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- čas přidán 3. 10. 2023
- Now that was a history lesson! Rammstein brings us the amazing song "Deutschland" and I am impressed! Watch my reaction to this awesome song and let me know your thoughts in the comments!
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One of the most intelligent reactions to this masterpiece. thank you from Germany!
Till really loves , remembers everytihng and is rooting for Germany !..I'm Russian .
i confirm :))
One of the few people who have reacted to this song who actually understand what's going on, know history well enough, and can read the symbols.
Agreed well done! Best reaction
„Wer hoch steigt der wird tief fallen,
Deutschland, Deutschland über allen“
Jedes Mal Gänsehaut wenn ich die Zeile höre
Traurig aber ist auch, dass die Bedeutung dieser Zeilen mehrheitlich missinterpretiert werden und eine Debatte darüber nicht erwünscht ist und stets in Schubladendenken endet....
Unsere Geschichte ist verdammt alt und muss in ihrer Gesamtheit betrachtet werden, um daraus die richtigen Interpretationen zu treffen. Diese Erkenntnis wird uns in sehr naher Zukunft auf die Füße fallen.... und das betrifft alle auf der Welt. Klingt vielleicht "jetzt" ein wenig Hochnäsig, ist es aber nicht und auch nicht gemeint. Jeder wird es ohnehin bald selbst erfahren, was damit gemeint war :-)
the first reactor that understands the meaning, knows history and is smart enough to combine everything. i have to sub
The last shot when Till says "Deutschland, meine Liebe, Kann ich dir nicht geben" as a crying Holocaust victim is so powerful, and explains in itself why he says that...
This was a very well educated reaction. 👍
This is one of the best videos from Rammstein and at the same time one of the most difficult content to fully understand. You are right, 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 even more details about some of the historical events referenced in Rammstein's video, you may take a look at this content-wise analysis: czcams.com/video/sc-euVL8xQs/video.html
Even for me as a German guy there were some details that I was not aware of, especially the political consequences of the hyper-inflation.
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.
Thank you Sir, this was by far the best-educated reaction I have ever seen since the release of the album. Greetings from Germany!
für eine erste Reaction war das verdammt viel Wissen und sehr viele logisch nachvollzogene Schlüsse, mehr als ich in einem anderen Video das irgendwo gesehen hätte ! Congrats 🙂
Weshalb diese First Reaction Videos mittlerweile einfach nur noch gelogen sind, um Clicks zu generieren.
I'm from Germany (living in Ireland), and I have watched a lot of reaction videos to this song. I'm seriously impressed that you got all the meaning. Most reactions I saw are from the US, and they have no idea what the song is about.
We as dutch people are pretty well informed on germanys history, i feel. this song is really impactful to me. I have the deepest sympathies to our german neighbours as they struggle to love their country because of past events they have no part in
Absolutely.
5:16 finally finally you are the first one that recognize the hindenburg,
No one else has recognized the Hindenburg so far, I've really seen almost all the reaction videos and nobody says anything at this point and I always think to myself that can't be true, how can you not recognize it, especially as an Americans
Maybe because I am not American? ;)
@@VikingReacts Yes, I already noticed that, but it happened in America and I believe that if you had asked the then 30 or 40 year olds 20 years ago whether they had the knowledge, they would definitely have recognized it immediately and it's kind of shocking that today's 30, 40, 50 year old Americans don't recognize that,
@@Mister__Jeyi don’t think they teach about the Hindenburg in school the American school system in general doesn’t teach history accordingly but through a lense of patriotism and self righteousness
I’m so grateful to watch your Reaction because no one has ever broken it down and connected it with the red line…🙆🏻♀️🙌🏽👍🏽. Thank you for sharing your analysis throughout the MV of Germany’s 🇩🇪 History. It’s so intense and explosive but the ending was inspirational to me. Yes 🙌🏽 the pure bred puppies that almost became extinct but they are now cherished. Great analysis. 🙋🏻♀️🎼🇩🇪❤️🔥🙌🏽
The Leonberger breed almost went extinct twice, but are still here thanks to passionate breeders.
Regarding the eyepatch of Germania in the SS uniform, I think there's more to it, than just turning a blind eye to the horrors. At first we see Germania looking away from the hanging (indicating people didn't want to see what the Nazis did to their Jewish neighbors), and the eyepatch over her right eye (indicating being blind on the right eye/auf dem rechten Auge blind sein), then we see Germania looking (at something/the hanging/the horrors, although not shown) with the eyepatch over her left eye, which I think is a reference to Oberst/Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who tried to assassinate Hitler on July 20th, 1944.
Strong interpretation. Never thought of that before
I always wondered about the eyepatch and thought it was just a blunder... But you give a good argument.
I don't think there are blunders in this video. Everything looks very thoughtful.@@ChristophBerg-vi5yr
Im actually suprised by how many who did not understand the eye patch on Germania.
I really like the scene with the church people and the SA hugging next to the fire.
It's not just referring to the church supporting the Nazis in Germany but also (which a lot of people miss) to the witch hunts earlier.
I would say this is one of the most patriotic songs ever, actually, it's almsot like a true love for the country, not some kind of blind admiration thinking the country it's the best at everything, it recognizes how hard it is to enjoy your history, considering what has happened, and has been done in the name of the same country you love
I’m American but my mother is German. This is about Germans complex relationship of being German in context of Germany’s history and how that effects their views of themselves. In my opinion most Germans are proud of being German but they are very careful not to be seen as nationalists. They avoid it at all costs.
Well said.
I actually understand the video with the song to mean that he can't love Germany and wants to hate it, but he still feels connected somehow.
@@ericbrainard4072 Today it's more like we Germans also can't be patriotic even if we want to, cause if we are, we could be seen as nationalists. Back in Time there were so many Germany Flags in Gardens but if you put out a Germany Flag today, it's not a good idea, ppl start talking about you and start seeing you as a nationalist, even if you are clearly not and just want to love your Country
This videoclip is a masterpiece.. definitely...
I love that there are countless theories around Germania's depiction/role in the video, but a main one is "they picked a black lady to piss off conservatives", because yes, that is totally something Rammstein would do^^
Seriously, this is one of the most intelligent and comprehensive reaction I have seen on any channel! You covered so many details.
Best reaction I've seen to this video. Another proof that I was right subscribing to this channel.
If you like the outro-music, it's from Rammstein's instrumental album "Klavier" (German for piano). And yes, it's "Sonne".
Ich finds ultra gut das unser (meiner Meinung nach) Brudervolk sich so gute Gedanken drum macht. Als deutscher, verdammt geniale Reaction. Wenn du mal in Rheinhessen bist, sag bescheid für nen Kaffee xD
i saw a link on a comment to a video about Three arrow (awesome explanation) this here is just educational for people lazy enough for one click :D
The video opens in AD 16, on the ‘barbarian’ side of the lines, the border of the Roman Empire. Roman soldiers creep through the woods in the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The Romans were ambushed by an alliance of Germanic Tribes, led by a chieftain called Arminius (the original Hermann the German). Three legionary standards were captured, a loss symbolic and moral, as well as physical, and decades were spent trying to recover them. Rome never again attempted to take the lands east of the River Rhine, known as Germania.
‘Germania’ refers not just to a place, somewhere partly defined by where it isn’t (Rome) as well as where it is, but also to a national figurehead, traditionally representing the German people. Germania is a strong woman, usually armour-clad and battle-ready. Various symbols appear with her, among them a breastplate with an eagle, a black, red, and gold flag, and a crown. Look out for these in the video - they come up again and again - and the colours of the contemporary flag are there in every scene.
We get our first glimpse of Germania here (played by Ruby Commey), who stands holding Till Lindemann’s severed head. Next, astronauts appear carrying a metal and glass box shaped like a coffin. In the background we see a U-boat - a German submarine, used in World Wars I and II. Then we move to a scene set at a boxing match which takes us to Weimar Germany (1918-1933), a period known for its political instability but also greater cultural liberalism. Here, Germania appears in the cabaret costume of a flapper girl, and the boxers fight with knuckle-dusters as a crowd cheers them on.
We see the former East Germany, complete with busts of Marx and Lenin, the national emblem of East Germany, and a lookalike of the long-serving, insular, and repressive GDR leader Erich Honecker. There’s another astronaut, or rather a cosmonaut: Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space, who flew with the USSR’s space program (and who’s also a character in the 2003 film, Good Bye Lenin!). Medieval monks feast grotesquely on the supine Germania, tearing sauerkraut and sausage from Ruby Commey’s body, prison inmates are beaten by guards dressed in police and military uniforms from different historical periods.
The most obviously shocking scene references the Holocaust and the Nazi period. Four members of the band, in the striped uniforms of camp inmates, wait at the gallows, about to be hanged. They wear the cloth emblems used to identify their ‘crimes’: a pink triangle for homosexual prisoners, a yellow star for Jewish prisoners, a red and yellow star for Jewish political prisoners.
This sequence, teased in an earlier promo video, has already caused controversy. Have Rammstein the right to do this? Do they trivialise the suffering of Holocaust victims? How can they justify using Holocaust imagery to promote their new video? These are important questions that are part of a much bigger debate about the ethics of using the Holocaust in art and media.
Other scenes include the band walking away from a flaming airship, referring to the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster, in which 36 people died. Rats scuttle across the floor when the monks first appear, suggesting the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a legend with origins in the 13th century.
Germania walks towards the camera in a leather jacket, gold jewellery and a string of bullets across her chest, resembling the chariot drawn by four horses (the ‘Quadriga’) on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The band members’ heads are shown as white marble busts, taking us to the 19th century Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, built as German Hall of Fame, its sculpted heads of German worthies on display to this day.
In the prison, hundreds of banknotes fall from above, suggesting the devastating hyperinflation Germany suffered in the 1920s. Nazis burn books, intercut with religious fanatics burning witches. We recognise members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof group), a militant organisation active in the 1970s in West Germany. And in a blink-or-you-miss-it exchange, we are reminded of the much-criticised relationship between the churches and the state during the Third Reich.
Each scene captures in a moment the icons of an era, and the video cuts between them more and more frenetically as it goes on. Events bleed into each other, linked by the presence of the band members and the red laser beam that appears throughout the video, a ‘roter Faden’ (red thread or central theme), connecting each event.
Germany engages with its history in a very particular way. Try to imagine the video about Britain, with Britannia played by Ruby Commey. What would the equivalent events be? Quite a few of the tableaux might be similar - Romans, Crusaders, monks, 18th-century soldiers, collarless shirts and bareknuckle boxing - but would it have the same impact?
There’s no affection, and perhaps not much hope: its pessimistic tone seems to be quite an off-brand message for post-1989 Germany, which wants to acknowledge its past critically, while also looking to its future as a state at the heart of Europe. And actually, while we get a lot of medieval and twentieth-century history, the video’s tour through the past seems to stop in the late 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of East and West Germany. Instead, we jump into the future, where the space-suited band take Germania into the unknown, travelling in that coffin-shaped glass box.
There’s an echo of the video for Sonne, where Snow White is trapped in a glass coffin. In fact, a piano version of Sonne plays over the end credits of Deutschland. This is a useful link for understanding something of what Rammstein is doing here. In Sonne, where the band’s characters free themselves of Snow White (naturally, they’ve been her sex-slaves), only to realise that they have made a mistake and long for her return, the overwhelming feeling of Deutschland seems to be that when it comes to Germania (or Germany): you can’t love her, and you can’t live without her.
Copied from GERMANIA (youtube acc) All belongs to him because its can explain all moments in the Video
The beginning is called „Varusschlacht“ in the past in Germany there were a lot of „volks“ (
I'm afraid Not. The date was explicitly 16, not 9, when the battle was. It was the cleaning-up expedition of Germanicus the Younger...
@@tillposerand the comment above explained what lead to Germanicus‘ campaign
Exceptional reaction my friend! Loved that you didn’t skip the credits and appreciated the classical version of Sonne. We know the boys are unmatched in their music, music videos and live shows. You’ve earned a sub and look forward to shit loads more from the best band on the planet! 🤘🤘
Congratulations, after watching about 20 reaction videos of Deutschland, this one finally nailes it. Very well done.
Best Band today
Most creative
They sure as hell think about what goes into their music and their videos. That’s for sure…
@@VikingReacts 🤘🔥
@@VikingReacts Deutschland Angst Zeit Adieu are pure Masterpieces Dicke Titten too and funny too
If anyone is interested... the lyrics of this this song is basically about germans being proud about their History but also being haunted from the failures that has been made by the country.. so a Love/hate realationship with your heritage... i hope i interpreted it correctly
Zum ersten Mal dass ich interessante Gedankengänge zu einem Video von RAMMSTEIN lese! Liebe Grüße aus dem Nachbarland Deutschland und schöne Weihnachten! 🙂
Throwback to my German Teacher for having us analyse this video😂
Very fun excercise in recognising symbolism etc.
Another great reaction by one of my fav reactors. :)
I'm Hungarian but this song and music video touches me almost always to tears. It's so beautiful and ambivalent. A masterpiece.😊
Danke, ein React-Video mit ❤, Verstand und Wissen.
Greetings from someone who's born also in the area of the Teutoburger Wald (Bielefeld). The Hermanns Denkmal, Externsteine and the Freilichtmuseum Detmold are always a good place to visit.
Bielefeld :). i know it well just as the places you mentioned! Externsteine is my favorite though. I remember going up on those large stones and watch over the water into the surrounding woods. It's lovely there!
So I never comment on CZcams, but I had to. Your reaction is the best one I have seen,and I've seen many. I love that you are educated and picked up on everything. Really shows that you're European/our neighbour!
Grüße aus Deutschland 🤘🏻
Best reaction to this song I've seen, you have great knowledge about history and caught so many details in the song.
It is about the pain and proud to be a German.
Best reaction and interpretation I saw for this song!
This is by far one of my favorite music videos, so poignant. Awesome reaction!
I love reaction videos and yours are the best by far. You are intelligent and comprehend
The scene is indeed the scene of the proelium salte teutoburgiensis, however it is a couple of years later when Germanicus the younger revisited the battlefield 14-16 to avenge the fallen Romans, clear up the battlesite and lay any Roman remains to rest. The battlesite is actually not at the Porta Westfalica, where the bombastic Herrmann-statue stands (actually around Detmold), but a 100 km to the northwest at Kalkriese. The contemporary observers relate scenes of strewn bones, sacrificed humans and bodies hanging from the trees...
This is so important & I know you'll do it justice. I think it needs to be shown in school for like the 15 yo+ folks
I'm going to show it to my 82 year old dad cos he's all about history
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: CZcams 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.
Great reaction as always. I think you pointed out a lot in the video that i havent noticed earlier. So thanks and skål 😉😀
Took me 4 viewings… and a lot of focus :p. Don’t feel bad for that ;)
This is under the TOP 3 reactions I've ever watched! And I watched a lot of them. Very educated, very well done, Sir!
Finally someone who knows what's going on. 🖤❤💛 greetings from germany
Danke für deine Reaktion !! Du hast alles richtig verstanden!!
Excellent reaction and explanations , americans can learn a lot instead of just dumbly saying 'I dont know whats happening' , well done !!
chapeau ! Das war eine der besten und fundiertesten reaktionen die ich zu diesem Lied gefunden habe !
Respekt! Das war mal eine super Analyse. Viele Grüße
Thank you! A realy intelligent reaction! Your are very smart
Best interpretation of the song I've seen so far!!! Great Job,...Signed by a german !
Hey man, might wanna react to "A Warrior's Way" by Evilon😄🤘Folk/Viking Metal right up your alley!💪
Yeah, yeah here you go with my subsciption. Thanx good Sir!
I have to be honest when this one was released I was really irritated by Germania being a black woman. But oh my, after watching the video now kinda over and over again I simply have to say Ruby (Germania) did an awesome outstanding unbelievably great job. She nailed the character she was supposed to act simply perfect. All her posture and gesture is 1000% on point. I am really amazed by her acting and of course (now) have to agree/admit Rammstein called the perfect fit for this.
Also great reaction mate, well deserved sub!
Thx for great reaction and info
The dogs they are holding are Leonberger Puppys...
this dog type nearly got extingt in WW2, cause they were used for warpurpose..
But they are still around today and flourish
Probably the best comprehension of the song and a great reaction. \,,/
15:32 the battle of Teutoburger Wald It was 16 AD, long before the medieval times and the Romans were crushed and you can see them hanging them from the trees at the beginning of the video.
Just for the correct label of the stars: thumbs up
Something German media weren’t able to decipher.
Thank your for helping me understand this powerful song, i enjoyed it immensely!
Very good analysis. I Remember when the first video teasers came out for this song. ( some fools want to push the Band into the Neaonazi scene, but they are far away from that )
but the German Main Stream Press had a new Scandal to sell.
After the full Video released, a very prominent jewish german Journalist called this a "Masterpiece"
And ur right the outro is from "Sonne"
Hailsa my friend, a very warm skol for you as well. I must complement you on your reactions. I definitely appreciate your point of view and knowledge of the German language. Its a language that fascinated since my early years. Seriously, thank you.
This reaction is on point !!!!!!!!
I am a huge fan of ramstien they got Me in to loving heavy metal what a great song
And a great reaction. Thank you😍😍😍
spell it wrong one more time and it shall be you who is going to be fed to the puppies
So sorry for my spelling I have mental health problems autism and learning problems
I love puppies great reaction video 👍👍😍
Wow, that video was beyond uncomfortable in a few places. Your analysis and interpretation and knowledge of the history was monumentally helpful. Thank you!
After watching this video for what felt like the 100th time, I think I found a new meaning for the puppies at the end. I had somehow never understood this part.
In the credits shortly afterwards, you see the puppies as full-grown bloodhounds in front of a special police unit.
Whether this is to be interpreted as a new generation of aggression and obedience or as a kind of hope, negative or positive, is certainly debatable.
I think you might be the first and only reactor who pretty much got all the references correct. I am especially happy that you knew the RAF.
The black skinned girl is the actress „Ruby Commey“ in the credits she is „Germania“ Germania is a goddes she presents Germany in this video i think. She did it wonderful.
One video showing Germany's history.
And yes,it is about Teutoborg Forest.
She is representing Germanica.
Thiose puppies,in my opinion,are Germany giving birth to the Dogs of War.
The outro song is "Sonne".
It's awesome that you get it all.
When it was filmed it was the most expensive video ever made for it's time,costing 6 million US dollars. Paid for by Universal music studios.
Great reaction!!!
In english we might say teutoburg forest. I dint actually think thats what the scene is depicting but thats a very famous roman battle where they got ambushed
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 ........
11:42 this is the outro music for every Rammstein concert
15:09
It's not an "attack", but more of a summary/retrospective. "Meine Liebe kann ich dir nicht geben" means "My love I cannot give you" (yes that's bad grammar), referring to exactly what you said with Germany having THE WORLD'S lowest national pride. Germans typically feel like they cannot/should not be proud of their country/of being German. The video basically says "there was good, there was bad, but due to all the bad I can't love you"
The dog breed is "Leonberger". Which was almost extincted as a "pure breed" during ww2 and close afterwards. Another deep reference in th video. Glad youpicked up the song and its meaning. Rare these days.
Fun fact: The Leonberger breed almost went extinct _twice_ after _both_ World Wars!
13:00 absolutely correct
Hallo. Great reaction! Always looking for good music, smart folk, and fellow Vikings. Subscribed.
Watched many reactions to this song. You are the first who mentioned the color of the flag. Black actress, gold armor and red lighting.. it seems so obvious now, i want to kick myself.
opmerkzaam.
There are a few Rammstein songs I've ot heard must be the recent albums that, I need to get Quarter German myself would love to learn German, loved the Song & The Video, I even loved that they used Du Hast anoher of there songs in the vid along with Sonne my fav Rammstein song well one of many. Also liked the begining at Teutonburg where Arminius decimated the Romans.
Kleine Geschichtsstunde : The group was the RAF Red Army Faction. "Baader Meinhof" And Arminius was prince of the Cherusci. He was the son of the prince and was taken to Rome by the Romans as a child. There he was trained and came to the Germanic campaign as leader of the auxiliary troops. When Romans 9 AD When he wanted to invade Germania, he switched sides and destroyed 3 Roman legions with his Germani tribe. He lured them into the forest and the Romans were unable to take their battle position. That's how they beat the Romans. Regarding Germany, it should be said that the "German Empire" was only formed in 1871 after the battle with France was won. Before that there were tens of small states, duchies, counties, free cities, etc. This only formed in 1870 after the war. Through Bismarck and Emperor Wilhelm 1
1. The victory in the Tentobur Forest is certainly one of the most important stories in German history. You will ask why? Because this legend over time became a symbol of the unity of the Germanic peoples against the common Roman enemy.
This is a plot that German intellectuals turned to again and again during the Thirty Years' War, then the Napoleonic Wars, on the eve of the First World War and, of course, before the Second World War.
2. The main character of the video, a dark-skinned girl, is listed in the end credits as “Germany.” This is a collective image of a modern country with a truly complex, one might even say “black” history.
3. We see the Crystal Coffin, a famous plot of Russian, German, Italian and even Arabic folklore. This coffin is carried earlier past a spaceship stylized as the legendary German submarine U-boot.
4. Germany appears before us again, having gone through the First World War, crippled and strangled by the golden collar of the peace treaty, which literally “chopped off” its legs, leaving the country confined to a good-quality wheelchair.
5. Now we see a fist fighting arena. This kind of fight without boxing gloves was incredibly popular in the early twenties in Germany. The two fighters symbolize the clash between the two central political forces in Germany that emerged from the 1018 revolution, the Communists and the Nazis.
6. The flaming structures in front of which the musicians walk remind us of the tragedy that occurred in 1937, when the Hindeburg airship, the largest airship in the world, built in Nazi Germany, caught fire and crashed to the ground at Lakehurst Air Force Base in Manchester Township.
7. The medieval church openly feasts on the body of Germany, hiding suffering people whose mouths are muzzled by church law under a snow-white tablecloth.
8. Prison is a symbol of defeat, occupation after defeat in World War II. The bills flying from the ceiling symbolize the American Marshall Plan of 1947, the main idea of which was significant cash subsidies aimed at restoring European countries.
9. The V-2 rocket taking off symbolizes the technological progress of the Nazis, literally built on the bones of concentration camp prisoners.
10. The group members, who themselves ended up on the gallows, play not only victims of concentration camps (from left to right: homosexual, Jew, political Jew, communist), but also ordinary residents of Germany, around whose necks the noose of Nazism was tied. Germany's eyes are glowing red at this moment. She is so obsessed with her terrible ideas that she comes close to the Devil.
11. No one escaped one of the most striking images of the video clip - Ulrike Meinhof, a very eccentric person. This talented journalist became a co-organizer of the Red Army Faction, the most brutal terrorist group that staged a series of armed attacks, bombings and robberies in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin.
12. The purifying fire of the Church burns books banned in the Third Reich as easily as it once burned people during the Inquisition. The embrace of a priest and a Nazi symbolizes the concordat concluded between the Vatican and the Third Reich in 1933. According to this agreement, the church retained some freedom, but was obliged to completely withdraw from the political game.
13. Time passes, Germany becomes united again. It would seem that now her life should improve, but even now, shrouded in glamorous gloss, she continues to suffer from internal contradictions.
14. Germany is delivered by a cardinal, but instead of the long-awaited savior, she gives birth to hairy black puppies. Pay attention to the breed of puppies. These are Leonbergers. The breed was practically destroyed in both world wars. After the First World War, only five dogs survived, after the Second - eight, but each time the population was restored. This is a kind of German phoenix. The symbol can be interpreted as the persistent survival of a pure breed, no matter what.
15. The sinless soul of Germany is crucified and dies, tormented by splits, wars and its own migration policy. Germany's body lies in a crystal coffin, which is heading straight into outer space.
16. Finally, after the video, the melody of the song “Sonne” plays. This song is about how people in the darkness wait for the sun, and it rises again, illuminating the world with its rays. In this context, the song “Sonne” is about a new rebirth, which, like the sunrise, will certainly come.
В Этом видео показано, как в разные эпохи вплоть до холокоста и современной Германии разные правители съедали Германию и каждый по своему, а то, что внизу стола, это те, кому достаются крошки с элитного стола… это в кратце… так что стоит разобрать его бро! 😉🤘🏻 Тил Вальхалла!
Excellent reaction, loved that you picked up so many references and has such knowledge!
@VikingReacts I can assure you, you're not even close to comprehend how specific the historical references really are.
For example: The brass knuckle fight refers to 14. February 1929 in Munich. On that day, Josephine Baker was prohibited from performing as an exotic dancer. That's the reason the black woman wears this dress during a beer hall brawl. The 3 brass knuckles represent the 3 political coalitions of that time: Antifaschistische Aktion, Eiserne Front and NSDAP.
6:51 Inflation was right, but at that time there were also legal guidelines regarding prisoners and laws in Germany, but they had not yet been implemented in terms of values, but I'm not entirely into it either, but it definitely still has a component of prisons and prison sentences and punishments.
i was wrong, THIS is this the best reaction to this song ! 🤘
I read a wonderful sentence about it in another video.
Teacher: You can't explain German history in 15 minutes...
Rammstein: We'll do it in 9 minutes!
3:42 absolutely correctly and perfect pronounciation
Absolutely amazing 💜💜💜💜
Teutoburger Wald? Hey, Not far away from my home! 😉👍
A very good analysis. I suspect that many, if not most, of those who grew up in Germany do not recognize or understand many symbols. For example, I myself didn't attribute any meaning to the eye patch.
A very thoughtfull reaction ❤
It’s a love for history and my own past in Germany. That helps ;)
Das macht Sinn 😅😉 My German / Dutch friend 🤟
So glad to see that you also sas the many pointers but after many views I think you had a better than most. The song as far I understsnd is about yes you can both love but hate your country at the same time.
Nice to see that you noticed the different patches at the hanging.. I had to google it .
I think it will be hard for you to make a top pick between Deutchland Zeit an Adieu from their latest songs, but I dare you😂
Wow! You are actually the first one that recognized the different Stars on the Band member's Jackets! 😮 Nice!😊
"Meine Liebe kann ich dir nicht geben.", "My love I just can't give you." - The single most true and important sentence in the entire lyrics. 😳
8:43 "Germany just watching, 'turning a blind eye' to the atrocities committed against innocent people all the while appearing as if the entire people of the country were fully fledged Nazis, symbolised by Germania wearing the SS (you had to be a party member, ergo declared Nazi, to get in) uniform, the neck stabiliser that they were forced to watch and couldn't do anything; not even looking away." 🤔
There is a saying: Detmold has the statue (of Arminius or Herman as he was later called in Germany) and Kalkriese has the battlefield :-) Because overwhelming archilogical evidence made it clear, that the batlle was not in the Teuteburger Forrest, but in the swampy lowlands in soth west Lower Saxony.
But the beginning of the video is not referencing the battle of Arminius, because that was 9 AD and the video shows the year 16 AD. That was the end of the revenge campaign of Germanicus to punish the German tribes. He was successful against a new coalition of German tribes, but he was called to Rome anyway, because he began to become to famous. There had been no other try to conquer Germania Magna.
How do you know it’s the year 16 AD? The information would help setting the video furthermore into context
@@malena5026 Because it is shown in the video at the beginning: Germania Magna 16 AD
It’s important to notice that INITIALLY “Deutschland über…s“ means the unity of all German historical regions like Saxony and Bavaria is more important than everything else. More important than smaller interests.
But it’s got used for what you said, it’s true.
The author Mister Fallersleben meant unity.
Please correct me in detail dear commenters, but the core is right.
Yeah that is what I in Switzerland learned too. Also the 1. Verse contained claims on territories which aren't part of modern germany, which also isn't helping with the misinterpretation. ("Von der Maas bis an die Memel, Von der Etsch bis an den Belt").
Thank you for this great reaction!
Greetings from a fellow Teuteburg Forest bred. :D
8:27 Here you can not only see the very well-known yellow Jewish stars of that time, but also Oliver Riedel's bass player who is on the far left, who has a pink sign that was given to homosexuals back then.
Great reaction. I love it when people have at least some knowledge of the background.
Loving history and having lived in Germany helps ;)
@@VikingReacts how long did you live in germany? I think you said near Teuteburgerwald?
@@Nem01 13 years and yes… small city called bc Blomberg
Before this year of reunification, Germany consisted of countless small small states and people identified themselves primarily as Prussians, Hesse, Saxony etc. etc. etc. Also Germans as a kind of unifying second identity. The area and the landscape in which the Germans live, and the Germans themselves as a people... are thousands of years old. But it was only recently, in 1871, that there was a united Germany as a single state. Germany as a united so is very young ... and at the same time thousands of years old. The battle in the Teutoburg Forest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike). This struggle is of absolute importance for German history. The hanged corpses in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, cruelly sacrificed to the Germanic gods... and some of them were nailed to the trees. The Battle of Varus (Teutoburg) took place as early as 9 AD. In 16 AD, the vengeance campaigns of the Emperor Germanicus took place. Therefore, here we see the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they observe how their dead comrades hang in the trees or have their heads cut off (to nail them to the trees). In reality, the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army, which were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed on the trees in various ways. Slaves were freed for 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 battle scene date back to the years of the First and First World Wars. From the workers of the working class in the First World War and the roaring 20s. In World War II, years later, this large bushy mustache had already gone out of fashion.
The falling banknotes in prison are not about corruption. This scene is about the hyperinflation of the 1920s, which took away Germans' savings, leaving them in deep poverty and despair. At that time, you had to pay for a loaf of bread with a handcart full of almost worthless banknotes, and it hit the Germans deep in their souls. Especially the poor and simple workers.
The V2 rocket (the first man-made object in space) as a 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 this rocket. This scene in the video could be a depiction of a very specific concentration camp.
It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein. A mixture of a large, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp. The concentration camp prisoners were sown on their chests with various markings for different types of prisoners and their "crimes", as was the case in reality. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the Star of David for Jews, and two of them were marked with the double triangles for Jehovah's Witnesses.
The book burnings of the Nazis and the witch burnings of the church. In the same scene with the book burning, MORE happens. The collaboration of the Church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA man.
The scene with the sign with hammer and compass in the wheat circle is the sign of the GDR (GDR). The most social German state in the East, which existed before German reunification. Therefore, it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene in the concentration camp).
The scene in which Rammstein wields weapons (the pump gun) and takes Germania hostage is about left-wing terrorism in the 1970s. The terrorists were called the RAF (Red Army Faction).
My interpretation of the red scanner-like rays: There are two different types of rays. The massive straight red beam of light rising into the sky AND there were these smaller, thinner "scanner" rays. Aliens (or humans from the future) are scouring the entire history of Germany. Just as some real scientists, for example, scan and excavate ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues.
The massive red beam of light is the red ribbon of time that holds all historical events together. PS: As far as dogs are concerned: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog owner nation.
"But it was only recently, in 1871, that there was a united Germany as a single state." - 1,000 Years of Holy Roman Empire is a joke for you, isn't it?
@@hape3862 No
Ik heb niet alle commentaren gelezen, maar de serie Barbaren (Netflix) gaat over het ontstaan van Duitsland, waar je het over had, Armenius en dat gevecht. Goede serie! En mooie reactie weer! 🍻
best interpreation if ever seen, grats.
Fantastic to see a reaction to this from someone who actually knows some German history. Yes, she is Germania.
"Germans are not proud to be Germans, there are glad to be Germans" 😄And btw, I live in the Teutoburg Forrest now, but used to live almost 10 years in the NL. I love my neighbours!♥
En ik spreek ook nog steds een redelijk Nederlands
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True indeed. But that means that you are close to where I was born and have lived for the forest by 13 years of my life. Blomberg :)
@@VikingReacts Hahaha, I already thought that, because Blomberg used to be a big Netherland Garrison Town. I live just over the hill, in Schieder. The world is a village , isn‘t it? 😃
Indeed it is. We used to go swimming at the "Schieder stausee"! And yes again, my father was indeed stationed there. If you know Blomberg, you should know Phoenix. We used to live next to their main factory at the edge of town. So not amongst the other Dutch people in what was always called "die Siedlung". That helped me with learning German actually. I loved my time there and look back with fond memories. I still intend to show my kids where I grew up so I shall drop by some time soon ;)
You should do. I always love to show my kids stations of my life. But be aware that a lot of changes happen in Blomberg. Phoenix really stretched out big time and nothing really looks like it used to anymore. Hey, and if you are around and in the mood reach out to me and we have a beer together😁🍻@@VikingReacts