@@PalleRasmussen bor i Danmark i 17 år🥳 😬 ... men after Konzerten kun jeg ikke engang forstår mit tyske Kone 😅 Det var bare helt vildt! Elsker det så meget!
@@s.n.9952 jeg havde også biletter til Vilnius og Feuerzone i Polen sidste år, men mit liv har taget en uventet og uheldig drejning de sidste par år, så jeg havde ikke råd til rejsen.
The song is about being torn between loving your country and being ashamed of its violent past. Many events are shown in the video. Roman legionaires who survived the Battle of Teutoburg, when 3 legions were wiped out by Germanic tribes. This is considered as the birth of the German nation. - Appearance of a beautiful woman: she is Germania, the embodiment of the German nation. Rammstein chose a black german actress to give a finger to the extreme right. - Germania wakes up the dead Teutonic knights, a christian military order involved in the Crusades - Reunification of east and west germany, they all hug each other and it turns to an orgy - German immigrants in the 1920's, fighting illegal, deadly fights to make a living - Crooks in prison, devaluated money flying everywhere: the Depression during the Weimar Republic. - The clergy feasting like pigs on the body of Germania while the common people starved (Middle Ages) - Far left terrorists of the Baader-Meinhof Group (Red Army Fraction) kidnapping Germania and killing people in the 1970's. - V2 rockets taking off, the first ever ballistic missiles invented by german scientist Wehrner Von Braun, who later became an US citizen and is the father of the Apollo lunar rockets, the Saturn 5. - Prisoners of concentration camps during the Shoah, Germania is now wearing a nazi uniform. Later, the prisoners revolt and shoot the nazis. - Germania gives birth to Leonberger puppies, these dogs are typical of Germany but went almost extinct: the Nation is being reborn as a democracy - And much more stuff I didn't see or was unable to understand.
@@spring_in_paris Hello from neighboring Belgium. I think I saw briefly the following events and symbols, but I'm not sure: - Arminius statue pointing his sword to the sky - The Hindenburg burning - U-Boot - The rats from The pied piper of Hamelin? - SA-men burning books compared with burning a witch in the Middle-Ages) = witch hunting of political opponents - Astronauts? Do they refer to the space programs derived from the invention of V2 rockets? Thanks by advance!
@@Tiisiphone Hello. About the rat scene, 1st I thought of the tale Rat catcher from Hameln, too, but right before the camera swings over to the monk feasting scene, very, very briefly, you see Soldiers sitting at the table, wearing a tricorn hat. So this could also be a reference to the 30 Years' War. The burning of witches that segues into the burning of books is, in my opinion, directly juxtaposed. Knowledge is burned and a select group is condemned and killed. What's also important is the brief shot of a churchman hugging a man in a man in Nazi uniform, with the churchman holding up a cross. In my humble opinion, the role of the church in this terrible time is highlighted here. A matter that is not really discussed here to this day. (Among other things...). The reoccurring astronauts refer to the V2 Programm in Mittelbau Dora, where the leading scientists immigrated to the US to become chief of the NASA program, as well, as a reference to to battle who 1st in space in other scenes. The East or the West. Both spend unbelievable tons of money on it.
The history they show starts with the Roman times where the first three "proto-german" tribes who actually were not friendly with each other came together to fight the Romans in the Varus battle (see the Netflix show Barbarians). This surely wasn't Germany, but it was a first for the people living in the Region. If you are asking yourself, what the heck are the dogs being born doing there in the end. These are from the breed (I think Leonberger) of which only a few pups survived WWII and build up the breed again, just like the people surviving WWII and rebuilding the country.
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 socialist 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. PPPS: The name Rammstein comes from the German town Ramstein (with one "m"). There is an US-airbase and there happened a big, tragic airshow disaster, when two jets collided and fell into the audience. Therefore all the flames and the burning coat during the song Rammstein and all the fire in their shows in general. But that rather tasteless name and the negative press echo were too much even for Rammstein. So they changed their name later in Rammstein, what indeed means "battering stone". They delivered a half assed explanation for it decades ago. I've forgotten, what they said. A fact is, that they called themselves after that town and that airshow disaster. Probably for provocation purposes. Their old song "Rammstein" even tells in other words the story of that disaster and it tells about a fine day with a warm shining sun...and burning people. Neue Deutsche Härte was always a pretty unsatisfying new name for the music they made mainly: Industrial or Industrial Metal/Rock.
YES!!! First of all I liked you're "Are you not entertained?" remark,then you are the first reactor that sees and gets that Zeppelin,Hindenburg hint in the background.(Americans don't)Great reaction guys:loved it! If you really want to get emotional(take your time:I can wait!)do"Zeit":Once again I promise you:You won't regret it!The followers are slightly rising;Keep it up,nice one!Peace!😉🙏✌
"and gets that Zeppelin,Hindenburg hint in the background.(Americans don't)". Which is strange, since most americans probably know the Goodyear blimps, most of which were built in collaboration with Zeppelin.
Rammstein gives us the complete history of Germany ( Deutschland ) in this performance.....as with most people in most countries, Rammstein has s "love/hate" relationship with their native land, seeing both the good and the bad......I think, as others have commented, the Black female who appears as many figures is a representation of "Germania", the national historical symbol of Deutschland .......
Her reaction: whatever give me more. His reaction: shockt looking at his wife like '😮 can we really show that?!' First time on your channel, you guys act so cute together.😊
Thank you for this reaction! If you want some explanation of the details of the historical content and what represents what, then watch this: >>> "Deutschland by Rammstein: An Analysis"
if you want to react to more rammstein songs, i can highly recommend the videos from the youtube channel of educated marine. he doesn't only have rammstein videos but from some other bands as well, and all with english lyrics. it helps a ton, if you can also understand what they're saying, specially with rammstein using a lot of metaphors and double meanings in their songs
One of Rammsteins greatest songs for sure. I would highly suggest watching some videos that go over the meaning and symbolism within the video (I myself am not German, and so someone who is can certainly explain it better). The song is essentially about German history and how citizens of that nation have a love hate relationship with their country (wanting to be proud of its great achievements, but also haunted by its often times troubled past).
the black lady was Germania. She presents Germany. And what no comment so far contained: She was blind on the right eye in minute 4 (with the nazies) and then blind on the let after the execution since it was on its way to revenge. But every second was full of symbols till the end with the windows of the Werner Chapel that also tells a full story.
This is one of the best videos from Rammstein and at the same time one of the most difficult content to fully understand. The song is about Germany (Deutschland) and the band's feelings about their home country which has a rather violent history (not only in WW2). It is a kaleidoscope of scenes from 2000 years of German history (some more symbolic, others painfully accurate) and additionally some scenes that might happen in the future when archaeologists are searching for artefacts of German history. The woman is Germania, played by the German actress Ruby Commey. Germania is not a literal person, but was a personification of Germany for centuries. All other main roles are played by the six members of Rammstein. The scene when the monks seem to eat Germania references to the Thirty Year's War (1618-1648), which started as a religious war. As a result of that war - masses of people starved or died by plagues. And the church took what little they had left to live on. If you are interested in more details about some of the historical events referenced in Rammstein's video, you may take a look at this content-wise analysis: th-cam.com/video/sc-euVL8xQs/w-d-xo.html Even for me as a German guy there were some details that I was not aware of. Also the lyrics are explained a bit and the assumed reason for Rammstein to come out with this video. And there is an explanation why the video caused some harsh reactions BEFORE it was fully published.
Great reaction😊👍 the Videos of "Angst" and "Zeit" I higlly recommend!!! Great Songs and deep lyrics (TH-cam autotranslate would help much!!!) Best wishes😘🙋♂️
I am an American from German descent. Three things that stand out to me in this video are - BUT I’m not saying all people: 1) How German history seems to be embedded with violence to try and solve all problems; 2) The past (hopefully in the past) German/White mentality of it being the “superior race”, which mostly in history affected black people, hence why the woman is so predominant in the video; and 3) The birthing of animals instead of human children in the end, representing how such hate breeds beasts, not humans.
Great reaction! We saw Rammstein in Chicago and the show is insane. Good choice of song. Now we are encouraged to react to Rammstein as well. Wish you all the best.
Aww thank you guys!!! just subbed to you guys, we are just learning and its an interesting journey so far!! Thank you for the comment and we appreciate you! We will see them one day!
referencing the remark that this is a very deep video: Idealistic times are calm and peaceful, History has shown society to be all to often violent beyond most forms of reason
Hellooo. I encourage you to discover a huge heavy metal band, made up of 5 girls, you are going to love it. They are called Lovebites and the song "Raise some hell" is live. A big hug.
the song is about having a torn relationship to the home country due to its past. The main figure/the constant element in the video is "Germania" (=the German equivalent to the british femal figure "Britannia", the scottish female figure "Caledonia", the irish femal figure "Hibernia".. you get the idea) the mystical + figural representation of people+country in personal union....who is in a symbolic acted historic scene hero and in an other symbolic acted historic scene victim and in the next symbolic acted historic scene villain. The band chose Germania to be played by a black woman for 2 reasons 1. to piss off Nationalists 2. For the aesthetics because the colours of the "Holy Roman Empire" flag were "Black+Gold" and today´s German national flag is "Black + Red + Gold" and the flag of the "German Empire" from 1871-1918 had "Black+Red+White" (which were also the colours of the Nazi swastika flag) as its colours ..so therefore you can see her as a black woman foremost wearing (or being surrounded by) all those other flag colours matching to the actual time period of the scene when she is in the picture frame
@@RealLifeCoupleReact Great reaction. Another fine detail is that Germania is sometimes blind in her left eye and sometimes in her right eye, depending on the time period.
were yout sub titles not translatimg? go to settings language, auto translate... I'm sure I saw you react to Rammstein before but search shows just this... ZEIT, RADIO ZICK ZACK....
Prisoner patches Yellow star (star of David) Jewish Pink triangle for gay men Reddish patch for political parties like socialists, Jewish politicians, communists and others Black patch for those with mental health , autism, alcoholics, homeless etc
another couple that wants to earn money on youtube, but is too inept to configure the autotranslation to english. well, we all had to start somewhere i guess ;)
No worries sister and bro a life without RAMMSTEIN is not worth living and I am 64 and dancing every morning in my pyjama (( you dont wanna see THAT) to RAMMSTEIN BIG HUG FROM GERMANY😊😊👍👍😁😁@@RealLifeCoupleReact
Ich muss leider sagen, dass die guten Zeiten der Rammstein Konzerte leider schon länger vorbei sind. Mir gefallen die Konzerte der letzten Jahre irgendwie nicht mehr so arg und auch Till singt (live) einfach nicht mehr so gut. Manchmal habe ich sogar das Gefühl, dass er gar keine Lust mehr hat. Vielleicht bilde ich mir das aber auch nur ein. Die Lieder sind allerdings immer noch großartig!
Sorry have to give a thumbs down. You can’t react to Rammstein and don’t be prepared. Watching the video without looking for English subs first is lazy. Even with the subs this is the most difficult video to understand cause it’s about the German history. 😢
Aha, die deutsche Regierung hasst Rammstein. Wie kommen Sie denn auf dieses schmale Brett? Übrigens ist es ein German Export, nicht Import. Und denken heißt auf Englisch "think" und nicht "thing". Hilft nicht gerade hinsichtlich der Glaubwürdigkeit der Aussage. 🤦♂Lassen Sie doch einfach die Leute in Ruhe.
About the SS part I don’t think they would let a black girl be a camp guard (As a war thunder player I strive for historical accuracy for that time period)
I was in the Feuerzone 29-07-2022 at Ullevi, with 85000 others. With no earplugs. It is such an experience. You cannot imagine.
Me too !🥳🫶
@@s.n.9952 actually after the concert I had a hard time understanding Swedish, which is not usually a problem (I am Danish).
@@PalleRasmussen bor i Danmark i 17 år🥳 😬 ... men after Konzerten kun jeg ikke engang forstår mit tyske Kone 😅
Det var bare helt vildt! Elsker det så meget!
@@s.n.9952 jeg havde også biletter til Vilnius og Feuerzone i Polen sidste år, men mit liv har taget en uventet og uheldig drejning de sidste par år, så jeg havde ikke råd til rejsen.
This is epic!! Thank you so much for your comment and we are happy that you had an awesome time at their show! :-)
The song is about being torn between loving your country and being ashamed of its violent past. Many events are shown in the video.
Roman legionaires who survived the Battle of Teutoburg, when 3 legions were wiped out by Germanic tribes. This is considered as the birth of the German nation.
- Appearance of a beautiful woman: she is Germania, the embodiment of the German nation. Rammstein chose a black german actress to give a finger to the extreme right.
- Germania wakes up the dead Teutonic knights, a christian military order involved in the Crusades
- Reunification of east and west germany, they all hug each other and it turns to an orgy
- German immigrants in the 1920's, fighting illegal, deadly fights to make a living
- Crooks in prison, devaluated money flying everywhere: the Depression during the Weimar Republic.
- The clergy feasting like pigs on the body of Germania while the common people starved (Middle Ages)
- Far left terrorists of the Baader-Meinhof Group (Red Army Fraction) kidnapping Germania and killing people in the 1970's.
- V2 rockets taking off, the first ever ballistic missiles invented by german scientist Wehrner Von Braun, who later became an US citizen and is the father of the Apollo lunar rockets, the Saturn 5.
- Prisoners of concentration camps during the Shoah, Germania is now wearing a nazi uniform. Later, the prisoners revolt and shoot the nazis.
- Germania gives birth to Leonberger puppies, these dogs are typical of Germany but went almost extinct: the Nation is being reborn as a democracy
- And much more stuff I didn't see or was unable to understand.
Hello dear. If you like, you can pick my brain about the the displayed images you didn't understand. Maybe I can help.
With love from Germany 🤘🏻 ❤
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this out! This is so interesting and it all makes sense! Thank you so so much :-)
Thank you :-)
@@spring_in_paris Hello from neighboring Belgium. I think I saw briefly the following events and symbols, but I'm not sure:
- Arminius statue pointing his sword to the sky
- The Hindenburg burning
- U-Boot
- The rats from The pied piper of Hamelin?
- SA-men burning books compared with burning a witch in the Middle-Ages) = witch hunting of political opponents
- Astronauts? Do they refer to the space programs derived from the invention of V2 rockets?
Thanks by advance!
@@Tiisiphone Hello. About the rat scene, 1st I thought of the tale Rat catcher from Hameln, too, but right before the camera swings over to the monk feasting scene, very, very briefly, you see Soldiers sitting at the table, wearing a tricorn hat. So this could also be a reference to the 30 Years' War.
The burning of witches that segues into the burning of books is, in my opinion, directly juxtaposed. Knowledge is burned and a select group is condemned and killed. What's also important is the brief shot of a churchman hugging a man in a man in Nazi uniform, with the churchman holding up a cross. In my humble opinion, the role of the church in this terrible time is highlighted here. A matter that is not really discussed here to this day. (Among other things...).
The reoccurring astronauts refer to the V2 Programm in Mittelbau Dora, where the leading scientists immigrated to the US to become chief of the NASA program, as well, as a reference to to battle who 1st in space in other scenes. The East or the West. Both spend unbelievable tons of money on it.
The history they show starts with the Roman times where the first three "proto-german" tribes who actually were not friendly with each other came together to fight the Romans in the Varus battle (see the Netflix show Barbarians). This surely wasn't Germany, but it was a first for the people living in the Region. If you are asking yourself, what the heck are the dogs being born doing there in the end. These are from the breed (I think Leonberger) of which only a few pups survived WWII and build up the breed again, just like the people surviving WWII and rebuilding the country.
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 socialist 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.
PPPS: The name Rammstein comes from the German town Ramstein (with one "m"). There is an US-airbase and there happened a big, tragic airshow disaster, when two jets collided and fell into the audience.
Therefore all the flames and the burning coat during the song Rammstein and all the fire in their shows in general. But that rather tasteless name and the negative press echo were too much even for Rammstein. So they changed their name later in Rammstein, what indeed means "battering stone".
They delivered a half assed explanation for it decades ago. I've forgotten, what they said. A fact is, that they called themselves after that town and that airshow disaster. Probably for provocation purposes.
Their old song "Rammstein" even tells in other words the story of that disaster and it tells about a fine day with a warm shining sun...and burning people.
Neue Deutsche Härte was always a pretty unsatisfying new name for the music they made mainly: Industrial or Industrial Metal/Rock.
What I found great at their show, was their sound. It was loud but so clear and nice. Fantastic.
3:39 : "ohhh the Hindenburg"!!! Well done mate!!!
The outro is the piano version of their song "Sonne"...
It's awesome, thank you for commenting
This is a 6 Million Dollar Video from Rammstein ❤️❤️❤️
If Hollywood had a ounce of the creativity of Rammstein they would rake in billions.
hehe thanks for commenting 🙂
YES!!! First of all I liked you're "Are you not entertained?" remark,then you are the first reactor that sees and gets that Zeppelin,Hindenburg hint in the background.(Americans don't)Great reaction guys:loved it! If you really want to get emotional(take your time:I can wait!)do"Zeit":Once again I promise you:You won't regret it!The followers are slightly rising;Keep it up,nice one!Peace!😉🙏✌
Such a kind comment :-) we will do Zeit and we can't wait for more Rammstein! Really appreciate this
"and gets that Zeppelin,Hindenburg hint in the background.(Americans don't)". Which is strange, since most americans probably know the Goodyear blimps, most of which were built in collaboration with Zeppelin.
"Du Hast" live in Paris! Tille Lindeman had the French people sing in german!
We will do this :-) thanks for being here!
Rammstein gives us the complete history of Germany ( Deutschland ) in this performance.....as with most people in most countries, Rammstein has s "love/hate" relationship with their native land, seeing both the good and the bad......I think, as others have commented, the Black female who appears as many figures is a representation of "Germania", the national historical symbol of Deutschland .......
greastings from Germany , like your reactions, keep it up
Thank you and much love form the UK
Her reaction: whatever give me more.
His reaction: shockt looking at his wife like '😮 can we really show that?!'
First time on your channel, you guys act so cute together.😊
Thank you for your reation video and lovely greetings from germany.
This was a real Taste of Germany
enjoy
We always do, thank you for commenting :-)
Thank you for this reaction!
If you want some explanation of the details of the historical content and what represents what, then watch this: >>> "Deutschland by Rammstein: An Analysis"
Thank you so so much! We will check this out :-) we are learning this youtube thing hehe so we now know there are subtitles! Thanks for the support
Oh wow! Thank you for the reference to an analysis of the video.
if you want to react to more rammstein songs, i can highly recommend the videos from the youtube channel of educated marine. he doesn't only have rammstein videos but from some other bands as well, and all with english lyrics. it helps a ton, if you can also understand what they're saying, specially with rammstein using a lot of metaphors and double meanings in their songs
Thank you so much for this, will check this channel out :-) thanks for the comment
the history of Germany wonderfully described in one song
Agreed, thanks for the comment 🙂
One of Rammsteins greatest songs for sure. I would highly suggest watching some videos that go over the meaning and symbolism within the video (I myself am not German, and so someone who is can certainly explain it better). The song is essentially about German history and how citizens of that nation have a love hate relationship with their country (wanting to be proud of its great achievements, but also haunted by its often times troubled past).
Yeah, we will check this out as it was such an interesting video to watch! Thank you so much for commenting :-)
Greetings from Germany 🤘🔥You have to watch the next video from Rammstein, with translation. It makes a big difference.😉.
Thank you so so much, we will do this for you :-) thanks for the comment and support! From the U.K
Loved the call backs to ' Sonne' in this
And so well done, with a simple piano sound...
It's amazing, thanks for the comment
the black lady was Germania. She presents Germany. And what no comment so far contained: She was blind on the right eye in minute 4 (with the nazies) and then blind on the let after the execution since it was on its way to revenge. But every second was full of symbols till the end with the windows of the Werner Chapel that also tells a full story.
Thanks for your comment :-)
German here: There is a video explaining a lot of this Video (threearrows)
I cried, when i First heared this Song… it expresses so much
Claudia, thank you for your comment! It's incredible, thank you for being here :-)
This is one of the best videos from Rammstein and at the same time one of the most difficult content to fully understand. The song is about Germany (Deutschland) and the band's feelings about their home country which has a rather violent history (not only in WW2). It is a kaleidoscope of scenes from 2000 years of German history (some more symbolic, others painfully accurate) and additionally some scenes that might happen in the future when archaeologists are searching for artefacts of German history.
The woman is Germania, played by the German actress Ruby Commey. Germania is not a literal person, but was a personification of Germany for centuries. All other main roles are played by the six members of Rammstein.
The scene when the monks seem to eat Germania references to the Thirty Year's War (1618-1648), which started as a religious war. As a result of that war - masses of people starved or died by plagues. And the church took what little they had left to live on.
If you are interested in more details about some of the historical events referenced in Rammstein's video, you may take a look at this content-wise analysis: th-cam.com/video/sc-euVL8xQs/w-d-xo.html
Even for me as a German guy there were some details that I was not aware of.
Also the lyrics are explained a bit and the assumed reason for Rammstein to come out with this video. And there is an explanation why the video caused some harsh reactions BEFORE it was fully published.
We agree Thanks for your comment :-)
Some scenes and in the outro they walk through stands with ever burning bodies in the Holocaust memorial. So strong.
Its so intense, thanks for commenting :-)
Great reaction😊👍 the Videos of "Angst" and "Zeit" I higlly recommend!!! Great Songs and deep lyrics (TH-cam autotranslate would help much!!!)
Best wishes😘🙋♂️
Thank you so much, lots more Rammstein coming :-)
I am an American from German descent. Three things that stand out to me in this video are - BUT I’m not saying all people: 1) How German history seems to be embedded with violence to try and solve all problems; 2) The past (hopefully in the past) German/White mentality of it being the “superior race”, which mostly in history affected black people, hence why the woman is so predominant in the video; and 3) The birthing of animals instead of human children in the end, representing how such hate breeds beasts, not humans.
Best regards from Germany - thumbs up ❤
Rammstein's Video wäre amazing, Watch Next Video " Zeit " This is art
we are 100% wanting to do this and we can not wait! Thank you so much
The official video on TH-cam does have English subtitles. That might have been a good idea.
It´s Industrial Metal.
Great reaction! We saw Rammstein in Chicago and the show is insane. Good choice of song. Now we are encouraged to react to Rammstein as well. Wish you all the best.
Aww thank you guys!!! just subbed to you guys, we are just learning and its an interesting journey so far!! Thank you for the comment and we appreciate you! We will see them one day!
referencing the remark that this is a very deep video:
Idealistic times are calm and peaceful, History has shown society to be all to often violent beyond most forms of reason
Agreed to all of this, thank you so much for the comment :-)
Awesome reaction ❤
Thank you so much :-)
Hellooo. I encourage you to discover a huge heavy metal band, made up of 5 girls, you are going to love it. They are called Lovebites and the song "Raise some hell" is live. A big hug.
Will check them out, thank you so much for commenting :-)
Thx, Hindenburg insider😊 if y react more to Ramstein, try to get video with subtitles. Special if you react to "Zeit"
Hehe thanks for this, we will do this next time for sure! We can't wait to react to this :-)
"Milton Friedman, Milton Keynes - why are they all called 'Milton'?"
Pro tip: use autotranslation feature 😉
hehe thank you, this is all learning for us :-)
There are English subtitles!
We know this now, we are new to this so it's all a learning curve! Thank you for commenting :-)
Love from bavaria❤
Many thanks and lots of love from the U.K
@@RealLifeCoupleReact Thank you!😘
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Thank you so much for your comment :-)
Please react to Rammstein's Radio (music video), if you haven't seen it already. Cheers from the states!
There is alot more Rammstein planned in the coming weeks, thank you so much for the comment! Thanks from the U.K
React to Rammstein "Zeit"
We have this one planned :-) Thank you so much for your kind words
the song is about having a torn relationship to the home country due to its past.
The main figure/the constant element in the video is "Germania" (=the German equivalent to the british femal figure "Britannia", the scottish female figure "Caledonia", the irish femal figure "Hibernia".. you get the idea) the mystical + figural representation of people+country in personal union....who is in a symbolic acted historic scene hero and in an other symbolic acted historic scene victim and in the next symbolic acted historic scene villain.
The band chose Germania to be played by a black woman for 2 reasons
1. to piss off Nationalists
2. For the aesthetics because the colours of the "Holy Roman Empire" flag were "Black+Gold" and today´s German national flag is "Black + Red + Gold" and the flag of the "German Empire" from 1871-1918 had "Black+Red+White" (which were also the colours of the Nazi swastika flag) as its colours ..so therefore you can see her as a black woman foremost wearing (or being surrounded by) all those other flag colours matching to the actual time period of the scene when she is in the picture frame
Wow this is epic! Thank you so much for taking your time to respond with this, it all makes sense! Thank you 🙂
@@RealLifeCoupleReact
Great reaction.
Another fine detail is that Germania is sometimes blind in her left eye and sometimes in her right eye, depending on the time period.
Dont worry. The comments will be full of explanations :D
Yes, they are hehe thanks for the comment 🙂
Final piano IS "Sonne" Ramstein
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Thank you so much ;-)
Well at least it has character...I´d say!
hehe true, thanks for the comment!
Thank you so much
were yout sub titles not translatimg? go to settings language, auto translate... I'm sure I saw you react to Rammstein before but search shows just this... ZEIT, RADIO ZICK ZACK....
This was our first ever Rammstein reaction! Thanks for commenting and we now know about subtitles hehe
Der einzige Stolz den wir haben sind diese sechs Jungs
Just a comment for the algorythm!
Too kind! Thank you so much for supporting us :-)
Prisoner patches
Yellow star (star of David) Jewish
Pink triangle for gay men
Reddish patch for political parties like socialists, Jewish politicians, communists and others
Black patch for those with mental health , autism, alcoholics, homeless etc
I recommend you two guys to set the lyrics in translation to English berceuse the lyrics in all Rammsteins songs are as heavy as their music..
OH, Rammstein sings in English. Listen to Amerika and Pussy 😁😁😁
Hehe sounds interesting, thank you so much
Wait....are you a real life couple? Stfu please hahahah
hahahaha I ask myself this on a daily basis
HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!
another couple that wants to earn money on youtube, but is too inept to configure the autotranslation to english.
well, we all had to start somewhere i guess ;)
Summed us up in a oner!! Haha Baby steps 🙂
Well i am german there is no need for german subtitles........🤬🤬 make it international just google 😊😊
Aww thank you so so much for the comment and much love from the U.K! We love RAMMSTEIN!!
No worries sister and bro a life without RAMMSTEIN is not worth living and I am 64 and dancing every morning in my pyjama (( you dont wanna see THAT) to RAMMSTEIN BIG HUG FROM GERMANY😊😊👍👍😁😁@@RealLifeCoupleReact
Ich muss leider sagen, dass die guten Zeiten der Rammstein Konzerte leider schon länger vorbei sind. Mir gefallen die Konzerte der letzten Jahre irgendwie nicht mehr so arg und auch Till singt (live) einfach nicht mehr so gut. Manchmal habe ich sogar das Gefühl, dass er gar keine Lust mehr hat. Vielleicht bilde ich mir das aber auch nur ein. Die Lieder sind allerdings immer noch großartig!
Hello, please react to this Video: "ich tue Dir Weh".
Thank you! 🙋🏻♂️
We will do thank you :-)
@@RealLifeCoupleReact ❤️
German... ! Rammstein is OK. Loook for Boese Onkelz (Evil uncle) thats the black and seeing german Heart... with heart. Translate it then you know.
Thank you so much for you comment, we will check this guys out 🙂Danke
hi from germany to be true I have no idea what they are showing and confusing but have fun
Sorry have to give a thumbs down. You can’t react to Rammstein and don’t be prepared. Watching the video without looking for English subs first is lazy. Even with the subs this is the most difficult video to understand cause it’s about the German history. 😢
No problem, thanks for the feedback 🥰
Oof, who pissed in your cereal that morning?
The Best German import.And most of the World like this Band .But not the German government. They hate the Band.Why? Thing self
Aha, die deutsche Regierung hasst Rammstein. Wie kommen Sie denn auf dieses schmale Brett? Übrigens ist es ein German Export, nicht Import. Und denken heißt auf Englisch "think" und nicht "thing". Hilft nicht gerade hinsichtlich der Glaubwürdigkeit der Aussage. 🤦♂Lassen Sie doch einfach die Leute in Ruhe.
lol wut
interesting Thanks for your comment :-)
About the SS part I don’t think they would let a black girl be a camp guard
(As a war thunder player I strive for historical accuracy for that time period)