She is Germanica personification of Germany - spirit of motherland. Germania as personification is usually depicted as a robust woman with long, flowing, reddish-blonde hair and wearing armour. She often wields the Reichsschwert (imperial sword), and possesses a medieval-style shield that sometimes bears the image of a black eagle on a gold field. Additionally, she is sometimes shown as carrying or wearing the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire.
Hello, I'll try to answer some of your questions... The Black Lady is Germania. She is the symbol of Deutschland in this movie. At the very beginning, she cuts off the head of a roman soldier during rhe battle of Teutoburg, a huge defeat for the roman légions.. This is the first act of resistance against the roman Empire. In fact, this is the birth of Germany : Germany has grown in his fight against the Romans. You Can notice that the Black Lady keep Always this roman head in is arms because she's proud to have resisted against the powerfull roman Empire that has just invade and slaughtered Gaul... Pierre from France (sorry for my poor english)
"Germany so young and yet so old" Yes because Germany is born during her fight against the roman Empire BUT she was only united in a strong state only in 1871. So young and yet so old
This was a truly great reaction. Chapeau. I'm genuinely impressed. Loved everything about it. Can't wait for your next Rammstein reaction. Left a sub. With love from Germany
"Deutschland" by Rammstein is a kind of time travel through Germany's historical past. And heaven knows those weren't always good times (wars, the Holocaust, etc.). No other band makes such direct, blatant (and I mean that in an absolutely positive way) videos. Rammstein's music is sensational anyway. 🤩
Yes, the lady represents Germany... the German flag - black, gold and red... Black skin, gold chains and red lips. The video starts w/ her (Germania) who were the barbaric Goths repelling the Roman invasion from 50 B.C. The song itself is about the band's mixed feelings about their homeland that has a history of brutality and turmoil... Rammstein was raised in Communist East Germany, and music from the West was banned in their part of the country. Other aspects of history represented what happened to their country over 22 centuries... the fisticuffs between 2 Germans represented East v. West Germany battling while she oversees the fight... The Christian zealots devouring her ... the Greman Crusades which she is leading... her being held hostage by terrorists... the nazis, death camps, book burnings and rocket technology w/ her blind in one eye... the East German communist party leaders ... the East German prisons funded by cheaply printed money... ... And the uncertain future of how Germany will be remembered.
Welcome to Rammstein's journey trough Germany's evil times in its history, with a phenomenal Ruby Commey as the personification of imaginary Germania - the Queen of my homeland. For me this is THE music video! Thanks for another great reaction, and kind regards from Germany.
Hittin that like before we even start. I'm so looking forward to you checking this one out. They honestly hasve outdone themselves on every level with this one. Can you get the translation? The lyrics are important. 💛🖤
"Cerebral" is not a bad choice of words at all. And you are so right on! Germany does have a DEEP and rich history, and so many huge contributions cultturally, but they don't shy away from looking at the ugly parts, too. Every country can/should say the same, too. Who hasn''t felt a love/hate relationship with where they're from? In the US we hsve Childish Gambino and "This is America," or all of RatM's catalog.
Hi, I'm from Germany. Rammstein is playing a classic "Industrial Metal" style. A 50-50 mix of synthesizers and hard metal guitars. A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman as Germania. Germania is the personification of the German nation. It isn't and wasn't a goddess or Joan of Arc. The glass coffin: It is Little Snow White from the Grimm-fairytales....and from their own video "Sonne". Only with black skin and in space. The piano song at the end is the song "Sonne", too. The words "Germania Magna" at the beginning are a Roman name for the area of Germany, that wasn't conquered by the Roman Empire at that time. Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were the Roman conquered areas (Roman provinces) of Germany. The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) means: Germany as a unified state is very young. A unified German nation is only existing from 1871 onwards. Before that year of unification Germany was made of countless, little mini-states and the people identified first and foremost as Prussians, Hessians, Saxons etc, etc, etc. and only in a second line of thought they had a lose sense of being somehow Germans, too, as a kind of unifying second identity. So the area & the landscape where the Germans are living and the Germans themselves as a people...are thousands of years old. But only recently, in 1871, there was a unified Germany as one single state. So Germany as a unified state is very young...and at the same time it is thousands of years old. The battle of the Teutoburg forest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike). That battle is of ABSOLUTE importance for the German history. The hanged bodies in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, who were gruesome sacrificed to the Germanic gods...and were partly nailed to the trees. The Varus-(Teutoburg)-Battle was already in 9 AD. In 16 AD were the vengeance campaigns of commanding field general Germanicus under Emperor Tiberius Augustus. Therefore we see here the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they are watching their dead comrades hanging in the trees or getting their heads chopped off (for nailing them to the trees). In reality the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army in the various ways they were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed at the trees. Slaves were liberated even decades after the battle. After the scenes with the Romans we saw the Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster (the burning Zeppelin in the background). The moustaches and clothing from the fight scene are from WWI and post WWI years. From the working class people in WWI and the roaring 20's. In the WWII years later on this kind of big bushy moustache was already out of fashion. The falling banknotes in the prison are not about corruption. That scene is about the hyper-inflation of the 1920's, that took away the savings of the Germans and left them in deep poverty and desperation. One had to pay a loaf of bread with a handcart full of nearly worthless banknotes back then and it hit the German people deep down inside and in their souls. Especially the poor ones and the simple workers. The V2 rocket (first manmade object in space) as technical triumph of the German spirit...and at the same time the killing of the concentration camp prisoners in the bunker factories below the mountains during the production of that rocket. This scene in the video could be a representation of a very specific concentration camp. It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein mountain. A mixture between a big, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp. The concentration camp inmates had several different markings for different kinds of convicts and their "crimes" sown to their chests, like it was in reality, too. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the star of David for Jews and two of them were marked with the double-triangles for Jehovas Whitnesses. The book burnings of the Nazis and the burning of the witches of the church. In the same scene with the book burning there is EVEN MORE going on. The cooperation of the church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA-man. The scene with the sign with the Hammer and a pair of compasses in a circle of wheat is the sign of the GDR (DDR). The socialst German state in the east that existed before the German reunification. Therefore it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene at the concentration camp). The scene with Rammstein wielding guns (the pumpgun) and taking Germania hostage was about leftwing terrorism of the 1970's. The terrorists were called the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion). My interpretation of the red scanner-like beams: There are two different kinds of beams. The massive straight red light beam that goes up into the heavens AND there were those smaller, thinner "scanner" beams. Aliens (or humans from the future) are scanning the whole German history. Like some real scientists are scanning and excarvating ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues, for example. The massive red light beam is the red ribbon of time that ties together all the historical events. PS: As for the dogs: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog-owner nation. The dog is a firm part of Germany. PPS: They didn't eat the body of the woman and her inner organs, even if it really looked that way. They were eating the national dish of Germany, that was put on the body of the black woman: Sauerkraut, Kassler & sausages. In my opinion it symbolizes the church eating itself fat on the goods and values and food of Germany during the simple people (farmers, simple workers etc) lived a long time in a kind of hell of poverty and serfdom (the red fetish area below the table with Germania on it). But that eating scene could indeed have a double meaning. It could represent the 30 years war, that was fought for religious reasons and depopulated large areas of Germany. It forced the people to commit canibalism because nobody was there anymore to produce food. Except the fat, wealthy people of the church, of course. They were still able to eat enough. Only the simple people at the bottom (farmers etc) died from hunger and had to fight and die in that war. The 30 years war was the biggest catastrophe in Germany until WWI happened. PPPS: The short scene with the dogs and their gas masks = WWI, where in reality animals (messenger dogs & horses) AND soldiers were wearing gas masks, too. PPPPS: The puppies at the end are Leonberger dogs. The Leonbergers nearly went extinct during WWI and WWII. PPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet. Till sings the famous, often misinterpreted, line of the "Deutschlandlied" (Song of the Germans), that is not forbidden in Germany but simply isn't sung anymore in our modern national anthem. Till sings in his version the line "Deutschland über allen" (Germany above everybody) What is a BIG change to the real line in the orginal Deutschlandlied-song. In the original Deutschlandlied song it is written as "Deutschland über alles" (Germany above everything). The real, whole line of that old Deutschlandlied goes "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles. Über alles in der Welt" (Germany, Germany above everything. Above everything in the world). This line is often misinterpreted by many people as chauvinism and as a looking down upon all other countries on this planet. But that is wrong and not many people know about that in Germany and elsewhere. The writer of that famous line didn't meant it in a chauvinistic way. When that song was written, Germany was divided into umphteenth mini-states, what made Germany relative powerless and defenseless. Therefore the task of German unification was the goal above any other goal for all Germans (at least the writer of the song meant it that way). So the main goal for all Germans had to be the united Germany. The goal of "(united) Germany above everything else". That was, how that line was meant by the writer of the song. The line isn't forbidden, like many people wrongly think. It's simply not sung anymore and not part of the official anthem of modern Germany anymore. This has NOT its reason in the seemingly chauvinist meaning of "Deutschland über alles", like many people wrongly think. This whole stanza of the Deutschlandlied isn't sung anymore, because in other parts of the stanza are borders and landscapes mentioned, that aren't German borders and landscapes anymore. We want to live in peace with the people and countries, who are now living in those former German lands and therefore we don't sing about those old borders and landscapes anymore. It has nothing to do with the "Deutschland über alles" line in that stanza, like many people wrongly are thinking. Finally: The scenes I'm now talking about are pretty dark and low light. The WWII submarine in the submarine bunker during the astronauts are walking by with the glass coffin. I think, the choice of the black woman as main actress was made, because: a) it makes any accusations of racism and fascism against Rammstein useless b) she represents one colour of the German flag and she is wearing the rest of the colours of our German flag as makeup and jewellery and clothes on her body: Black, Red and Gold c) it provokes many people EVEN MORE 😄 Greetings Mega
PS: TH-cam didn't allow me to integrate this information into the bigger text (above) for unknown reasons, therefore I'm posting it here: The troops, who smashed the Jewish shops during the Kristallnacht (not shown in the video) were SA (Sturmabteilung) in brown uniform and not the later SS (Schutzstaffel) in the black uniform. The SA did all the dirty work at the beginning of the Nazi rise to power...until the "Night of the long knives", an inner-Nazi power struggle, happened. The head of the SA (Ernst Röhm) was killed and from then on the SA was turned more and more into the SS under Himmler. The book burnings were part of the early Nazi years, too, and were done by the SA, too. One can see the SA burning the books and Till is watching it in a brown SA uniform. Both, Kristallnacht and book burnings were different things and happened at different times. The book burnings happened over a longer timespan at different locations at different times during the Kristallnacht was one big "event" that happened at one single day. Kristallnacht means "Crystal Night" and was called that way, because the smashed shop windows of the Jewish shops looked like thousands of crystals on the ground. But in the Rammstein video I've only seen the book burnings. PPS: The two beer drinking soldiers to the left side of the table, where Germania is lying on and where the priests are eating Sauerkraut & Sausages from her body, are not French soldiers and they aren't representing the French revolution. Those two beer drinking soldiers are Prussian soldiers and they are emphasizing the importance of Prussia for the German history. As far as I could see: They were from the era of Friedrich der Große (The Old Fritz), who was of extraordinary importance for German history. Amongst many other achievements he was the one, who brought the potato to Prussia and Germany. That saved many Germans from hunger and the potato became one of the most beloved foods in Germany on that way.
Great write up! (With its extension.) Jived very well with my thoughts on everything too. I hope others appreciate it. This film is so well done I try to recommend it to so many people.
There’s so many Easter eggs in this video that most American won’t get bc we’re pretty ignorant of anything but American history. The basic overview is this is German history and the woman is the representation of Germany throughout history. All the vignettes are German historical moments or metaphors about Germany. The guilt, the love, and the guilty pride. I literally had to watch a 30+ min vid by a German TH-camr called three arrows to get a lot of the references. An interesting part is the burning of the books by the nazis. The first books burned were from German researchers who did groundbreaking work on gender. Kinda feels relevant. But the dogs she gave birth to are a type of German Shepard. I saw that as a symbol of rebirth.
the black lady leading thru the video is Germania, the mother of our nation. She tells the 2,000 yrs. of our history from the early start when german tribes unite to kick Roman Empire's ass in Kalkriese / Teuteburg forest in the year 9 a.c. and stopped the Empire expanding way north. It continues with the fist fight in the twenties during the great depression, the air ship Hindenburg desaster in Lakehurst, N.J. 1937 . . . WW II with Germany killing about 6 million jewish people in the camps, the seventies when the so called R.A.F. (Rote Armee Fraktion, NOT Royal Air Force !) - a communist terror bunch - terrorizing Germany, on to (still not verified) space ship Haunebu's trip to planet Mars in 1947. That scene eating from Germania's body to me means we should be careful not to take more than we give back to our nation. That's the way I understand it. But you're right -> it ain't just a music video, it's a freaking movie and a MASTERPIECE ! have the hell of a good time looking and listening Baron, PEP cars V8 U.S. car club, Frankfurt Germany
Hey Dikfur you couldn't edit out that 3-4 minutes of you chhattinmg on the phone at beginning...... Digital creator... more like a digital regurgitater I lovr to see reaction... what I dont like is to sit he looking at a screen and waiting for you to finish whatever crap you have got doing... this isn't live you CAN Edit that crap out... just a suggestion... maybe Ill check you out some day whenb I am super stoned... not tonight... take care eh
I disagree here. Rammstein reflects German history. I also mean that we eat our dark brothers. It is also an accusation against us to our dark brothers. We are all the same. We should all finally stop judging between dark and w
The beautiful piano music at the end was part of the song/video. Why did you feel the need to talk all over it? I was so disapointed seeing you do that. I was waiting the entire video to see you hear it for the first time. Please try to concentrate on the things you are reacting to. I am really trying to like your channel, but you make it so hard, cuz you always be tripping for no god damn reason in almost all of your reactions. You come across as someone who did ALOT of drugs in younger years and now has trouble with the most basic mental tasks, so I am trying to be as understanding as possible with you, because i know you can do SO SO much better. Please try. And please don't take this the wrong way. I am european, and we tend to be a bit direct.
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I love how you worked out that she is the representation of Germania before the credits told you. Not many ppl work that out. ❤
Agreed. There’s a lot here. And if you don’t know much about German history, it’s hard to grasp. The guy is clearly intelligent. Has a way with words.
She is Germanica personification of Germany - spirit of motherland. Germania as personification is usually depicted as a robust woman with long, flowing, reddish-blonde hair and wearing armour. She often wields the Reichsschwert (imperial sword), and possesses a medieval-style shield that sometimes bears the image of a black eagle on a gold field. Additionally, she is sometimes shown as carrying or wearing the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire.
Ruby Comney is a German theater actress from Berlin
Her Beauty is epic and wonderful for the ages, and representing Germania was such a good choice for this short film.
You are the first guy noticed the swastica-earring. Respect! 😀
Such vastly different histories, but as an American I share the sentiment, and the dissonance. "Want to love you, and condemn you"
red, gold and black. the color choices are an artwork in itself
Hello,
I'll try to answer some of your questions...
The Black Lady is Germania. She is the symbol of Deutschland in this movie.
At the very beginning, she cuts off the head of a roman soldier during rhe battle of Teutoburg, a huge defeat for the roman légions..
This is the first act of resistance against the roman Empire. In fact, this is the birth of Germany : Germany has grown in his fight against the Romans.
You Can notice that the Black Lady keep Always this roman head in is arms because she's proud to have resisted against the powerfull roman Empire that has just invade and slaughtered Gaul...
Pierre from France (sorry for my poor english)
"Germany so young and yet so old"
Yes because Germany is born during her fight against the roman Empire BUT she was only united in a strong state only in 1871.
So young and yet so old
We can also see the Black Lady wearing a nazi's uniform because Germany has supported Hitler at the beginning of WWII.
I have no answer at all for the birth of the puppy 😮
@@pierrebreton777they’re a type of German Shepard. Prob another metaphor. Or symbolism about hope for Germany.
You will find here a good analyse of this gorgeous movie/song : th-cam.com/video/sc-euVL8xQs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=gChgVD1f9pwpPeCY
This was a truly great reaction. Chapeau. I'm genuinely impressed. Loved everything about it. Can't wait for your next Rammstein reaction. Left a sub.
With love from Germany
"Deutschland" by Rammstein is a kind of time travel through Germany's historical past. And heaven knows those weren't always good times (wars, the Holocaust, etc.).
No other band makes such direct, blatant (and I mean that in an absolutely positive way) videos. Rammstein's music is sensational anyway. 🤩
Yes, the lady represents Germany... the German flag - black, gold and red... Black skin, gold chains and red lips. The video starts w/ her (Germania) who were the barbaric Goths repelling the Roman invasion from 50 B.C. The song itself is about the band's mixed feelings about their homeland that has a history of brutality and turmoil... Rammstein was raised in Communist East Germany, and music from the West was banned in their part of the country.
Other aspects of history represented what happened to their country over 22 centuries... the fisticuffs between 2 Germans represented East v. West Germany battling while she oversees the fight... The Christian zealots devouring her ... the Greman Crusades which she is leading... her being held hostage by terrorists... the nazis, death camps, book burnings and rocket technology w/ her blind in one eye... the East German communist party leaders ... the East German prisons funded by cheaply printed money...
... And the uncertain future of how Germany will be remembered.
Welcome to Rammstein's journey trough Germany's evil times in its history, with a phenomenal Ruby Commey as the personification of imaginary Germania - the Queen of my homeland. For me this is THE music video! Thanks for another great reaction, and kind regards from Germany.
Hittin that like before we even start. I'm so looking forward to you checking this one out. They honestly hasve outdone themselves on every level with this one. Can you get the translation? The lyrics are important. 💛🖤
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"Cerebral" is not a bad choice of words at all. And you are so right on! Germany does have a DEEP and rich history, and so many huge contributions cultturally, but they don't shy away from looking at the ugly parts, too. Every country can/should say the same, too. Who hasn''t felt a love/hate relationship with where they're from? In the US we hsve Childish Gambino and "This is America," or all of RatM's catalog.
Awesome reaction of my favorite movie!!!!😊😊😊😊😊
You your are right ❤
The channel 3 Arrows has a good analysis video about the song and the video in English
Hi, I'm from Germany.
Rammstein is playing a classic "Industrial Metal" style. A 50-50 mix of synthesizers and hard metal guitars.
A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman as Germania. Germania is the personification of the German nation. It isn't and wasn't a goddess or Joan of Arc.
The glass coffin: It is Little Snow White from the Grimm-fairytales....and from their own video "Sonne". Only with black skin and in space.
The piano song at the end is the song "Sonne", too.
The words "Germania Magna" at the beginning are a Roman name for the area of Germany, that wasn't conquered by the Roman Empire at that time.
Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were the Roman conquered areas (Roman provinces) of Germany.
The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) means:
Germany as a unified state is very young. A unified German nation is only existing from 1871 onwards. Before that year of unification Germany was made of countless, little mini-states and the people identified first and foremost as Prussians, Hessians, Saxons etc, etc, etc. and only in a second line of thought they had a lose sense of being somehow Germans, too, as a kind of unifying second identity.
So the area & the landscape where the Germans are living and the Germans themselves as a people...are thousands of years old. But only recently, in 1871, there was a unified Germany as one single state.
So Germany as a unified state is very young...and at the same time it is thousands of years old.
The battle of the Teutoburg forest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike).
That battle is of ABSOLUTE importance for the German history.
The hanged bodies in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, who were gruesome sacrificed to the Germanic gods...and were partly nailed to the trees.
The Varus-(Teutoburg)-Battle was already in 9 AD. In 16 AD were the vengeance campaigns of commanding field general Germanicus under Emperor Tiberius Augustus. Therefore we see here the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they are watching their dead comrades hanging in the trees or getting their heads chopped off (for nailing them to the trees).
In reality the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army in the various ways they were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed at the trees. Slaves were liberated even decades after the battle.
After the scenes with the Romans we saw the Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster (the burning Zeppelin in the background).
The moustaches and clothing from the fight scene are from WWI and post WWI years. From the working class people in WWI and the roaring 20's. In the WWII years later on this kind of big bushy moustache was already out of fashion.
The falling banknotes in the prison are not about corruption. That scene is about the hyper-inflation of the 1920's, that took away the savings of the Germans and left them in deep poverty and desperation.
One had to pay a loaf of bread with a handcart full of nearly worthless banknotes back then and it hit the German people deep down inside and in their souls. Especially the poor ones and the simple workers.
The V2 rocket (first manmade object in space) as technical triumph of the German spirit...and at the same time the killing of the concentration camp prisoners in the bunker factories below the mountains during the production of that rocket.
This scene in the video could be a representation of a very specific concentration camp. It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein mountain.
A mixture between a big, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp.
The concentration camp inmates had several different markings for different kinds of convicts and their "crimes" sown to their chests, like it was in reality, too. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the star of David for Jews and two of them were marked with the double-triangles for Jehovas Whitnesses.
The book burnings of the Nazis and the burning of the witches of the church. In the same scene with the book burning there is EVEN MORE going on. The cooperation of the church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA-man.
The scene with the sign with the Hammer and a pair of compasses in a circle of wheat is the sign of the GDR (DDR). The socialst German state in the east that existed before the German reunification.
Therefore it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene at the concentration camp).
The scene with Rammstein wielding guns (the pumpgun) and taking Germania hostage was about leftwing terrorism of the 1970's. The terrorists were called the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion).
My interpretation of the red scanner-like beams: There are two different kinds of beams. The massive straight red light beam that goes up into the heavens AND there were those smaller, thinner "scanner" beams.
Aliens (or humans from the future) are scanning the whole German history. Like some real scientists are scanning and excarvating ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues, for example.
The massive red light beam is the red ribbon of time that ties together all the historical events.
PS: As for the dogs: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog-owner nation. The dog is a firm part of Germany.
PPS: They didn't eat the body of the woman and her inner organs, even if it really looked that way. They were eating the national dish of Germany, that was put on the body of the black woman: Sauerkraut, Kassler & sausages.
In my opinion it symbolizes the church eating itself fat on the goods and values and food of Germany during the simple people (farmers, simple workers etc) lived a long time in a kind of hell of poverty and serfdom (the red fetish area below the table with Germania on it).
But that eating scene could indeed have a double meaning. It could represent the 30 years war, that was fought for religious reasons and depopulated large areas of Germany. It forced the people to commit canibalism because nobody was there anymore to produce food. Except the fat, wealthy people of the church, of course. They were still able to eat enough. Only the simple people at the bottom (farmers etc) died from hunger and had to fight and die in that war.
The 30 years war was the biggest catastrophe in Germany until WWI happened.
PPPS: The short scene with the dogs and their gas masks = WWI, where in reality animals (messenger dogs & horses) AND soldiers were wearing gas masks, too.
PPPPS: The puppies at the end are Leonberger dogs. The Leonbergers nearly went extinct during WWI and WWII.
PPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet.
Till sings the famous, often misinterpreted, line of the "Deutschlandlied" (Song of the Germans), that is not forbidden in Germany but simply isn't sung anymore in our modern national anthem.
Till sings in his version the line "Deutschland über allen" (Germany above everybody) What is a BIG change to the real line in the orginal Deutschlandlied-song. In the original Deutschlandlied song it is written as "Deutschland über alles" (Germany above everything).
The real, whole line of that old Deutschlandlied goes "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles. Über alles in der Welt" (Germany, Germany above everything. Above everything in the world).
This line is often misinterpreted by many people as chauvinism and as a looking down upon all other countries on this planet. But that is wrong and not many people know about that in Germany and elsewhere.
The writer of that famous line didn't meant it in a chauvinistic way.
When that song was written, Germany was divided into umphteenth mini-states, what made Germany relative powerless and defenseless. Therefore the task of German unification was the goal above any other goal for all Germans (at least the writer of the song meant it that way).
So the main goal for all Germans had to be the united Germany. The goal of "(united) Germany above everything else".
That was, how that line was meant by the writer of the song.
The line isn't forbidden, like many people wrongly think. It's simply not sung anymore and not part of the official anthem of modern Germany anymore.
This has NOT its reason in the seemingly chauvinist meaning of "Deutschland über alles", like many people wrongly think. This whole stanza of the Deutschlandlied isn't sung anymore, because in other parts of the stanza are borders and landscapes mentioned, that aren't German borders and landscapes anymore.
We want to live in peace with the people and countries, who are now living in those former German lands and therefore we don't sing about those old borders and landscapes anymore.
It has nothing to do with the "Deutschland über alles" line in that stanza, like many people wrongly are thinking.
Finally:
The scenes I'm now talking about are pretty dark and low light. The WWII submarine in the submarine bunker during the astronauts are walking by with the glass coffin.
I think, the choice of the black woman as main actress was made, because:
a) it makes any accusations of racism and fascism against Rammstein useless
b) she represents one colour of the German flag and she is wearing the rest of the colours of our German flag as makeup and jewellery and clothes on her body: Black, Red and Gold
c) it provokes many people EVEN MORE 😄
Greetings
Mega
PS: TH-cam 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.
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The two beer drinking soldiers to the left side of the table, where Germania is lying on and where the priests are eating Sauerkraut & Sausages from her body, are not French soldiers and they aren't representing the French revolution. Those two beer drinking soldiers are Prussian soldiers and they are emphasizing the importance of Prussia for the German history.
As far as I could see: They were from the era of Friedrich der Große (The Old Fritz), who was of extraordinary importance for German history. Amongst many other achievements he was the one, who brought the potato to Prussia and Germany. That saved many Germans from hunger and the potato became one of the most beloved foods in Germany on that way.
Great write up! (With its extension.) Jived very well with my thoughts on everything too. I hope others appreciate it. This film is so well done I try to recommend it to so many people.
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You got it mostly right.
PS: Some of the synth sounds in this REALLY give me Nine Inch Nails vibes.
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This movie had costs 6 Million Euro
There’s so many Easter eggs in this video that most American won’t get bc we’re pretty ignorant of anything but American history. The basic overview is this is German history and the woman is the representation of Germany throughout history. All the vignettes are German historical moments or metaphors about Germany. The guilt, the love, and the guilty pride. I literally had to watch a 30+ min vid by a German TH-camr called three arrows to get a lot of the references. An interesting part is the burning of the books by the nazis. The first books burned were from German researchers who did groundbreaking work on gender. Kinda feels relevant.
But the dogs she gave birth to are a type of German Shepard. I saw that as a symbol of rebirth.
It might be interesting to compare Rammstein's complicated feelings about Germany and being German with Childish Gambino's in This is America.
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I believe the dogs are a breed of German dogs that went extinct
The dog represents birth of new Germany
Yes you are right
the black lady leading thru the video is Germania, the mother of our nation.
She tells the 2,000 yrs. of our history from the early start when german tribes unite to kick Roman Empire's ass in Kalkriese / Teuteburg forest in the year 9 a.c. and stopped the Empire expanding way north.
It continues with the fist fight in the twenties during the great depression, the air ship Hindenburg desaster in Lakehurst, N.J. 1937 . . . WW II with Germany killing about 6 million jewish people in the camps, the seventies when the so called R.A.F. (Rote Armee Fraktion, NOT Royal Air Force !) - a communist terror bunch - terrorizing Germany, on to (still not verified) space ship Haunebu's trip to planet Mars in 1947.
That scene eating from Germania's body to me means we should be careful not to take more than we give back to our nation.
That's the way I understand it.
But you're right -> it ain't just a music video, it's a freaking movie and a MASTERPIECE !
have the hell of a good time looking and listening
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This video was 6.5 million$
The woman is Germany, the dog she gave birth to, is a German Sheppard.
well, you are wrong. its a "leonberger". just google a bit and you will find the meaning behind it.
Hey Dikfur you couldn't edit out that 3-4 minutes of you chhattinmg on the phone at beginning...... Digital creator... more like a digital regurgitater
I lovr to see reaction... what I dont like is to sit he looking at a screen and waiting for you to finish whatever crap you have got doing... this isn't live you CAN Edit that crap out... just a suggestion... maybe Ill check you out some day whenb I am super stoned... not tonight... take care eh
I disagree here. Rammstein reflects German history. I also mean that we eat our dark brothers. It is also an accusation against us to our dark brothers. We are all the same. We should all finally stop judging between dark and w
The beautiful piano music at the end was part of the song/video. Why did you feel the need to talk all over it? I was so disapointed seeing you do that. I was waiting the entire video to see you hear it for the first time. Please try to concentrate on the things you are reacting to. I am really trying to like your channel, but you make it so hard, cuz you always be tripping for no god damn reason in almost all of your reactions. You come across as someone who did ALOT of drugs in younger years and now has trouble with the most basic mental tasks, so I am trying to be as understanding as possible with you, because i know you can do SO SO much better. Please try. And please don't take this the wrong way. I am european, and we tend to be a bit direct.