifications:
-the black skinned lady symbolizes Germania the personification of Germany
-the guys' striped uniforms are lager deportees uniforms
- the part where they seem eating the lady's organs, the priests are eating Sauerkraut and Würstel on the lady symbolizing the church eating Germany's havings while letting her starve powerless
P. S: I'm an Albanian lady who learned German at school
You living in our country and showing interest and compassion despite both of our countries' pasts is what is most powerful. More powerful than any video. Thx for that and greetings from Bergisch-Gladbach. 😊👏
Rammstein didn't release an Album for 10 years. 2019 Album Release is close and the first new song of an Album was released 'Deutschland' and the first words of Till were 'Du Hast'
That's Rammstein
It's great to see him make comments about what happened. My grandmother was the only person in her family to make it out of Poland alive.
The video opens in AD 16, on the ‘barbarian’ side of the lines, the border of the Roman Empire. Roman soldiers creep through the woods in the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The Romans were ambushed by an alliance of Germanic Tribes, led by a chieftain called Arminius (the original Hermann the German). Three legionary standards were captured, a loss symbolic and moral, as well as physical, and decades were spent trying to recover them. Rome never again attempted to take the lands east of the River Rhine, known as Germania.
‘Germania’ refers not just to a place, somewhere partly defined by where it isn’t (Rome) as well as where it is, but also to a national figurehead, traditionally representing the German people. Germania is a strong woman, usually armour-clad and battle-ready. Various symbols appear with her, among them a breastplate with an eagle, a black, red, and gold flag, and a crown. Look out for these in the video - they come up again and again - and the colours of the contemporary flag are there in every scene.
We get our first glimpse of Germania here (played by Ruby Commey), who stands holding Till Lindemann’s severed head. Next, astronauts appear carrying a metal and glass box shaped like a coffin. In the background we see a U-boat - a German submarine, used in World Wars I and II. Then we move to a scene set at a boxing match which takes us to Weimar Germany (1918-1933), a period known for its political instability but also greater cultural liberalism. Here, Germania appears in the cabaret costume of a flapper girl, and the boxers fight with knuckle-dusters as a crowd cheers them on.
We see the former East Germany, complete with busts of Marx and Lenin, the national emblem of East Germany, and a lookalike of the long-serving, insular, and repressive GDR leader Erich Honecker. There’s another astronaut, or rather a cosmonaut: Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space, who flew with the USSR’s space program (and who’s also a character in the 2003 film, Good Bye Lenin!). Medieval monks feast grotesquely on the supine Germania, tearing sauerkraut and sausage from Ruby Commey’s body, prison inmates are beaten by guards dressed in police and military uniforms from different historical periods.
The most obviously shocking scene references the Holocaust and the Nazi period. Four members of the band, in the striped uniforms of camp inmates, wait at the gallows, about to be hanged. They wear the cloth emblems used to identify their ‘crimes’: a pink triangle for homosexual prisoners, a yellow star for Jewish prisoners, a red and yellow star for Jewish political prisoners.
This sequence, teased in an earlier promo video, has already caused controversy. Have Rammstein the right to do this? Do they trivialise the suffering of Holocaust victims? How can they justify using Holocaust imagery to promote their new video? These are important questions that are part of a much bigger debate about the ethics of using the Holocaust in art and media.
Other scenes include the band walking away from a flaming airship, referring to the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster, in which 36 people died. Rats scuttle across the floor when the monks first appear, suggesting the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a legend with origins in the 13th century.
Germania walks towards the camera in a leather jacket, gold jewellery and a string of bullets across her chest, resembling the chariot drawn by four horses (the ‘Quadriga’) on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The band members’ heads are shown as white marble busts, taking us to the 19th century Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, built as German Hall of Fame, its sculpted heads of German worthies on display to this day.
In the prison, hundreds of banknotes fall from above, suggesting the devastating hyperinflation Germany suffered in the 1920s. Nazis burn books, intercut with religious fanatics burning witches. We recognise members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof group), a militant organisation active in the 1970s in West Germany. And in a blink-or-you-miss-it exchange, we are reminded of the much-criticised relationship between the churches and the state during the Third Reich.
Each scene captures in a moment the icons of an era, and the video cuts between them more and more frenetically as it goes on. Events bleed into each other, linked by the presence of the band members and the red laser beam that appears throughout the video, a ‘roter Faden’ (red thread or central theme), connecting each event.
Germany engages with its history in a very particular way. Try to imagine the video about Britain, with Britannia played by Ruby Commey. What would the equivalent events be? Quite a few of the tableaux might be similar - Romans, Crusaders, monks, 18th-century soldiers, collarless shirts and bareknuckle boxing - but would it have the same impact?
There’s no affection, and perhaps not much hope: its pessimistic tone seems to be quite an off-brand message for post-1989 Germany, which wants to acknowledge its past critically, while also looking to its future as a state at the heart of Europe. And actually, while we get a lot of medieval and twentieth-century history, the video’s tour through the past seems to stop in the late 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of East and West Germany. Instead, we jump into the future, where the space-suited band take Germania into the unknown, travelling in that coffin-shaped glass box.
There’s an echo of the video for Sonne, where Snow White is trapped in a glass coffin. In fact, a piano version of Sonne plays over the end credits of Deutschland. This is a useful link for understanding something of what Rammstein is doing here. In Sonne, where the band’s characters free themselves of Snow White (naturally, they’ve been her sex-slaves), only to realise that they have made a mistake and long for her return, the overwhelming feeling of Deutschland seems to be that when it comes to Germania (or Germany): you can’t love her, and you can’t live without her.
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Hi cutie! Been watching you. Really is a graphic video. I think the most disturbing scene, where you stopped at 7:07, pertains to the men with torches and shows the remains of a burned human. On a cheerier note - love and hugs to ya!
You found out a lot of things in this song and don´t be afraid of saying anything wrong. You did not.
As a German I know that the German history is very complex and a lot of things happened during the last centuries. Rammstein did a very good job with this song to show this complexity even with showing the dark chapters of our history.
As an American, I can appreciate in some way the dichotomy and complex nature of loving your country while hating some of its history.
The dogs are symbolic. They aren't shepherds, they're Leonbergers. This breed almost became extinct between the 2 world wars. Only a few had survived. The same could have happened to Germany after the wars.
The dog-symbolism can be extended even further: These "noble" dogs are - after getting almost extinct - artificially resurrected and highly regarded, but still nothing else but brutal, submissive animals and thus another image for the Germans populous.
But I'm not yet sure about the involvement of the red cardinal... This video is a big puzzle, and I still haven't figured out all the details.
And it also leads to a trial in germany against a turkish journalist who proclaimed that germans are a dog race and he won.
@@ReadersOfTheApocalypse Is it a cardinal? It might as well be the robe of a judge of the constitutional court.
@@anjakuemski Take a close look at the shape of his hat. Cardinals wear this exact shape while the hats of supreme court judges are round.
@@ReadersOfTheApocalypse True, the hat threw me off a bit. But a judge would make a lot more sense in that scene, considering it is supposed to be the "birth of a new nation" (either after the war or the reunification), where the church played no role at all, but the constitutional court did. It is these little puzzles that make me love this video so much.
Hi Bisscute, thanks for making all this great Rammstein reaction videos! I really enjoy them. I don't know why you think we (Germans) don't talk about our history (also the horrible parts of it) We speak about it very much. There is always something in the news about remembrance, there are always documentaries on TV, there are several years spent in school only talking about this in history classes. I think we are one of the nations that has worked through their history best :) Greetings from Munich
I'm not usually one for avoiding difficult subjects, but your approach to discussing this is thoughtful, respectful, and actually quite effective. My own takeaway is just the enormous depth of the culture and history. Just studying German music/composition is a project that could keep me busy the rest of my life (and likely will).
This is the best music video ever created, period. And the fact they ended it with Sonne, their other famous song, piano version, it just hits the feels. Wow.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts about the song and on Germany history. Your emotions were obviously true. No need to apologize for that . This is what Rammstein (and music in particular) can do.
And thanks for showing the complete outro. Not many reactors do that. Greetings from The Netherlands.
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.
U are sitting at home searching for rammstein reactions all day ?
@@PaiMei667
No. I'm planning to take over the planet and to establish world domination.
@@megatwingo Reiss der Puppe den Kopp ab....
@@megatwingo bro calm the fuck down with posting the same shit on every video...jesus
This is such a wonderful song! As a history teacher I really admire Rammsteins courage to make a song like this. Not only showing what they love about their country but also what they hate about it.
it's so well made and all the details hidden in every scene are a gold mine for people like me! I had a ball when I first saw the four "vampires" hanging from the roof at 2:46. 😅
There's so much history in this video and the band clearly cares slot about it. I'm not even German but I burst out crying by the end of the video the first time I watched it. It's so fucking well done!
This is my favorite song of theirs. That piano at the end is so haunting. I'm glad there were some Germans in the comments to help with us understanding it fully. I'm American, my great-great grandfather moved us here from Bavaria around 1880. They were devout Catholics, and not fond of Prussia becoming the dominant German state in the latter half of the 19th century. This is also part of the story of Germany, that a lot of peace-loving Germans left for America, and it left them with a population that preferred a more militaristic approach to their neighbors.
This is the best reaction to this song so far
I already love the view count, number of comments, etc. Secondly, thank you for reacting to this. Thirdly, your smile as soon as the beat kicked in... it made me smile and laugh at the same time. Keep this up, Bisscute. You're growing very quickly. Love the reaction :)
The message in this song is world wide in my opinion. Many countries have dark periods in their history, maybe all do, I don't know all world history so lol. I live in America, we have many horrible acts, and periods in our past. Things no american should be proud of, or want to happen again. So I relate in that way. Loving your country, but hurt by its history. That is why history is so important to understand, and remember. History is there to learn from, and become better.
I think it was great of Rammstein to showcase so many parts of German history I'm sure most would rather forget. The problem with forgetting history is it allows history to repeat. I also think it was great of Germany to embrace this video " and Rammstein " rather than banning this fantastic work. As far as I'm concerned, this is by far the greatest music video ever made.
You are correct. This is a little history lesson. They show diferent times in German history. They go from the Roman times of Germania until the fall of the Berlin Wall. The lady represents Germany itself, that´s why she is the boss. You can see the concentration camps, the first Riech, the big depresion, the cold war. They even when so far has to use the a part of the German National Anthem that is no longer used: "Deutchland, Deutchland uber allen/ Germany, Germany above all". And yes, those are the wings from "Engel"; there are also many references to their music videos.
also, the entire video is full of nodes to the flag of Germany (or rather the colors of it, black,red, and yellow)
the original line of the german hymn is not "Deutschland Deutschland über alleN" like they used it in the song, but "Deutschland Deutschland über alleS" and i am very sure they made that slight change on purpose.. there is also a slight difference in the meaning.. one basically means "above EVERYONE" (allen), while the other means "above EVERYTHING/above ALL"
The third verse of "Das Lied der Deutschen" wich is the german national anthem since the ending of the 1. WW and the Kaiserreich, was misused by the nazis. The words:"Deutschland, Deutschland über alles! " in its original sence means : love your country more than anything else. The nazis turned the meaning to : Germany is more worthy then any other country. It stands above all other nations. For that reason it is forbidden and not longer part of the official anthem.
@@walterh.6958 neither the single line nor the verse is forbidden.. nothing about the "Deutschlandlied" is forbidden... it is just not sung anymore, because of the bad history.. nowadays only the third verse is considered to be the german national anthem.
@@walterh.6958
In fact, the line "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" meant "(the idea of) Germany as a whole is more important than everyone of your small states". It is from a time where Germany (as in all the German speaking states unified as a single German state) existed only as a utopia.
In that sense, it is also outdated as a national anthem.
I have only one thing to say:if all young people are that thoughtful and empathetic,I don't fear for the future.❤❤❤
Hey, überraschend gutes Reaction-Video. Du weißt sehr viel, danke Dir für dein Interesse.
Sympathische junge Frau! Grüße aus München ;-)
No idea whom in germany you know, I live here and in 40 years I never met a fellow who not open speaks about the Nazi time. But hey thousands of years in a 9 Minute Video and finally you recognized a part of that history besides the Romans, middle age, 20ies, Weimarer Republik, 70ies ....
Don't hold back, Rammstein didn't and that's the right way i think. German history is dark and that's a fact for many other nations too. I'm glad we have a band like Rammstein who isn't afraid of doing such art.
You are the first reactor i saw who recognized the wings, i was so confused about noone ever mentioning them since i got so hyped when i saw them. Besides that, you should never be affraid of asking a german about our history, the worst thing that can happen is that you find out that you dont want to be arround that person, because when it comes to the interpretation of the role of germany in WW2 there is very little room and arguing against this will mostly mean you are wether a nazi or verry ignorant.
Thank you for talking about this matter, its rare to see someone from another country who lives here openly sharing their opinion, even more a reflected one. Sadly most poeple i know that come from eastern europe, tend to avoid germans in general or got involved into the rightwing scene somehow, sharing their hate for the middle east.
The girls name is Ruby Commey, and she is super beautiful 😍😍
The woman is playing Germania, she is a very old personafication of germany. I don't think Germania was ever potrayed as a black woman but with colour of her skin, golden armour and the red background you get the colours of the german flag. It's an interesting concept and it lookd amazing.
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 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 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 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 umphteeth 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
I think this song describes really well how we understand our country and history.
The lines with "Ich, du, wir" tell, that while germany and its history is part of every single german, it is something that we don't want to be part of us, hence the "du" (eng. you) showing that we push it away. The "wir" (eng. We/Us) on the other side shows that we can also be proud of being a part of germany and we have to stand united against what happened. This also shows, why we get defensive if someone connects that you being german means you have to be a Nazi. While it is simply not true, it is facing us with this contradiction of having but not wanting it.
The context of the line "Will dich lieben und verdammen" (eng. want to love you and condemn you) and each of the variations show how germany does good to us, but we cannot be proud of the way it took. Basically showing that the path matters just as much as the goal, else it is not something you can be proud of.
The lines starting with the prefix "Über-" (eng. over-/super-) describes how germany was treating everyone else, and the final line of that part "Deutschland, Deutschland über allen" (eng. 2xGermany over everyone/-thing) basically shows that it all comes from that way of thinking of being superior. That said we as germans know, that superior thinking is the root of all the bad. This knowledge by now is a subconscious knowledge just as much as conscious knowledge.
Combining the previous 2 paragraphs you get a very progressive picture: while being proud of your country is a goal to reach, being proud has to be disconnected from superior thinking, which naturally is a really hard thing to do. (Think of yourself: Are you ever looking down on someone after performing better? Change that!)
The black woman, "Germania", is a personification of germany. From that knowledge it is easier to understand what several of those scenes mean. While cannibalism never was a thing here, that scene with germania as the food is a metaphor for toxic pride, destroying ourselfs by satisfying what we felt to be necessary to live. As this happened several times in german history, it is just a general metaphor.
The birth of dogs ("Hund" -> eng. dog is widely used as an insult to someone who is behaving dirty) shows that it is basically a flowchart of consequences starting way back, with so many bad decisions, leading into the birth of cruel idioty (hence the insult) and eventually a near selfdestruction, as the leonberger breed symbolizes (read Michael Finck's comment for further information on that). This is supported by the space coffin, that you might know from post-apocalyptic shows like "the 100" where extinction got prevented by escaping into space.
Meanwhile this part in specific also shows how much progression germany did, especially regarding technology.
You pointed out in the beginning of the video, that german history is a bit of a non-existent topic, which is not exactly true. In school we learn everything about it (except for strategies used) and it is the main topic in every subject, that widely touches it. We learned our history, so there is not much left to talk about after school, however if you start a discussion about it, people will join in.
Which is an important part about the music video, is that at no point, you see anything funny. Everything is extremely violent and horrible, and it hurts to realise that it is all true. That is precisely, why we get defensive if someone makes a joke about those horrible topics. There is nothing to be laughed at, and if you want to laugh, then don't talk about these topics.
It is 2 things that don't go together, like milk and orange juice.
Iam German and in Tears,well done reaction love your emotions,keep on!
I can see that it pays attention to various historical points covered and meanings of things, that's music is very deep, I understand you were thrilled, I was too the first time💕🤘
Even if you check this wonderful musical piece of art several times, you keep discovering more and more. Thank you for your very refreshing and honest reaction!
Bisscute, you are great!👍
i love your Reactions to Rammstein and i hope that you will react to more Rammstein videos.
I send you greetings from Germany
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Good reaction. I enjoyed your take on it and respect your genuine empathy.
Germany is a great example of how to deal with your past. We Germans are pretty aware of our History and we learned of it. In schools our history is a big part of the curriculum and gets a lot of attention. In countries like Japan or USA they dont care about there mistakes but condem us for our past. In this Song there are so many reffrences to our past and shows us germans our darkest mirror. The Song deals with our emotions to our country: We want to love you yet we want to condemn you. Is a line in this song. But tbh I am proud to be german and living in this country and I think thats ok. Notional pride is really rare in Germany because of our past.
Greetings from you neighbour to the North: Dänemark. I get why the director and Rammstein choose the imagery in "Deutchland", but yes it leaves out positive sides of the history what is today called Germany. But as you state it's so very complex, and impossible to tell in 5 minute music video. And I get that you are proud to be German. There's a hell of a lot to like about Germany and especially its people.
And YES! to the way US and the way they are taught history ... and Japan too. But I feel we in Denmark are only now beginning to come a little bit to terms with the darker sides of our old nation. And I recon that is true in most nations.
I’m Swedish and I agree with your points. Most countries history is filled with violence and unspeakable things done. Still we should learn about them. Like our history with our lovely neighbor Denmark has been filled with so many horrible events that never really are mentioned. Thankfully for all of us it is the past and people living now can’t take the blame for the past, but we can learn from it.
As an American, we have no room to condemn anyone. We have many horrible parts of our history, just like many countries do. Also, many here are very aware of US mistakes, not all Americans are willingly ignorant, or don't care. Maybe some how that is how we are portrayed to you, but it's not all true. Many here are very aware, and care more then you would think.
@@MrSkullHead1250 yeah I think you are right,but I would still say that in germany it is way more important to show the atrocities that we did. But I would agree that many things are potrayed wrong in many countries.
The actress, Ruby Commey, is presented throughout as Germania, a representation of the spirit of Germany itself. This is a deeply personal piece for Rammstein, who speak about their countrymen's dual love and shame for what their land has come to represent over the years, and while hard to watch at times it's still a masterpiece which deserves to be praised.
A lot of bands couldn’t do this type of song. Honestly here in the U.S. if you tried, a lot of hate would come from it. But it shouldn’t be that way. We can talk history, but say I love this place I live at. When this song came out, I was very much moved.
Wow great reaction! I am impressed how deep your reaction goes. And believe me you know much more about our history as many Germans.
Don't worry about saying something wrong. We are much more open about our history than many people think.
she's not the boss. she represents the spirit of the country.
Thank you for watching the video, It means a lot to me .
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You said people don't really speak about the WW2 aspect of history in germany. That might be true in everyday live. But it is taught in school, endless documentaries, everyone knows about it. Unlike other countries (like the US for example) we don't deny the atrocities... we accept them as part of our history. We don't feel guilt about it, we weren't even born then. But we have a responsability to not let it happen again... and we accept that.
Great reaction! I liked it a lot. Carry on with your kind of doing videos. Greetings from NRW.
Would love to see you react to Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust (their most well known song and the music video got voted as the best Finnish music video ever back in 2006 when the song was released). Truly an underrated band from here in Finland. Also a band with many different sounds all the way from slow melodic songs to full on rock.
Although if you want to immediately hear a song that showcases how crazy good the lead singer Marko Saaresto's voice can be (and while his vocal range might not be the most dynamic out there he is an amazing example of what you can achieve by having absolutely perfect control of your vocals especially the raw emotion that his voice is able to convey) then i recommend listening to their song Daze. His vocals on the chorus are something out of this world.
I just think that so many more people would love their music if they just ever heard them but since their from Finland it rarely happens. Although many have heard their songs in Remedy's video games Max Payne 2, Alan Wake, Quantum Brake and Control
(Also every single reactor i have seen reacting to them has been pretty much blown away by their music so i'm very confident you'll like it)
also... also... lot's of deep and meaningful lyrics and wordplay in their songs
sorry for the long rant i just really want more people to know about them :D
I love when people research before watching! Great job!! You understood the message!!
Thanks ❤️
Actually we speak a lot about that subject here in Germany and you will learn all about it in the 12 years you go to school here. The last time witnesses are dying right now, but a lot of people could talk to their grandparents and parents who went through it. NEVER FORGET and NEVER AGAIN :)
I have an English translation of the lyrics. It really does express how torn they are between their deep love for the motherland and the shame for past errors. Quite honestly, pretty much every other country on earth can feel the same way about their own past. Yes, what happened during WWII was horrible but making the new generation pay for the mistakes of their predecessors is pointless. It is time for forgiveness but never forget. Thus hopefully ensuring that we humans, don't repeat the same mistakes.
In case anyone is surprised about the lead singer in a Miniskirt - that is Ulrike Meinhof.The de facto Leader of the RAF.
RAF = Red Army Fraction(not Royal Air Force)
i so much love how u call the "woman" the boss, which she realy is, BUT not as a woman it self but like germania, which i can describe the best as the german soul, combined with the fact that Deutschland means the land of the people, which brings u to "germanialand" --- Germany ----- Deutschland ----- the land of the ppl and its soul germania
I'm Dutch and also most likely part German, since i live near the border. I love this song it gives me pride! I will not!!! talk about H**ler in a good way!!! But germany needs to be praised for their inovation!
Thank you, I like your reaction, very thoughtful and deep.
Young lady, your reaction was perfect. Great music, very difficult subject matter.
Great reaction. I like that you didn't just reacted to the musical part but although to the story behind it.
Some other great band I would like to recommend are Oomph! ("Tausend Mann udn ein Befehl" or "Labyrinth"), Eisbrecher ("Was ist hier los?" or "FAKK") and Hämatom ("Made in Germany"(and "Made in USA") or "Warum kann ich nicht glücklich sein").
It is sweet and interesting how you were reluctant to speak openly about negative parts of German history. There is no need for that though. We all know what happened.
Us Germans actually learn a lot about our history without sugar-coating any of it. But I'm also really impressed with how much you seem to know about it. The general message of the song is the love-hate-relationship that many Germans have with their country and their national identity. The hook can be translated to: "Germany, your love is curse and blessing. Germany, my love I cannot give you".
The video mirrors some of my personal family history. My dad was big into amateur genealogy and traced his roots only a short way back. My great grandfather was from Germany. We apparently had an ancestral estate in Germany that the German government, during WWII, wanted as a facility for training military officers. They accused my family of being Jews, killed them all, and confiscated the estate. Now, the only relatives with our family name all live in the US and come directly from my great grandfather who came to the US after WWI.
Really impressed with your reaction great job thank you
the piano at the end is another rammstein song called "sonne". you have to watch it. its like snowwhite and the 7 dwarfs. rammstein are the dwarfs 😁
Never fear to talk about history. We are the lessons of our ancestors. But we aren't their sins.
how sweet of you to apologize for the video confusing you. It's probably the same for everyone and it was no different for me. There are many scenes and details about German history. But I'm sure that you will be enlightened with the comments .... Super good and factual reaction from you
That right there... that was a piece of art.
It´s so sad, that people don´t say what they really think, but i can understand you. Because only of watching a video of music that you like, to be sentenced because of a comment. But nevertheless a real good reaction. Thx. i love the song, because that´s exactly what i feel about Germany.
I think I am really starting to like this style of singing, Sprechgesang, spoken singing.
What I find so attractive about it is the ability to focus on annunciating the words with richness. The rolling of the R's for instance is greatly enhanced.
Or I could be completely wrong, but I do like it.
Watch the eye patch move from right to left. Subtle, but significant.
Lol..this has nothing to do with the video and isn't significant,those are simple & common mistakes by the Art Department and Make up crew, or some parts of the video are mirrored.
@@NFLjunk79 Yeah well, you are the expert I guess.
I would wish that more countries (Bands)would work through their dark spots in history as well as Rammstein..!
I do so. But the times are nowadays hard. As for a freedom of a speech. Are we allowed to speak our mind really?
The history of our times is really important and gives us lessons and guidelines for the future. I Fucking Love Rammstein. They're brave.
The last part is so beautiful. Sonne on piano.
Biscute your reation i can tell you care alot your so sweet it endearing and not just a perrty face your special i hope you have the king as your friend❤😊
Tolle Analyse und detailreiche Reaktion auf das Video. Danke und Gruß aus Deutschland.
The boy in stripped pajamas, yes great movie! Good reaction Biss, you are very smart! You nailed most of it.
I love you for honest reactions :) keep it going :) and...never afraid talk what you think :)
The ending of the piece played on the piano is a melody from the song Sonne, so I recommend their piece Sonne :)
I did react to sonnee
I read an interesting thought somewhere about the dogs in this music video. It said that almost every German family has a pet dog, so they depicted German Shepherds as children. It makes sense
Well done. Only a little bit confused. I have seen others sitting there in shock with the mouth open. What a tough girl.
This video is insanely good... and the song too!
This is a journey through time through German history. Germania, Holocaust, RAF Terrorists, Hamburg 2017 G 20 etc
You do a great job with your reactions. I recently subbed and will continue to watch your videos. I especially loved your reaction at 11:02. Not everyone catches what’s happening there probably. Lol
I love how excited she gets any time she see those wings
Haha ❤
Pretty much a similar video (more or less) could have been made about (more or less) any country. This is a cinematic short film tho. Masterpiece.
You (you have, you have, you have, you have)
You've cried a lot (cried, cried, cried, cried)
Separated in spirit (separate, separate, separate, separate)
United in the heart (united, united, united, united)
We (we are, we are, we are, we are)
Have been together for a very long time (you are, you are, you are, you are)
Your breath cold (so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold)
The heart on fire (so hot, 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)
(Germany) my heart in flames
I want to love you and condemn you
(Germany) your breath cold
So young and yet so old
(Germany)
I (you have, you have, you have, you have)
I never want to leave you (you cry, you cry, you cry, you cry)
You can be loved (you love, you love, you love, you love)
And I want to hate you (you hate, you hate, you hate, you hate)
Arrogant, superior
Adopt, hand over
Surprise, Raid
Germany, Germany above all
(Germany) my heart in flames
I want to love you and condemn you
(Germany) your breath 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)
You
I
We
You
You (overpowering, superfluous)
Me (superman, tired)
We (he who climbs high will fall low)
You (Germany, Germany above all)
(Germany) your heart in flames
I want to love you and condemn you
(Germany) my breath 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)
Great reaction. I think it's good how you try to deal with the topic.
The lady on the Clip ist not the Boss, she is "Germania"
One very long take on the history of Germany's last 1000 years. The Ups and the horrible downs. To me the song is about singing about the country you love, but that same country's struggles of identity [and Germany has had HUGE struggles with who it is as a nationality, from preunification, reformation, the 20th century and Nazism]. To love one's country but to see the strain between the old nation and yet so young in its own adaptation.
Your reaction when the piano part came was so funny. Lol. Thx for another good video.
I know about the Berlin Wall. I'm old enough that my childhood was during the cold war, and with none of the sides loosening down, my generation thought this was going to last at least 50 years more than it did. I remember when they used to ask Roger Waters when he was going to perform "The Wall" again, he used to say "when the Berlin Wall falls", meaning never.
The two main characters in the end of the cold war that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall were Gorbachev and Reagan, so when I went to visit the Ronald Reagan presidential library and museum, they have a section of the Berlin Wall there. Watching the graffiti in one side, knowing that one day that wall divided ideologies, nations, a country, families, people died trying to get to the other side..., it is impacting how something inanimate can bring such deep feelings and reflection.
Hello Bisscute. I recommend a reaction to a band called LOVEBITES, a powerful and energetic band, but in this case formed by 5 girls, tremendous and powerful. Do not stop reacting to them, you will love them. Songs " Set to the world on fire"" Holy war" "Awakenin intro + Hammer of wrath"," Rising" "Crusade" among many songs they have. Do not miss it
If mankind still does exist in lets say 500 years, this song has to be in every history lesson. you can't describe Germany better than this.
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They used a number of props from their live shows in the videos, earlier at the "witch burning" you see their famous flamethrower-masks.
Whelp. You've got a new sub. Really digging your enthusiasm. Keep up the good work and let's keep seeing Rammstein and Tool 👍