This is about German history and this is a complete Ramstein production. No movie scenes. The final piano is taken from the Ramstein song "Sonne" Try "Sonne" live from Moscow. Amazing!
@@Skrubb_Lord, 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).
No one does music videos like Rammstein. They are the gold standard. Zeit, Sonne, Amerika, Ausländer, Angst, Radio, Keine Lust, Ich Will, Ohne Dich, Dicke Titten… Take your pick. Every one of them is a work of art. For me, Zeit is the best music video I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing… just stunningly beautiful and full of meaning.
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
@@michaelgoetze2103 are you sure? I mean at his time (~1.600) Poland was the biggest empire in Europe, from Baltic up to the Black Sea. Roman Empire was gone at 15th century. 🤷♂️
@@KarsonNow 16 A.D. is the year 16 not 1600 - so it's the 1st century AD not 16th / 17th century. Micheal Goetze is absolutely right, this refers to the region Germania Magna (called this name by the Romans) and the scene most probably refers to the Battle of Idistaviso or the Battle of the Angrivarian Wall - the last of a series of battles and the end of the ambitions of the Roman Empire to conquer more territories of Germania Magna.
"Deutschland, deine Liebe ist Fluch und Segen. Deutschland, meine Liebe kann ich dir NICHT geben." "Germany, your love is curse and Blessing. Germany, my love i can NOT give you." It's critical patriotism. Progress through acceptance and prudence. To criticize one's country is the most patriotic act there is, seeking to improve rather than unconditionally (blindly) love ones country/culture/nation. Too much "love" and you end in atrocities. Change is inevitable, it's literally the definition of time itself. To emotionally hold on to past ideas, identity, glory is futile. To progress is the only way to survive/adapt. It's the survival of the fittest, not the strongest nor most ruthless. "Wer hoch steigt, der wird tief fallen. Deutschland, Deutschland über allen." - "Who climbs high, will fall deep. Germany Germany over all." (pride comes before fall) Basically the essence of this masterpiece. I love Germany as a German, because of the understanding that this progressive critical take is the essence of a new German patriotism: Be proud, but also be wary because patriotism itself is a Pandoras box best appreciated humbly, rationally and with great care not to open it, nor to lose the knowledge of its fatal power if opened. "Vergangenheitsbeweltigung" is an important part of German collective identity. That I am proud of. Something, that is nearly forgotten in the US for example. Lots of blinded patriotism/nationalism simmering here (I'm currently living in the US). Have a good one, stay save.
@@MrChillerNo1 as an American, I feel the same way about my country. Yes, I love it, but it isn't perfect. There's so much more that we can do to improve our country. Nationalism is very dangerous, and it saddens me to see how many people support it in my country.
@@mistressaya Well.... what do US-americans learn about slavery, the slaughtering of the natives, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the subjection of elected democracies, especially in the 70's and 80's in the Middle East what let to multiple wars, the IS and stuff like that in school? What do kids in the US getting teached about the dark past of their country? Serious question.
even though it's hard to understand if you're not from Germany I'm pretty sure a lot of germans also wouldn't fully understand what's going on in the video xD
@@TheKartoffel101, I can tell you. Germania is a fallen angel (demon spirit) and Germany is no longer a white race nation due to the Third Reich bringing Muslims to them long before the Arab Spring, just like how Muslims all went to Dearborn, Michigan because Henry Ford published antisemitic propaganda for decades there. For anyone to give you a better explanation of this video they will need to explain the man fucking a dog in a room full of chaos after many mutts are created in Germany and before the white man is on his hands and knees before the world being led on leashes by the demonic spirit of Germania. 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 (Matthew 24:22) 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).
Rammstein uses a lot of synth. Basicly it's metal with techno. Industrial Metal. Rammstein themselves call their music dance metal. Maybe doesn't fit for every song, but it's a strong influence. No, there's no footage from movies. All shot for the video. Rammsteins music videos are like movies. They only work with the best international directors, some of them work with Lady Gaga, Madonna or Beyonce. 😄 And their early videos were heavily inspired by movies from David Lynch or Quentin Tarantino. This song is about the history of germany and in particular the love/hate relationship germans have with their country. There are lines like:"Germany, your love is a curse and blessing, my love I can't give to you", "Germany, the one who rises high will fall deep", "Germany, your heart in flames, want to love you and condemn you". The video shows scenes from roman times, medieval times, the church vs the people, WWI, WWII, Nazis, and the cold war, the communist eastern germany, and left wing terrorism in the 70s/80s, and even a fictional future in space. About the concentration camp scene: The band members don't wear stars only. There are also other symbols the nazis used for communists or homosexuals. So all kinds of groups of people they killed. The black woman symbolizes germania, the mythical queen of germany. So she's germany herself through all stages of history, in good times and bad times. Please react to Rammstein - Sonne (official video) Please check also their live qualities. Rammstein: Paris - Du hast (official video) It's an official live video from Paris. Their live shows are as spectacular and theatrical as the videos. It's almost performance art.
Sehr gut erklärt, Kompliment! Perfect explanation! Let me add: The translation of the lyrics may be a little bit helpful to understand the video, but knowing about (the bad parts of) the German history through the times would be way more helpful.
A little detail I wanna add is that the black woman in a lot of shots has something red and yellow on her or around her. Together with her being black she also represents the german national frag (black,red and yellow)
@@mehis1981 no worries xD but I'd say yellow and Gold are pretty much the same when it comes to describing the german flag. But you're right my good sir haha
Everything explained perfectly guy's- big applause from my side... and just adding to Anastasia: do also not miss live shows of Madison Square Garden... beside live shows in Paris I also want to recommended these to you Cheers guys...
The perfect way to show the Love Hate relationship germans have with their country. Rammstein is perfect in taking hard topics and making songs about it, especially about real stories like cannibalism (Song: mein Teil) or a father who locked his daughter in the basemant and fathered children with her (Song: Wiener Blut). Most of their Songs have a real Story behind them.
@@detsllh2995, do you like "Du Hast" where they marry the demonic world and find they aren't loved but hated for they shoot their load and it comes back to explode in their face? As the Quran states, "Allah intendeth evil for all people" so obviously loving enough to be loyal to the demonic will bite you in the ass in the end.
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 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 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.
This video is a masterpiece, like Michael Jackson's "Thriller" or Björk's "All is full of love". This video has so many nuances and so many meanings (like the hanging, first the black woman has the eye patch on the right - means blind in the right eye because Nazi right wing terror - then in the next scene she has the eye patch on the left).
You have cried a lot In the mind apart In the heart united We have been together for a very long time Your breath is cold The heart in flames You I Us You (plural) Germany My heart in flames Want to love you, want to damn you Germany Your breath is cold So young And yet so old Germany I I never want to leave you One can love you And want to hate you Overbearing Superior To take over To surrender Surprising To assault Germany, Germany over everyone Germany My heart in flames Want to love you, want to damn you Germany Your breath is cold So young And yet so old Germany Germany Your love is a curse and a blessing Germany My love I cannot give to you Germany Germany You I Us You (plural) Superior Needless Übermenschen Weary The higher you climb, the farther you fall Germany, Germany over everyone Germany My heart in flames Want to love you, want to 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 cannot give to you Germany
You should also write what they sing here in background. Thats also important: You (You can, you can..) I (I know, I know...) We (We are, we are..) You (You are.. you are.. plural)
Short content of the video. Time travelers visit Germany and evaluate whether Germany is worth saving. In the end, everything collapses. The Black Woman represents Germania. Everything happens in her name. The video is also available with subtitles. So if you want to understand what is being sung and you already know in advance that it is not sung in English, then you could easily have found a corresponding video on youtube with subtitles. And the end credits is the piano version of another song "Sonne"
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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 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 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.
Yes, Rammstein have mastered artistry. They are the textbook definition of what an artist should be. They don't just make songs, they make deep and meaningful and impactful expressions of thought and passion.
In addition to the historical aspects of the video, if you've seen their previous videos you'll notice a lot of callbacks. For example, the band walking away from the fiery crash of the Hindenburg references a time when they wanted to end their videos walking toward the camera away from fire and explosions, like in the video for Du Hast. I've been a fan of Rammstein since 1997 and somehow they just keep getting better, both musically and with their videos.
No movie clips were used for this video. Everything you see in this video are the members of the band Rammstein acting in completely self created scenes.
hi anastasia, overwhelming even for a native speaker, who was educated in german history. the piano outro is hitting as hard as the metal sounds. if you are interested, I found "Deutschland by Rammstein: An Analysis" her on YT very helpful to understand the video better. thank you for this reaction and a happy and healthy new year for you.
Здравствуй! В клипе чудовищное количество отсылок. Рекомендую разбор на канале Suren. При первых просмотрах клипа я выкупил, в лучшем случае, процентов 20-25 из того что он нашёл, ввиду слабого знания чужой истории. Видно что к песне и клипу Раммы подошли со всей серьёзностью и любовью к родной стране.
The video is all Rammstein, they aren't using clips of other films or anything, this is all filmed specifically for this music video. It is absolutely epic. I mean even just the Foley work in the first minute or so is incredible! The video basically covers 2000 years of German history, or rather I should say, the geographic location that is now known as the country of Germany, with the band acting different scenes and different times, and playing the roles of both/multiple sides in different conflicts and events. Lyrically, they are talking about the inner conflict of being German and the relationship to the country and it - and their - histories. The red lazer beam, and the woman who plays "Germania" (like a physical embodiment of the spirit of Germany) are constants through the various scenes, eras etc. The actress who plays Germania is called Ruby Commey I think, and is most often depicted in the colours of the German flag, black red and gold. I find it interesting and not sure if it is intentional, but as she is Black and her name "Ruby" is a way of saying "red" she's 2/3rds of the way there already! Rammstein do not shy away from the uncomfortable aspects of the past, even with the dark and troubling things like concentration camps and so on. I am sure there are actual German people and/or historians who can do a much better job than me explaining everything, or even some of this. Oh, one thing of note is the dogs that Germania gives birth to in the video, I believe they are called Leonbergers or something like that, unsure of the spelling but they are a German dog breed that almost became extinct but were ultimately saved from the brink by help from other nations to keep the Leonberger's alive in Germany There are many call backs both visual and audio to some of their previous music videos and live performances. It really requires multiple views to really even begin to take it in, speaking as a not German, though I've heard native Germans also say that they see new things every time they watch still. The "lead guy" as you called him is Till Lindemann, lyrics and vocals, and his voice is amazing Rammstein are industrial metal, credited with founding the genre 'neue deutsch harte, they combine synths and electro techno dance elements with amazing effect.
Rammstein pursued the goal of "Germany" to illustrate every single era of Germany with everything good or bad. Because Germany has more in common than just National Socialism. The real goal is to get rid of prejudices, since one is often branded as a nationalist if one makes the statement that one loves one's country, in the case of Germany. Your Welcome
There official Videos are ART: Radio Ich will Ausländer Sonne Rosenrot Mein Herz brennt Mein Herz brennt Piano Version 😍🤡 Ohne Dich Amerika Links 2 3 4 and the live Performances omg great reaction Rammstein is a rabbit hole
I listened to them back in the 90,s an i'm very disappointed in myself for not keeping in touch with their music and concerts. I just got into them again after my daughter seen them in NJ. And I started to Google them and was floored by their music and live performances. I'm a life long fan of their's and can't wait till they come back to the states. Hopefully soon.
a real "first time reaction" vid! In the the beginning you didn´t expect the production value: "made from other films" But then, you got really into it, and received and understood this piece in an very nice way! I like that you listened to the outro compleatly Get youself the english lyriks - you´ll enjoy this way more I enjoyed watchin your vid!
To TRULY understand "Deutschland" you will have to watch ALL Rammstein clips (they are mentioned on this clip) and study Germany's history. There some reviews that address this wonderfully.
Ironically this is my first time listening to this song as well, it's really good and the lead singer sounds like Chris Pohl who is the lead singer from Blutengel
Anastasia Here is English Translation: In the mind apart In the heart united
We have been together for a very long time Your breath is cold The heart in flames You I Us You
Germany My heart in flames want to love you want to damn you Germany Your breath is cold so young and yet so old Germany
I I never want to leave you One want to love you and want to hate you Overbearing (arrogant) Superior to take over to surrender Surprising to attack (to assault, raid, invade) Germany Germany over everyone
Germany My heart in flames want to love you want to damn you Germany Your breath is cold so young and yet so old Germany Germany Your love is a curse and a blessing Germany My love i cannot give to you Germany
Germany You I Us You
Superior Needles Beyond-Man* Sick of The higher you climb, the farther you fall Germany Germany over everyone
Germany Dein Herz in Flammen My heart in flames want to love you want to damn you Germany My breath is cold so young and yet so old Germany Your love is a curse and a blessing Germany My love I cannot give to you Germany
when it comes to Germany they like two things Techno and Hard Rock/Heavy Metal. Rammstein is very provocative they're not afraid to speak their minds setting aside their massive hit Du Hast check out Amerika. Sonne and Ich Will also their live performances will blow you away
Rammstein's Deutschland video explained: introducing Germania Rammstein’s Deutschland takes us on a thrilling, violent, and moving journey through German history. At over nine minutes, it gives us a panorama of events and historical and mythical figures, and there are so many references and Easter eggs that fans and commentators will be poring over it for some time to come. The video opens in AD 16, on the ‘barbarian’ side of the limes, the border of the Roman Empire. Roman soldiers creep through the woods in the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The Romans were ambushed by an alliance of Germanic Tribes, led by a chieftain called Arminius (the original Hermann the German). Three legionary standards were captured, a loss symbolic and moral, as well as physical, and decades were spent trying to recover them. Rome never again attempted to take the lands east of the River Rhine, known as Germania. ‘Germania’ refers not just to a place, somewhere partly defined by where it isn’t (Rome) as well as where it is, but also to a national figurehead, traditionally representing the German people. Germania (opens in new tab) is a strong woman, usually armour-clad and battle-ready. Various symbols appear with her, among them a breastplate with an eagle, a black, red, and gold flag, and a crown. Look out for these in the video - they come up again and again - and the colours of the contemporary flag are there in every scene. We get our first glimpse of Germania here (played by Ruby Commey), who stands holding Till Lindemann’s severed head. Next, astronauts appear carrying a metal and glass box shaped like a coffin. In the background we see a U-boat - a German submarine, used in World Wars I and II. Then we move to a scene set at a boxing match which takes us to Weimar Germany (1918-1933), a period known for its political instability but also greater cultural liberalism. Here, Germania appears in the cabaret costume of a flapper girl, and the boxers fight with knuckle-dusters as a crowd cheers them on. Rammstein Deutschland video still Ruby Commey as Germania Rammstein's Deutschland video explained: Marx, Lenin and the GDR We see the former East Germany, complete with busts of Marx and Lenin, the national emblem of East Germany (opens in new tab), and a lookalike of the long-serving, insular, and repressive GDR leader Erich Honecker. There’s another astronaut, or rather a cosmonaut: Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space, who flew with the USSR’s space program (and who’s also a character in the 2003 film, Good Bye Lenin!). Medieval monks feast grotesquely on the supine Germania, tearing sauerkraut and sausage from Ruby Commey’s body, prison inmates are beaten by guards dressed in police and military uniforms from different historical periods. The most obviously shocking scene references the Holocaust and the Nazi period. Four members of the band, in the striped uniforms of camp inmates, wait at the gallows, about to be hanged. They wear the cloth emblems used to identify their ‘crimes’: a pink triangle for homosexual prisoners, a yellow star for Jewish prisoners, a red and yellow star for Jewish political prisoners. This sequence, teased in an earlier promo video, has already caused controversy. Have Rammstein the right to do this? Do they trivialise the suffering of Holocaust victims? How can they justify using Holocaust imagery to promote their new video? These are important questions that are part of a much bigger debate about the ethics of using the Holocaust in art and media. Other scenes include the band walking away from a flaming airship, referring to the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster, in which 36 people died. Rats scuttle across the floor when the monks first appear, suggesting the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a legend with origins in the 13th century. Germania walks towards the camera in a leather jacket, gold jewellery and a string of bullets across her chest, resembling the chariot drawn by four horses (the ‘Quadriga’) on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The band members’ heads are shown as white marble busts, taking us to the 19th century Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, built as German Hall of Fame, its sculpted heads of German worthies on display to this day. In the prison, hundreds of banknotes fall from above, suggesting the devastating hyperinflation Germany suffered in the 1920s. Nazis burn books, intercut with religious fanatics burning witches. We recognise members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof group), a militant organisation active in the 1970s in West Germany. And in a blink-or-you-miss-it exchange, we are reminded of the much-criticised relationship between the churches and the state during the Third Reich. Rammstein Deutschland video still Rammstein's Deutschland video explained: the finale Each scene captures in a moment the icons of an era, and the video cuts between them more and more frenetically as it goes on. Events bleed into each other, linked by the presence of the band members and the red laser beam that appears throughout the video, a ‘roter Faden’ (red thread or central theme), connecting each event. Germany engages with its history in a very particular way. Try to imagine the video about Britain, with Britannia played by Ruby Commey. What would the equivalent events be? Quite a few of the tableaux might be similar - Romans, Crusaders, monks, 18th-century soldiers, collarless shirts and bareknuckle boxing - but would it have the same impact? There’s no affection, and perhaps not much hope: its pessimistic tone seems to be quite an off-brand message for post-1989 Germany, which wants to acknowledge its past critically, while also looking to its future as a state at the heart of Europe. And actually, while we get a lot of medieval and twentieth-century history, the video’s tour through the past seems to stop in the late 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of East and West Germany. Instead, we jump into the future, where the space-suited band take Germania into the unknown, travelling in that coffin-shaped glass box. There’s an echo of the video for Sonne, where Snow White is trapped in a glass coffin. In fact, a piano version of Sonne plays over the end credits of Deutschland. This is a useful link for understanding something of what Rammstein is doing here. In Sonne, where the band’s characters free themselves of Snow White (naturally, they’ve been her sex-slaves), only to realise that they have made a mistake and long for her return, the overwhelming feeling of Deutschland seems to be that when it comes to Germania (or Germany): you can’t love her, and you can’t live without her. PS: I did not write the comment myself the Credit for it goes to: Ingovonderluhe174 i just copyied for you, cause he did the best explanation that i saw on YouToube!
You should check out more of them. All official videos are high standard and they're epic live. Videos to check out next: "Ohne dich" ( a really nice ballade) "Mein Herz brennt" original and Piano Version Live: "Ich tu dir weh" live from Madison Square Garden "Mutter" live in Paris
A good and a thoughtful reaction - loved it. It is not an 'easy' video - it wasn't supposed to be. I'm sure you have been told that the outro is a piano version of their song 'Sonne'. I'm so happy you watched and listened to it all - too many reactors cut off the end which is very beautiful. Good job!
You picked up on the same bit I did. The female vocal over the top of the end of the song is a lady called Meral Al-Mer. Parts of songs like that always give me the chills as it's such a powerful sound even when it's only used as backing. The piano at the end is a version of their song called "Sonne."
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
Это видео стоит "годзиллион дорралс" - однажлы вокалист "Король и шут" в интервью сказал, что Рамштайн - продукт всей Германии и они работают все на нее (группу). В этом есть много правды, но... Разве деньги смогли бы сделать этот шедевр, если бы не было самой музыки истории перед ней? Как если бы были бы Бэбиметал той же группой, если бы не был вокал Су-Метал? Это к вопросу о том, то делает шедевр шедевром. Всегда есть ингридиент, который самый уникальный.
I know this video has been up for sometime. And I don't know if anyone said this yet but that background vocals of that women is from a keyboard. They have used it in other videos
The woman is black, wears red lipstick or red eyes, and is dressed in golden stuff = German flag. You find these three colours in every shot. Plus: The electronic sound is a tribute to Anne Clark, who was successful in early rave years in Germany. It's like jumping through different eras of German history, 2nd world war, communism of East Germany, RAF terror, the golden industry and so on. Even the dogs are German shepherds. Now, nerdism: At the same time the video consists of hundred different elements of Rammstein's history. Crawling like dogs and eating a human being ("Mein Teil"), huge angel wings ("Engel"), the piano in the end is "Sonne", Till's head that got cut off has the hair cut from the "Ich Will" video and so on, and so on. And yes, no stolen clips. This video was produced only for this song. The lyrics though tell from a relationship between him and Deutschland, that Germany is young (historically) but old (conservative), that Germany gives him a lot (peace, money) but that he can't give this love back (because of history for instance).
Some recommendations for your next Rammstein react videos. Their video for the original version of "Sonne", as the piano outro in Deutschland was the piano version of Sonne. And you ABSOLUTELY need to do a reaction video to one of their live shows. Rammstein truly is one of those few bands, where they go all out on production values for their live shows and I even think that the live versions of their songs are even better than their studio versions.
Many people asked "Why Germania is black woman?". I think its because she is black German Imperial Eagle. I love moment when Third Reich Germania showed with red bloody eyes. Symbolism Germania was fall into pure madness
I meant to add, for "where next" in your Rammstein journey, I strongly recommend you check these out in the following order: the official music videos for "Sonne", "Mein Herz Brennt" (the original music video first), "Haifisch" and then "Radio". Then watch the Live performances of "Du Hast" live in Paris, "Engel" live, "Ich tu Dir Weh" live and "Seeman" (2017 live version). And then just see where you go from there, but that is my recommendation
The stars on chest or arm was in few different color, like in this video. it was: jewish, political, homosexual, and other nation (polish, gypsy etc) prisoners. its important.
Nice reaction!) BTW Rammstein was founded in January of 1994 in Berlin, so they are one of the most consistent industrial metal bands (more than 28 years of playing by now) with no lineup changes whatsoever))
The black woman is often coloured in red and gold to represent germania and the german flag. The red lasers represents the red line connecting the germany history. Its a critical visual history of germany. The song "Amerika" has a super nice music video too. I recommend a reaction, same for "Sonne". And the Live-show of "Du Hast" in Paris. Deutschland is their newest and greatest song, maybe even one of their last, thats why they used it to make a statement with massive ammount of money.
So this is my theory for whats up with the head germania is keeping all the centuries. I think it symbolised the roman culture we germans absorbed from the romans. Its part of our culture like many latin words we still use and some ancient storys from homer and many more. In the 19th century we began to love the old roman culture and architecture, simbolized by germania kissing the head. And now its really a part of our culture and history we assimilated what we unearthed from our and the roman history and culture, symbolized by her eating the head. Its all a metaphor.( if you have a better explaination please educate me) Have a nice Day
Great reaction. I was impressed that you knew off the top of your head, the wars years, 39 to 45. This song is diff than most Rammstein songs. Try Ich Will or Buch Dich, for a clearer example of their base sound
Basically, every scene shows a part of germans history. The black Woman is the Spirit of Germany (Germania). The song itself is about how a german might feel about his country from a patriotic standpoint.
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The Piano-Part is a Piano version of the Rammstein song "Sonne".
damn. i never noticed that.
Yes, but she was asking more like - whether it's a part of the studio version or is that part was done specifically for the music video...
This is about German history and this is a complete Ramstein production. No movie scenes. The final piano is taken from the Ramstein song "Sonne" Try "Sonne" live from Moscow. Amazing!
Yes! Mixed with Rammstein history, because there' s lots of elements from old Rammstein albums, videos and tours. Masterpiece.
To be exact it's more so about their love\hate relationship with Germany and it's history.
2 must watch videos : Sonne official video clip and Rock Symphony 2017 or 2019
German history indeed Klaus. And outro ist so sweet Sonne....no words needed
@@Skrubb_Lord, 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).
No one does music videos like Rammstein. They are the gold standard. Zeit, Sonne, Amerika, Ausländer, Angst, Radio, Keine Lust, Ich Will, Ohne Dich, Dicke Titten… Take your pick. Every one of them is a work of art. For me, Zeit is the best music video I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing… just stunningly beautiful and full of meaning.
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
Teutoburg happened in 9AD. In 16AD the Germanic tribes were completely beaten by the Romans in revenge,
@@michaelgoetze2103 are you sure? I mean at his time (~1.600) Poland was the biggest empire in Europe, from Baltic up to the Black Sea. Roman Empire was gone at 15th century. 🤷♂️
@@KarsonNow 16 A.D. is the year 16 not 1600 - so it's the 1st century AD not 16th / 17th century. Micheal Goetze is absolutely right, this refers to the region Germania Magna (called this name by the Romans) and the scene most probably refers to the Battle of Idistaviso or the Battle of the Angrivarian Wall - the last of a series of battles and the end of the ambitions of the Roman Empire to conquer more territories of Germania Magna.
this is the MOST a amazing post I have ever read. wow. makes all the difference. essential.
@@michaelgoetze2103 So Rome made it WAY beyond the Rhine...really?
Rammstein has the courage to love their country while acknowledging its bloody history.
"Deutschland, deine Liebe ist Fluch und Segen.
Deutschland, meine Liebe kann ich dir NICHT geben."
"Germany, your love is curse and Blessing.
Germany, my love i can NOT give you."
It's critical patriotism. Progress through acceptance and prudence.
To criticize one's country is the most patriotic act there is, seeking to improve rather than unconditionally (blindly) love ones country/culture/nation. Too much "love" and you end in atrocities.
Change is inevitable, it's literally the definition of time itself. To emotionally hold on to past ideas, identity, glory is futile. To progress is the only way to survive/adapt.
It's the survival of the fittest, not the strongest nor most ruthless.
"Wer hoch steigt, der wird tief fallen.
Deutschland, Deutschland über allen."
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"Who climbs high, will fall deep.
Germany Germany over all."
(pride comes before fall)
Basically the essence of this masterpiece.
I love Germany as a German, because of the understanding that this progressive critical take is the essence of a new German patriotism: Be proud, but also be wary because patriotism itself is a Pandoras box best appreciated humbly, rationally and with great care not to open it, nor to lose the knowledge of its fatal power if opened.
"Vergangenheitsbeweltigung" is an important part of German collective identity. That I am proud of.
Something, that is nearly forgotten in the US for example. Lots of blinded patriotism/nationalism simmering here (I'm currently living in the US).
Have a good one, stay save.
@@MrChillerNo1 agreed 100%.
@@MrChillerNo1 as an American, I feel the same way about my country. Yes, I love it, but it isn't perfect. There's so much more that we can do to improve our country.
Nationalism is very dangerous, and it saddens me to see how many people support it in my country.
@@mistressaya
Well.... what do US-americans learn about slavery, the slaughtering of the natives, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the subjection of elected democracies, especially in the 70's and 80's in the Middle East what let to multiple wars, the IS and stuff like that in school? What do kids in the US getting teached about the dark past of their country? Serious question.
@@MrChillerNo1 wary* not weary.
This music video is a masterpiece. The song itself is already great, but the video takes it to the next level.
even though it's hard to understand if you're not from Germany I'm pretty sure a lot of germans also wouldn't fully understand what's going on in the video xD
I'd love to see Kanye's reaction.
@@TheKartoffel101, I can tell you. Germania is a fallen angel (demon spirit) and Germany is no longer a white race nation due to the Third Reich bringing Muslims to them long before the Arab Spring, just like how Muslims all went to Dearborn, Michigan because Henry Ford published antisemitic propaganda for decades there. For anyone to give you a better explanation of this video they will need to explain the man fucking a dog in a room full of chaos after many mutts are created in Germany and before the white man is on his hands and knees before the world being led on leashes by the demonic spirit of Germania.
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 (Matthew 24:22) 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).
@@ReligionOfSacrifice you're one of those who don't understand it.
Rammstein uses a lot of synth. Basicly it's metal with techno. Industrial Metal. Rammstein themselves call their music dance metal. Maybe doesn't fit for every song, but it's a strong influence. No, there's no footage from movies. All shot for the video. Rammsteins music videos are like movies. They only work with the best international directors, some of them work with Lady Gaga, Madonna or Beyonce. 😄
And their early videos were heavily inspired by movies from David Lynch or Quentin Tarantino.
This song is about the history of germany and in particular the love/hate relationship germans have with their country. There are lines like:"Germany, your love is a curse and blessing, my love I can't give to you", "Germany, the one who rises high will fall deep", "Germany, your heart in flames, want to love you and condemn you".
The video shows scenes from roman times, medieval times, the church vs the people, WWI, WWII, Nazis, and the cold war, the communist eastern germany, and left wing terrorism in the 70s/80s, and even a fictional future in space.
About the concentration camp scene: The band members don't wear stars only. There are also other symbols the nazis used for communists or homosexuals. So all kinds of groups of people they killed.
The black woman symbolizes germania, the mythical queen of germany. So she's germany herself through all stages of history, in good times and bad times.
Please react to Rammstein - Sonne (official video)
Please check also their live qualities.
Rammstein: Paris - Du hast (official video) It's an official live video from Paris.
Their live shows are as spectacular and theatrical as the videos. It's almost performance art.
Sehr gut erklärt, Kompliment! Perfect explanation! Let me add: The translation of the lyrics may be a little bit helpful to understand the video, but knowing about (the bad parts of) the German history through the times would be way more helpful.
A little detail I wanna add is that the black woman in a lot of shots has something red and yellow on her or around her. Together with her being black she also represents the german national frag (black,red and yellow)
@@klinkz1456 sorry for being „überdeutsch“ but it’s Black, Red and Gold (not Yellow) 🙈
@@mehis1981 no worries xD but I'd say yellow and Gold are pretty much the same when it comes to describing the german flag. But you're right my good sir haha
Everything explained perfectly guy's- big applause from my side... and just adding to Anastasia: do also not miss live shows of Madison Square Garden... beside live shows in Paris I also want to recommended these to you
Cheers guys...
The perfect way to show the Love Hate relationship germans have with their country. Rammstein is perfect in taking hard topics and making songs about it, especially about real stories like cannibalism (Song: mein Teil) or a father who locked his daughter in the basemant and fathered children with her (Song: Wiener Blut). Most of their Songs have a real Story behind them.
Greetings from Germany ans Welcome to the RAMMSTEIN Family 🇷🇺🇩🇪🇷🇺🇩🇪🇷🇺🇩🇪🇷🇺
Rammstein is the gold standard of music videos and in their concept and production
I been to one of there concerts and even that is gold star. I was three rows of standing and the heat you feel from the stage is unreal
@@detsllh2995, do you like "Du Hast" where they marry the demonic world and find they aren't loved but hated for they shoot their load and it comes back to explode in their face? As the Quran states, "Allah intendeth evil for all people" so obviously loving enough to be loyal to the demonic will bite you in the ass in the end.
This is probably the most important and best musicvideo ever made!
What i love about this Video is that everything has a meaning
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 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
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.
This is a complex video with a lot of meanings. Even knowing the translation is not easy to understand. I like it. Similar can be filmed about Russia
This video is a masterpiece, like Michael Jackson's "Thriller" or Björk's "All is full of love". This video has so many nuances and so many meanings (like the hanging, first the black woman has the eye patch on the right - means blind in the right eye because Nazi right wing terror - then in the next scene she has the eye patch on the left).
The reaction when she almost stopped before end. I feel like all the other reactors that has not seen it, they have missed a fantastic outro
You have cried a lot
In the mind apart
In the heart united
We have been together for a very long time
Your breath is cold
The heart in flames
You
I
Us
You (plural)
Germany
My heart in flames
Want to love you, want to damn you
Germany
Your breath is cold
So young
And yet so old
Germany
I
I never want to leave you
One can love you
And want to hate you
Overbearing
Superior
To take over
To surrender
Surprising
To assault
Germany, Germany over everyone
Germany
My heart in flames
Want to love you, want to damn you
Germany
Your breath is cold
So young
And yet so old
Germany
Germany
Your love is a curse and a blessing
Germany
My love I cannot give to you
Germany
Germany
You
I
Us
You (plural)
Superior
Needless
Übermenschen
Weary
The higher you climb, the farther you fall
Germany, Germany over everyone
Germany
My heart in flames
Want to love you, want to 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 cannot give to you
Germany
You should also write what they sing here in background. Thats also important:
You (You can, you can..)
I (I know, I know...)
We (We are, we are..)
You (You are.. you are.. plural)
Short content of the video. Time travelers visit Germany and evaluate whether Germany is worth saving. In the end, everything collapses.
The Black Woman represents Germania. Everything happens in her name.
The video is also available with subtitles. So if you want to understand what is being sung and you already know in advance that it is not sung in English, then you could easily have found a corresponding video on youtube with subtitles.
And the end credits is the piano version of another song "Sonne"
I loved your authentic reaction! 🇷🇺
Sending love from Boston, Massachusetts! 🇺🇸
My daughter bought us tickets for their show in September...I love her so much!!!
Rock on sister!💥🎸🔥
For germans every single second makes sense.
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 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 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.
@@megatwingo SA heißt Sturmabteilung, nicht Saalschutz
@@juliettpapa
Yes, you are right. I don't know, why I made that silly mistake.
Thanks for telling me and I will correct that mistake.
Greetings
Wasting all the time riding all that shit lol.
@@petercsigo3314 The one, who can read, may read. The one who can write, may write.
Yes, Rammstein have mastered artistry. They are the textbook definition of what an artist should be. They don't just make songs, they make deep and meaningful and impactful expressions of thought and passion.
2000 years of history in one video selfmade 😍 i love it. your reaction is great 😘 a piece of art you are right. sub time
In addition to the historical aspects of the video, if you've seen their previous videos you'll notice a lot of callbacks. For example, the band walking away from the fiery crash of the Hindenburg references a time when they wanted to end their videos walking toward the camera away from fire and explosions, like in the video for Du Hast.
I've been a fan of Rammstein since 1997 and somehow they just keep getting better, both musically and with their videos.
I think most if not all their songs are like movie videos and they are always really good, Sonne and Mein herz brent were really good ones imo
No movie clips were used for this video. Everything you see in this video are the members of the band Rammstein acting in completely self created scenes.
hi anastasia, overwhelming even for a native speaker, who was educated in german history. the piano outro is hitting as hard as the metal sounds. if you are interested, I found "Deutschland by Rammstein: An Analysis" her on YT very helpful to understand the video better. thank you for this reaction and a happy and healthy new year for you.
That piano version of ''Sonne'' as an outro is just masterpiece! ''Sonne'' is one of their songs also
played by Clemens Christian Poetzsch
A video like this should be made about American history. Starting when the Dutch landed on Manhattan island in the 1500's.
Привет из Нью Йорка! Классная реакция Анастасия. 30 лет слушаю метал, такого видео ни когда не видел. Сколько контекста, эмоций. Это исскуство. Браво.
Здравствуй!
В клипе чудовищное количество отсылок.
Рекомендую разбор на канале Suren.
При первых просмотрах клипа я выкупил, в лучшем случае, процентов 20-25 из того что он нашёл, ввиду слабого знания чужой истории.
Видно что к песне и клипу Раммы подошли со всей серьёзностью и любовью к родной стране.
This song/video describes german history and the feeling of being german soooo well.
The video is all Rammstein, they aren't using clips of other films or anything, this is all filmed specifically for this music video. It is absolutely epic. I mean even just the Foley work in the first minute or so is incredible!
The video basically covers 2000 years of German history, or rather I should say, the geographic location that is now known as the country of Germany, with the band acting different scenes and different times, and playing the roles of both/multiple sides in different conflicts and events. Lyrically, they are talking about the inner conflict of being German and the relationship to the country and it - and their - histories.
The red lazer beam, and the woman who plays "Germania" (like a physical embodiment of the spirit of Germany) are constants through the various scenes, eras etc.
The actress who plays Germania is called Ruby Commey I think, and is most often depicted in the colours of the German flag, black red and gold.
I find it interesting and not sure if it is intentional, but as she is Black and her name "Ruby" is a way of saying "red" she's 2/3rds of the way there already!
Rammstein do not shy away from the uncomfortable aspects of the past, even with the dark and troubling things like concentration camps and so on. I am sure there are actual German people and/or historians who can do a much better job than me explaining everything, or even some of this.
Oh, one thing of note is the dogs that Germania gives birth to in the video, I believe they are called Leonbergers or something like that, unsure of the spelling but they are a German dog breed that almost became extinct but were ultimately saved from the brink by help from other nations to keep the Leonberger's alive in Germany
There are many call backs both visual and audio to some of their previous music videos and live performances. It really requires multiple views to really even begin to take it in, speaking as a not German, though I've heard native Germans also say that they see new things every time they watch still.
The "lead guy" as you called him is Till Lindemann, lyrics and vocals, and his voice is amazing
Rammstein are industrial metal, credited with founding the genre 'neue deutsch harte, they combine synths and electro techno dance elements with amazing effect.
The outro piano is the melody of their song "Sonne"
The piano harmonies under the credits are from the song Sonne by Rammstein.
Loved your honest reaction, Anastasia. Stay metal!
Don't miss their live concerts, du hast France live, all are impressive, but this in particular, like so much to people.
Very good video reaction!
Rammstein pursued the goal of "Germany" to illustrate every single era of Germany with everything good or bad. Because Germany has more in common than just National Socialism. The real goal is to get rid of prejudices, since one is often branded as a nationalist if one makes the statement that one loves one's country, in the case of Germany. Your Welcome
No film clips were used it’s all done by them, hope to see you do more Rammstein especially live, loved your voice sun from me.
All of there videos are crazy ..but i love the live stuff best ..ive been to 3 differet shows ..everyone was worth it ..
Love those guys. Pure Rammstein. All Rammstein and nothing but Rammstein. Nice clip of you singing Adagio
There official Videos are ART:
Radio
Ich will
Ausländer
Sonne
Rosenrot
Mein Herz brennt
Mein Herz brennt Piano Version 😍🤡
Ohne Dich
Amerika
Links 2 3 4
and the live Performances omg
great reaction
Rammstein is a rabbit hole
the Intro is covered from Anne Clark, our darkness.
If you like theatrical elements, you should for sure watch'em live. They're one of the greatest bands when it comes to live concerts.
Its all about germany n its history n how the band love germany but struggle in loving certain parts of its history 🖤🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🇬🇧
Loved your reaction Anastasia, it was very honest, keep it up!
I liked your reaction. Especially how you were going on to stop the video but withdrew your hand when the epilogue started.
I listened to them back in the 90,s an i'm very disappointed in myself for not keeping in touch with their music and concerts. I just got into them again after my daughter seen them in NJ. And I started to Google them and was floored by their music and live performances. I'm a life long fan of their's and can't wait till they come back to the states.
Hopefully soon.
a real "first time reaction" vid! In the the beginning you didn´t expect the production value: "made from other films"
But then, you got really into it, and received and understood this piece in an very nice way!
I like that you listened to the outro compleatly
Get youself the english lyriks - you´ll enjoy this way more
I enjoyed watchin your vid!
To TRULY understand "Deutschland" you will have to watch ALL Rammstein clips (they are mentioned on this clip) and study Germany's history.
There some reviews that address this wonderfully.
This song is the masterpiece from rammstein
archievment unlocked: discover a rabbit hole
Ironically this is my first time listening to this song as well, it's really good and the lead singer sounds like Chris Pohl who is the lead singer from Blutengel
That version of Carmen that you played in the beginning sounds extremely good
Anastasia
Here is English Translation:
In the mind apart
In the heart united
We have been together for a very long time
Your breath is cold
The heart in flames
You
I
Us
You
Germany
My heart in flames
want to love you want to damn you
Germany
Your breath is cold
so young
and yet so old
Germany
I
I never want to leave you
One want to love you
and want to hate you
Overbearing (arrogant)
Superior
to take over
to surrender
Surprising
to attack (to assault, raid, invade)
Germany Germany over everyone
Germany
My heart in flames
want to love you want to damn you
Germany
Your breath is cold
so young
and yet so old
Germany
Germany
Your love is a curse and a blessing
Germany
My love i cannot give to you
Germany
Germany
You
I
Us
You
Superior
Needles
Beyond-Man*
Sick of
The higher you climb, the farther you fall
Germany Germany over everyone
Germany
Dein Herz in Flammen My heart in flames
want to love you want to damn you
Germany
My breath is cold
so young
and yet so old
Germany
Your love is a curse and a blessing
Germany
My love I cannot give to you
Germany
when it comes to Germany they like two things Techno and Hard Rock/Heavy Metal. Rammstein is very provocative they're not afraid to speak their minds setting aside their massive hit Du Hast check out Amerika. Sonne and Ich Will also their live performances will blow you away
Men Spectre hits different with his Videos, always a joy to watch his productions. He just hast this good sense of details. Mindblowing
If this isn't the best videoclip of all their entire carreer, It's one of The best 3 Of them.
Rammstein's Deutschland video explained: introducing Germania
Rammstein’s Deutschland takes us on a thrilling, violent, and moving journey through German history. At over nine minutes, it gives us a panorama of events and historical and mythical figures, and there are so many references and Easter eggs that fans and commentators will be poring over it for some time to come.
The video opens in AD 16, on the ‘barbarian’ side of the limes, the border of the Roman Empire. Roman soldiers creep through the woods in the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The Romans were ambushed by an alliance of Germanic Tribes, led by a chieftain called Arminius (the original Hermann the German). Three legionary standards were captured, a loss symbolic and moral, as well as physical, and decades were spent trying to recover them. Rome never again attempted to take the lands east of the River Rhine, known as Germania.
‘Germania’ refers not just to a place, somewhere partly defined by where it isn’t (Rome) as well as where it is, but also to a national figurehead, traditionally representing the German people. Germania (opens in new tab) is a strong woman, usually armour-clad and battle-ready. Various symbols appear with her, among them a breastplate with an eagle, a black, red, and gold flag, and a crown. Look out for these in the video - they come up again and again - and the colours of the contemporary flag are there in every scene.
We get our first glimpse of Germania here (played by Ruby Commey), who stands holding Till Lindemann’s severed head. Next, astronauts appear carrying a metal and glass box shaped like a coffin. In the background we see a U-boat - a German submarine, used in World Wars I and II. Then we move to a scene set at a boxing match which takes us to Weimar Germany (1918-1933), a period known for its political instability but also greater cultural liberalism. Here, Germania appears in the cabaret costume of a flapper girl, and the boxers fight with knuckle-dusters as a crowd cheers them on.
Rammstein Deutschland video still
Ruby Commey as Germania
Rammstein's Deutschland video explained: Marx, Lenin and the GDR
We see the former East Germany, complete with busts of Marx and Lenin, the national emblem of East Germany (opens in new tab), and a lookalike of the long-serving, insular, and repressive GDR leader Erich Honecker. There’s another astronaut, or rather a cosmonaut: Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space, who flew with the USSR’s space program (and who’s also a character in the 2003 film, Good Bye Lenin!). Medieval monks feast grotesquely on the supine Germania, tearing sauerkraut and sausage from Ruby Commey’s body, prison inmates are beaten by guards dressed in police and military uniforms from different historical periods.
The most obviously shocking scene references the Holocaust and the Nazi period. Four members of the band, in the striped uniforms of camp inmates, wait at the gallows, about to be hanged. They wear the cloth emblems used to identify their ‘crimes’: a pink triangle for homosexual prisoners, a yellow star for Jewish prisoners, a red and yellow star for Jewish political prisoners.
This sequence, teased in an earlier promo video, has already caused controversy. Have Rammstein the right to do this? Do they trivialise the suffering of Holocaust victims? How can they justify using Holocaust imagery to promote their new video? These are important questions that are part of a much bigger debate about the ethics of using the Holocaust in art and media.
Other scenes include the band walking away from a flaming airship, referring to the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster, in which 36 people died. Rats scuttle across the floor when the monks first appear, suggesting the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a legend with origins in the 13th century.
Germania walks towards the camera in a leather jacket, gold jewellery and a string of bullets across her chest, resembling the chariot drawn by four horses (the ‘Quadriga’) on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The band members’ heads are shown as white marble busts, taking us to the 19th century Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, built as German Hall of Fame, its sculpted heads of German worthies on display to this day.
In the prison, hundreds of banknotes fall from above, suggesting the devastating hyperinflation Germany suffered in the 1920s. Nazis burn books, intercut with religious fanatics burning witches. We recognise members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof group), a militant organisation active in the 1970s in West Germany. And in a blink-or-you-miss-it exchange, we are reminded of the much-criticised relationship between the churches and the state during the Third Reich.
Rammstein Deutschland video still
Rammstein's Deutschland video explained: the finale
Each scene captures in a moment the icons of an era, and the video cuts between them more and more frenetically as it goes on. Events bleed into each other, linked by the presence of the band members and the red laser beam that appears throughout the video, a ‘roter Faden’ (red thread or central theme), connecting each event.
Germany engages with its history in a very particular way. Try to imagine the video about Britain, with Britannia played by Ruby Commey. What would the equivalent events be? Quite a few of the tableaux might be similar - Romans, Crusaders, monks, 18th-century soldiers, collarless shirts and bareknuckle boxing - but would it have the same impact?
There’s no affection, and perhaps not much hope: its pessimistic tone seems to be quite an off-brand message for post-1989 Germany, which wants to acknowledge its past critically, while also looking to its future as a state at the heart of Europe. And actually, while we get a lot of medieval and twentieth-century history, the video’s tour through the past seems to stop in the late 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of East and West Germany. Instead, we jump into the future, where the space-suited band take Germania into the unknown, travelling in that coffin-shaped glass box.
There’s an echo of the video for Sonne, where Snow White is trapped in a glass coffin. In fact, a piano version of Sonne plays over the end credits of Deutschland. This is a useful link for understanding something of what Rammstein is doing here. In Sonne, where the band’s characters free themselves of Snow White (naturally, they’ve been her sex-slaves), only to realise that they have made a mistake and long for her return, the overwhelming feeling of Deutschland seems to be that when it comes to Germania (or Germany): you can’t love her, and you can’t live without her.
PS: I did not write the comment myself the Credit for it goes to:
Ingovonderluhe174 i just copyied for you, cause he did the best explanation that i saw on YouToube!
You should check out more of them. All official videos are high standard and they're epic live.
Videos to check out next: "Ohne dich" ( a really nice ballade)
"Mein Herz brennt" original and Piano Version
Live: "Ich tu dir weh" live from Madison Square Garden
"Mutter" live in Paris
A good and a thoughtful reaction - loved it. It is not an 'easy' video - it wasn't supposed to be. I'm sure you have been told that the outro is a piano version of their song 'Sonne'. I'm so happy you watched and listened to it all - too many reactors cut off the end which is very beautiful. Good job!
People think they're "metal", but they're a Heavy "Industrial". I got schooled on that, when they 1st came out, a few decades ago. Love this stuff..
I'm born in the 90s and Rammstein is my first band too listing.
Welcome to the world of Rammstein.
Love to hear your reaction of
Sonne
Engel
Du hast
Great reaction! Please check out the official music video for their song "Radio".
Rammstein - mein Herz brennt (off-vid)
ruclips.net/video/WXv31OmnKqQ/видео.html
Rammstein - Mutter (off-vid)
ruclips.net/video/gNdnVVHfseA/видео.html
Rammstein - was ich liebe (live)
ruclips.net/video/sHjDa5e79F4/видео.html
Rammstein - Engel (live)
ruclips.net/video/eSaa3vC_n2k/видео.html
Rammstein - Ich tu dir weh (live)
ruclips.net/video/6TR12QnOAzE/видео.html
Rammstein - Rammlied (live)
ruclips.net/video/Q344Zgh_btE/видео.html
Rammstein - Du riechst so gut (live)
ruclips.net/video/mqGAokNRFI8/видео.html
Rammstein - Ich will (live)
ruclips.net/video/6SXZN_yLJi4/видео.html
Rammstein - Benzin (live)
ruclips.net/video/MgavgIS00sk/видео.html
Rammstein - Feuer Frei (live)
ruclips.net/video/qbBz9HYvu1w/видео.html
Rammstein - bück dich (live)
ruclips.net/video/pRXkDYTSAj4/видео.html
the intro is set the middle ages. the knights and all that stuff you know!
You picked up on the same bit I did. The female vocal over the top of the end of the song is a lady called Meral Al-Mer. Parts of songs like that always give me the chills as it's such a powerful sound even when it's only used as backing. The piano at the end is a version of their song called "Sonne."
The song is about the dark part of the history of Germany and the piano version at the end is Sonne's piano version.
The song at the end is the piano version of one of their older songs "Sonne".
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
Это видео стоит "годзиллион дорралс" - однажлы вокалист "Король и шут" в интервью сказал, что Рамштайн - продукт всей Германии и они работают все на нее (группу). В этом есть много правды, но... Разве деньги смогли бы сделать этот шедевр, если бы не было самой музыки истории перед ней? Как если бы были бы Бэбиметал той же группой, если бы не был вокал Су-Метал? Это к вопросу о том, то делает шедевр шедевром. Всегда есть ингридиент, который самый уникальный.
I know this video has been up for sometime. And I don't know if anyone said this yet but that background vocals of that women is from a keyboard. They have used it in other videos
It´s an epic masterpeace!
The woman is black, wears red lipstick or red eyes, and is dressed in golden stuff = German flag. You find these three colours in every shot. Plus: The electronic sound is a tribute to Anne Clark, who was successful in early rave years in Germany. It's like jumping through different eras of German history, 2nd world war, communism of East Germany, RAF terror, the golden industry and so on. Even the dogs are German shepherds. Now, nerdism: At the same time the video consists of hundred different elements of Rammstein's history. Crawling like dogs and eating a human being ("Mein Teil"), huge angel wings ("Engel"), the piano in the end is "Sonne", Till's head that got cut off has the hair cut from the "Ich Will" video and so on, and so on. And yes, no stolen clips. This video was produced only for this song. The lyrics though tell from a relationship between him and Deutschland, that Germany is young (historically) but old (conservative), that Germany gives him a lot (peace, money) but that he can't give this love back (because of history for instance).
Probably the best music video I've ever seen.
If ya like Rammstein, you may also like Static-X, they kinda created their own "sound", "Evil Disco." 😊
Or Eskimo Callboy
You need to check their live Performances , they are EPIC! Check the live clips from Moscow, and from NY , Madison Square Garden, epic stuff....
The end piano tune is taken from their song 'Sonne'. Do react to that one too, it's a masterpiece, plus an amazing music video.
Check their live versions 😍
Some recommendations for your next Rammstein react videos. Their video for the original version of "Sonne", as the piano outro in Deutschland was the piano version of Sonne. And you ABSOLUTELY need to do a reaction video to one of their live shows. Rammstein truly is one of those few bands, where they go all out on production values for their live shows and I even think that the live versions of their songs are even better than their studio versions.
All filmed for this vid. No movie snippets. 😉 God, I really dig you.
Ich liebe Till Lindemann 😍💕
i always have teary eyes listen to and watching this vid...
i love and hate my country so much ❤💔
Many people asked "Why Germania is black woman?". I think its because she is black German Imperial Eagle.
I love moment when Third Reich Germania showed with red bloody eyes. Symbolism Germania was fall into pure madness
I meant to add, for "where next" in your Rammstein journey, I strongly recommend you check these out in the following order: the official music videos for "Sonne", "Mein Herz Brennt" (the original music video first), "Haifisch" and then "Radio". Then watch the Live performances of "Du Hast" live in Paris, "Engel" live, "Ich tu Dir Weh" live and "Seeman" (2017 live version).
And then just see where you go from there, but that is my recommendation
The stars on chest or arm was in few different color, like in this video. it was: jewish, political, homosexual, and other nation (polish, gypsy etc) prisoners. its important.
React to Rammstein "Wollt Ihr Das Bett in Flammen Sehen?" (Do you want to see the bed in flames?). React to the Paris Live Video
They filmed it all for the album, It's about German history the girl represents Germania, check out Du Hast live in Paris
Nice reaction!) BTW Rammstein was founded in January of 1994 in Berlin, so they are one of the most consistent industrial metal bands (more than 28 years of playing by now) with no lineup changes whatsoever))
The black woman is often coloured in red and gold to represent germania and the german flag. The red lasers represents the red line connecting the germany history. Its a critical visual history of germany. The song "Amerika" has a super nice music video too. I recommend a reaction, same for "Sonne". And the Live-show of "Du Hast" in Paris. Deutschland is their newest and greatest song, maybe even one of their last, thats why they used it to make a statement with massive ammount of money.
DAMN!!!What a Voice you've got.
So this is my theory for whats up with the head germania is keeping all the centuries.
I think it symbolised the roman culture we germans absorbed from the romans. Its part of our culture like many latin words we still use and some ancient storys from homer and many more. In the 19th century we began to love the old roman culture and architecture, simbolized by germania kissing the head. And now its really a part of our culture and history we assimilated what we unearthed from our and the roman history and culture, symbolized by her eating the head. Its all a metaphor.( if you have a better explaination please educate me)
Have a nice Day
Props to you for not skipping the outro :D
At the end, Credits music is an Rammstein song = "Sonne" in piano version.
Piano ending its melody from Sonne by Rammstein
Great reaction. I was impressed that you knew off the top of your head, the wars years, 39 to 45. This song is diff than most Rammstein songs. Try Ich Will or Buch Dich, for a clearer example of their base sound
As the band members are shown in each scene it was complete filmmed for that video... ;-)
If you like theatrics, the official video for Sonne (which also was the piano outro here) gives a fun new twist on Snow White 😉
I love Rammstein🤟Great reaction, I hope for more rammstein reactions from you.....
Basically, every scene shows a part of germans history. The black Woman is the Spirit of Germany (Germania). The song itself is about how a german might feel about his country from a patriotic standpoint.
every rammstein song or live performance is a new experience. you will find out. welcome to the rabbit hole ....
The outro is "Sonne" the clip for that shares some similar themes as this (corruption and abuse of power)