WOW!! Rammstein "Deutschland" Long version (REACTION)
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Rammstein - Deutschland
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In Germany a lot of people, like me as well, it is so important to keep up the memory of Hitler, the Holocaust, the Nazis and the world war II.
My Generation (I was born in 1971) is not responsible for what happened, but we are responsible to do everything to prevent a repeat of that time and the crimes committed.
I am not guilty for what happened, but I would be guilty if it would happen again!
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Perfectly put. That's also how I see it as an Austrian.
"Es ist nicht deine Schuld, dass die Welt ist wie sie ist. Es wär nur deine Schuld wenn sie so bleibt." - Another great German Band
Я тоже 71 года и да, всё верно
so isses
@@ЯковСысоев-ч3ъ Greetings to Russia, your country has suffered immensely during that Nazi time, a lot of people seem to have forgotten that.
Hi DC & D,
it´s a good question you asked. I´m a german, born 1952 and grew up with the truth about the wars and the holocaust. My Father was 18 years old when he was discharged as a POW after WWII and he was mentally broken. He brought us up with the thought of "never again" and never beleave the political leaders again (he was in the Hitler youth and followed the call to war - and he told us he was a Nazi). I can´t remember a time when I didn´t know about the cruelties. I remember also a lot of crippled people around in the Neighbourhood. The atrocities of the WWII and the Holocaust where subject in all schools. All in all I can say Rammstein hit the nail with this masterpiece of art.
But isn´t it also a mirror for everybody in all countries? Wich country didn´t commit evil things in its past - all around the world. Colonalism, slavery, ethnic killings, aggressive wars racism and mass murders. Why do other Bands or Artists in other countries not do the same? It could be a first step to an end of nationalisms. And btw you can´t change the past - you have to live with it. So gloryfying the past don´t last long - it´s mostly a lie!
Thanks to Rammstein for not shying away from controversities!!!!!!!!!!
THANK you so much for taking some your time to type that and giving me a small understanding of what it must of been like (I couldn't even imagine) but I do find it so interesting. Thank you again.
I'm german too. I was born in 1985 and I can totally rely to this comment. Just it wasnt my father, it was my grandfather living in those dark times of our country. I've been tought about everything in school and by my family. I feel just one thing about it: "Never again!"
@@DCReacts1984 Hi DC&D - I (born 67) just want to confirm Dettmar from his comments above... he described it very clearly and I am happy that he found those clear words. Additionally I think Till ((Lindemann) wants to point out (also in his lyrics) that he is torn in the love and hate simultaneous to our mother country. The style of bringing this to visual pictures is an outstanding art and a masterpiece of Rammstein and Specter Berlin (Eric Remberg)!!!
"Never forget"...
greets to everybody - stay safe... Stephan
I'm 50 and french so I'm in "the ennemy" camp (jocking). My parents were born in 1946, so didn't live the ww2, but my grand parents did.
We all grew up with the same way of thinking "never again", I think in France, even the ones who lived the war don't have any hate with the german people, but some hate with the ones who took bad decisions, and even more hate with french people who did some awful things.
I think history is really important to learn and avoid to make same mistakes. EVERY country made horrible things. In France for example, Napoleon is, in part considered as a hero, but also as an horrible conqueror who lived for war. The americans are born from people who killed indians to steal their lands. Etc...
EVERY country has a lot of things to be proud of but also things to be ashamed of. That's history, and that's why this song explains perfectly this feeling, and we could all have some love & hate about the country we live in.
We have to learn past to take lessons, but we don't have to live in the past and keep bitterness,
@@ooO0VicariouS0Ooo perfect words Vic! Tks...😎👍🤝👍
The outro is actually worth watching, especially since the song playing is the piano version of their song "Sonne" 😉
I thought so. Nice!
I love that ending its so good😊!!! Sonnes piano version is amazing!
it is also needed to reflect on it
Hi, I'm from Germany.
First of all: Too bad that you cut away the complete end with the pinao and the credits. Sorry, but that is an outright mutilation of the song. That wasn't a good idea. Especially because you extra wrote in the video headline, that you would react to the LONG version. Those aren't only the end-credits. That is in a way an own, but important, part of the song. :-(
Anyway:
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 battle of the Teutoburg forest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike).
That battle is of ABSOLUTE importance for the German history.
The hanged bodies in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, who were gruesome sacrificed to the Germanic gods...and were partly nailed to the trees.
The Varus-(Teutoburg)-Battle was already in 9 AD. In 16 AD were the vengeance campaigns of Emperor Germanicus. Therefore we see here the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they are watching their dead comrades hanging in the trees or getting their heads chopped off (for nailing them to the trees).
In reality the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army in the various ways they were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed at the trees. Slaves were liberated even decades after the battle.
After the scenes with the Romans we saw the Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster (the burning Zeppelin in the background).
The moustaches and clothing from the fight scene are from WWI and post WWI years. From the working class people in WWI and the roaring 20's. In the WWII years later on this kind of big bushy moustache was already out of fashion.
The 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: My interpretation of the glass coffin is Little Snow White in space, like I wrote before.
PPPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet.
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! 😄
Recommendation for a reaction:
The band "Null Positiv" and their song "Freiheit"
Greetings
Mega
Now that was a a lot of reading but worth it secondly I will redo the song because you are not the first person to point it out my apologies i think its only fair to do so. Thank you for enlighten me on some of your history
Sehr schön!
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Thank you for all the history that you provided... Wished I could copy/ paste for future reference! I love history, and the German involvement in WW2 intrigued me deeply. Just wished there was a way to save your commentary.
Thanks for taking the time to share!
... and thanks for proving what I had thought of the actress that played Germania... I had suspected that she was the representation of Deutchland. I just didn't know for sure!
High marks for sure on everything you shared!
Danke!
Awesome reaction to a masterpiece, it’s art at the highest level IMO, shame you cut the end only its the piano version of their song “Sonne” great job man and greetings from Scotland.
12:05 Love how Till mocks the last leader of socialist East Germany, Erich Honecker, by playing him mounting a dog (Till was born in East Germany, btw). xD
It looks like a russian furr hat to me, not a dog, which makes sense in the context of the DDR. :)
What you talking about! I was born in East Germany! But the city was West Berlin, Currently in Dallas, TX shithole USA.😖
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Egon Krenz was actually the last leader of East Germany.
I still remember when they released the Holocaust scene from „Deutschland“ as a teaser for the upcoming video and nearly all politicians and Jewish representatives in Germany got triggered and went nuts in the media about this would be disgusting, tasteless, disrespectfull against the victims of the holocaust etc.
And all where silenced when the whole video came out, and the majority of the media, except some far right wing publications, called it a masterpiece, as it was exactly the opposite of what was expected after the teaser.
As the Video and the lyrics specifically deal with the ambivalent attitude of the current german society towards its own history („Germany, my heart on fire, Wanna love you and damn you“)
No other country on earth is dealing better with there dark past moments in history than germany is
so good, it's almost too much...
They've got plenty of material to practice with.
For me it's enough that you're speechless. Much appreciated reaction, always interesting what people from all over the world think about this. For us germans this song was obviously unexpected but very very good. We have a bad history, almost every country in the world does. We can only learn and make it better. Much love from Germany.
Short intruduction to the starting of the Video (why 16AD or better 9AD is so important for "Germany): Germania Magna is the name Julius Caesar gave the land east of the rhine - The english name for Deutschland derived from this latin name. At this time a lot of tribes lived in this area sometimes in peace with the other tribes often acceptance but also in war with their neighbours. For 9Ad we have the first writen down evidence that the tribes worked together to stop an invasion from the roman empire (Battle of the Teutoburg Forest) - At this Battle the aliance of tribes destroyed three full roman legions (One Legion has about 5 to 6 thousend soldiers at its peak the roman empire has had in total 28 Legions for the whole empire) of an army that was seen as unbeatable.
In 16Ad the roman army sends expedition troups to the battle area to find out what happend and the soldiers found the bones of their hanged and tortured comrades in the forest (and burried them) - This is the scene in the Video.
The Battle is seen as one of the first (known) time that the tribes worked together as something like a nation. Also this battle stopped the roman empire for centuries to conquer Germania magna again and they started to build a borderfortification instead (The Limes) to protect the empire from the german tribes.
Most reactions I've seen the people don't get its all about German history, finally someone does.
I think the outro is part of the video / song.
It is very recognisable and the piano version of the song "Sonne"
The chorus is "Hier kommt die Sonne", here comes the sun.
The meaning is like in English, it is positive and cheerful.
I see this as a statement of Rammstein that it will get better and Germany is over his dark past.
Good thing you discovered the new national anthem of Germany.😁
In Germany, there is some dissatisfaction with the current national anthem, which is why quite a few people have suggested this song as the anthem.
The budget for the video was between 500k and 1 million euros. It is definitely the most expensive video ever produced for a German band.
If that is true I want to be a German just to sing this as anthem 😅😅😅
You nearly had a new subscriber until you skipped the credits. Good reaction though.
Big mistake for stopping the video too early. Especially the end credits with the fantastic piano music give you time to reflect on what you have seen.
You should never ever skip the Credits in a Rammstein Video!
look Schindler's List
This vid is a real piece of art.
But you have to be german to fully undertstand it.
in germany we are told what happened. all the bad stuff. it took about 50% of my history lessons in school.
we learn that it is not our responsibilty what happened (since we werent even born) but that it is our responsibility to never let it happen again.
sadly some people don't get the message...
A great reaction from you !! It is always very impressive what Rammstein produces ... Greetings from Germany
you really should see the captioned version.....grettings from germany
1) Germany east of the Rhine which the Romans called Magna Germania. Battle of Teutoburg Forest where the ''barbaric'' German tribes defeated the mighty Roman Empire under the leadership of Arminius (Hermann), now a venerated German hero.
2) Astronauts escorting a U-Boat. Trademark submarine of the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) in both World Wars.
3) Boxing fight in Weimar Republic (1919-1939) an unstable and violent kind of democracy which preceded the Nazi regime.
4) Corpses in armor during the Crusades. The girl with the flag personifies Germany herself.
5) Members of the band marching in front of the ''Hindenburg Disaster'' a zeppelin which caught fire with 36 people being killed.
6) Members of the band in an office of the Stasi (Secret Police) in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
7) The girl (Germany) walks 5 dogs. It shows the love and affection Germans always had for them.
8) Monks in a cellar walking with rats around them. A reference to the bubonic plague (Black Death) which devastated Europe in the Middle Ages.
9) The monks eating from the body of Germany symbolize the devouring of the ideal of nation throughout German history.
10) The people under the table are gagged and in latex. Germans may have BDSM tendencies.
11) Astronauts around the statues of the great Germans of the past.
12) Members of the band are in chains with money falling near them. A reference to the hyperinflation of the post WWI era.
13) The rocket refers to the infamous V2 rocket weapons which Hitler claimed would crush the Allies during WWII.
14) Execution of Jew captives in a concentration camp.
15) Lead singer's crossdressing with the rest of the band carrying weapons in wigs represents the Baader/Meinhof gang, a far-left terrorist group of the seventies in West Germany.
16) Burning of the witches in Middle Ages.
17) Burning of books from Nazi officers.
18) A frame depicts a monk and a Nazi hugging each other. We see the close connection between the church and the national socialist regime.
19) Germany giving birth to dogs. Huge allusion ain't got time for that sorry.
20) Tanks passing in front of a Karl Marx facade. Allusion to communism as a dictatorship.
21) People clashing with the police with molotov cocktails. Again depiction of the political turbulence.
22) At the end the girl (Germany) becomes an angel watching over the band (her people).
You can watch the video 10 more times and you will always discover something new
The story is written by the winner.
Hallo, i mean, this shows how many Germans look to her own. History over 2000years. But, it only my opinon. Greetings from northern Germany.
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yeah but only because its the only shit we get taught in school. they literally left out all the good parts of german history :-D
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I wonder if I can do a reaction video on that I just watched 2min and was like wow. Might do it the weekend cheers dude 👍🏻
Not a big Rammstein fan, but this is a masterpiece. You got it figured out. Great reaction
I'm a highschool teacher (subject: history - we are specialized in the higher grades) and the Holocaust, World War II and Nationalsocialism are actually topics we teach several times over the years (up to four times till the 13th class). The point of view in our history lessons is "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" (sense of your own history and all the things that went badly and must be processed to avoid old mistakes) which is very important and should be taken into consideration in all countries in my opinion
From germany here.. and from my point I can say that we learned a lot, but this musicvideo still shows us perspectives we wouldnt know otherwise.
The video opens in AD 16, on the ‘barbarian’ side of the limes, the border of the Roman Empire. Roman soldiers creep through the woods in the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The Romans were ambushed by an alliance of Germanic Tribes, led by a chieftain called Arminius (the original Hermann the German). Three legionary standards were captured, a loss symbolic and moral, as well as physical, and decades were spent trying to recover them. Rome never again attempted to take the lands east of the River Rhine, known as Germania.
‘Germania’ refers not just to a place, somewhere partly defined by where it isn’t (Rome) as well as where it is, but also to a national figurehead, traditionally representing the German people. Germania is a strong woman, usually armour-clad and battle-ready. Various symbols appear with her, among them a breastplate with an eagle, a black, red, and gold flag, and a crown. Look out for these in the video - they come up again and again - and the colours of the contemporary flag are there in every scene.
We get our first glimpse of Germania here (played by Ruby Commey), who stands holding Till Lindemann’s severed head. Next, astronauts appear carrying a metal and glass box shaped like a coffin. In the background we see a U-boat - a German submarine, used in World Wars I and II. Then we move to a scene set at a boxing match which takes us to Weimar Germany (1918-1933), a period known for its political instability but also greater cultural liberalism. Here, Germania appears in the cabaret costume of a flapper girl, and the boxers fight with knuckle-dusters as a crowd cheers them on.
We see the former East Germany, complete with busts of Marx and Lenin, the national emblem of East Germany, and a lookalike of the long-serving, insular, and repressive GDR leader Erich Honecker. There’s another astronaut, or rather a cosmonaut: Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space, who flew with the USSR’s space program (and who’s also a character in the 2003 film, Good Bye Lenin!). Medieval monks feast grotesquely on the supine Germania, tearing sauerkraut and sausage from Ruby Commey’s body, prison inmates are beaten by guards dressed in police and military uniforms from different historical periods.
The most obviously shocking scene references the Holocaust and the Nazi period. Four members of the band, in the striped uniforms of camp inmates, wait at the gallows, about to be hanged. They wear the cloth emblems used to identify their ‘crimes’: a pink triangle for homosexual prisoners, a yellow star for Jewish prisoners, a red and yellow star for Jewish political prisoners.
This sequence, teased in an earlier promo video, has already caused controversy. Have Rammstein the right to do this? Do they trivialise the suffering of Holocaust victims? How can they justify using Holocaust imagery to promote their new video? These are important questions that are part of a much bigger debate about the ethics of using the Holocaust in art and media.
Other scenes include the band walking away from a flaming airship, referring to the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster, in which 36 people died. Rats scuttle across the floor when the monks first appear, suggesting the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a legend with origins in the 13th century.
Germania walks towards the camera in a leather jacket, gold jewellery and a string of bullets across her chest, resembling the chariot drawn by four horses (the ‘Quadriga’) on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The band members’ heads are shown as white marble busts, taking us to the 19th century Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, built as German Hall of Fame, its sculpted heads of German worthies on display to this day.
In the prison, hundreds of banknotes fall from above, suggesting the devastating hyperinflation Germany suffered in the 1920s. Nazis burn books, intercut with religious fanatics burning witches. We recognise members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof group), a militant organisation active in the 1970s in West Germany. And in a blink-or-you-miss-it exchange, we are reminded of the much-criticised relationship between the churches and the state during the Third Reich.
Each scene captures in a moment the icons of an era, and the video cuts between them more and more frenetically as it goes on. Events bleed into each other, linked by the presence of the band members and the red laser beam that appears throughout the video, a ‘roter Faden’ (red thread or central theme), connecting each event.
Germany engages with its history in a very particular way. Try to imagine the video about Britain, with Britannia played by Ruby Commey. What would the equivalent events be? Quite a few of the tableaux might be similar - Romans, Crusaders, monks, 18th-century soldiers, collarless shirts and bareknuckle boxing - but would it have the same impact?
There’s no affection, and perhaps not much hope: its pessimistic tone seems to be quite an off-brand message for post-1989 Germany, which wants to acknowledge its past critically, while also looking to its future as a state at the heart of Europe. And actually, while we get a lot of medieval and twentieth-century history, the video’s tour through the past seems to stop in the late 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of East and West Germany. Instead, we jump into the future, where the space-suited band take Germania into the unknown, travelling in that coffin-shaped glass box.
There’s an echo of the video for Sonne, where Snow White is trapped in a glass coffin. In fact, a piano version of Sonne plays over the end credits of Deutschland. This is a useful link for understanding something of what Rammstein is doing here. In Sonne, where the band’s characters free themselves of Snow White (naturally, they’ve been her sex-slaves), only to realise that they have made a mistake and long for her return, the overwhelming feeling of Deutschland seems to be that when it comes to Germania (or Germany): you can’t love her, and you can’t live without her.
greetings from Germany
I'd superlike your comment, if I could
I'm not from Germany but I think I can speak up(maybe not).
To all the German children who attended the camps on excursions, I pay respect to your endurance. I am Russian and I had seen and heard enough things about the WW2 and it was so unbearable and hurt so much. My family was also personally affected, my grandfather was in captivity for 3 years in Germany. But he was just incredibly lucky, he was a worker for a military man, on a farm and he was not treated badly. Unlike my great-uncle, he was in a camp and was rescued by a German woman, she fed him, then they got married and he stayed in Germany. I will not talk about about others of my family that suffered in the USSR. And all this is such a pain that I do not want to think about it, but I understand why it is important to remember.
But what is happening now sometimes shocks me. For example, the position in Russia on May 9 (the day of the end of the war) to organize not just memory parades (although I would prefer not to see them) but a certain pride as a victory, although this is so for my country, but it is still terrible. I can't be too happy and forget about all the sacrifices. But worst of all are inhuman car stickers like "on Belin" or "We can repeat". I don’t understand how a massacre can cause pride, and even more so how can we talk about repetition, as if life did not teach us, I am ashamed of them. I am ashamed of my acquaintances in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad, the city suffered a lot) who still hate the Germans as if the Nazis and the Germans are one and the same, although they are not. They cannot separate the past from the present. Or children who devalued the past as it did not matter and mock veterans. Of course not all are like that, but this also exists. These are things I don't understand.
I pay respect to the Rammstein band for not avoiding portraying the past. And I express my sympathy for the German people, because if it is difficult for us Russians to live with our past, then it should be even more difficult and unpleasant for the Germans. All this is such a trauma for centuries.
Rammstein leads You to dark places and makes You think.
Good React. Skipping the Credits was not nice, but u learned ur Lesson i guess. ;)
As a german, it is how it is. We cant change our History and thats good. We learned our Lesson and now we try to make it better in Future. We have to remember this for a long time, otherwise we are damned to repeat it. And i guess most of the germans dont want to repeat it. Thanks to Rammstein, it keeps helping us to proceed that past. And hopefully we can create in the next decades a new better kind of national pride, in a good way.
This song and video should be shown and dissected in all history classes in school, it’s so hard hitting and educational. Just fantastic.
"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it. "
this is what is tought in germany schools.
Greetings from Germany. The Song/Video "Deutschland" is a Trip trough German History. It tells the good and bad about it. It's not rassist! It's like: Germany, look in the mirror.
A really great Reaction - Video! The "Deutschland" - Video is just amazing! It's hard to follow sometimes because there are many Decades of German History, good and bad ones! As a German I must say of course I'm proud to be a German but the Holocaust is a very dark time and it's a shame what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jews and all other Nations who lost so many Lives! Maybe that's why many Germans have low National - Pride today! We can still beg for Forgiveness what Hitler and the Nazis did to the World but the Germans have changed and we are better People now! I hope for more Rammstein - Video's!😉 Definitely Liked and Subscribed!👍🏻👍🏻
nExT reaction video could be "Mutter" (mother) - which has phenomenal guitar parts... you will fell in love with the sound of Richard´s (Kruspe) guitar and if you study also the lyrics you will feel it even deeper!!! Try it Dude! You won´t regret it!
"History is a set of lies agreed upon." Napolon Bonaparte.
Hei!
So, I am from Germany and born in 2003 I obviously grew up with knowing what happend in our history. In school that are teaching the topic of WW2 very graphic, so we saw old photos and videos of the war and it's crimes (including photos of all the dead children, wounded soldiers and corpses being thrown into massgraves). In my school it is also obligatory that the tenth grade has to visit a Concentration Camp, so one year ago all of the students of my age went to Bergen-Belsen. We learn it, so that will never happen again. Also, national pride isn't that common here. I only once sung the national anthem in public and I wear clothes with the German flag only when we watch football.
Greetings from northern Germany!
if you translate the lyrics, you will see the thoughts of a german...
One of my favorite videos from Ramstein. My 6 year old boy can seat and watch Ramstein videos for hours. Love it
You should not be letting your 6 year old son watch Rammstein videos. I wonder if you might know this already and perhaps posted this as a way of trying to convince yourself otherwise - just so you know I am not someone who is spoiling for an argument, just a concerned citizen. Best wishes to you and your son.
You said, that you didn't learn about the history of WWII that much, because it didn't affected you in your country.
I had a look into your profile. You are based in the UK.
The V2 rockets, that were produced by the concentration camp prisoners...and were shown in THIS video...were shot at London and Norwich where they killed many people.
Didn't you know that?
V2 rockets shot at Britain:
London: 1358
Norwich / Ipswich: 44
Sorry I meant where I was born and grew up which is in South Africa 😊
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Alles klar!
8:55 I don't know if it's available in English but there's an amazing documentary series called Die Deutschen (The Germans), which details German history from the time of Charlemagne to the Weimar Republic (20s/30s). That one is less critical but still great.
In schools, we deal with the good and the bad as it was. We learn more about the circumstances that cause societal turmoil (in any period), rather than just learning what happened. WWII for us is more about the many years leading up to a horrible time in history and understanding how it happened (and could happen again), rather than troop movements and so on (which is how US Americans teach history, in my limited experience). But we went over more than just those 12 years of our 2k years of history. That said, "Bildung ist Ländersache" (education is a state concern), so experiences may differ quite a bit.
I´m German and we did a lot of bad things in the past!! Bud we should learn from that time and do it better in the future! We are one! We all have only one world, right? Let´s stay together and help each other, because we have no other choice...! Right? #We are all one!! Never follow these people... they just want to glorify them self! Best exemple was Mr. Trump.. ore Mr. Putin and so many more.... We don't need those Persons!! We can do it better, and united! Every country is part of this world, and we can only survive when we work together!! Fight each other doesn't help us at all!!
I wonder what a similar song 'England' would sound and look like...probably a lot of flags and waving and shit...🙄🤔😘🍻
Greetings from Germany
You asked, how we Germans were taught history of WWII - Well - let me try to paint you a picture: WE ARE ALL RESPONISBLE FOR WHAT HAPPENED fricking 80 years ago! AS IF we would've been there to make a diff! WE are still told to feel guilty and responsible for what happened. And I'M telling you, my friend - I've had it with that. We all have had it with that! WE were not there, we weren't even alive for crying out loud! So I'm telling you, OUR generation is not taking the blame for that shit any longer! Or are YOU still feeling responsible for what happened during the Civil War?!!!!
Most band members are from East Germany, which adds another layer to their view of Germany.
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For first. This is not my description. I only copied. But now you´ll get the whole input :-)
A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman is Germania. Germania is the mother 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 battle of the Teutoburg forest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike). That battle is of ABSOLUTE importance for the German history. The hanged bodies in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, who were gruesome sacrificed to the Germanic gods...and were partly nailed to the trees. The Varus-(Teutoburg)-Battle was already in 9 AD. In 16 AD were the vengeance campaigns of Emperor Germanicus. Therefore we see here the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they are watching their dead comrades hanging in the trees or getting their heads chopped off (for nailing them to the trees). In reality the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army in the various ways they were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed at the trees. Slaves were liberated even decades after the battle. After the scenes with the Romans we saw the Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster (the burning Zeppelin in the background). The moustaches and clothing from the fight scene are from WWI and post WWI years. From the working class people in WWI and the roaring 20's. In the WWII years later on this kind of big bushy moustache was already out of fashion. The 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: My interpretation of the glass coffin is Little Snow White in space, like I wrote before. PPPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet. 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
I'm German and in EVERY family you had people that were killed or crippled or disfigured in the war as a soldier. Even if they came from rural areas that had not much war going on in daily life. Both my grandfathers survived, both were POW, one in France the other in the East. (Both were not in the Nazi party BTW)
I'm born 1974 and these people were around. (Not my grandfathers, but still). And you had MILLIONS of people coming in from the East that fled death, torture and rape and experienced it. After the war they were in the neighborhood, in your house. Because of shortage of housing it was mandatory to take people in.
Other then the guilt that many or most Germans still have to this day, this death and devastation still runs in the collective and individual psyche. And that is all over Europe and I think this mindset and awe that is still present, when it comes to war, connects the Europeans, but even closer Germans with Russians, Poles and others from the East. I imagine I feel what they feel. Might sound strange, but it was SO major that it might have changed the genes. There is a darkness and depression around these peoples, that we share. But Soviets could cover this hurt with pride, while all Germans had was shame and guilt.
Nie wieder Krieg!
The different "eras" are different times in German history, except for the space suits which is generally interpreted as future archaeologists studying a forgotten Germany.
The black woman is "Germania", and represents the country throughout history.
That's why she's sometimes a leader (like during WW2), she's being devoured by the christian monks during the dark ages, she's happily entertaining the masses during the Weimar Republic, etc.
That end scene with the dog is a very specific breed of dog that was very common in Germany and then almost went extinct, but a couple were found and the breed was saved. Which in my personal opinion I think they use to symbolise the part of German society that they feel almost was obliterated, but can still be saved.
A couple of things that are hard to catch unless you know the language:
The red laser that's almost omnipresent is from a German expression "rote Faden", the closest idiomatic expression in English I can think of is "common thread", so they're basically saying there's a common thread/theme throughout history.
During the early scenes of Germania during WW2 she has an eyepatch over her right eye. There's a german expression that translates to "To be blind on the left/right eye.", with the context of someone being blind to the wrongdoings of political extremists on either the left or right side. You'll also notice that in the end of that scene the patch has moved to her left eye, right before it clips to the hostage-scene with Till in drag and a shootout. This being a reference to an overreaction in post-nazi Germany that allowed the rise of left extremists which then had some horrible outcomes (R.A.F).
Finally one of the very subtle things Till does (which he first did right after you very correctly mentioned how constants are sung through in German), is a twist on the old German national anthem, which used to start with the phrase "Deutschland, Deutschland, über alles, über alles in der Welt."
Basically "Germany, Germany, over everything, over everything in the world.".
This is no longer part of the official anthem since it's too loaded, but it's very well known.
But! He sings "Deutschland, Deutschland, über allen.", he changes alles -> allen, which changes the meaning from everything -> everyone.
So with the scenography during the times he sings it, my own interpretation is that he is blaming Germany for being oppressive towards it's own people (in different ways during different times, but that for me is the "red thread" or common thread/theme throughout)
Rammstein got it on point. We Germans are verry shaned and sorryed about the incredible crimes we have done. The Holcaust, the WW2 and actually nearly the whole german history is the biggest shame for us. It's our duty to make shure that somthing like that will never happen again. That's why somtimes we are very sensitve if somone is political right. Even patriotism is often not welcome. The Democrats would be a conservative (maybe right) party in Germany.
"Germany my hard in flames, want to love and dam you. [...] One can love you and wants to dam you. [...] Germany your love is curse and blessing, Germany I can't give you my love." Just on piont!
Generally, the focus on WWII is not on the battles (won and lost). Usually, schools teach us the atrocities and the horror committed by the National Socialism, the holocaust, the effects on everyday life in Totalitarianism (even your private life is no longer your own business). The victims, the violence, propaganda used, restrictions and suppressions are the main focus. The inhuman and xenophobic ideology is explained. Further topics are on the failures of the democracy before the NS time, why Germany is a Defensive Democracy now and reasons for our complicated political structures.
I did actually find a video that explains it (at least of how I experienced that time in school, however I had history as a subject for my Abitur (general qualification for university entrance), therefore I did learn a lot more than most): th-cam.com/video/-cgoSk_yg6k/w-d-xo.html
When i first saw this masterpiece i saw that Burning Hindenburg in 4:22 and it was so cool and mindblowing🔥🔥🔥🔥
I had no idea the nazis bought some of their horses from Sweden until I worked as a CNA at a nursing home for people with dementia and this one lady sat there during dinner and went on and on about how her father sold horses to Hitler and she had even met him when they delivered these horses, visited his mansion, ate at his table and found him to be nice.
She had forgotten why he was hated and couldn't understand why chaos broke out amongst the other elderly around the table.
So I did learn a lot of things I hadn't known of but it was difficult and sometimes none of us staff knew what to do :/
When I was a conscript in the West German army one of the first lessons in political instruction (call it propaganda or brainwashing) was, under which circumstances a soldier does not have the right, but the duty to disobey an order: In case it violites human rights, the Geneva convention etc. Berlin police cadets have to visit a former concentration camp, to be reminded what role the German police played during the holocaust.
If you visit the "sugar museum" in Berlin, a museum dedicated to the history of sugar production and consumption, you will not only find a very intense introduction to slavery (which Germany was not involved in), bit suddenly you are confronted with a tin can of Zyclon B, the poison gas of the gas chambers: Zyclon B was a by-product of the refinery of sugar.
That's how the holocaust is teached in Germany.
The Romans got their butts kicked in 9 A.D. in the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest. The Germanic warriors decimated 3 entire Roman Legions and their auxiliaries.
this video is about the history of germany, past ,present and future. The black woman sybolises germany through the ages (why black? Because germany isn't what people think it is and because germany is above propaganda). It with the battle of the teuroburg forest (Where germany began) that's the barbarians fighting rome, after that we have the knights and the church with there holy wars and the great plague that killed so many while the church took peoples money. We have the decline of the golden 20s and the class fights, nazi germany, the burning of books that was done by the nazis so that future germans wouldn't know there was anything before them, the DDR oppression and it's bleeding of the country, the RAF terror that shocked the nation, the modern violent demonstrations with nazis and ANTIFA fighting the state while the state itself if build on violence and oppression with it's police and deciding what's good for everyone. Last but not least we see the possible future of germany and the hope of a peaceful future even though germany's history was constant fighting.
I don't like how they left out WW1 and what happened around that time.
In Germany we are thought about WW2 the same way as you are. It was horrible and should not be repeated... So there is "nothing fancy" about WW2 in german history lessons. It is just like: "Thats our misserable history, it was harsh but deal with it."
"This video is brilliant, awesome, well made, I can feel what they're saying"
**cutting off video 2 minutes before its end**
I am German, so I understand the text and can probably decipher most of the pictures. The text is rather "simple" and has few messages. The video contains much more statements.
Germania is a female figure that symbolizes the former German Empire and in the video stands for Germany and its history. Germania is symbolized in the video by the black woman whose "life story is depicted here. The thick laser beam that can be seen in the scenes (with the Romans, in the knight battle and also in the scene with the spaceship and the spacemen, is the timeline of her life. It begins in the dark forests of Germania.
The first scene with the Romans refers to the lost Varus Battle in the Teuteburg Forest of the Romans around 9 AD, where 3 complete legions and almost 30,000 Romans were slaughtered in 3 days. This is considered the initial spark for the Germanic tribes. The Germanic tribes tortured the survivors bestially to death and left them in the woods. Many years later, a general, Germanicus, searched the site of the battle to bury the dead and recover the legion's eagles, the legion's insignia. He found the dead and buried them.
In the forest, the statues of important people of the German history are shown again and again, presumably to symbolize that their deeds and their lives are still alive in us, through the history of up to 2000 years.
The giant tree with the hanged men and the cutting off of the head alludes to the rite of sacrificing defeated enemies in natural sanctuaries and hanging them from trees. The huge tree probably represents the "Irminsul". This is a sacred giant tree, which in the imagination of the Germanic tribes supported the sky like a column.
Then again the timeline with a battlefield can be seen.
Then comes the first scene with the spacemen who push Germania, who is already dead in this scene, in a floating glass coffin. In the background, the end of the red timeline can be seen once again.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
in germany we say ... NEVER FORGET ... fight fascism and rascism
Im from Germany, started school around 1990, I can tell you we are learning the history totally transparent and for many years about WW2, the whole truth so it can never happen again...
As a german you are very aware and reminded alot of what happnened in ww2 and should never happen again :) Iam 34 my grandfather was born in 1911 and I grew up with a firsthand witness living in my house basically :) An eastern front veteran that was a farmer and then became a sniper on the eastern front.... LOng story but i knew him and he died in 2006 and he was a very very lving person and funny
So, I looked through the comments and not really good one, to your question. Not really answers about the teaching. This will be a longer comment, but I hope you enjoy this novel.
I am born in 1980 in Austria. Oh yes, where the bad leader came from, problem is, not a lot in Germany even know this anymore, because they get hardly taught this as well.
At this time, Hitler tried to come also in the Austrian parliament, only problem was that in Austria Dollfuss from the CS Party, which had the black colour, who was already a dictator. You hardly see two dictator in one country, so Hitler was going do Germany, where he had some friends and became the German pass board and so he could enter the politics easily.
I am also very close connected in another way. My Grandparents mothers side are born 1918 (Grandma) and 1912(Grandpa), My Grandparents fathers side 1907 (Grandfather, he died two years before I was born) and also 1918 (Grandma). My Grandparents mothers side where at this time in Vienna as Hitler had his parade there (Dollfuss was already murdered). At first it was like, OK "lets have a look", but even during this parade they relied one in a Sutton which even energy was among the people, and my grandmother was suddenly told, that she was not allowed to talk to her neighbour anymore (a jewish doctor). She has known his family as a very kind one and they where befriended, so they said goodbye and moved to the west of Austria called Tirol and at this time both where young and full of hope this madness takes over "only the cities and tiger towns", but they miscalculated everything and the hate and ware followed them. Both did not agree at all with this regime, but due to there baby that just got (my aunt was born on the 5th of September 1939, my Grandfather was going at war, but still not 100% for it. Because he was a good chef, he could find a job in the kitchen and there he survived already the first time. That was as allieierts where bombing the area and he could hide himself in a very big bot (he was not the tallest with 1,70 so it worked). He never said it, but I am sure this was the time as he started to make the plans to be a deserter. Meanwhile my Grandmother had to hide again and again with their children in the bunker and she also so the Bombing of the town called Woergl from her kitchen Window. She heard the bombs coming town and sow the "flashes" of the explosions. As war went on more and more, my Grandfather came got catches and should been transported to prison (I say it again, both did not agree with the regime), this was the time as he decided to run away. All happened in Italy and so he was most of the time walking from Italy back to Austria. The Italians helped him always, when soldiers where coming for looking for him, no matter which site. He came back home very exhausted and only a day later the SS was ringing at the doorbell with a warrant which allowed him shooting at sight. They sourced the house but one more time he had luck and they could not find him. Only a few month later the war was over!!
About the other site, my grandfather fathers site is from the former UDSSR, so he came to Austria as a prisoner of the Germans. The first husband of my Grandmother was never found but we think he was killed in WorldWar 2. I have his second name, because it was easier to live in this area, for all in the 1950 as my father was born, because otherwise my second name would be Russian. And right after the war, that was still a problem and so it never got changed. So I have a Grandfather who got visited by the SS and I have the second name of a man who got never found. I should make a movie out of it.
To the teaching, I had already known a lot, but I have to say, where I lived we got bitterly "bombed" with everything at this time, so much that I can't see it anymore. And we got told that we should never forget it, that is why some of us are feeling guilty even today! Don't get me wrong, it should be tough, but due to the direct involvement, and this kind of "bombing" I really can not watch anything about that. And those are only the tip of the iceberg I got told. For anybody who is not believing it, I am sorry, I wrote what I know and I wrote what I heard. I do it with pure heard and I am proud of my Grandfather who refused at the end to continue with this regime, I also understand his hesitation, because as he did it they had three children between 1 and 4 years old. I guess as a father you really think more than once about plans which brings you death.
Sorry for this novel and thanks for taking your time. Also thank you for the Video.
Thank you for sharing
Boston Sonja chimin' in...My daughter's fav subject in school was history so I asked her once why I never saw a history book. She told me she wasn't carrying a 5lb, whitewashed, govt issued book back & forth. She was only in the 7th grade!
I see the Chaoseum shirts in the background 👀... still waiting for mine :))
Yes that is the dark side of German history. To put it simply, the video takes us with it from the perspective of time travelers who determine the fate of Germany. The time travelers are the ones in the astronaut suits. The red laser is the timeline. You look at all the crimes and in the end they find that Germany is not worth saving and everything collapses. The black lady is Germania. It is the constant in every timeline. She represents Germany.
Rammstein videos are always high-end products and yet do not come close to the live experience.
The end credit scene was the piano version of the song "Sonne". Fantastic
I have no idea why you're broke up there. If you were really interested you could have seen how many people worked on this video and also got a fantastic piano solo. A music video ends when a music video ends and not minutes before just because credits can be seen. I would understand if there was a black screen
In Germany or everywhere this video shouldn't be an insult. ;-) Guess there are a lot memorials or ruines of concentration camps around here...
the main difference about how the nazi-era is taught in germany - esp. compared to the US - is that we focus less on the war itself (or the actual different battles within the war), but more on the whole third reich (the events before the war, the political context, the effect on society and so on).
you didn't watch it to the end, but the reaction is good on the video.
Watch more video clips of Ramm, they are very meaningful and interesting
The burning of the books might be something you never heard of. Nazis burned millions of books that had any potential in threatening the reich.
Seriously? Stopping in the outro? Thumbs down...
Hello, iam Julian from Germany.I you wanna understand our hitory please read the lyrics and you will understan our pain
13:19 you NEVER skip Rammstein outros!!
Nice to see a person react but do some homework about the lyrics and meaning before reacting. Some out there just see the video no idea story behind it
I am German born in 66, not a day in school was wasted reminding of 2 WW!
I'm a German American, and it's always been negative as far as everyone else is concerned.
say ? the Outro of this song ... is it the melody of Sonne ? I kinda here it but Im not sure
Rammstein: Paris - Links 2 3 4 (Official Video)
Rammstein y tATu moskau
Rammstein - Stripped (Live Video - 2016) (Depeche Mode Cover)
LINDEMANN - Steh auf (Live in Moscow) (Till Lindemann + Peter Tägtgren. Lindemann is the singer of Rammstein.)
I'm getting Süd Afrikan vibes from this reaction...am I wrong?
WELL Sir
I am 62 years of age so born 1959 german and i do thank you for asking your questions.
When i was 15 i realized that my father was not a heroe, he must have known, actually i am sure he did know about war crimes. His beeing born in 1922 he was in the Hitlerjugend and got brainwashed. No excuse at all.Beeing his only son i dared to ask ...never got any respond, none zero.
So in a way i lost him,which is still hurting me today. But i saw him covered with sweat walking in our appartement, and mom said: leave him alone war is back, so i did.
no excuse at all.
So my father and me did not talk for the following 40 years..THATS what war does guns kill.
I appreciate you sharing that I can only imagine how hard that must of been for you
Tune man Tune love to cruse around in a 68 charger with dis blastin man
if this scene of hanging was thuth, but their "stars" was in few versions.of stars or trinagles in few colours for: political, homosexual, jewish, jehova, immigrant. etc
in this video ony one of the has David Star, wchich means that directors remebers historical thuth
U can't cut the end. It's part of this masterpiece
hello dc ich komme aus deutschland und the ww2 war die dunkelste geschichte die es gab eine schreckliche diktarorische und mödererische naziherrschaft mit den ganzen verbrechen an der menschheit die es jemals gab aus diesem grund hat deutschland eine dunkle geschichte die sehr traurig ist i wish you a yery nice weekend god bless you stay save lg stefan :-) :-) :-)
Ha versucht mal das Wort Eichhörnchen auszusprechen
8:20 I like that question (even tho the subject isn't loved) because I never thought about that, what did they teach you in school about such a tragedy.
Greetings from The Netherlands
There are quite a few videos that answer this question:
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th-cam.com/video/-cgoSk_yg6k/w-d-xo.html
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I can see you were moved.
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You cut it off before the best bit!
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Ich kann es dir sagen. Rammstein sagt die Wahrheit.
Sieh Dir den Rest an. Er GEHÖRT dazu.... 🙂
Shame on you cutting the End off
8:20 "this Video probably raised a lot of Eyebrows" ... a lot? This Scene was in a Promo Trailer (th-cam.com/video/mEG2fabABtY/w-d-xo.html), which was opened for Public one or two Days before the Video and literaly all "Professional Outraged People" react exactly as planned: Quotations like "This is offensive to Jews", "This is glamorizing the Nazis" ... Stuff like this was on the harmless Part of the Comments.
But the Trailer did'nt have Text and the Text is so very very very different. Southafrica can't be that far away: The punchline in this Scene is...
At first in German, to see the Novelity in this Text:
"Überheblich, Überlegen, Übernehmen, Übergeben, Überraschen, Überfallen, Deutschland Deutschland über allen" (Overbearing, Superior, give over, surrender, Surprising, invade, Germany Germany above everyone)
You can see the "Über" in the first Words, which combines it to the "Deutschland Deutschland, ÜBER allen", which ist THE Punchline of the German Anthem of the Nazi Regime. AND the "Über"-Words are very likely in any of the Nazi-Speeches at that time but in this Combination to the Pictures it falls to the exact opposite.
Is it Overbearing to hang People who only have "the wrong" Religion? Is it Superior to do this? Is it glorious that Countrys who are 1/10 of the Size of Germany has to Surrender?
Can anyone be sing proud this Anthem of a Country who did these Things?
So the "Über"- Words are the exact parody of the Anthem-Part and to the Pictures.
But good, that all "Professional Outraged" are spittig hates without knowing of the Context: Rammstein draws a Pawn and Checkmate!
What about a female fronted band from Germany wich has stylistic influences from Korn, Slipknot and In This Moment?
-> Null Positiv
Their highly charismatic, energetic and powerful singer Elli Berlin has a large range from clean over harsh vocals up (or better down) to growls. Her voice is really unique in a very positive way.
A band that is definitely worth to be reacted to 🤘
I love their power ballad „Wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer“ (incl. English caption) which such an intense atmosphere. Ellis voice and charisma is just awesome:
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Anther good start to get to know them is also „Freiheit“ (Freedom), which has English subtitles:
th-cam.com/video/5GaqkD3jJB8/w-d-xo.html
The song "Independenz" is a very good song to experience the range of singer Elli Berlin:
Their song „Friss Dich auf“ is pure heaviness and has a creepy video:
th-cam.com/video/V6CJ0Rq8sZU/w-d-xo.html
Hass” (Hate“ Yes, it is as heavy as you can guess by the title)
I'm just taught it's an injustice
WW2 and the Holocaust is a major topic in school. Many of us visit a concentration camp while in school at least once. We learn that while the younger generation is not responsible for this (how could we?), but we have a moral obligation to make sure that something like this can never ever happen again. There are some tendencies on the far right to belittle our dark past, in the sense that is was only a short time in the long and glorious history of Germany. One politician called the Holocaust 'Vogelschiss' - bird poo (which is annoying if you have it on your car, but nothing really important. You can just wash it away). This video was made after this remark and you can understand it also as a reaction to this remark.
-1 for skipping the outro
Pretty much they explain what their country has done in the past but regardless of it all, they are still pretty much happy to be German. Like yeah, every country has had issues or done terrible stuff. We shouldn't pretend like it didn't happen. Learn and don't repeat those mistakes. Most people are proud to be from whatever country they are from and every country has done something terrible. They don't shy from their mistakes.
Your interpretation is on point. Rammstein really uses a lot of symbols in this song. The real meaning only emerges with the lyrics and the video together. You really have to analyze it more closely and then you will understand the deeper meaning. In this song the Middle Ages, the time of the Romans, the GDR - these historical events are presented in different roles. Of course, the theme of the Nazi era and the persecution of the Jews is also addressed, although its presentation does not differ from the style of the other scenes. A constant in the entire video is a woman who appears as a personified Germany in the different epochs. If you know this woman is representing germany and looking to the video again you will see so much more.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!
Sometimes as a victim, sometimes as a perpetrator. In the text there are also several sections that contradict each other, e.g. "Will love and damn you". Statements like these express Germany's good and bad sides on the one hand. One of the passages like "so young and yet so old". This means that German history began early. But through certain events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the founding of the GDR through which a new era began for Germany. "one can love you and yet hate you!" It is a question of whether you can be proud of your country or not. "Your love is a curse and a blessing. I cannot give you my love." Germany is aware of the good but also dark times and many see the dark times as so extreme that it is difficult to give your country your love and pride. I must have overlooked a few things in the video, but those are the parts that stand out. I was born and raised in Germany myself and feel the same when it comes to being proud of my country.As for the dogs: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog-owner nation. The dog is a firm part of Germany.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.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.he short scene with the dogs and their gas masks = WWI, where in reality animals (messenger dogs & horses) AND soldiers were wearing gas masks, too.The puppies at the end are Leonberger dogs. The Leonbergers nearly went extinct during WWI and WWII.
Definitely one of the best produced music videos ever! It gives you a small view into our German history - the bad parts at least. The 3rd Reich, WW II, the Nazi era and the Holocaust are parts of this history. Nothing to be proud of, no doubt. We are taught about it in school, a lot. And that's important, it's important for us to get to know as much as possible about this German side, to remind us of our past. And to never let this happen again. We shall never forget! The fact that Germania - the personification of Germany throughout the centuries - was represented by a black woman is IN MY OWN opinion a slap into all Neonazis' faces. I hope it was meant this way, at least. Anyways, Rammstein did a great job, didn't they?! Thanks for watching and reacting to this milestone of music video production!