*First time reaction* Rammstein - Deutschland
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- Опубликовано: 4 янв 2022
- That voice though....
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To give a little context: The video shows several events in German history like the defeat of the romans by uniting several germanic tribes, Hindenburg disaster, the "roaring" 1920s, RAF and of course World War II to name a few. The colored lady in every scene is Germania a personification of Germany, hence she wears red and gold to go with the German flag black, red, gold. The texts describes the struggle of the band with the troubling past and the successes of Germany over the years. "Germany ... One can love you, but wants to hate you". Very deep meaning. You have to know German history to catch all references.
The RAF term can be confusing. I'm no sure how many are familiar with the Red Army Faction these days ( or as the Baader Meinhof gang). Any time I see RAF I automatically think Royal Air Force became I'm British, it takes me a few seconds to shift my cultural reference point. Such a powerful video and song, every country could do with a degree more of this sort of thinking.
That was a really good description of the video. I've heard/read similar explanations, but yours was written very well, with much better detail. Thank you.
Also a Important part is were the monks are eating Germania. Its supposed to symbolize how the church absolutely canabilized Germany during the middle ages. They enriched themselves while the German population starved and suffered
They skipped the German Romanticism. But then, there was nothing brutal enough about it to make it into the video I suppose :P
@@richardscales9560 Nothing to do with Rammstein or the video, but funny nonetheless so here goes:
Your comment reminds me of a post I've read online. Someone went shopping with their mother and they saw a woman wearing a shirt saying "Feminist AF". Their mom thanked that woman for her service and the woman said "You're welcome." 😅
as a german, this is a masterpiece on so many levels. the german history, the artwork, the music, the lyrics... I can cry for so many positive and negative reasons when I see and hear this
Dear Ron and Paul, the Video is packed with historical references as well as references to old songs of Rammstein. The black girl represents Germania a symbol for Germany which never was a goddess or Queen but a kind of personified symbol for the German "Motherland" and unification of all germanic tribes - later kindoms, dukedoms and so on. She is presented as black girl which is a slap in the face of every racist or nazi still alive in Germany today. Also she always wears something golden (armor, chains, earrings) and something red (sometimes lipstick sometimes, eyes) which represent the colors of the german flag (Black,Red,Gold which represent "from pain, death, sorrows and darkness, through sweat blood and tears to a golden dawn/future).
The video starts with a Battle in the Teutoburger Forrest where Germanic pagan tribes stopped the Romans, later causing the fall of the roman empire. In 2:26 we can see scenes from the post WWI time around 1920s when germany was destabelized and people suffered. Red beams may represent violence like a read thread throughout history. 3:07 The Hindenburg Zeppelin LZ 129 accident (1937) in the background. 3:13 reference to the song "Du Hast". 3:32 The GDR (DDR in german a dictatorship although communism/socialism) Eastberlin and the East of Germany split from West Germany after WWII when East Germany went to the Soviet Union. 4:14 The Inqusition as well as The Church "feeding" on Germans (demanding money for eternal salvation until Martin Luther and Gutenberg translated and printed the bible). 4:17 reference to the "Mein Herz brennt" video/song. 5:13 reference to WWII the V2 missle and the holocaust. 5:43 refernce to the RAF (Red Army Fraction) a left-wing t*rrorist group who killed 33 to 34 people including politicians and injured more than 200. 6:02 Book burnings of the catholic church mixed together with the book burnings of the Nazis mixed together with the holy inquisition and burning of witches (also reference here to other rammstein songs/videos). Also showing church and nazis hug eachother as representation of the guilt of the catholic church during WWII. 7:07 Germania being pregnant with a bunch of german dogs is hard to interpret (maybe the love of germans to their dogs) but the presence of flake as a catholic cardinal clearly represents germany not being able to seperate Church and State even as a "secular" country. 7:43 The knights can represent a lot of battles but also the crusades. 7:59 the eagle is the national animal like the bald eagle is to the US. But also Symbol for the Roman Empire, The German Empire, The Third Reich, The USA Empire. 8:25 The wings are refereing to the song "Engel", the crouching guys refer to the song "Mein Teil".
The lyrics go Germany one can love you and wants to hate you. Representing their hate-love to their homeland especially with the actual uprising of right-wing parties and groups. Clearly the video only represents the negative stuff. The credits sond is a piano version of their song "Sonne".
Well done pyrointeam. I could imagine that Germania, who is pregnant with a puppy and the scene later everyone has a dog in their arms, is an allusion to the fact that many German young couples want to remain childless and prefer to get a dog or a cat as a child replacement. And the Germans thus threaten to become less. That is exactly what the Pope criticized about us Germans only recently.
@@DRD4forlife Interesting fact and idea.
i doubt that ppl will be able to fully understand the meaning of the pictures and those words if they are not in any relationship with germany or the german history..
@@Ring_0_only da gehe ich stark von aus. Man muss schon gutes Wissen der deutschen Geschichte haben um wirklich alles zu verstehen.
@@DRD4forlife ich würd sogar soweit gehn und behaupten, dass man selbst mit außreichend sprachkenntnis und fundiertes wissen über die deutsche geschichte, nicht das selbe verstehen und fühlen kann wie du oder ich. lg
As a german everytime i see this video i have tears in my eys.
Geht mir auch so
same ... das Lied trifft den Nagel einfach auf den Kopf
Geht mir genauso , die pisse inne Augen, besonders am Ende. Wahnsinns Video und Song
Rammstein hat nen guten Job gemacht, keine Frage....
Im not German, im Mexican but this video whit my fellings when i listen this video to Rammstein i cry because i understand somewhone reference and i like the German History, sorry for my english but i dont speak German 😢, one day...
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
Thank you for all the information!!
Wonderfully detailed explanation, so helpful, thank you for taking the time.
Geile Arbeit, hab nichts auszusetzen, so isses. ;)
The song is about how hard it is loving your country when you're a German. The piano arrangement at the end is a callback to an earlier, well-known Rammstein song called "Sonne" (Sun). That song is about being trapped by love in a relationship that's bad for you - like a planet trapped in orbit around the sun. It's a very fitting end for a song about loving Germany.
Wow I'm having goosebumps. You could perfectly explain it in a few words
Guys, I'm so happy that you listened to this song. As a German with a lot of interest in history, this song is an absolute masterpiece for me.
So many references in our history and so well executed. It's amazing.
Thank you for this video! ❤
Rammstein has the best live performance in the world and is also the best band from Germany
AND the best band worldwide. Hands down.
Rammstein and Onkelz 🙏🏻
so true
Greetings from Germany 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸
RAMMSTEIN " Ich tu dir weh" live from Madison Square Garden
" wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen " live from Paris
First of all: Thank you for watching the piano part, too. So many reactors just cut it out, which is kind of sad. :/
I would recommend the song "Sonne" from Rammstein next. Maybe you'll catch something since you did hear the piano part of "Deutschland" ;)
I agree - the beauty of the piano part is unbelievable.
@@dertechniker8867 And gives you time to reflect what you just saw.
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.
credits to: Germania
And there's so much more to this video.
The red light - in Germany there is the term "red thread" which runs through everything and connects everything with each other.
In the Holocaust scene, the eyepatch changes eyes because she is initially blind in the right eye (right-wing radical scene) - but later she realizes what is happening. Another interpretation is that she first sees the past and then the future, what follows from it.
In addition, very similar words are played here, which get a new meaning through a different spelling or pronunciation and only further emphasize the inner conflict and give some passages a 2 or even 3 clear meaning.
I had read the best of the comments for this RUclips channels, like they (comments) all must be written: historical, psychological and clever analysis of content.
Fantastic reaction guys. As a Russian Jew who has family in Germany this was so painful and moving to watch. The Rich and often dark history of Germany, rize of great thinkers intertwined with mass murderers, the love and hate relationship they have with their own culture. Brilliant video.
I couldn’t agree more with you. I have Some Russian Jewish Heritage as well. I felt the same way. It was so many emotions. But these guys are so brilliant telling the story in their point of view. I think everything was done in great taste. History is important. And we must learn from the mistakes to make all better. ✌️ And thank you for your support!
@@ThunderRooster My pleasure. We're all just guests in this world. Life is too short to spread hate. This video was healing.
I appreciate you listening to the piano in the end credits, it's beautiful
Germany. Tears in my Eyes-- Bud i love my Country... 💗
two songs that would create a great contrast tone-wise are “Mein Herz Brennt (piano version)” and “Wiener Blut”
I am so glad you entered the Rammstein world! I truly hope you will continue reacting to, both, their official and live videos. 🖤
I think we will lol. Lots of recommendations. Thanks again! ✌️
Thank you for this awesome reaction! If you want more Rammstein, the live shows from Madison Square Garden and Paris are legendary. Lovely greetings from Germany
Can’t wait!
Dont forget Live aus Berlin and Volkerball
You guys and Rammstein... Some of my favorite things combined ☺️ I have probably seen this video a hundred times and I still love it. I have to say, the first time I saw it, the face Till makes when he looks at the camera as he's portraying the Jewish prisoners, I felt that in my heart. The despair he displayed was so accurate. They knew this was going to be an important video, and the care they took in every scene can be felt.
Rammstein has always been a art project. Most of their songs and videos are very expressive and high quality. This is in my mind their masterpiece though. It speaks to and of my german soul. Simply brilliant and too much to go into here.
There are so many very good high quality videos of them out there (follow the views ^^). Live they are insane :)
One of my favourites, incredible song and every time you watch the video you pull more and more out of it. Our German friends can elucidate a lot better but it covers so much from formation of Germany to the ravaging of religion, hyperinflation. Hell you get the Hindenburg disaster thrown in at the beginning almost as an afterthought it's so packed full of imagery. That hypnotic woman who shows up through the whole thing represents Germany, and I believe the dogs a very exclusive German breed...
Their live shows are pure spectacle, and Till's voice is the anchor, the usual route is Du Hast live in Paris (knowing the song wont lessen the impact, that crowd singing it back and the way they bring the bass back in at the start...gives me chills. Oh and yes, that guy's on a treadmill)
Engel, I love just for the song but what TIll puts himself through looks like torture.
Ich Tu Dir Weh - my favourite, the song is amazing and the stage show is something else.
Speaking of something else - Mein Teil - again the live show is something else.
Good comment and recommendations.
I believe the dogs are an old German breed called "Leonberger" (I'm almost definitely spelling that incorrectly) that became almost entirely extinct and was just saved from the brink. Theres a video on a channel called "three arrows" that does a great breakdown and explanation of this video. It is in English.
There is symbology in pretty much every frame of this video, I notice something new almost each time, or something makes more sense etc.
I mostly agree with your recommendations, in fact I DO agree, only I would also recommend Seeman Live 2017, and the official music video for Radio. Oh and Fruhling in Paris live in France somewhere because it is beautiful
Тот момент когда и музыка и видео слишком круты. И ты сначала либо смотришь видео а потом слушаешь музыку потому что твое сознание распыляется чтоб уследить за видеорядом и музыкой. Очень круто
Rammstein has a lot of great songs, cool videos and unforgettable live shows. But "Deutschland" is just epic.
Rewatch it with lyrics and translation. The lyrics are equally powerful... actually sums up the hate love you (have to) feel as a German.
Das ist definitiv das beste produzierte Musik Video of the World. Its Amazing
As a German, you feel pain and emotions. Well done.
im not even german and i feel all the emotions, can't imagine what you guys feel
great guys! Thank you for your great reaction and the great appreciation for this music video. I see it exactly that way .... Rammstein has created a masterpiece ..... Greetings from Germany
If you hear and especially see this video for the first time it's just "information overkill". To make it very very very short: The song is about german history and the relationship of it's citizens to their country. Sometimes it's serious, sometimes it's a lil bit over the top (in a good meaning). For me it's one of the best produced music videos. By the way: The outro is ."just" ;-) the piano version of their song "Sonne" .
I like your video - really great reaction to Rammstein.
It's really difficult for someone who is not from Germany or familiar with German history to recognise all the symbols and references. Even as a German you have to watch the video several times - at least that's how I felt.
I don't want to explain everything - I'm sure you'll figure it out for yourselves.
Since the thing with the dogs is perhaps the least understandable - so i will try to explain that. These dogs are Leonbergers - a breed that was bred in Germany in the town of Leonberg. They were the pride of many high rulers - for example, the Russian Tsar had such dogs. However, due to the Second World War, this breed almost died out in Germany. Only very few dogs survived and there was little hope that this breed would survive.
And yet there were people in Germany who used the few remaining dogs for breeding and thus for the survival of the breed.
Today, Leonbergers can be found all over the world and are bred everywhere - even in the USA.
Germania (represented by the nice black lady in the video) has made it possible that this breed has not died out.
And I am really grateful for that - because I also have such a cuddly Leonberger and could not imagine being without one......
Greetings from Germany - and keep up the good work!
Great and honest reaction guys. When i watched this for the first time i was shellshocked too. Its real art.
There was so much said in the comments below, so if you´re really interested, I give you the following suggestions to watch. Rammstein are masters in live performances. "Du hast" or "Wollt ihr das bett in Flammen sehen?" both live from Paris. "Sonne" and "Rammstein" live in Moscow. "Mein Herz brennt" the original video AND the piano version (a must see). Great reaction! greetings from Germany.
Thank you for the suggestions! We will do more rammstein for sure!
Deutschland is a fuckin' masterpiece. That song and video riled up A LOT of people here in Germany
I could only Imagine. I could really sympathize with what I saw. Absolute incredible vision! ✌️
WOW! "I THINK THEY'RE GOING THROUGH SOME HISTORY!" OH my, smarty pants!
Momma said I was special! ⚡️🐓
I love this song! With the video it is total overkill the first time. So many historic events, metaphors and details, they have exceeded themselves!
So glad I saw them live in 2019. What an epic show with fire and red lights. It was weird to hear thousands of people yell "Deutschland!". You know, we don't do that here. ;)
This song and clip are epic. And the quality is just wow!!
JUST PERFECT. I SAW THEM IN CHICAGO 3 YEARS AGO. IT WAS A WOW. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GUYS, BARRON
I think Rammstein: Paris - Du Hast would also be something for you, here you can already see the interaction with the audience! Rammstein also tends to be a live band, so the live performance is simply divine!
For me, as a 45+ year old, this is the best combination of video and text I have ever heard and seen. I think to really "feel" the song you have to know all the references to it and also understand the lyrics. In every single scene, after every cut, there is some allusion to a historical event, a fairy tale or simply a throwback to past Rammstein songs. Very provocatively done in many ways... gallows scene as a promo, a black woman personifying Germany, etc. etc.
If I had to describe the song/video in one word: masterpiece
Its a high class video, with strong elements of history. And everything combined with a great song
es ist schwer, seine tränen zu unterdrücken, selbst als nicht deutscher oder?
ich hasse, aber liebe mein land über alles 😪🥲🇩🇪♥️
For your entertainment:
You (you have, you have, you have, you have)
Have cried a lot (cried, cried, cried, cried)
Separated in spirit (separated, separated, separated, separated)
United in heart (united, united, united, united)
We (we are, we are, we are, we are)
Have been together for so long (you are, you are, you are, you are)
Your breath cold (so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold)7
Your heart in flames (so hot, so hot, so hot, so hot)
You (you can, you can, you can, you can)
I (I know, I know, I know, I know)
We (we are, we are, we are, we are)
You (you stay, you stay, you stay, you stay)
Germany - my heart in flames
Want to love you and to damn you
Germany - your breath cold
So young, and yet so old
Germany
I (you have, you have, you have, you have)
I never want to leave you (you cry, you cry, you cry, you cry)
One can love you (you love, you love, you love, you love)
And want to hate you (you hate, you hate, you hate, you hate)
Overbearing, superior
Take over, hand over
Surprise, ambush
Germany, Germany above all
Germany - my heart in flames
Want to love you and to damn you
Germany - your breath cold
So young, and yet so old
Germany - your love
Is a curse and blessing
Germany - my love
I can not give you
Germany
Germany
You
I
We
You
You (overpowering, obsolete)
Me (superhuman, fed up with)
We (who climbs high, will fall low)
You (Germany, Germany above all)
Germany - your heart in flames
Want to love you and to damn you
Germany - my breath cold
So young, and yet so old
Germany - your love
Is a curse and blessing
Germany - my love
I can not give you
Germany
You should know more about Germany (Germania goes back more than 2000 years) .
This country have a very long and difficult history. And the lyrics talk about the feeling germans have about her own country. On the one side we are very proud and on the other side we are in fear about ourself and our history (not only the third reich). The members of Rammstein grew up in East-Germany, so that they have also this part of history in their mind.
I think Rammstein will a part of Germany, that the country could be proud of. They set the art of music to another, to their own level. Maybe in the furture Rammstein will be a name to remember in art.
Great you did Rammstein! Most of their videos are nothing but awesome! For example "Ohne dich" ( a beautiful ballade ) or "Mein Herz brennt" Original and Piano Version.
You should definately check them out live, you ain't seen nothing yet 😉 "Ich tu dir weh" live in Madison Square Garden - you'll love it 😁👍
The dedication they show in their videos is even more dominant in their live shows :)
How wonderful it is. Impossible to describe in words
Like you I knew quite a lot of Rammstein from back in the day and got to see them live once. As I understand it they disappeared for quite a while before surprising everyone with this song to announce the release of a new album in 2019. It was apparently a surprise to everyone, there hadn't been any rumours about another album or any press about it.
When I saw this video I was absolutely stunned. There is so much creativity and emotion in this production it really is an incredible work of art and I agree it has to be right up there with the absolute best of the best. The only other music video in recent times that has given me this visceral reaction was This is America by Childish Gambino.
When true art like this is created it deserves so much respect.
That is awesome how that dropped out of now where. Loved it!
one of my favorite songs right now, love the video.
To us over here in Europe this is very much part of our history. We still live parts of it too. My wife German family were Nazis, I'm protestant/Lutheran, my wife Catholic, the reformation was devastating for huge parts of what later became Germany. East Germany, the Red Arm Faction and the Cold War. Also, Roman reminders are everywhere across our continent. A great video from a terrific band. We love Germany, but we can never really love her, there is just too much we want to forget.
Very very great art. Top lyrics, top sound, top pictures!
Wow!
Uh, my favorite band :)
Same!
I'm from Germany so let me give you some thoughts from someone who's born here. First of all, first time I watched the video I was shocked and deeply moved. The song/ video takes a very deep look into our german souls and how most of us feel about our country. It's a love- hate- relationship. The video is loaded with tons of symbols, that as a German you catch onto.
Let's start: in the intro you see Germania ( Personification of Germany) during roman/ germanian tribes time.
The red Lazer represents the "red thread" of the story/ history.
Astronauts from the future bringing Germania in a glass coffin (snow-white) so she can lead through the/her german history.
Next you observe the twenties(Weimar Republic).The prison scene representing the rough, violent times especially for the majority of the population struggling to survive. Money raining down/ the great depression. And Germany's first try as a democratic state. In between Germania is dressed in knight's armor awaking her knights/band with the Lazarus spear.
Next Germania is pushed in a wheelchair by the band through the Berlin Holocaust Memorial with burning bodies.
Next vignette the office scene showing east Germany and west Germany reunited (1989).
Then you're being taken back to mideveal times, monks/ church are feasting off of Germania. In most scenes you'll see some church man involved. No coincidence.
The concentration camp scene in the background you see V2 rockets ignition. The inmates are wearing different types of stars on their chests and a sign on the gallows reads: no photos. Germania wears an eye-patch first on her left, than on her right eye.
Than a quick shot of Germania dressed modern with lots of gold leading german shepherds., representing Germany's wealth.
The 70's scene shows the RAF- extremists holding Germania/ Germany hostage.
Next vignette is the witch burnings shifting to the book burning. If you have a close look, at minute @ you see a church man holding up a cross hugging a Nazi, symbolising the churches over all position to the horrific events happening during 1933-1945.
The birth scene. Germania is giving birth to dogs respectively "Leonberger" a breed preferred by Kings and Queens. The Breed almost went extinct during WW1 and WW2. A cardinal helping (dressed in red) a new Germany being born.
At minute @ you see the riots against refugees homes in the 90's in Hoyerswerda. Molotovs are being thrown and a car is being pushed over with the help of a man dressed in Nazi uniform.
Than the scenes/ time vignettes start shifting faster and faster, showing how many times, when circumstances becoming to extreme everything is falling apart and Germania ( dressed in knight's) armor is crying.
The outro is the piano version of the song "Sonne" which completed how we feel thinking of our past: a sense of sadness.
To sum it up. Germany has a long, wild, violent, unique history, because we as a state of today exist only since 1989. Yet the roots go back a very long time. "Young and yet so old" I hope that helped a little to understand the video and with that us Germans. We don't have a strong feeling of patriotism, but a strong sense of unity. It's complicated.
With love from Germany 🤘 😎
Danke für deine Mühe, hilft extrem vielen Menschen diese Band + Lieder zu verstehen! Bist ein Guter...😊
Hi guys, im with you. Im a 58 year old woman seen it all. I loved Thriller and its iconic. But this is pure Art. Best Video i ever watched in my life.
I completely agree with you. The video just hit home and just blew us away. ✌️
Love this song, great reaction again guys!
Thank you soo much! ✌️
You two are amazing !!! I saw this about 10 times. Keep on the good work and bless you.
Thank you so much!!! ✌️
Hi Guys,
Glad you liked the song. German is my first language (I'm Austrian) - so as a native pls let me explain as concise as possible many of the hidden symbols and meanings in this great song: In advance - please apologize the mistakes that I have certainly made as English is not my first language :-)
Before I go through it just some general remarks: the black lady’s persona in the video is “Germania” and she represents Germany (the nation / the people) and in many scenes where she appears the colors black, red and gold (colors of the German flag) are dominant. The video as well as the lyrics are a critical review on Germany’s history.
Main scenes of the video:
The first scene with the roman soldiers refers to the battle of Teutoburg forest, the first time the German tribes untied under Arminius against the Romans and ambushed them on their march back to their winter camp + completely annihilated several legions - the Romans would never return and fortify at the Rhine - this could be seen as the birth of the German identity (the scene actually dates to the aftermath of the battle - the battle itself was in 9 A.D. but in 16 A.D the Romans launched a last yet unsuccessful attack to subdue the Germanic Tribes East of the Rhine)
The red laser beams throughout the video I think are guiding thread (German expression “roter Faden”" translates to “red thread” and translates to guiding principle / guideline of a story)
When Germania (black lady) in golden armor (black red gold as main colors of the scene pushes the standard into the ground she raises all the dead medieval knights - a reference to the strength of the German people who recovered time after time throughout history from catastrophes (especially, but not only) in the middle ages (crusades, Hunnic invasion, plague, etc.) - the additional meaning I think is the fact that German people several times followed their countries call for War - even if they were already beaten up (e.g. after WWI going into WWII)
Next scene (fistfight) is from the roaring twenties, the period between the two world wars where upper class society was decadent on the backs of ordinary people + entertainment industry was born.
Next scene shows the Hindenburg disaster (famous German Airship which blew up in flames) during a time of growing industrialization 1930s.
Next Scene is from the communist elite in Eastern Germany who was indulging in party and Champaign while ordinary people were poor and the main idea of communism should be equality of the people.
Then the scene in the middle ages - where the monks (representing the church) feast on Germania (the land) and suppress the common folk (underneath the table).
The scene in the prison again refers to the roaring twenties, as Germania is dressed in a Prussian uniform suppressing the German people / brought them to their knees (Prussia led them into WWI). Additionally money is thrown away by everybody, a reference to the big inflation in Germany after WWI.
Then the rockets (Nazi Germany was working on the first warfare rockets called V1 and V2 (V standing for “Vergeltung” which translates to "retaliation" - fitting to the picture with the rockets, the lyrics are an alliteration on “über” a german pre-syllable/prefix meaning "over". “Überheblich (overbearing / presumptuous), Überlegen (superior) Übernehmen (taking over), Übergeben (handing over), überraschen (surprise), Überfallen (ambush), „Deutschland, Deutschland über allen“ (Germany, Germany above everyONE). The line „Deutschland, Deutschland über alleN“ (Germany above everyONE) is a reference to one of the verses of former national anthem of Germany which was in use from 1922 to 1945 and got excluded after WW2 for being too nationalistic. In this verse there was a line “Deutschland, Deutschland über alleS“ (a subtle difference to the line in Rammstein’s version translating to “Germany, Germany above everyTHING”). The actual verse with this line was already written in 1842, long before the formation of Germany as a Nation (which only happened in 1871) - therefore “Germany, Germany above everything” was relating to the importance of uniting the several German mini-states, kingdoms and Duchies into one nation. After WWI this verse got taken into the national anthem of Germany as it spoke to the patriotism of the German people but later officially excluded from the anthem since it was deemed too nationalistic. Today this verse/line is generally frowned upon and would be associated with Neo-Nationalism. Using this line in the scene with the concentration camps including the subtle change from “Germany above everyTHING” (which has already the nationalistic connotation) to “Germany above everyONE” which carries an even more nationalistic / racist meaning is a very clever double-reference to the doctrine of racial supremacy in the Third Reich.
The Concentration camp prisoners have symbols sewn on their jackets for the groups the Nazis hunted and killed (these symbols were used in the concentration camps to "label" prisoners for their "crimes" (yellow star for Jews, Pink triangle for Homosexuals, red symbol for political adversaries (communists). Germania is on the side of the Nazis and has an eyepatch (representing the blind eye that many Germans turned on the atrocities of the Nazi regime).
The Scene where Till is dressed as a woman refers to the left wing terrorist group called “Rote Armee Fraktion” - a terrorist association in the 1970s responsible for several political assassinations and murders as well as a famous kidnapping of German Diplomats in Stockholm.
Then there is the scene with the stake at which books are burned by the Nazis and people are burned by the church (inquisition). Later the monk (church) and the Nazi soldier hug (as the church did not go against the Nazis when they came to power and both organizations were responsible for a lot of intolerance and suffering in their times.
The scene where Germania is dressed in white with a Halo I think refers to the positive, the strength of the German people who recovered time after time from several catastrophic disasters in their history. Later she gives birth to puppies representing the German people. The puppies are from a rare breed of dogs (Leonbergers) who’s population got almost extinct in both world wars (symbolized with the dogs wearing gas masks) but recovered after the wars. In these scenes the band members wear space suits - in my view a reference to the (hopefully) better future of the German people.
In the very last scene of the outro you can once more see Germania with national colors (black, red gold) with black lipstick, red eyes and golden armor before a red/ black background holding an eagle, the heraldic symbol of Germany. Finally, please find below the lyrics of the song as the perfectly convey the message of the problematic relationship many Germans have to their homeland, wanting to be proud of it but not being able to due to it’s difficult history:
One further remark to one of the more important lines of the lyrics: The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) refers to the fact that the German people and a certain common identity have been around for thousands of years, however the actual state of Germany as a nation was only founded very late (1871) thorough the unification of several mini states (Prussia, Hessia, Saxonia, Bavaria, etc.) Here now the lyrics (copied from the internet):
[Verse 1]
You (You have, you have, you have, you have)
Have cried a lot (Cried, cried, cried, cried)
Separated in spirit (Separated, separated, separated, separated)
United in heart (United, united, united, united)
We (We are, we are, we are, we are)
Have been together for so long (You are, you are, you are, you are)
Your breath's cold (So cold, so cold, so cold, so cold)
The heart in flames (So hot, so hot, so hot, so hot)
You (You can, you can, you can, you can)
I (I know, I know, I know, I know)
We (We are, we are, we are, we are)
You (You stay, you stay, you stay, you stay)
[Chorus]
Germany - my heart in flames
Want to love and damn you
Germany - your breath's cold
So young, and yet so old
Germany!
[Verse 2]
I (You have, you have, you have, you have)
I never want to leave you (You cry, you cry, you cry, you cry)
One can love you (You love, you love, you love, you love)
And want to hate you (You hate, you hate, you hate, you hate)
Presumptuous, superior
Take over, hand over/puke
Surprise, invade
Germany, Germany above everything
[Chorus]
Germany - my heart in flames
Want to love and damn you
Germany - your breath is cold
So young, and yet so old
Germany - your love
Is a curse and a blessing
Germany - my love
I can't give you
Germany!
Germany!
[Bridge]
You
I
We
All of you
You (superior/overpowering, unnecessary)
I (Übermenschen (translates to “superior humans” - a term the Nazis implicitly used for themselves as the called other races “Untermenschen” - translating to “inferior humans”), weary)
We (The higher you climb, the further you fall)
You (Germany, Germany above everything)
[Chorus]
Germany - your heart in flames
Want to love and damn you
Germany - my breath's cold
So young, and yet so old
Germany - your love
Is a curse and blessing
Germany - my love
I can't give you
Germany!
Thank you so for your amazing explanation of the historical reference and how it connects to the song.
Lmao did you just go to every reaction video for this song and copy and past your comment 🤣🤣
💓😘
Edit: So, now the explanation of megatwingo is there. I know, it is relatively far down and it is relatively much text - but worth every line. If the video is the best, then his explanation is the best to it.
And even if today is not as much laughter as normal on this channel - THAT is exactly what I always mean: You are simply authentic!
Oh, and if you want to open the Rammstein barrel now, then I recommend "Rammstein - Engel (Live from Madison Square Garden)" (because in the video is also an angel...) or for nostalgia reasons: "Rammstein: Paris - Du Hast (Official Video)". But in principle it doesn't matter: EVERY video by Rammstein is worth watching, no matter if the live version or the produced video. Sometimes controversial, sometimes funny, sometimes pure satire and sometimes full of action - but always good!
6:24 this voise so heavy man.. So heavy, god damn..
Die mit beste reaction, die ich gesehen habe.
Nicht viel dazwischengeredet und sich dieses Lied in Ruhe angehört.
Daumen hoch für euch
Es war SO gut! Danke schön
This is Metall 4 Real !!!!!!! What a Sound!
Ich liebe dieses Video von euch. Keiner aus Deutschland reagiert auf sowas z.B auf Rammstein ich verstehe kaum was ihr sagt aber ich liebe trotzdem die Reaktion von euch und deswegen gibt es ein like. :)))
Wow that means you have to get into it coz there is much to listen to. They have so many Iconic Songs hope you take on this soon
Best video/song ever. This was the song that made me a big Rammstein fan🔥🔥❤️
Childish Gambino "I just made the most controversial video about my home country!"
Rammstein "Hold my Bier..."
Good luck falling down this rabbithole. Chech out all the live perfotmances. Sick!!
I think we may! Thank you! ✌️
The thing that gets me about Rammstein is that even in this day and age they go to THIS amount of effort for a music video when most main stream artists simply don't even bother anymore or just phone a video in if you even get one.
Exactly. You are correct. And they went 110%.
Love the first minute and a half of your reaction... Brutal :) :) :) (in a good sense)
Thank you!
Deutschland - mein Herz in Flammen
Will dich lieben und verdammen
I feel like that sometimes too. Cheers from Russia, hopefully we will be friends one day.
The music used during the credits is the piano version of one of their biggest songs, "Sonne" (sun). I see you have reacted to "Du Hast", you should also check out "Sonne" (original MV is very cool and really out there), as well as "Engel" (angel) at Madison Square Garden. You won't regret it.
Yes! We did Sonne. But we will do the Madison square garden soon!
Welcome to the Rammstein-rabbithole....
A few recommendations if you wanna dive deeper..
- Sonne
- Ich will
- Du hast
- Mutter
- Mein Land
- Rosenrot
- Amerika
Rammstein offical videos are always great, they put a lot of efforts into it. The newest release two days ago is also amazing. It is called " Zeit ".......EPIC and breath taking.
Best reaction to this I've seen so far. Not because I agree mostly with everything, but more about you saw the emotions and pointed out this staight ahead of that video / song.
Could even get another reaction video after going more into lyrics and into backgrounds and watching it again then.
I replied to so many reaction videos on this. But that woman? she's so amazing! Such a very good casting to have put her in that role.
Thats for your reaction to it. Good as always !
I am from austria so i speak german as well.
I love the words what he use at his videos and his videos..the most of his songs have so much power and so much story ..i mean good storys from the world ! That you have to like it!
I am normal not a fan from german bands but he is great !
Well done ! I would love to see a reaction with the song ich hasse kinder from rammstein.
We are looking forward to doing way more rammstein!
Hi from Germany
great reaction from both of you 👍
Bravo...Bravo..careful .. Rammstein is a deep rabbit hole!!
Yes it is! ✌️
We’re ready for it!
Yeah... there is a TON to unpack in that video haha and it is definitely wayyyy up there as far as being an amazing video. Your spot on as far as it being about the history of Germany and I highly recommend looking up a translation. Other favorites of mine are Ich Will, and Ich Tu Dir Weh which really shows what Till can do with his voice.
If your interested in history I would highly recommend a Swedish metal band called Sabaton. Their whole repertoire is songs about historical events/battles etc. They also have one of the best music videos that I have ever seen for their song about the battleship Bismarck (suitably called Bismarck lol). I also highly recommend their live performances of Ghost Division and Uprising at Woodstock. They also have a whole channel dedicated to the history behind their songs.
Great reaction though! You guys reminded me of the first time I saw Deutchland, completely captivated.
Thoughtful and nuanced reaction, thank you. And thank you for being respectful enough to include the hauntingly beautiful outro. Few reactors bother, and it is irksome.
Three arrows did a good explanation video.this song captures perfectly my feelings towards my country.stay healthy!
Teacher: let me teach you history in 15 minutes!
Rammstein: we'll do it in 10!🖤🤘🖤
Great reaction
The outro is a piano version of their song called 'Sonne'. It makes me cry. Not only because I'm sad. But also it makes me feel a strange kind of hope for our country.
I can't love Germany and I can't say I'm proud to be German. Especially in the past 2 years again there are certain events that make me wonder if we ever change. But I guess there are lots and lots of open, tolerant, genuinely interested Germans out there who help to prevent history repeat itself.
history repeats itself one more time... germany sends weapons to a war
Dig more on Rammstein please
They really are a quality band
Happy New Year
"Radio" is from new album...well it`s just incredible....we love them in Poland
That was pure art.
The beginning of „Deutschland“ reminds me always at Anne Clark „our darkness“
Mein Teil, Mein Herz Brennt (Both official and piano Version) and Keine Lust are videos really worth checking out from them.
Love your reaction !
For a Rammstein video I seriously can't decide between the live and the official video. That's why you need to watch the videos at home and feel the flames at the concert
This song and video are perfection
It's the best vid clip. And it so right, even as an English speaker(altho I understand allot of German history as a half bread) that U feel all the emotions while not speaking the language
German history from 200 years in 9 minutes...perfect art Rammstein ❤❤❤
three arrows did an amazing analyses of that video if you are interessted. thx again for you reaction video :)
That's a masterpiece of music Videos.
For me living in Germany, the sentence "Will dich lieben und verdammen" ("I would like to love you but also damn you"... sorry for my English 🙉) is so strong and it describes perfectly the love/hate relationship the Germans have with their country 😔
Epic song, but in this you definitely have to understand the lyrics and even then you only get half of it in the first watches 🙈
Had to watch it a million times and I'm not sure, that I got all, what Rammstein was trying to tell us 🤷🏻♀️
Hey guys, (Not sure ur name is) but I was looking at some other Rammstein reviews, and u guys just feel real, love you guys, thanks for the video.
Best song of this century
This Video is just a Masterpiece! No doubt!
"She" is Germania. Representing all the colors we fly today - Black, Red and Gold. And she wears them righteously, a proper representation of modern day Germany.
Though, that doesn't mean that this is what all of the country would agree upon. The colors of the flag - yeah sure. But who's representing it - maybe not.
Anyhow, I'd be the first to carry Ruby Commey (the actress that is depicting Germania in this video) on my shoulders and scream GERMANY on the top of my lungs.
The credit scene music is the piano version of their Song "Sonne" which is one of their most popular songs, also would like to see you react to it.
Definitely agree with you guys on the power behind Till his voice.
If you guys like voices like that I would recommend Sabaton for sure. The voice of Joakim is also on the lower side and very powerful
Thank you! We might have to check out. Got to have that Bass lol ✌️
Rammstein is very "artsy", there's a lot of their other videos that are truly pieces of art. One example of that is "Mein Herz Brennt" Piano Version, which is not only a BEAUTIFUL song, but Till Lindemann's (the singer) interpretation is to die for. Check them live too, and being someone who have seen them live, I will tell you.... It will blow your brains out. Do with them the same "rabbit hole chase" you did with Eskimo Callboy. I promisse, you wont regret.
The piano version of Mein Herz Brennt is so dark and theatrical, it is so special
@@hannah.p.s9677 Fully agreed.
so true
i love their headbanging