Couple Reacts to RAMMSTEIN - Deutschland (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

[@megatwingo]

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

[@megatwingo]

PS: KZbin 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.

[@PhoenixXDuo]

Thank you for all the information :)

[@megatwingo]

@@PhoenixXDuo I'm glad that I was able to help! :)

[@ronshall9425]

I love this reaction! So honest

[@n0wi153]

Great Reaction, keep up with the Rammstein Videos, i Luv it

[@uetzelbuetzel]

Thank you for watching the Outro. Their outros are always amazing.

[@arnodobler1096]

Masterpiece Best Video ever

[@Metal-never-die1220]

Crazy German story that overshadows the positive things about Germany, but the video and lyrics are a masterpiece. The hate / love👍👌🤘😘

[@philmac8201]

brillant and awesome reaction :D keep up the awesome work and reactions :D

[@PhoenixXDuo]

Thank you, glad you like it :)

[@SubwaySweden]

I think most people struggle with what the song was about.... loving your country but be disgusted by a lot of it's history. (just writing something to make the algorithm happy)

[@PhoenixXDuo]

Lol, thank you so much :)

[@GermanEmbassy.]

5:36-5:50 Time of the RAF ter ror in Germany (1970-1998) (emerged from the protests of the West German student movement in 1968 (protest on Vietnam, Nazi-Past, Capitalism) (failed by government 1977) (individual mu rde rs 1977-1998) (self-dissolution notification by FAX 1998) This time in 1977, when Germany was struggling with the terrorists and they were at their peak of violence, is also called the "German Autumn" in Germany. This is what 9/11 is for the Americans, is for Germans "German Autumn". - Something that has burned itself into the collective memory of a nation. After the founding members of the First Generation of German Terr ori sts had been put in jail and the state had been transformed into an all-encompassing police and search apparatus with the help of BKA chief Herold, the limit of te rror was reached in 1977. The Second Group had kidn apped the president of the employers' association, Hans-Martin Schleyer, and mu rder ed his motor pool in Cologne. The government in Bonn (Capital 1949-1991/ since 1991 - Berlin), first and foremost Helmut Schmidt, now addressed the German terr or ists in a televised speech: "You may feel a triumphant sense of power at this moment. -But you should not deceive yourself, te rrori sm has no chance in the long run. For it is not only the will of the state that stands against t erroris m, against terr oris m stands the will of the whole people!" After the Schleyer kid nap ping, a dragnet search was immediately launched 30 kilometres around Cologne and a special commission, "Doctor Schleyer", was set up. The federal government now put all police forces in the Cologne area to work to find Schleyer and free him from the hands of the terr ori sts. In addition to the Schleyer kidnapping, Bonn receives the news that a German airliner with 86 passengers has changed course, has been hija cke d by foreign t erro rists and is circling over the African continent. The te rrori sts demand the release of the founding members of the RAF from prison and their departure to a country of their choice. When the airliner lands in Mogadishu, the leader of the t errori sts issues an ulti mat um to the government in Bonn. Either the founding members are freed or the Lufthansa plane is b low n u p! With the d ea th of Schleyer and 86 passengers in a violent reign, the RAF and its allies had now gone too far. Here they had reached the innermost vulnerability of the German state. The democratic constitutional state with its liberal order, which had been built after 1949, was now being tested. Should the state allow itself to be bla ckm ailed by ter rori sts in order to save hu man liv es? For Helmut Schmidt, the matter was clear: "A state cannot be bla ckm ailed!" The RAF and their acc omplices had now declared "w ar" on the Federal Republic of Germany. The crisis team in Bonn sent word to Mogadishu that the founding members of the RAF would be released and flown out to Mogadishu. In reality, to gain time, Bonn sends the German anti-ter ro rist unit "GSG9" (founded after the 1972 te rro rist attack in germany and not known to the people to exist) to fly to Mogadishu and stor m the plane. After the terr orist s receive the news that the German allies will be released, the GSG9 lands in Mogadishu by day. At night, the task force approaches the plane from behind, gains access to the plane, stor ms it and s ho ots three of the four ter rori sts. Among them the leader. All 86 hos tages are freed. Meanwhile in Bonn: Head of government Schmidt receives the news that the mission was successful and all passengers are alive. A sigh of relief in Bonn. Meanwhile in Stammheim p rison: The founding members receive the news of the fai led operation through the radio. -They all co mmit col lecti ve s uicid e in pri son that night. Wiesbaden the day after: BKA chief Herold is beside himself. With the sui ci de in Stammheim, the Federal Republic has allowed ma rt yrs to be created! (Even if unintentionally) Hans-Martin-Schleyer could not be found after an extensive search. He is mur der ed on the Belgian-French border after the failed Mogadishu operation. French police officers find a car with German licence plates; Hans-Martin-Schleyer's body is fou nd in the bo ot. -Germany is informed. The fu neral service becomes an act of state. After the mu rd er in Stammheim, many members and sym pa thisers of the RAF broke away from the RAF. Until 1998, the Third Generation continued to carry out i ndivi dual m urd ers, also against high gov ernment func tionaries. It dis banded in 1998. Unlike the First, the Second German Republic su rvived. And it set the li mits to l eft-wi ng t e rror. (According to the motto: "Bonn should never become like Weimar"). Even if it cost Schleyer his l if e.

[@rudolfg.7041]

German history 😥😥