Rammstein - Deutschland (BRITS REACTION!!) (WOW!)

[@bobsuisse2]

The video is a masterpiece. Pure art. Same with "Zeit" - another unbelievable production.

[@TheGraphix71]

Du hast so recht!

[@Xentronium]

Let's tripple that with "Angst".

[@erichgrunberg8396]

@@Xentronium Angst ist Wahnsinn!

[@Cyberfriend-il8vv]

Hi, I'm from Germany. A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman as Germania. Germania is the personification of the German nation. It isn't and wasn't a goddess or Joan of Arc. The glass coffin: It is Little Snow White from the Grimm-fairytales....and from their own video "Sonne". Only with black skin and in space. The piano song at the end is the song "Sonne", too. The words "Germania Magna" at the beginning are a Roman name for the area of Germany, that wasn't conquered by the Roman Empire at that time. Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were the Roman conquered areas (Roman provinces) of Germany. The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) means: Germany as a unified state is very young. A unified German nation is only existing from 1871 onwards. Before that year of unification Germany was made of countless, little mini-states and the people identified first and foremost as Prussians, Hessians, Saxons etc, etc, etc. and only in a second line of thought they had a lose sense of being somehow Germans, too, as a kind of unifying second identity. So the area & the landscape where the Germans are living and the Germans themselves as a people...are thousands of years old. But only recently, in 1871, there was a unified Germany as one single state. So Germany as a unified state is very young...and at the same time it is thousands of years old. The battle of the Teutoburg forest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike). That battle is of ABSOLUTE importance for the German history. The hanged bodies in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, who were gruesome sacrificed to the Germanic gods...and were partly nailed to the trees. The Varus-(Teutoburg)-Battle was already in 9 AD. In 16 AD were the vengeance campaigns of commanding field general Germanicus under Emperor Tiberius Augustus. Therefore we see here the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they are watching their dead comrades hanging in the trees or getting their heads chopped off (for nailing them to the trees). In reality the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army in the various ways they were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed at the trees. Slaves were liberated even decades after the battle. After the scenes with the Romans we saw the Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster (the burning Zeppelin in the background). The moustaches and clothing from the fight scene are from WWI and post WWI years. From the working class people in WWI and the roaring 20's. In the WWII years later on this kind of big bushy moustache was already out of fashion. The falling banknotes in the prison are not about corruption. That scene is about the hyper-inflation of the 1920's, that took away the savings of the Germans and left them in deep poverty and desperation. One had to pay a loaf of bread with a handcart full of nearly worthless banknotes back then and it hit the German people deep down inside and in their souls. Especially the poor ones and the simple workers. The V2 rocket (first manmade object in space) as technical triumph of the German spirit...and at the same time the killing of the concentration camp prisoners in the bunker factories below the mountains during the production of that rocket. This scene in the video could be a representation of a very specific concentration camp. It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein mountain. A mixture between a big, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp. The concentration camp inmates had several different markings for different kinds of convicts and their "crimes" sown to their chests, like it was in reality, too. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the star of David for Jews and two of them were marked with the double-triangles for Jehovas Whitnesses. The book burnings of the Nazis and the burning of the witches of the church. In the same scene with the book burning there is EVEN MORE going on. The cooperation of the church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA-man. The scene with the sign with the Hammer and a pair of compasses in a circle of wheat is the sign of the GDR (DDR). The socialst German state in the east that existed before the German reunification. Therefore it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene at the concentration camp). The scene with Rammstein wielding guns (the pumpgun) and taking Germania hostage was about leftwing terrorism of the 1970's. The terrorists were called the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion). My interpretation of the red scanner-like beams: There are two different kinds of beams. The massive straight red light beam that goes up into the heavens AND there were those smaller, thinner "scanner" beams. Aliens (or humans from the future) are scanning the whole German history. Like some real scientists are scanning and excarvating ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues, for example. The massive red light beam is the red ribbon of time that ties together all the historical events. PS: As for the dogs: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog-owner nation. The dog is a firm part of Germany. PPS: They didn't eat the body of the woman and her inner organs, even if it really looked that way. They were eating the national dish of Germany, that was put on the body of the black woman: Sauerkraut, Kassler & sausages. In my opinion it symbolizes the church eating itself fat on the goods and values and food of Germany during the simple people (farmers, simple workers etc) lived a long time in a kind of hell of poverty and serfdom (the red fetish area below the table with Germania on it). But that eating scene could indeed have a double meaning. It could represent the 30 years war, that was fought for religious reasons and depopulated large areas of Germany. It forced the people to commit canibalism because nobody was there anymore to produce food. Except the fat, wealthy people of the church, of course. They were still able to eat enough. Only the simple people at the bottom (farmers etc) died from hunger and had to fight and die in that war. The 30 years war was the biggest catastrophe in Germany until WWI happened. PPPS: The short scene with the dogs and their gas masks = WWI, where in reality animals (messenger dogs & horses) AND soldiers were wearing gas masks, too. PPPPS: The puppies at the end are Leonberger dogs. The Leonbergers nearly went extinct during WWI and WWII. PPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet. Till sings the famous, often misinterpreted, line of the "Deutschlandlied" (Song of the Germans), that is not forbidden in Germany but simply isn't sung anymore in our modern national anthem. Till sings in his version the line "Deutschland über allen" (Germany above everybody) What is a BIG change to the real line in the orginal Deutschlandlied-song. In the original Deutschlandlied song it is written as "Deutschland über alles" (Germany above everything). The real, whole line of that old Deutschlandlied goes "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles. Über alles in der Welt" (Germany, Germany above everything. Above everything in the world). This line is often misinterpreted by many people as chauvinism and as a looking down upon all other countries on this planet. But that is wrong and not many people know about that in Germany and elsewhere. The writer of that famous line didn't meant it in a chauvinistic way. When that song was written, Germany was divided into umphteenth mini-states, what made Germany relative powerless and defenseless. Therefore the task of German unification was the goal above any other goal for all Germans (at least the writer of the song meant it that way). So the main goal for all Germans had to be the united Germany. The goal of "(united) Germany above everything else". That was, how that line was meant by the writer of the song. The line isn't forbidden, like many people wrongly think. It's simply not sung anymore and not part of the official anthem of modern Germany anymore. This has NOT its reason in the seemingly chauvinist meaning of "Deutschland über alles", like many people wrongly think. This whole stanza of the Deutschlandlied isn't sung anymore, because in other parts of the stanza are borders and landscapes mentioned, that aren't German borders and landscapes anymore. We want to live in peace with the people and countries, who are now living in those former German lands and therefore we don't sing about those old borders and landscapes anymore. It has nothing to do with the "Deutschland über alles" line in that stanza, like many people wrongly are thinking. 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 😄

[@BritPopsReact]

@Cyberfriend 1969 Wow, now that was a full on explanation of every tiny detail. We would have had to watch that a vast amount of times to pick up on a lot of those details. Thanks very much for posting it. All the best

[@Alex-tc9io]

AMAZING COMMENT THANK YOU FOR THIS ❤

[@stampcollector74]

2000 years of history in a single video ... good job Rammstein.

[@Basusu1166]

It's about the spiritual duality that one feels as a German (if one has a bit of education and a brain) throughout one's entire life. History is of great importance to us Germans and we have to decide how we feel about this history. Simple patriotism is not possible for us. Greetings from Germany.

[@liaspooked4980]

Well put! Its all about being unale to completely love your own country because of its bloody and dark history. I do think its healthy to have this outlook and a certain level of bitterness for your own country, though. All countries (as far as I know) have a dark history, even if you can debatte which ones have it worse than others. I think that a lot of people end up forgetting that fact (people who are radical nationalists). Of course germans specifically have to confront with their dark past all the time, mostly because the entire world kinda forces them to not forget. I dont think thats a bad thing, mind you - germany should not forget. But neither should the british, for example, forget about their imperialist past. Darkness is a part of humanity, and we constantly have to keep an eye on ourselves and learn from history in order to prevent that darkness from taking over again and again.

[@hendrixxxm637]

​@@liaspooked4980unfortunately we are not able to learn from history. But the history teaches us this central point. All ends in GOETTERDAEMMERUNG‼️

[@GeNTooFReaK]

I'm not sure if it's probably even worse than that. I just not only have this spiritual duality with being German, but also with being East-German, too. And it haunts me for more than 20 years already (since my teenage years where I learned about all of it) and I'm sure it will keep my mind busy till my last breath.

[@ZhuRan1239]

This is one of those songs that hit and hit hard with a lot of people. For me personally: My mother's family left Germany in the mid to late 1800s and landed in the States and survived all the discrimination for years in both world war I and II, they'd been here for decades but still endured hatred for things their cousins or distant relatives had been doing. Specifically my family comes from the Bosch's of Stuttgart (tool and mechanical company) and the head of the family during WWII did everything he could to help the Jews and tried before hand to prevent a war and vehemently went against Hitler to the best of his ability. Here I came in the 1990s and growing up - I am very German looking, with German, Swiss German and Norwegian heritage with high percentages of DNA. I grew up in the southern US being called a Nazi as well as a racist southerner essentially for my looks. It's that same type of thing as the song, I have a lot of pride in where I come from and my family, culture and overall heritage but it's almost at times a love and hate relationship. Southern culture has so much love in it but it's overshadowed by the civil war the same with Germany and WWII. The saddest part to me about German history is the fact that they had been prevented for centuries to ever unify into a single German state by all of the powerful countries around them - keeping them in smaller nation states and once they finally were able to do it they almost immediately overcompensated and were just destroyed from the inside out possibly permanently from ever being able to have their own national or ethnic pride. Politicians in Germany recently have even done everything they can do to literally state that "there is no such thing a German identity or German culture". So many centuries of history and cultural development ruined by a small man with an inferiority complex. I can only hope sometime in the near future that Germans will be able to forgive their present selves of any sins and evils that happened from essentially that one generation of people in their thousands of years of history. I've been lucky enough at the very least, if you'll forgive my very American stereotype of talking about "muh heritage" to grow up as a mutt. My father's side being scotch Irish and Swiss and my mother's side being Norwegian, German with a bit of Briton and French. From an early age I became fascinated with the cultures and languages of my ancestors. I always embraced those cultures but I've always kept it in my head - the same with the evils of my own American ancestors - that their evils and their sins were just that - theirs. I've never understood the taking literally of the biblical saying code and thinking of "the sins of the father are visited upon the children." I can acknowledge the goods and bads of the past of my family and the cultures of the people they came from without feeling any guilt myself for what they did...the same with cultures and people's outside of my DNA...this could be because I'm a historian and archaeology nerd though. I think whether Germans accept the song or not that it in and of itself is a very important piece of art and representation of ones understanding of the past and the sad, almost Shakespearean history. It should be lauded as a national iconic artwork for years to come. (Ironically)

[@michaelmiller6924]

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 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 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 falling banknotes in the prison are not about corruption. That scene is about the hyper-inflation of the 1920's, that took away the savings of the Germans and left them in deep poverty and desperation. One had to pay a loaf of bread with a handcart full of nearly worthless banknotes back then and it hit the German people deep down inside and in their souls. Especially the poor ones and the simple workers. The V2 rocket (first manmade object in space) as technical triumph of the German spirit...and at the same time the killing of the concentration camp prisoners in the bunker factories below the mountains during the production of that rocket. This scene in the video could be a representation of a very specific concentration camp. It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein mountain. A mixture between a big, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp. The concentration camp inmates had several different markings for different kinds of convicts and their "crimes" sown to their chests, like it was in reality, too. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the star of David for Jews and two of them were marked with the double-triangles for Jehovas Whitnesses. The book burnings of the Nazis and the burning of the witches of the church. In the same scene with the book burning there is EVEN MORE going on. The cooperation of the church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA-man. The scene with the sign with the Hammer and a pair of compasses in a circle of wheat is the sign of the GDR (DDR). The socialst German state in the east that existed before the German reunification. Therefore it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene at the concentration camp). The scene with Rammstein wielding guns (the pumpgun) and taking Germania hostage was about leftwing terrorism of the 1970's. The terrorists were called the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion). My interpretation of the red scanner-like beams: There are two different kinds of beams. The massive straight red light beam that goes up into the heavens AND there were those smaller, thinner "scanner" beams. Aliens (or humans from the future) are scanning the whole German history. Like some real scientists are scanning and excarvating ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues, for example. The massive red light beam is the red ribbon of time that ties together all the historical events. PS: As for the dogs: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog-owner nation. The dog is a firm part of Germany. PPS: They didn't eat the body of the woman and her inner organs, even if it really looked that way. They were eating the national dish of Germany, that was put on the body of the black woman: Sauerkraut, Kassler & sausages. In my opinion it symbolizes the church eating itself fat on the goods and values and food of Germany during the simple people (farmers, simple workers etc) lived a long time in a kind of hell of poverty and serfdom (the red fetish area below the table with Germania on it). But that eating scene could indeed have a double meaning. It could represent the 30 years war, that was fought for religious reasons and depopulated large areas of Germany. It forced the people to commit canibalism because nobody was there anymore to produce food. Except the fat, wealthy people of the church, of course. They were still able to eat enough. Only the simple people at the bottom (farmers etc) died from hunger and had to fight and die in that war. The 30 years war was the biggest catastrophe in Germany until WWI happened. PPPS: The short scene with the dogs and their gas masks = WWI, where in reality animals (messenger dogs & horses) AND soldiers were wearing gas masks, too. PPPPS: The puppies at the end are Leonberger dogs. The Leonbergers nearly went extinct during WWI and WWII. PPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet. Till sings the famous, often misinterpreted, line of the "Deutschlandlied" (Song of the Germans), that is not forbidden in Germany but simply isn't sung anymore in our modern national anthem. Till sings in his version the line "Deutschland über allen" (Germany above everybody) What is a BIG change to the real line in the orginal Deutschlandlied-song. In the original Deutschlandlied song it is written as "Deutschland über alles" (Germany above everything). The real, whole line of that old Deutschlandlied goes "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles. Über alles in der Welt" (Germany, Germany above everything. Above everything in the world). This line is often misinterpreted by many people as chauvinism and as a looking down upon all other countries on this planet. But that is wrong and not many people know about that in Germany and elsewhere. The writer of that famous line didn't meant it in a chauvinistic way. When that song was written, Germany was divided into umphteeth 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

[@sytax1]

if one country have learned from the past then it was germany and its ppl. so now what you expect ? a germany that is powering up again ? please, think a bit more global and not in country´s anymore. germany has already changed his mindset to a global thinking.... unfortunalety ... we are alone with that. think about .....

[@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl]

@@michaelmiller6924 Oh man you really put in a lot of effort. Me, a German too can sign what you said. Only one little thing I have to say about the Deutschlandlied. It was a mock song, bc of the uprising nationalism in Germany long before WWI, mostly by nationalistic Studentenbūnde (Wartburgtreffen).

[@Ben-lh7jg]

I can relate. I'm American and my ancestors came here in the 1700s but I'm about 75% German ancestry and 25% British/Irish. I grew up in a big city where most of classmates were non-white. I am tall, blonde hair, blue eyes and have a very german last name. Growing up people would say things to be like "you look like a nazi" or "hitler would have really liked you" so I tried to deny my German heritage and tell people I was Swedish. I got the privilege to travel to Germany years ago and it was amazing. The people were very welcoming even though I can only speak English they were very hospital to me. I happened to be there during the world cup and there was a strong sense of repressed patriotism, like Germans had a lot of built up energy of being proud to be German since you don't see many Germany flags in Germany like you see US flags in America but there were many during the World Cup and a strong sense of pride that doesnt usually appear because of past guilt.

[@xyz1106]

Thanx for your comment. Loved it. Greetings from Germany.

[@bernhardlist9359]

I speak German as my native language and honestly this is a very critical view of the rise in history. some people might be confused but it is a masterpiece video and music and we need to be kicked out of our everyday lethargy. Great I love this history lesson and suggest to get the translation and the history fakts from the battle at the Teutoburger Forest where Arminius beat the Romans which many consider the birth of Germany. Btw. the black Lady symbolizes „GERMANIA“ a goddess (which in her native form was white and blond) but this is Rammsteins way of stirring up the people. 😁 I love it.

[@wWvwvV]

Varus was the commander of the Roman legions. It was Arminius and the united forces of German tribes who beat Varus.

[@bernhardlist9359]

@@wWvwvV absolutely correct, typed too fast corrected it now, thanks

[@xorrynhexblade9486]

What little German I know, combined with the visuals of the music video always makes me cry - the conflict of wanting to love one's country, to be proud of its accomplishments, but also horrified and repulsed by the atrocities it has perpetrated against not only other nations but against its own people...

[@Reichenhaller1977]

Und wenn Du denkst, es geht nicht mehr, kommt Rammstein und sagt "halt mal schnell mein Bier" Egal was Sie machen, es sind Meisterwerke, und mit dem neuen Album "Zeit" haben Sie noch einen drauf gesetzt. Leider geil

[@mr.pac-man386]

Das ein Lied über die deutsche Geschichte und ihre Fehler, in Deutschland etwas unbeliebt weil es unsere Fehler der Geschichte zeigt, ich liebe es

[@michaelfinck7487]

The whole Video will understand only Historians and Germans and these people also have to watch the video several times. The song is about the ambivalent relationship of Rammstein and many Germans to their country, because of the violent and cruel history with extensive human crimes ("red line of violence through german history"), especially in recent history. Therefore the video features various events from German history, including Roman times, the Middle Ages, witch hunting and burning, Protestant Reformation, the November Revolution, the "Golden Twenties" and hyperinflation, Nazi book burnings, the Hindenburg disaster, the First and Second World Wars, the Holocaust, the Weimar Republic, the Red Army Fraction (violent anti-capitalist terror alliance of young people and students against Nazis in high state and economy positions in post-war Germany), and the division of the country into West and East Germany including the Uprising June 17 in East Germany. The black woman represents Germany and one of the Colors of the German flags, sometimes as a victim, but mostly as a perpetrator. With her black skin she is also a provocation to all stupid racists A lot of people do not understand the scenes with the dogs. This breed of dogs are not German Shepards, but Leonberger. This breed of dog narrowly escaped extinction during the First and also Second World Wars and is symbolic of the German people, whose existence was also strongly threatened in those wars (Morgenthau-Plan) - both now have a second existential chance, just like the new German democratic constitution, which in future must be protected as strongly as if it were under quarantine (Judges in red robes, Rammstein members in protective suits with the dogs) The Holocaust was for this reason the greatest human crime because it was the first industrially organized mass murder in human history, by a country that was culturally at its highest point at this time and called itself the country of poets and thinkers. But it is precisely the high cultural and scientific level of Germany that unfortunately caused others to be viewed as subhuman who can be killed without pity, just like animals. Seeing other people as inferior has always brought a lot of suffering to people Rammstein is one of the most famous metal bands and living legends with the same line-up for 25 years. They are a german band and are considered the best live band in the world, especially when it comes to showmenship, pyro and fire. Above all, Rammstein uses pyro quite differently than all other bands. Rammstein's music is a mixture of techno (electronic music) and metal (= industrial metal). Rammstein concerts are a life time experience that you will never forget. Their videos are art but also often controversial. Rammstein also refers to classical German literature, e.g. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's. Several of their songs are related to controversial and taboo subjects such as sadomasochism, homosexuality, intersexuality, incest, pedophilia, necrophilia, cannibalism, pyromania, religion and sexual violence. Also several of their songs are allegedly inspired by real-life events or politics. Rammstein lyrics are very deep and are also often used in school and universities around the world to learn German. There are people who learn German only because of Rammstein. Rammstein fans are considered to be the craziest and most fanatical fans in the world. In concerts from the hardcore fans all over the world it is expected that you can sing along with the German lyrics even if you don't speak German.

[@BritPopsReact]

Thanks Michael, a good breakdown..... we certainly have a soft spot for German electronic music and metal :)

[@michaelfinck7487]

@@BritPopsReactBritish Pop Experts... I hope so :-))))

[@pavelsuvorov5036]

Cool clip.A great band, one of the best of our time.Thank you, friends.Great reaction!🔥👍🇷🇺

[@BritPopsReact]

Thanks for watching!

[@xedo6276]

The German pronunciation of the older fellow (sry, dont have your names sorted out yet) is pretty spot on. That is quite rare. So, hats off to you, mate.

[@lilybee7334]

The lady represents Germany colours black, gold and red as in the flag).

[@mattilindstrom]

An absolute masterpiece from Rammstein! Dig up the atrocities of the past lest we forget. Rammstein has never been known to just skirt controversy, they go in full force. My favorites were the scenes from the Weimar Republic, and the (defining shots) of the concentration camp victims in front of the V2 launch. Terrible times, terrible deeds. But Germany (in the video Germania, Ruby Comey) has been reborn in the modern world such a long time ago (75+ years) I have a hard time imagining it but a stabilizing force in the EU. Owning up to one's history is the first step.

[@michaelmiller6924]

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 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 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 falling banknotes in the prison are not about corruption. That scene is about the hyper-inflation of the 1920's, that took away the savings of the Germans and left them in deep poverty and desperation. One had to pay a loaf of bread with a handcart full of nearly worthless banknotes back then and it hit the German people deep down inside and in their souls. Especially the poor ones and the simple workers. The V2 rocket (first manmade object in space) as technical triumph of the German spirit...and at the same time the killing of the concentration camp prisoners in the bunker factories below the mountains during the production of that rocket. This scene in the video could be a representation of a very specific concentration camp. It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein mountain. A mixture between a big, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp. The concentration camp inmates had several different markings for different kinds of convicts and their "crimes" sown to their chests, like it was in reality, too. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the star of David for Jews and two of them were marked with the double-triangles for Jehovas Whitnesses. The book burnings of the Nazis and the burning of the witches of the church. In the same scene with the book burning there is EVEN MORE going on. The cooperation of the church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA-man. The scene with the sign with the Hammer and a pair of compasses in a circle of wheat is the sign of the GDR (DDR). The socialst German state in the east that existed before the German reunification. Therefore it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene at the concentration camp). The scene with Rammstein wielding guns (the pumpgun) and taking Germania hostage was about leftwing terrorism of the 1970's. The terrorists were called the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion). My interpretation of the red scanner-like beams: There are two different kinds of beams. The massive straight red light beam that goes up into the heavens AND there were those smaller, thinner "scanner" beams. Aliens (or humans from the future) are scanning the whole German history. Like some real scientists are scanning and excarvating ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues, for example. The massive red light beam is the red ribbon of time that ties together all the historical events. PS: As for the dogs: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog-owner nation. The dog is a firm part of Germany. PPS: They didn't eat the body of the woman and her inner organs, even if it really looked that way. They were eating the national dish of Germany, that was put on the body of the black woman: Sauerkraut, Kassler & sausages. In my opinion it symbolizes the church eating itself fat on the goods and values and food of Germany during the simple people (farmers, simple workers etc) lived a long time in a kind of hell of poverty and serfdom (the red fetish area below the table with Germania on it). But that eating scene could indeed have a double meaning. It could represent the 30 years war, that was fought for religious reasons and depopulated large areas of Germany. It forced the people to commit canibalism because nobody was there anymore to produce food. Except the fat, wealthy people of the church, of course. They were still able to eat enough. Only the simple people at the bottom (farmers etc) died from hunger and had to fight and die in that war. The 30 years war was the biggest catastrophe in Germany until WWI happened. PPPS: The short scene with the dogs and their gas masks = WWI, where in reality animals (messenger dogs & horses) AND soldiers were wearing gas masks, too. PPPPS: The puppies at the end are Leonberger dogs. The Leonbergers nearly went extinct during WWI and WWII. PPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet. Till sings the famous, often misinterpreted, line of the "Deutschlandlied" (Song of the Germans), that is not forbidden in Germany but simply isn't sung anymore in our modern national anthem. Till sings in his version the line "Deutschland über allen" (Germany above everybody) What is a BIG change to the real line in the orginal Deutschlandlied-song. In the original Deutschlandlied song it is written as "Deutschland über alles" (Germany above everything). The real, whole line of that old Deutschlandlied goes "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles. Über alles in der Welt" (Germany, Germany above everything. Above everything in the world). This line is often misinterpreted by many people as chauvinism and as a looking down upon all other countries on this planet. But that is wrong and not many people know about that in Germany and elsewhere. The writer of that famous line didn't meant it in a chauvinistic way. When that song was written, Germany was divided into umphteeth 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

[@sonjaleesloth]

The dogs are Leonbergers who fought in both world wars and narrowly went extinct. Heya from Boston Massachusetts. 🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@blade243736]

I love that every ones head is shaking to the beat :D

[@pyrointeam]

I really appreciate you watching the credits too and informing yourself about the backgrounds. Top reaction.

[@happyslave9162]

Pay close attention to Til shedding a tear as he's about be hanged with a V2 in the background (The rockets are persistent throughout all hanging scenes). He sheds a tear bc not only is he about to die, but it won't end with him. I cry to this video every time and that frame is the main reason.

[@Shrike58]

"Is that dogs:" There's a wolf/dog motif all through the video.

[@hermanubis7046]

The woman is a personification of Germania, the video is about the history of Germany. It begins with the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest

[@stefanus1968]

Very well analyzed. You got it.

[@BluefoxII]

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!

[@Geotronic]

Eine Gegenüberstellung der Extreme

[@rokker101]

THE Most EPIC promo video ever ... no band will ever top this

[@wolfgangwalk337]

The synth theme is very much a quote of Anne Clarke's "Our Darkness". And that's maybe the angle under which the film has to be watched and interpreted.

[@Salvoran]

Or "Sleeper in Metropolis".

[@zoewhiteart7676]

One of my faves from Rammstien. You need to check out Zeit as well, plus many others, hehe!

[@richardgoddard37]

They've got a new album out very soon, and have already released a couple of new videos. They are both brilliant of course.

[@ypey1]

EPIC, should be the closing word

[@Peter_Cetera]

Excellent reaction. Goosebumps! A masterpeace!!!

[@tosa2522]

The controversy was not about the song, but how Rammstein promoted the song before its release. A few days before the release, Rammstein showed a short clip (this one 13:56 ) from the video without music. The criticism was that the Holocaust was being misused for advertising purposes.

[@BritPopsReact]

Ahhh good to know... I see... interesting

[@Light_Rider]

@@BritPopsReact Yeah, but that was just a R+ promo honey pot. The critics who were triggered became more silent after the video was out. Well, they had success with it and more free promo.

[@ErikaMenzel-yk6xq]

😂

[@DarkMatterBurrito]

One thing that is interesting, is that Germania, played by Ruby Commey, resurrects the warriors with the Spear of Lazarus, also called the Spear of Destiny or the Spear of Longinus, thought to be the spear that pierced Christ's side. The shot of Germania with the 4 German shepherds is a reference to the statue on top of the Brandenburg Gate.

[@pfelske6800]

Yes, but there are five dogs which is a also reference to the scene at the end of "Mein Teil". Same for the scene where Germania looks like an angel with the band members crawling in front of her.

[@hackbertgrutzkotz7653]

one of the best reactions. its no shame to check wikipedia.

[@BritPopsReact]

Ahh Thanks Hackbert, yes we try to get some understanding even if it's from simple resources :)

[@BastisUniverse]

The Black Woman presemted Germany in the Video.....She got the colors of Germay

[@kingofshit303]

It is Germania as you read in the video. Germania is a personification with changing meaning. In antiquity, when the peoples of Germania appeared as a single entity only from the point of view of the Roman conquerors, they already figuratively represented a "Germania" in the form of a woman as a numen and referred to her by the same name they had assigned to the area. Since the Middle Ages, referring back to the Germania magna of antiquity, she was regarded as the national personification of Germany in the sense of the area of distribution of the German languages.

[@peterrichards7387]

Music track is what I've come to expect from Rammstein however I'm not surprised at all that the video caused controversy, Deutschland has quite a history.

[@BritPopsReact]

@Peter Richards Yes indeed, I think the guys were trying to remind all what had passed to ensure it doesnt happen again.

[@Shrike58]

The first time I watched this video...and I'm a pretty good historian (you'll just have to take my word on that)...my recurrent reaction was, what, you went there! One of the best rock videos ever. Key point; the goddess Germania in this video is a goddess of battle, not a victory goddess; blood for the blood throne.

[@andreasth3r3b3ll3]

In Germany, the day before the new album comes out, they will show three videos, Zeit, Zick Zack and a unknown video in cinemas, the rest of the album illustrated. all in Atmos. But so sad not close to me, so i will have to wait like all the others. Thx for your reaction. And they are nominated for the Berlin Music video awards with Zeit and Ich hasse Kinder.

[@BritPopsReact]

Thanks for the info!

[@aerialarboreal9005]

Its a history lesson... I watched a video break down by a German scholar who explained it all perfectly... Every scene has a meaning...

[@johnsullivan659]

guys did you spot the u boat? and ruby also plays josephine baker

[@TheL4r5]

The Video is about a brief history of germany and the lyrics about the love and hatred to be german.. the woman alway represents germany itself in the video and most of the time wears the colors of the german flag (black, red and gold)

[@lordlockdown64]

Very good tune, love the keyboards and the production was incredible, nice one indeed!

[@BritPopsReact]

@Lord Lockdowns Jukebox I am expecting to see this on your set list soon. Have fun!!

[@lordlockdown64]

@@BritPopsReact Haha you never know :)

[@arnodobler1096]

great reaction Guys "Zeit" is a must see (not for kids)

[@JustaSprigofMint]

If you want an in-depth dissection of this Magnum Opus, watch The Three Arrows' review of the same. SO much history to unpack here. Fascinating stuff.

[@CavHDeu]

Nice you picked why they'd choosen the piano version of Sonne and the slower pace. Please do Zeit & Zick Zack

[@tundiel]

I already commented for this, but just dropping in to throw a like 👍 on the video for ya 😉

[@BritPopsReact]

@EnderOllie 4 Cheers me dears, we appreciate ya poppin in. A new one for you tomorrow Have a good one

[@music2seeconcertphotograph457]

The synth within this song gives me always Ann Clark vibes. And Ann Clark is cult, isn't she?

[@julianton3340]

I agree. Thought about Ann Clark too. ;)

[@svenneu7736]

Ann Clark was the first

[@sonicrolfo]

Yup, it reminded me immediatly to "Our Darkness" around 1984

[@chueysmama2622]

See, where can you get Star Trek, snowflakes and German history WITH an awesome beat? Only here at BPR! I enjoyed this one, Chuey being a Mexican/Englishmen couldn't understand the words but he gave it 4 paws up and is insisting on us learning German now. Can't wait for the next one!

[@BritPopsReact]

@Chuey's Mama That was quite an epic song and video, we had no idea what to expect and we didn't expect that. Rammstein sure know how to grab you attention and with a great beat too. Guten Tag Flauschiger

[@logantawhiti55]

That was great guys, nice 👍 , The Best thing I love about Rammstein is you don't have to understand German to appreciate good music that have so much talent. If you want to see another great song by them try Mein Herzs Brent (official video and then the piano version, back to back ) same song but totally different. awesome one guys.👍❤️🥝🇳🇿

[@BritPopsReact]

@logan tawhiti Hello to you and thank you for the information. We have that suggestion saved and will try and get to it soon. Cheers👍👍

[@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 socialst German state in the east that existed before the German reunification. Therefore it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene at the concentration camp). The scene with Rammstein wielding guns (the pumpgun) and taking Germania hostage was about leftwing terrorism of the 1970's. The terrorists were called the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion). My interpretation of the red scanner-like beams: There are two different kinds of beams. The massive straight red light beam that goes up into the heavens AND there were those smaller, thinner "scanner" beams. Aliens (or humans from the future) are scanning the whole German history. Like some real scientists are scanning and excarvating ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues, for example. The massive red light beam is the red ribbon of time that ties together all the historical events. PS: As for the dogs: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog-owner nation. The dog is a firm part of Germany. PPS: They didn't eat the body of the woman and her inner organs, even if it really looked that way. They were eating the national dish of Germany, that was put on the body of the black woman: Sauerkraut, Kassler & sausages. In my opinion it symbolizes the church eating itself fat on the goods and values and food of Germany during the simple people (farmers, simple workers etc) lived a long time in a kind of hell of poverty and serfdom (the red fetish area below the table with Germania on it). But that eating scene could indeed have a double meaning. It could represent the 30 years war, that was fought for religious reasons and depopulated large areas of Germany. It forced the people to commit canibalism because nobody was there anymore to produce food. Except the fat, wealthy people of the church, of course. They were still able to eat enough. Only the simple people at the bottom (farmers etc) died from hunger and had to fight and die in that war. The 30 years war was the biggest catastrophe in Germany until WWI happened. PPPS: The short scene with the dogs and their gas masks = WWI, where in reality animals (messenger dogs & horses) AND soldiers were wearing gas masks, too. PPPPS: The puppies at the end are Leonberger dogs. The Leonbergers nearly went extinct during WWI and WWII. PPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet. Till sings the famous, often misinterpreted, line of the "Deutschlandlied" (Song of the Germans), that is not forbidden in Germany but simply isn't sung anymore in our modern national anthem. Till sings in his version the line "Deutschland über allen" (Germany above everybody) What is a BIG change to the real line in the orginal Deutschlandlied-song. In the original Deutschlandlied song it is written as "Deutschland über alles" (Germany above everything). The real, whole line of that old Deutschlandlied goes "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles. Über alles in der Welt" (Germany, Germany above everything. Above everything in the world). This line is often misinterpreted by many people as chauvinism and as a looking down upon all other countries on this planet. But that is wrong and not many people know about that in Germany and elsewhere. The writer of that famous line didn't meant it in a chauvinistic way. When that song was written, Germany was divided into umphteenth mini-states, what made Germany relative powerless and defenseless. Therefore the task of German unification was the goal above any other goal for all Germans (at least the writer of the song meant it that way). So the main goal for all Germans had to be the united Germany. The goal of "(united) Germany above everything else". That was, how that line was meant by the writer of the song. The line isn't forbidden, like many people wrongly think. It's simply not sung anymore and not part of the official anthem of modern Germany anymore. This has NOT its reason in the seemingly chauvinist meaning of "Deutschland über alles", like many people wrongly think. This whole stanza of the Deutschlandlied isn't sung anymore, because in other parts of the stanza are borders and landscapes mentioned, that aren't German borders and landscapes anymore. We want to live in peace with the people and countries, who are now living in those former German lands and therefore we don't sing about those old borders and landscapes anymore. It has nothing to do with the "Deutschland über alles" line in that stanza, like many people wrongly are thinking. Finally: The scenes I'm now talking about are pretty dark and low light. The WWII submarine in the submarine bunker during the astronauts are walking by with the glass coffin. I think, the choice of the black woman as main actress was made, because: a) it makes any accusations of racism and fascism against Rammstein useless b) she represents one colour of the German flag and she is wearing the rest of the colours of our German flag as makeup and jewellery and clothes on her body: Black, Red and Gold c) it provokes many people EVEN MORE 😄 Greetings Mega

[@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.

[@BritPopsReact]

Oh my.... what a comment!... thats so informative, you have taken much time to research and really understand the meanings which shows the degree of effort from the band and the production team. Thanks :) I do hope you can share our video with others that share the same passion as you, thanks for watching mega :)

[@megatwingo]

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

[@SilberSands]

I think, this video of Rammstein showed all evil of us in a very honest way. I wonder a bit noone realized the DDR-part.... Greetings from Hamburg in Germany

[@ralfmeyer9086]

The Woman is the Germania.🤘 My tip for you guys. Zeit. It is awesome. Greetings from nothern Germany

[@BritPopsReact]

@Ralf Meyer Hi Ralf, thanks for the suggestion. We will get to that one next. Cheers

[@montanus777]

the synths are an hommage to "anne clark - our darkness".

[@claudiarichter439]

A masterpiece

[@stefanmorgenstern7132]

Thank you for the beautiful response. The song and video are ingenious for me in many ways. One aspect that hasn't been mentioned anywhere yet is that the song's title line is sung in a way that could also be sung by a Nazi band. Slightly bawling. But as everyone knows, Rammstein are anything but right-wing. From that point of view, the song is like a Trojan horse. "Germany" - the title could also come from a right-wing radical band in name and vocals, while the content and message of the song deal with German history and its darkest sides in such a differentiated and critical way to end in the statement "Germany, I can't give you my love." In this way, Rammstein have occupied the name of the title "Germany" in such a way that no right-wing band will ever be able to release an own song named "Deutschland" without the strong dissenting voice of Rammstein resonating. Very clever. Danke Rammstein!

[@MelliundSpike]

Hello from Hamburg again, thats are the German History in ten Minutes 😳👍🏼🤩🤘🏼

[@BritPopsReact]

@Melli&Spike Hello to Hamburg, I also spent time there as I was also in Hohne, Bergen for a while.

[@MelliundSpike]

@@BritPopsReact very cool 👍🏼🤩

[@larryc3860]

JUST WOW is right.......I think we all have a love/hate relationship with our countries' histories......

[@hansbreslau8119]

The clades Lolliana or Lollian disaster was a battle in 16 BCE, when the consul Marcus Lollius was defeated by the Sicambri, Tencteri and Usipetes, Germanic tribes who had crossed the Rhine.[1] This defeat is coupled by the historian Suetonius with the disaster of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

[@mr.pac-man386]

Grüße aus Deutschland 😊

[@thorstenguenther]

I would not call the synth theme Jarre-esque. It much more reminds me of Anne Clark's " Our Darkness", and I feel that that is very fitting and most probably very intentional.

[@108efp]

i think Rammstein went through German history and time but also through their album covers and props. The wings in the end are from "engel", the dogs are from a promo shot....

[@Salvoran]

German Shepards - Schäferhunde Color Set - Black Red Gold .. German Flag

[@holgerschussler9107]

The black woman represents Germania!

[@victorstefanovsky6902]

Watch Zeit, 2022, a masterpiece video! Find one with English subtitles.

[@andreasrademacher5715]

For the longest time I didn't really appreciate Rammstein, because I only looked at it from a musicians perspective and they were mainstream - so, I didn't really get much exposure. And the prophet doesn't really count much in his own country, so, that might have played a part, too. Nowadays I can see, what amazing art they produce. Performance, visuals, music and poetry. What I still don't really understand is, how non native speakers (with some educational background) can really get all the cultural references, hints, depth and word play Til Lindemann just injects everywhere.

[@rainerwahnsinn9585]

But they have changed ,too. From only sexual/violence-provocations to a deeper-deeper-meaning-songs in the same musicstyles as before.

[@andreasrademacher5715]

@Marcin Stępnicki Sure, there is a lot possible. But I'm pretty sure, unless there is a high level of competence of the German language (that even a lot of people with German citizenship don't have), a lot goes missing.

[@rainerwahnsinn9585]

@@andreasrademacher5715 many even don´t understand the song Du hast not well

[@DistortionSociety]

German heavy metal has this villain vibe that I love

[@spirwes64]

For me, Flake is one of the nicest and most down-to-earth musicians.

[@YTKenjide]

The Synth is like "our Darkness" from Anne Clark ...

[@user-gk4xp2jr5k]

Reaction after 3 Years. Respeckt. 🤣🤣🤣

[@BritPopsReact]

@Y We had no idea who there were until a month ago 🤣🤣 Thanks for the comment

[@elainehoward8822]

Hi there, oh brilliant Rammstein. Wow this is epic, amazing intro, great beat and I don’t mind at all that I don’t understand the language. Some of the video is very over 18s , do you know if you have quite young viewers , now that you have seen it, it may merit a parental guidance warning, …. A great upload and reaction 👏👏👏👏👏

[@BritPopsReact]

Thanks Elaine, Yes... your right, next time we will add.... we were unsure on the content so was a surprise to us :)

[@BritPopsReact]

@Elaine Howard HI Elaine, that is a good point, all our videos are designated as not for Younger viewers when we upload them as standard to ensure we don't put out anything offensive for younger viewers. Thanks for checking

[@annaricci4686]

Rammstein ❤❤❤❤❤❤🔥🔝

[@perleperle5441]

Please Rammstein live in Madison Square Garden „Engel“

[@manuelamazzocco3616]

Greatest video ever seen before

[@steph1918]

First time I heard that synth riff in the beginng I thought it was sort of a remake of Anne Clark's 'Our Darkness'.

[@petersteele5181]

2:28 Jean Michel Jarre??...or Anne Clark, our darkness😉

[@begebung]

2:24 Not Jean Michel Jarre - it's Anne Clark Our Darkness

[@emiliajojo5703]

Btw, lots of people claim you can't watch the video with english subtitles.probably I have just a better provider .

[@charles.7447]

Oasis-Supersonic!!!Great intro!!!

[@loltimno]

Lads you *must* do the four new songs from the current album in order.

[@BritPopsReact]

@Tim Neill Cheers Tim, we will give those a look soon,.

[@maxflyers1974]

Rammstein great band metal!!!!

[@carolgaughan7444]

Listen to the album Klavier which is piano renditions of several of Rammstein songs. It's incredibly beautiful.

[@peekaboosue]

Great reaction!! Have you'll reacted to their new songs "Zeit" and "Zick Zack"?

[@BritPopsReact]

Not Yet... more to come though as we enjoy!

[@CaptNondescript]

Please do more Rammstein!!!

[@emiliajojo5703]

People were only upset, because they did clickbait with the trailer, o n l y showing the Mittelbau Dora scene, after the video was released, there was no controversy any more.

[@andersgranstrom7128]

Fine reaction guys! Probably cost a few euro.... Amazing craft, yeah art damnit! "Zeit" is the best video I have ever seen actually! Do check it out!! This one should be 10 points! 🙂

[@BritPopsReact]

@Anders Granström Hi Anders, thank you for the comment and the suggestion. We will give that one a try soon. Cheers 🙂🙂

[@andersgranstrom7128]

@@BritPopsReact Cheers guys! 🙂

[@luiscaldeira4758]

This is the real Germán historie Avé Rammstein!!

[@steveduncan9256]

This is fuckin awesome

[@aexexer627]

10/10 ++++++++ for me...Rammstein is great....👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@spring_in_paris]

Hello guys. You did quite good. Kudos. I'm from Germany so let me give you some thoughts from someone who's born here. First of all, first time I watched the video I was shocked and deeply moved. The song/ video takes a very deep look into our german souls and how most of us feel about our country. It's a love- hate- relationship. The video is loaded with tons of symbols, that as a German you catch onto. Let's start: in the intro you see Germania ( Personification of Germany) during roman/ germanian tribes time. The red Lazer represents the "red thread" of the story/ history. Astronauts from the future bringing Germania in a glass coffin (snow-white) so she can lead through the/her german history. Next you observe the twenties(Weimar Republic).The prison scene representing the rough, violent times especially for the majority of the population struggling to survive. Money raining down/ the great depression. And Germany's first try as a democratic state. In between Germania is dressed in knight's armor awaking her knights/band with the Lazarus spear. Next Germania is pushed in a wheelchair by the band through the Berlin Holocaust Memorial with burning bodies. Next vignette the office scene showing east Germany and west Germany reunited (1989). Then you're being taken back to mideveal times, monks/ church are feasting off of Germania. In most scenes you'll see some church man involved. No coincidence. The concentration camp scene in the background you see V2 rockets ignition. The inmates are wearing different types of stars on their chests and a sign on the gallows reads: no photos. Germania wears an eye-patch first on her left, than on her right eye. Than a quick shot of Germania dressed modern with lots of gold leading german shepherds., representing Germany's wealth. The 70's scene shows the RAF- extremists holding Germania/ Germany hostage. Next vignette is the witch burnings shifting to the book burning. If you have a close look, at minute 4:45 you see a church man holding up a cross hugging a Nazi, symbolising the churches over all position to the horrific events happening during 1933-1945. The birth scene. Germania is giving birth to dogs respectively "Leonberger" a breed preferred by Kings and Queens. The Breed almost went extinct during WW1 and WW2. A cardinal helping (dressed in red) a new Germany being born. At minute 5:50 you see the riots against refugees homes in the 90's in Hoyerswerda. Molotovs are being thrown and a car is being pushed over with the help of a man dressed in Nazi uniform. Than the scenes/ time vignettes start shifting faster and faster, showing how many times, when circumstances becoming to extreme everything is falling apart and Germania ( dressed in knight's) armor is crying. The outro is the piano version of the song "Sonne" which completed how we feel thinking of our past: a sense of sadness. To sum it up. Germany has a long, wild, violent, unique history, because we as a state of today exist only since 1989. Yet the roots go back a very long time. "Young and yet so old" I hope that helped a little to understand the video and with that us Germans. We don't have a strong feeling of patriotism, but a strong sense of unity. It's complicated. With love from Germany 🤘 😎

[@BritPopsReact]

@Eva Libbach Hello and thank you for all the very detailed information, we now have a much better understanding of the song. Thank you very much for posting. All the best

[@spring_in_paris]

@@BritPopsReact I apologise. Message received. Next time I'll keep it brief for you.

[@spring_in_paris]

@@schumifannreins295 It kind of came across like that. Or maybe it caught me on the wrong foot. 🤔

[@Forfex]

lol die nächste die von React Video zu React Video zu Deutschland geht um Ihren gleichen Text immer wieder reinzu kopieren. Echt peinlich.

[@jurgenwerndl1139]

Wow echt super und total schön erklärt.

[@Marschu77]

I love your Reactions. And you have really react to "Blind Guardian - The Bard's Song & Valhalla - Live at Wacken Open Air 2016".

[@Michael_Bonn]

A Blitzkrieg through history!

[@TheKronnos]

i mean no offense, but the mate on the left side (sry im new here) looks like the dude who plays the piano on rammstein :D schade das ihr nicht mehr in der eu seid (sad you are no longer part of the eu :( ) i guess he would really like you :D

[@Sean-qp8yv]

Check out Rammstein - Rammstein, in the live performance, Til is literally on fire, lol. Great showmanship.

[@karlodonnell8935]

This music video is about Germany's history

[@AJM0688]

jean michel jarre intro kkkkkkkkkkk

[@peterweiss123]

PLEASE react to an english analysis of the song! there is so much to cover!

[@SilberSands]

Just before the DDR-part... might be that the fighting expresses the "Ringvereine", could that be...?

[@dieteroffermann3880]

The black Lady is "Germania" the mother of Germany she stays for the hole evolution of Germany!

[@cruusha9866]

While "Star Trek" may have sounded silly, I like to think (it's not confirmed just a suspicion) that in "Angst" the pedestal that Till stands on bears the sign of the Galactic Empire from Star Wars (it looks similar and would fit the theme). The Galactic Empire was a controlling entity that would filter any information given to the public in an effort to keep it blind to the truth, not unlike Rammstein's Portrayal of the Media in "Angst".

[@BMWMRACING]

See the Video Adiue from Rammstein wow

[@user-ti2ko7ex3h]

Meine Frage dazu: Warum gab es für dieses Video keine Grammy Nominierung ? Dieses Video ist ein Meiserwerk in der Qualität und in der Abfolge der nicht sehr glorreichen Historie eines Landes. Welche Nation würde so etwas über sich ergehen lassen? Großbritannien, Frankreich oder gar die Vereinigten Staaten ??? Sicher nicht !!

[@Shrike58]

On a lighter note...I bet these guys with do an impressive version of Z.Z. Tops' "Sharp Dressed Man;" just sayin'.

[@Samcaracha]

Hey, German here. Maybe I can help with some translations since a lot of lines might be understood differently if apoken out fully or halfly, like in "Du hast". Try to explaine any confusion because even in Germany most of it stays to the eye/ear of the audition to make sense of.