Rammstein - Deutschland (Official Video) | METAL MUSIC VIDEO PRODUCERS REACT

[@michaelprice3607]

In my opinion, this is the greatest music video ever made... and nothing else is even close.

[@coldnorthcreative]

ít's really good! Definitely one of the best!

[@KaraokeNig]

Have you ever seen Barbie girl by Aqua ?

[@coldnorthcreative]

@@KaraokeNig That is also a masterpiece, but visually and musically!

[@nr63kish]

You're out of your mind. Not even the best Rammstein music video ever, Links blows this one out of the water, and that was 20 plus years ago.

[@danielabehrens1]

you obviously haven't seen nicky minaj anaconda

[@maikganz9266]

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 @ 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 @ 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 🤘 😎

[@helge.]

„Some thoughts…“… da ist ja die Bibel nur ein Merkzettel!

[@OneThousandHomoDJs]

This is my #1 favorite comment ever.

[@aixmhros]

strange thing, you germans always got strong unity when u r about exinct another country ppl.. greeks px. 1922 Smyrne was funded by germany as state! so united to pay the kill of thousands.. ww2 , war crimes of germanh in greece.. so united to refuse to pay for those crimes.. 2000 greece joinms euro,but you are so united to that ''logistic mistake'' ,and greece is now under the regime that germany creates, UNITED.-

[@helge.]

@@aixmhros you can‘t reject Maiks‘ love, that‘s cruel!

[@aixmhros]

@@helge. i'm pointing the unity.. never unity against depression of others.. times are cruel. not the critic.- billions for armors,not a slice of earth for dark color refugees.. that's some fucked up unity and more cruel than words.. and germans are united to this.. they vote for this.-

[@eco999]

It should have won a Grammy. Seriously, at least one!

[@coldnorthcreative]

We highly agree with this!

[@dendjoya8554]

They are alredy legend. Maybe Grammy needs Rammstein, but Rammstein don't need Grammy

[@alanfoster6589]

Grammys are a provincial award, for those signed to major U.S. labels. Thirty years of Nightwish, and you'd think, maybe, they'd get...nominated? Nah.

[@eco999]

@@alanfoster6589 Yea, I think you nailed it.

[@alexandrorocca7142]

The problem is that this video would probably be rated R since there's violence and gore in almost every scene.

[@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

[@IGotNoJam]

Sehr gute Analyse! Hut ab! 🎩

[@bradleybailey664]

I’m not from Germany this clears up a lot about this song and the history of Germany.

[@michaelmiller6924]

@@bradleybailey664 thank you

[@michaelmiller6924]

@Ольга Васильева Deutschland by Rammstein: An Analysis kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZSQlqiMgZ2rh9U

[@peterpecsenye9792]

respect from Hungary living forever Rammstein

[@isherwood9321]

As I hardly read that in comments about "Deutschland" -the black actress represents Germania - which you can see als the collective soul of germany - in the different scenes she represents the mood and the ideology of germany in that current era. In the prison scene, which is propably in the 20s with hyper inflation, she represents the rising militarism, in the nazi scenes, she represents the nationalism of germany - which is placed extreamly good, as she is blind on the left eye, and only can see with the right one, also the stiff neck shows that she cannot get other perspectives. In the roman scene in the beginning, she cuts off that roman soldiers head - which is imho representing the defeat of the roman troups at the varus battle - but later kissing it, as the germanic people started trading with the romans. Also showing her as an east german officer obviously partying represents the east german feeling. Most iconic is in my opinion the scene where she is held hostage - which represents the german autumn in the 70s when the left extremist red army fraction held germany hostage. The scene with the priests show as catholism eats up germany. This whole video is so full of symbolism, you can watch it over and over and find always something new.

[@coldnorthcreative]

Thanks for sharing

[@dullahan7677]

Love 'em or hate 'em, these boys know how to make a Goddamn music video.

[@coldnorthcreative]

Big agree!

[@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.

[@Zoewhiteart7676]

Wow, thank you that was so interesting.

[@EskalatOne]

Dude thats amazing! Tanks for the explanation! Grüße aus Bayern!🇩🇪🤘

[@megatwingo]

@@EskalatOne I'm glad that I was able to help. Thanks for the positive feedback! :)

[@megatwingo]

@@Zoewhiteart7676 Thank you for the positive reply! :)

[@privatesecurityafrica4129]

Never get tired of people reacting to this song for the first time. lol

[@WestcoastAudiGuy]

The red lights represent "the red thread", or "roter faden"... Basically representing a common theme

[@chelleb3055]

I love that you are giving us your perspective as music video producers. We may disagree about how great Rammstein is (they are the best band EVER lol) but I think we can all agree that they are very, very good at making music videos that are insanely high quality and mind blowingly impressive. On a personal note, I feel like the blonde guy here would look soo much better with Till's hair style. 😆

[@coldnorthcreative]

Well they are without a doubt very good, their sound just doesn't really do much for me (the blonde guy), that doesn't take away from the craftsmanship at all though. I think I'll just keep my blonde hair instead haha.

[@ExploringWithBenandSam]

You guys need more subs! This video blows most people's minds and the NDA with it, honestly probably cost them an easy 7-8mil dollar range to make. It might be the most expensive music video ever made. But, with all that it included, historically, wardrobes, effects, it is easy to see why. Beautifully shot, amazing video, continuing to add to Rammstein's collection of accomplishments.

[@coldnorthcreative]

We wouldn't be surprised if this was one of the most expensive music videos ever made!

[@stephanschmitz1193]

​@@coldnorthcreativeYes 6 Million Dollar

[@Zino027]

Loved your reaction and Interpretation. But there is so much more to discover. Rammstein is special.

[@coldnorthcreative]

Indeed, we absolutely need to rewatch this a ton of times to unpack everything.

[@OrionOnion]

I love that even though you focus on the music video, you don't completely miss the music and meaning; a lot of people only watch/listen at once, making it way harder to notice the times when the visuals and sound are connected.

[@ihliedaily]

I think that this music video has a much more meaning and value for every kind a left oriented german. "Deutschland - will dich lieben und verdammen. [...] Deutschland, meine Liebe kann ich dir nicht geben!" This means just so much to me.

[@rokker101]

You really need to see Rammstein live as they have THE greatest rock show on earth and have done for at least the last 15 years!

[@Quallenkrauler]

12:56 Specter Berlin is a German director, Rap producer and founder of Germany's biggest "Gangster Rap" record labels in the 2000s. "Zeit" was directed by Robert Gwisdek aka. "Käptn Peng", also a German rapper. Not at all Gangster Rap though, Wikipedia calls it "Alternative Hip Hop" and I guess that's a broad enough definition to kind of describe it. Both philosophical and comedy lyrics and a live band "Käptn Peng & die Tentakel von Delphi".

[@coldnorthcreative]

Awesome, thanks for clarifying 🖤

[@meinnase]

The german term i heard for "alternative hip hop" is "Studentenrap" 😄

[@psykikiful7]

this is hard shit, another level of production, i dont care about ppl comments if they are"comercial" come on boys , this is huge

[@steff340]

I really wish that the reactors wouldn't say "Nazis" when the Politbüro of the GDR is shown. Not every uniform belongs to Nazis.

[@patverum9051]

Putler's old friends...

[@andreagruber5813]

Then let's say SED Schanzen!! They are from Denmark and might not know every German Symbol, or do you know every history Symbol of Denmark? I am originally from Austria by the way, but live since a few years in Ireland, and also still do not know all the symbols their had, but I know, Leute aus Deutschland wissen alles. Alright. It is a Rammstein-reaction, So Liebe ist fuer alle da. ❤️

[@steff340]

@@andreagruber5813 Ich spare mir mal, dass für mich nervige übersetzen: Entschuldigung, dass es mich nervt, dass wir immer auf Nazis reduziert werden! Wenn ich auf ein Video mit dem Namen "Deutschland" von einer doch recht bekannten Band wie Rammstein reagieren will, hole ich mir vorher ein paar Infos, besonders, wenn es um die Machart des Videos geht, also nicht um die ... spontane emotionale Reaktion auf das Lied/den Text an sich. Andere wenige machen das ja auch. Apropos Österreich: Hitler war ja noch nicht mal geborener Deutscher, sondern wurde in Braunau (ausgerechnet) am Inn in Österreich geboren, entzog sich dort dem Wehrdienst und wurde erst 1932 eingebürgert, war also ein importierter "Österreichischer Verführer", nebenbei auch ein Wahnsinniger, Massenmörder, und so einiges mehr. Ich finde Geschichte nun mal wichtig, denn aus der Geschichte lernen wir. Und nein, ich kenne mich in der kompleten Geschichte Dänemarks nicht aus,, habe aber einen gewissen Überblick, immerhin war Schleswig-Holstein, wo ich lebe, bis 1864 dänisch, und wenn ich heute in Dänemark leben würde, würde ich mich darüber informieren, oder zumindest grob über jedes Land, zu dem ich mich wahrscheinlich geschichtlich, gesellschaftlich öffentlich äußern will. Aber jeder wie er mag...und selbst Leute aus Deutschland wissen nicht alles, aber vielleicht versuchen einige aus Deutschland so viel wie möglich zu wissen. Genieße Dein Leben auf der Insel 😘

[@andreagruber5813]

​@@steff340 Ach, wird wieder alles auf die Österreicher abgeschoben. Ich habe letztens gelesen, dass Gewisse Ärzte, Restaurants usw. Russen nicht mehr bedienen. Na? Wer ist jetzt schuld? Weil es gibt ja in Russland keine die gegen P sind. Was das betrifft, eben, ihr habt ihn importiert, denn in Österreich gab es schon einen andern Diktator, der Hs Partei nicht ausstehen konnte und somit dann Ermordet wurde. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert_Dollfuß Weiss gar nicht wie oft ich diesen Link in letzter Zeit geteilt habe. Und so wie es jetzt in D läuft habt ihr den Österreicher nur gebraucht, damit ihr Euch hinter den verstecken könnt!! Und ja, ich geniesse es auf der Insel zu leben, denn als jemand der selbst denkt und mit einem Grossvater aus der ehemaligen UDSSR bin ich froh, nicht mehr im deutschsprachigen Raum zu sein. Damals waren die Russen gut genug, dass sie Euch von den Machenschaften eines Brandauers und den Machtgierigen Deutschen befreiten, jetzt wird jeder, der nur etwas m Russland zu tun hat niedergemacht. Ich hoffe, dass ich mit Deutschland nicht mehr zu viel zu tun habe und bedauere es schon fast, das Rammstein Deutsche sein müssen. Wie Du mir, so ich Dir und ich hoffe Eure Arroganz fällt Euch endlich mal auf Euren Kopf. Zumindest geht das an ca. 80% der Deutschen!! Schönes Wochenende.

[@SmilingMatthew]

Probably the greatest music video ever done. It puts entire tv and cinema productions at shame. Look at it, this is ten times better than the Rings of Power

[@liamberlin6413]

Many of Rammstein's videos are absolutely outstanding.

[@RickGuevara_]

Greetings from Germany 🤘

[@coldnorthcreative]

Greetings from Denmark ✌️

[@sawnmiwe1460]

The production price of the video was 7 million euros. Most expensive danish TV show ever produced was 1864 with 8 hours of footage, it cost 23 million euros. Puts things into perspective.

[@keirdamone1991]

Ohhh so cool I already noticed your new reaction! Thank you for your awesome clip, was looking forward to it already. Once again, I love your pov, and while you're analyzing the visual elements you absolutely pick up a lot of the meaning, even the little things many reactions wouldn't focus on. Like for example the Astronauts, and you were immediately picking up they're like in a far future and checking the history... Always great to see your clips and I'm looking forward to more :D I'm normally not leading to other bands in my comments as I don't like that "cool you react to xx now go to yy" xD Buuuuuut I haven't seen the Band "Jinjer" on your wall yet, and - while not beeing on a Rammstein level of course - they are bringing some pretty visually interesting clips too. Maybe their nowadays very deep and meaningful song "Home Back" could be of interest for your point of view - "Vortex" also got some interesting elements... :)

[@coldnorthcreative]

Hi keir! Thanks so much for the sweet comment and for the suggestions! I know Jinjer, but haven't seen the videos, we'll check them out!

[@spring_in_paris]

Hello guys. That was a technical view on how the video was shot. Which I'm cool about, because I had to do the same thing just for different reasons .In my case to grasp the amount of imagery/ symbols. 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 🤘 😎

[@H_3D]

Awesome comment dude! Thank you!!! I'll just add that black girl with a golden armor it's a coat of arms of Germany - the black eagle on the yellow (golden) field.

[@coldnorthcreative]

Thanks so much for the words, appreciate it! 🎉

[@Gnomereginam]

Your comment was stolen and I'm super annoyed :/

[@spring_in_paris]

@@Gnomereginam And from whomever did I supposedly stole it from? Instead of being "super annoyed" and making impulsive accusations, rather check who wrote this in other comment sections. Spoiler alert, it's me.

[@Gnomereginam]

@@spring_in_paris No, I meant someone stole YOUR comment and I'm super annoyed. I know yours is the original due to your comment history as well as you actually having the timestamps. Reported them and pointed it out.

[@RammEighty]

Officiel video Mein Hertz Brennt You guys will love it 🔥

[@gurunetbone]

I am absolutely with you on this one. I actually was suggesting it when they did the "Zeit" video. There are 2 version (original and piano). And I think a back to back reaction - or two reactions in a rather short time span would be great. It will be easier to understand the relation and references between the two videos. And then, of course, "Mein Herz brennt" is also awesome to watch in one of their live performances as well.

[@berndkemmereit8252]

All Ramstein Videos are a pice of art in itself.

[@I...I___I__I.I___I_.I.I]

6:56 "Deutschland, Deutschland über allen!" -> "Nice!" lmao

[@jimbeam4256]

"Deutschland" It symbolizes the inner Conflict of germans about our own Country and Identity.

[@mischr13]

7:49 "is this a movie or something" no, these are all references to Germany's history

[@KvLn_Arley]

4 years yesterday from this masterpiece 🔥🔥

[@rickylefleur2158]

Remembering watching it the first time I got such a Kurosawa vibe. It's truly a next level music video....

[@coldnorthcreative]

Big agree!

[@yorikpauwels7284]

Amazing reaction, amazing analysation, AMAZING VIDEO!

[@WarThunderAffe]

04:37 hello, im german, no that are not the n*zis😂that is the DDR, it was after the ww2 when germany was in 2 halfes, in 1989 after the fall of the wall, there was the germany we know now

[@yikwanwong8267]

The read lines refers to the German expression "Roter Faden", meaning the quintessence through different periods.

[@joshuaciresoli2927]

By far, this is the best. It really resonates with people regardless of national origin with the line, "Will dich leiben und verdammen" (I want to love you and damn you) when speaking of their country. The production is straight up badass and, at least for Germany, they held no punches. So much history compressed into a single video. The most interesting thing was how the Catholic Cardinal helped birth a wolf from the loins of the woman embodying Germany, which is a reference to how the Catholic Church helped Hitler rise to power. Very very good job from such an amazing group

[@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 are living legends with the same line-up for nearly 30 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), although Rammsteins origins are in punk music. 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.

[@undpaul]

in addition to the similarities you pointed out, I also think the nazi officer & cleric hugging might specifically refer to the fact, that the very first treaty hitler signed after coming into power was with the roman-catholic church. if i recall correctly, this treaty entailed (among a lot of other stuff), the church withdrawing from all political functions. in exchange the catholics would, for the most part, be in charge of education.

[@aixmhros]

7:50 Ulrike Meinhof do research about her.. after 40+ years from her death, germany still ''searching'' her brain and how it was working. .

[@robertbretschneider765]

Loved ur reaction!

[@maxfers3356]

You have to know the intensive history of Germany! Video+Music = Epic!

[@benjaminschilling6982]

You Two Are Awesome very genuine and gave us a very Professional Reaction you got a Sub more keep up the good Work. You Rock greetings from Germany🤘🤜🤛

[@coldnorthcreative]

Thank you for watching!

[@xScooterAZx]

This video was the 2nd most expensive ever made when it was released. It's total cost was 6 million US dollars.

[@coldnorthcreative]

DAMN! that's some budget

[@SineiGott]

Rammstein - mein Herz brennt (off-vid) kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYnZZGSFotN-p7M Rammstein - Mutter (off-vid) kzbin.info/www/bejne/nX_Hn4mMfcumm6M Rammstein - was ich liebe (live) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXnNdZRrmpxsfJY Rammstein - Engel (live) kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4TEkmaseMShaM0 Rammstein - Ich tu dir weh (live) kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIW1YmWHo7R0sKc Rammstein - Rammlied (live) kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2SXZY2dncSVqqc Rammstein - Du riechst so gut (live) kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6KqcqKhg7d5f5o Rammstein - Ich will (live) kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIS7i4GVrrF9n5Y Rammstein - Benzin (live) kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5jEp5p_iJVjqc0 Rammstein - Feuer Frei (live) kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5Olq2x-jtuoZ9k Rammstein - bück dich (live) kzbin.info/www/bejne/poO7nHePibh0oJY

[@sebastianz.6238]

I really like your reaction video. It brings a whole new information layer to me about the video. The only possible reason why your video has "only" 100k views is that you're more than just "fashionably late" to the party. So that clearly means you've got to get really into depth and provide a 1hour breakdown of "Deutschland". That might end up in movie school just like "Deutschland" is being taught in history classes all over Germany now!

[@papaemeritus5842]

Specter Berlin was one of the Co founders of "Aggro Berlin", a very famous Rap label in the early 2000's! This guy really envolved in a good direction!

[@coldnorthcreative]

sick, thanks for info!

[@rokker101]

The angel with wings spurting fire was like a prop that Till Lindeman used live

[@schlookie]

This video is the schizzlely jizziley! Probably the best video for music ever made.

[@ignis_infinitus_infernus]

I don't get why people complain about pausing a video/song during a reaction video. Isn't that the point of a reaction video? To get the person's perspective while listening to the song. I'm rambling. Great video, like how you both pick up on the how it's directed.

[@gaspode8]

One thing that is brilliant about this video are the colors that are present in most of the frames: black-red-gold. Which are the colors of the german flag.

[@coldnorthcreative]

Ah, didn't even catch that, well spotted.

[@Mauricio20070]

amazing reaction guys. I loved the fact that you watched all of the video.

[@coldnorthcreative]

Of course! Thanks for watching with us!

[@karlbernhartd]

Ruby was the perfect choice in my opinion one reason is because she is so damn elegant and otherworldly in a sense so she feels like an embodiment of a country really early on I love it plus her visuals are fitting all in all

[@peekaboosue]

Another great reaction to another awesome Rammstein music video 😍💞

[@coldnorthcreative]

Thank you so much 🖤

[@klaus6540]

Hallo Jungs, das war von euch eine - sagen wir mal - oberflächliche Reaktion. Ihr habt gequatscht, gequatscht..., aber verstanden habt ihr praktisch nichts, weder vom Inhalt, noch von der excellenten Musikdarbietung.

[@coldnorthcreative]

English please.

[@klaus6540]

@@coldnorthcreative Hey guys, that was a - shall we say - superficial reaction from you. You chatted, chatted... but you understood practically nothing, neither of the content nor of the excellent music performance.

[@coldnorthcreative]

@@klaus6540 lol, shut up nerd!

[@klaus6540]

@@coldnorthcreative That's all you can do - that's all? That makes it clear to everyone what types you are!!

[@coldnorthcreative]

@@klaus6540 check yourself

[@quattrotobi]

Black, red, gold. Our Flag, You see all the colours in the video again and again

[@_Mastermind_81]

the black woman in the video symbolizes Germany and shows us several events that happened in Germany the battle in the Teutoburg Forest - the Hindenburg disaster - the Raf - the SED ( STASI)-the Auschwitz concentration camp - the power of the Church it is a journey through the history of Germany and one of the best music videos there is true art

[@emanuelmajoe1726]

Rammstein is showing germanys history in this song. Greetings from Germany

[@johnsullivan659]

who noticed the u boat and the hindenberg? also the girl with the beads in her hair is playing josephine baker

[@camaradafibrik]

Y’all need to listen and see Lindenann side project those videos are mind blowing Knebel, Ich Hasse Kinder, Platz Eins.

[@IceyJones]

the red lines are a german idiom for a "main theme/storyline", called "roter faden" or "red thread". main theme in german history was always conflict and destruction, the germans had to rise up from again to create something new and germania was the heart and soul, that made this possible. the end can be interpreted imho in 2 different ways. either the new, actual state is sterile and heartless (hence the suits and sad faces), so germania literally fell in snowwhite hibernation, waiting to be waking up again, OR the astronauts, representing us, discovering out past, learned from that past and got rid of this part of german soul to not let it happen again.

[@AngelusMortis6000]

The channel Three Arrows made the best English analysis for that video which is almost half an hour long. Spending that time is absolutely worth it.

[@fjoergyn]

The video opens in AD 16, on the ‘barbarian’ side of the lines, the border of the Roman Empire. Roman soldiers creep through the woods in the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The Romans were ambushed by an alliance of Germanic Tribes, led by a chieftain called Arminius (the original Hermann the German). Three legionary standards were captured, a loss symbolic and moral, as well as physical, and decades were spent trying to recover them. Rome never again attempted to take the lands east of the River Rhine, known as Germania. ‘Germania’ refers not just to a place, somewhere partly defined by where it isn’t (Rome) as well as where it is, but also to a national figurehead, traditionally representing the German people. Germania is a strong woman, usually armour-clad and battle-ready. Various symbols appear with her, among them a breastplate with an eagle, a black, red, and gold flag, and a crown. Look out for these in the video - they come up again and again - and the colours of the contemporary flag are there in every scene. We get our first glimpse of Germania here (played by Ruby Commey), who stands holding Till Lindemann’s severed head. Next, astronauts appear carrying a metal and glass box shaped like a coffin. In the background we see a U-boat - a German submarine, used in World Wars I and II. Then we move to a scene set at a boxing match which takes us to Weimar Germany (1918-1933), a period known for its political instability but also greater cultural liberalism. Here, Germania appears in the cabaret costume of a flapper girl, and the boxers fight with knuckle-dusters as a crowd cheers them on. We see the former East Germany, complete with busts of Marx and Lenin, the national emblem of East Germany, and a lookalike of the long-serving, insular, and repressive GDR leader Erich Honecker. There’s another astronaut, or rather a cosmonaut: Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space, who flew with the USSR’s space program (and who’s also a character in the 2003 film, Good Bye Lenin!). Medieval monks feast grotesquely on the supine Germania, tearing sauerkraut and sausage from Ruby Commey’s body, prison inmates are beaten by guards dressed in police and military uniforms from different historical periods. The most obviously shocking scene references the Holocaust and the Nazi period. Four members of the band, in the striped uniforms of camp inmates, wait at the gallows, about to be hanged. They wear the cloth emblems used to identify their ‘crimes’: a pink triangle for homosexual prisoners, a yellow star for Jewish prisoners, a red and yellow star for Jewish political prisoners. This sequence, teased in an earlier promo video, has already caused controversy. Have Rammstein the right to do this? Do they trivialise the suffering of Holocaust victims? How can they justify using Holocaust imagery to promote their new video? These are important questions that are part of a much bigger debate about the ethics of using the Holocaust in art and media. Other scenes include the band walking away from a flaming airship, referring to the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster, in which 36 people died. Rats scuttle across the floor when the monks first appear, suggesting the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a legend with origins in the 13th century. Germania walks towards the camera in a leather jacket, gold jewellery and a string of bullets across her chest, resembling the chariot drawn by four horses (the ‘Quadriga’) on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The band members’ heads are shown as white marble busts, taking us to the 19th century Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, built as German Hall of Fame, its sculpted heads of German worthies on display to this day. In the prison, hundreds of banknotes fall from above, suggesting the devastating hyperinflation Germany suffered in the 1920s. Nazis burn books, intercut with religious fanatics burning witches. We recognise members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof group), a militant organisation active in the 1970s in West Germany. And in a blink-or-you-miss-it exchange, we are reminded of the much-criticised relationship between the churches and the state during the Third Reich. Each scene captures in a moment the icons of an era, and the video cuts between them more and more frenetically as it goes on. Events bleed into each other, linked by the presence of the band members and the red laser beam that appears throughout the video, a ‘roter Faden’ (red thread or central theme), connecting each event. Germany engages with its history in a very particular way. Try to imagine the video about Britain, with Britannia played by Ruby Commey. What would the equivalent events be? Quite a few of the tableaux might be similar - Romans, Crusaders, monks, 18th-century soldiers, collarless shirts and bareknuckle boxing - but would it have the same impact? There’s no affection, and perhaps not much hope: its pessimistic tone seems to be quite an off-brand message for post-1989 Germany, which wants to acknowledge its past critically, while also looking to its future as a state at the heart of Europe. And actually, while we get a lot of medieval and twentieth-century history, the video’s tour through the past seems to stop in the late 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of East and West Germany. Instead, we jump into the future, where the space-suited band take Germania into the unknown, travelling in that coffin-shaped glass box. There’s an echo of the video for Sonne, where Snow White is trapped in a glass coffin. In fact, a piano version of Sonne plays over the end credits of Deutschland. This is a useful link for understanding something of what Rammstein is doing here. In Sonne, where the band’s characters free themselves of Snow White (naturally, they’ve been her sex-slaves), only to realise that they have made a mistake and long for her return, the overwhelming feeling of Deutschland seems to be that when it comes to Germania (or Germany): you can’t love her, and you can’t live without her. Copied from GERMANIA (youtube acc) All belongs to him because its can explain all moments in the Video kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZSQlqiMgZ2rh9U

[@davelaplante975]

Does anyone else think the Blonde guy looks like Pete Davidson

[@BUTCHERDUCK]

i thought it was him

[@renttrailer9318]

In the next scene, "Germany" gives birth to Leonberger dogs, which have historically been used as fighting dogs, as a result of which they are in danger of extinction. In one of the scenes, they are present with gas masks on their faces. This can symbolize both the threat of the disappearance of the German national identity, but also its constant rebirth.

[@stanzelot]

Burning witches, burning books, the priests hugging members of the SA...it all comes together.

[@vineleak7676]

Your take on the crusades is completely out of line... The crusades were not a conquest but after centuries of muslim oppression and conquest on north african and middle eastern christians, the nations of Europe organised to fight back against muslim invasion in the balkan and the holy land, it was not a conquest but a fight back against a progressing enemy... Get your history right please.

[@coldnorthcreative]

too long didn't read. Nerd.

[@TheDerMiku]

Welcome back. :)

[@ts0088]

As far as I know the black women got used to model Germany cause she IS black and wears red clothes and Gold jewelry to represent the colors of our flag 🇩🇪

[@Kian987DM]

It's cool to see reactions with technical perspective 👍 Keep it up!

[@propagidator]

Where u from? Sweden?

[@coldnorthcreative]

Denmark

[@WarThunderAffe]

the song is about the history of germany, the girl that you see is germany

[@coldnorthcreative]

Yeah we got that :)

[@CavHDeu]

Hey guys you got many of the main details they placed. Most reactors miss the witch burning/book burning part and the hugging. The dogs are Leonberger which were nearly extinct during the wars. It could be a hint to a trial against a turkish journalist who proclaimed that germans are a dog race and he won that trial. So it's ok to say that.

[@coldnorthcreative]

Ah, that's a cool detail!

[@meganoob12]

The red lasers are probably representive of the proverbial „red thred“. In Germany we say that a narrative has a red thred „sawn“ into it that it follows. Similarly of you forget what you were about to say we often say „I lost the red thred“

[@rocknrollafriends]

The Baader-Meinhof quote is fantastic

[@andystone6777]

that black lady in the video . . . she is 'Germania', the mother of our nation. And she's about to show what happened in our 2.000 yrs. of history. From fighting the Roman Empire (and killing their armies) in the battle of Kalkriese 9 a.d. over to the 1930's depression, the Lakehurst tragedy on 3 - 6 - 1937 that destroyed the LZ 127 Hindenburg, Nazi era, Communist terrorism in the seventies, all thru the current era. For me this is a freakin masterpiece of music videos !

[@Brot_Das_Bernd]

The black woman represents Germania in person. We can see multiple centuries/decades/years of the German history: - the Holy Roman Empire - the Dark Middle Age (canibalism scene) - the times around the two world wars - the time Germany is split into two countries after WW2 - the RAF terrorists from Germany - and maybe the future and surly some more?! The video and music really good describes how many Germans are feeling about her country because of the current situation and the history! Proud to be one of the most developt country in the world with much tolerance and diversity. But we are ashamed about our history of the last world wars!

[@thastarryone]

She is Germania... the human/female manifestation of Germany. You can always see a red light.... the Red Thread guiding through the German history. The history which made Germans the way they are: Ashamed, strong and so on. As they sing: Germany, your love is a curse and a blessing. We want to love and to damn you. It is always about this two sided relationship between Germany and Germans.

[@onkelbo7897]

8:02 it was the "Bücherverbrennung" (book burning) where the Nazis burned every book that wasn't from German authors.

[@pinkfluffypandicornblub2706]

Rammstein - Du riechst so gut 98 is an amazing music video aswell to check out... you can see that it is from 1998, but it is one f their greatest imo. I definitely wouldn't check out the music video of Haifisch yet, since there you have a lot references to other Rammstein music videos. It is a fantastic music video aswell, but it is worth waiting for it

[@jorgennilsson4168]

Hello guys, Sweden calling. I suggest you check out the video "Stripped" - it´s a Rammstein tribute to Depeche Mode so you will not be disturbed by the song since it´s not theirs - only the video to focus on. Love from a fellow Scandinavian :)

[@stephenmiller195]

Great reaction guys love your breakdowns, there are better people then me will be able to tell you the symbolism, thanks 🙏

[@coldnorthcreative]

Thanks a bunch for the kinds words man!

[@lukajdala]

love that you guys actually thought about the meaning of the scenes

[@jimmythewheelie]

Shoutout to Specter, what a fucking Genius!

[@HeinrichZzz]

the best video of the wolrd! I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@Finrohir]

The red lines symbolises the german Roter Faden 👍

[@mackay4971]

the rocket was a real shot, a copy of the Rocket made by the Nazis 1944, the V2! The red lights are the red wire through all video stories

[@chooselove4373]

I love that Rammstein is one of the only metal bands to feature black models, dancers, and actresses. 💋🎭

[@kimacronym2521]

Great reaction, enjoyed it very much. Maybe one of the best Musicvideos I have ever seen.

[@chrisvanzanen8614]

you have to think all rammstien singer always dressed up in what he is singing

[@tk9-q9l]

sidefact: the viedo by itself had cost about a million dollars. So you could guess what they earn from it till this day😅😁

[@barbaramorcinczyk7169]

Yes 🤟🤟❤️❤️ More Rammstein

[@davidscott41]

It's about the past and present repeating its self as time pass just happening in a modern form

[@laierr]

Lol. Other breakdowns: Oh, they did it like that, that shot was done like that... Here: MONEY. THEY USED LOTS OF MONEY. Oh, and that scene... is made from... MONEY. Fair enough.

[@EiriUesugiKun]

Oliver Riedel has the inverted pink triangle (homosexual) Paul Landers has the yellow star of David (Jewish) Till Lindeman seems to have the "Political Jew" one (red inverted triangle over yellow triangle) Flake has inverted red triangle of "Political" prisoner (really hard to see, had to check the original and go frame-by-frame to see it).

[@fionadowdeswell-simmons4968]

The red lasers signify a common thread or theme running through the video-Germany building itself up only to see it fall dramatically each time, lessons have historically never been learned. Germania, the mythical image of the German people, is usually portrayed as a blonde haired white woman which is not the case in the video. We see the monks eating off her in much the same way that the Church grew fat off the riches of the land while leaving only scraps for the poor, as represented by the people clad in the BDSM gear in the box below the Rammstein table. The concentration camp scene is set at Mittelbrau-Dora where the V2 rockets we see in the video were built by the prisoners (over 20,000 prisoners were killed during the manufacturing of the V2 rockets and the rockets themselves were only ever a propaganda tool, they never achieved their actual aim). The scene that you weren't sure about was that of the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhoff group who were left wing extremists who essentially held Germany hostage for a number of years , killing, as I recall 34 people. The leaders ultimately committed suicide whilst in prison. Till portrays Ulrike Meinhoff in the video here. The scene after that emphasises how lessons haven't been learned-witch burning in the background and then a few hundred years later in the foreground, book burnings. The birth scene where Germania gives birth to Leonburger puppies is interesting because the birth of these puppies (they were almost wiped out during WW1 and WW2) signifies a resurgence for Germany and the birth itself is overseen by a Law lord in effect-the robes etc we see Flake in are judicial robes from the highest court in Germany so a legal and political re-birth. There are also loads of references in the video to Rammstein's back catalogue all the way through the video. The directors for Deutschland and Zeit are different, Specter Berlin for Deutschland and Robert Gwisdek for Zeit. Once again, interesting to learn a bit more about the mechanics of video shooting and a great and enthusiastic reaction. Cost of the video, btw, in excess of a million euros.

[@Heisenberg-Blue]

The black woman symbolizes Germany.

[@wikinger844]

7:32 the 4 people hanging there all have a story

[@lewsifer9866]

Rammstein - Radio is a must do

[@coldnorthcreative]

A lot of people have been recommending that, so we might just have to.

[@lewsifer9866]

@@coldnorthcreative yes please. You will not regret i guarantee that

[@gpopsk]

Lasers represents the timeline story. it is like in the german storytelling they are following the red line like the narrative

[@Pacifissimus]

Ich habe damals Leben gerettet, Rammstein Bitte Respekt

[@Domi_86]

Rammstein has made many *making of* videos for the music videos. I think this could also be very interesting for you!? Greetings from Germany 😎🤘