Rammstein "Deutschland" - REACTION - This is amazing!

[@perlarsen9032]

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

[@BetterEveryDayYouTube]

Thank you so much for providing this!

[@PaulFlake]

I don't even know where to start, I haven't come across this much nonsense in a long time. All right: 1. the Limes did not exist at that time and was built 100 years later in southern Germany. The battle in the Teuteborg Forest was in northern Germany. 2. the battle was in the year 9 A.D. so 7 years earlier than the date here. This is the campaign of Germanicus, who had the mission to pacify the Germanic tribes and search for the battlefield of that time. The soldiers here clearly come from a battle that probably took place somewhere near Bremen, or so historians assume. The campaign did not bring the Romans anything, they could beat the Germans a few times but always under high own losses, therefore the campaign was broken off and it remained with the border at the Rhine. It is also clear that the Romans were still in Germania later. The winner of the battle in the Teuteburg Forest (today called Varus Battle) was Arminius. Son of a prince of the Cherusci, he was brought to Rome as a child as a pawn. There he learned the language and was trained as a soldier. He actually commanded the Roman auxiliary troops under Varus (cavalry). He set off with his cavalry before the battle and then commanded the Germanic tribes. Herrmann the German this name appeared the first time in the 16th century and that with Martin Luther! 4. to the dog births The dogs are Leonberger dogs, I have dealt with it once. A breeding from three different dog breeds. Man breeds dogs but to unite the best of the dogs on the new dog breed. What if Rammstein shows us a way how it could go on ? 3 races (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) one takes the best of the 3 religions and unites in a man? Would there be then still so many wars? Of course, the dogs would have to come from Germania, which would do us a last service. Afterwards Germania is no longer needed and can be released into space in the coffin, so that she does NOT come back ! There would be to say still much more but I have no more desire

[@stephenmiller195]

@@PaulFlake well said sir

[@Plexpara]

Germania cutting the Head from the Roman Soldier (Till here) stands for the victory over Rome. Then Germania carry the Head (the victory over rome) proudly with her in History and Time. may thats something to mention

[@CediCore]

Her: Is this music part of the song? Message: It's part of me.

[@SoporVK]

You were actually spot on about the woman representing germany. Good reaction. Thank you!

[@stephenmiller195]

A fantastic piece of art, thanks

[@RustyDust101]

This movie jumps through Germany's history like crazy. It is LOADED with historical references, background info, winking nods to certain aspects that are only hinted at, and major episodes as impactful eras. Sometimes the jumps are linked with each cut from scene to scene, often linked to the lyrics of the song. The links can be whole lines, but more often than not the lyrics are broken down into single word links to one single cut and scene. That's how incredibly detailed this 'mini-movie' is. Each and every time I watch this, or a reaction to it, I discover something new I hadn't seen or recognized before. And I really mean EACH. AND. EVERY. TIME. I've watched the original video at least 50 times, and at least 30 reaction or analysis videos of it. That might give you an incling to how much study you could put into this video itsself. For me it is one of the best of the TOP three music videos ever made (at least until now). Others fascinate me for other aspects, but this is the one that slam-dunks the music, the history, and the message of the song. /edit While the band never accepts one interpretation or another as THE single correct interpretation, here is one interpretation from me for one crucial scene: Note; this is only my personal interpretation; I claim no absolute truth to it. Anyone is completely fine with disagreeing with this. When Till intones the paraphrased lines from the "Lied der Deutschen" / the "Song of the Germans", which was once the complete national anthem of Germany, he also comments on how he sees these lines by linking it with the visuals. The original line was "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" / "Germany, Germany, above all". The translation looses this very subtle but crucial difference to what Till sings. The original was meant to inspire a sense of unity among all the tiny fiefdoms that broadly corresponded to the "Holy Roman Empire of Germanic Nations" into becoming one single nation of Germany. So the original was NOT meant to indicate German superiority at all, but rather a call to finally unify under one ruler, and solidify the totally disparate states into one. Something akin to the many other nation states that had evolved around Germany in Europe by that time, like Italy, Great Britain, France, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway. So a better, but lyrically incorrect translation would be "Germany, Germany, unity above all." But that wouldn't have fit with the rhythm of the line, so sadly for most English speakers, the official translation is still "Germany, Germany, above all." At 7:05 in your video, Till starts the lines in one scene, and once he finishes intoning the first "Deutschland", there is a cut to another scene, which includes the second "Deutschland". But here comes a very crucial part. Till changed that line to "Deutschland, Deutschland, über allen", / "Germany, Germany above all others" which was the meaning the Nazis intended. Ie their belief in being the master race, of being superior to anyone else, yada-yada-yada, all their stupid BS. Now this could be seen as highly controversial IF Till hadn't then cut both the lyrical progression and the visual continuation by cutting into the next scene. With him being changed into the striped concentration camp uniform, being led to the gallows to be hanged. When Till sings "über allen" he actually faces the camera as a prisoner and a soon to be victim of "Deutschland", and slams that claim of "über allen" into the faces of the viewer in a totally wanted breaking of the fourth wall. He was beaten bloody, broken, a man sentenced to death in the most devastating attrocities mankind has committed against each other. So anyone claiming Till supports this claim of German superiority has not understood this line at all. The same goes for claims that Till and the band were disrespectful of the victims of these attrocities. That is probably one of the most brutal, and open outcries AGAINST these attrocities possible. At least that is my interpretation of this tiny part of this video. Now imagine that you could do this indepth analysis with almost every single cut in this video. That's the level of detail that went into the production of this mini-movie.

[@grahamnash9794]

The song and video depict Germany's history from a distinct point of view. Displayed with pride, shame, and wise from having studied national history. Never to make similar mistakes, and boosted by triumphs. So you weren't far from working out the meaning.

[@HaZadeur1]

The red laser represents "den roten Faden" ( the red thread ) aka the common theme in Germanies history... violence!

[@Peter_Cetera]

Just an epic masterpiece!

[@Uerdinger1980]

Hi, I'm from Germany. In my Opinion is this Video in context with the Lyrics an absolute Masterpiece. Rammstein is playing a classic "Industrial Metal" style. A 50-50 mix of synthesizers and hard metal guitarrs. A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman as Germania. Germania is the Mother of the German Nation. The red Light discribe a red thread through the history of Germany. The glass coffin: It is Little Snow White from the Grimm-fairytales....and from their own video "Sonne". Only with black skin and in space. The piano song at the end is the song "Sonne", too. The battle of the Teutoburg forrest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike). That battle is of ABSOLUTE importance for the German history. The hanged bodies in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, who were gruesome sacrificed to the Germanic gods...and were partly nailed to the trees. The Varus-(Teutoburg)-Battle was already in 9 AD. In 16 AD were the vengeance campaigns of Emperor Germanicus. Therefore we see here the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they are watching their dead comrades hanging in the trees or getting their heads chopped off (for nailing them to the trees). In reality the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army in the various ways they were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed at the trees. Slaves were liberated even decades after the battle. After the scenes with the Romans we saw the Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster (the burning Zeppelin in the background). The moustaches and clothing from the fight scene are from WWI and post WWI years. From the working class people in WWI and the roaring 20's. In the WWII years later on this kind of big bushy moustache was already out of fashion. The V2 rocket (first manmade object in space) as technical triumph of the German spirit...and at the same time the killing of the concentration camp prisoners in the bunker factories below the mountains during the production of that rocket. This scene in the video could be a representation of a very specific concentration camp. It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein mountain. A mixture between a big, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp. The concentration camp inmates had several different markings for different kinds of convicts and their "crimes" sown to their chests, like it was in reality, too. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the star of David for Jews and two of them were marked with the double-triangles for Jehovas Whitnesses. The book burnings of the Nazis and the burning of the witches of the church. In the same scene with the book burning there is EVEN MORE going on. The cooperation of the church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA-man. The scene with the sign with the Hammer and a pair of compasses in a circle of wheat is the sign of the GDR (DDR). The socialst German state in the east that existed before the German reunification. Therefore it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene at the concentration camp). The scene with Rammstein wielding guns (the pumpgun) and taking Germania hostage was about leftwing terrorism of the 1970's. The terrorists were called the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion). My interpretation of the red scanner-like beams: There are two different kinds of beams. The massive straight red light beam that goes up into the heavens AND there were those smaller, thinner "scanner" beams. Aliens (or humans from the future) are scanning the whole German history. Like some real scientists are scanning and excarvating ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues, for example. The massive red light beam is the red ribbon of time that ties together all the historical events. PS: As for the dogs: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog-owner nation. The dog is a firm part of Germany. PPS: They didn't eat the body of the woman and her inner organs, even if it really looked that way. They were eating the national dish of Germany, that was put on the body of the black woman: Sauerkraut, Kassler & sausages. In my opinion it symbolizes the church eating itself fat on the goods and values and food of Germany during the simple people (farmers, simple workers etc) lived a long time in a kind of hell of poverty and serfdom (the red fetish area below the table with Germania on it). But that eating scene could indeed have a double meaning. It could represent the 30 years war, that was fought for religious reasons and depopulated large areas of Germany. It forced the people to commit canibalism because nobody was there anymore to produce food. Except the fat, wealthy people of the church, of course. They were still able to eat enough. Only the simple people at the bottom (farmers etc) died from hunger and had to fight and die in that war. The 30 years war was the biggest catastrophe in Germany until WWI happened. PPPS: The short scene with the dogs and their gas masks = WWI, where in reality animals (messenger dogs & horses) AND soldiers were wearing gas masks, too. PPPPS: The puppies at the end are Leonberger dogs. The Leonbergers nearly went extinct during WWI and WWII. PPPPPS: My interpretation of the glass coffin is Little Snow White in space, like I wrote before. PPPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet. Finally: The scenes I'm now talking about are pretty dark and low light. The WWII submarine in the submarine bunker during the astronauts are walking by with the glass coffin. I think, the choice of the black woman as main actress was made, because: a) it makes any accusations of racism and fascism against Rammstein useless b) she represents one colour of the German flag and she is wearing the rest of the colours of our German flag as makeup and jewellery and clothes on her body: Black, Red and Gold c) it provokes many people EVEN MORE

[@fionadowdeswell-simmons4968]

There's so much to take in, in this video. I've watched it I don't know how many times and there are still things I'm noticing for the first time. Quite a few discreet references to Rammstein's back catalogue as well as all of the historical references. The dogs being born to Germania are Leonberger pups, a breed that was almost wiped out after the two World Wars. They were highly prized dogs kept by European nobility in the past, but here, they're seen as a political re-birth for Germany. Flake wears red judicial robes rather than a doctor's scrubs while attending the birth. One of the other scenes also shows the student riots that occurred in the late 60's and the steps taken to quell them including the beating on the side of the tanks. The Nazi symbols can be used in this video as Germany allows expression of art to allow it. There was a lot of controversy of the use of Holocaust scenes and the showing of the V2 rockets but, in my opinion, you can't not reference Nazi Germany in a history of Germany and it fits with lyrics of the song. They want to love their country, but also want to damn it for it's past acts against humanity. In the Holocaust scenes, we also see the eye patch move by scene from right to left, suggesting that both sides cast a blind eye to what was happening. The coffin floating in outer space may be seen as Germany going into an unknown future. They've been criticised for the video but what country can hold its hands up and say that their history is without stain? I love everything about the song, the electronica is a great foil to the rest of the music, Richards backing vocals a great foil to Till's bass baritone, all of the instruments are stunning. It's a masterpiece in its entirety, song and video, for me.

[@nightgoblin29]

What's that for an amazing poster at the background? Thank you for this great reaction,

[@borsuk96]

The video with nazi uniforms was filmed in Southern Africa cause they are banned in Germany. The funniest thing that the group who performed the soldiers are Polish reconstruction group SS Pomerania

[@TheRammMan]

Love your work Randy! A suggestion. Make sure the sound is maxed out before you start. It is Rammstein so must be played LOUD ;-) Can you do reactions for Radio, Adieu, Angst and Zick Zack? Make sure it the music video.

[@kimacronym2521]

The outro piano music is very important - you should not turn it down - long videos demand patience.... . It is the score from "Sonne" from Rammstein (The Sun). It is absolutely beautiful - may I also suggest looking back in the history books - I know that in America probably only American History is taught - the education system is intentionally defunded - this makes it easier for politicians to influence the majority of people. However, I hope that everyone recognised the concentration camp, where mostly (but not only) Jewish people were murdered, but also gay, political enemies and certain religions as well (Look at the different symbols on their clothes). Rammstein explains that although they are German, they cannot give their love (approval) to Germany, due to its history. Imagine an American ("America First") would do the same, it would be considered unpatriotic - despite a similar dark history of the US (Slavery, BLM, etc..). The video is there to provoke, as art is supposed to do, and should be taught in school. I actually love Rihanna's "American Oxygen" video as well, similarly criticising contemporary US. Democracy gives us the right to be self-critical, Art needs to be protected as such. Patriotism can be good to a certain extent, but nationalism never is.

[@uli69247]

Never butcher the outro of Deutschland.

[@albataalbata1380]

Everybtime i watch someone reacting to this i wait till he sings “Deutschland uber allen” to see the reaction) and when is none - i understand that in fact americans dont have to know why its so cool to use that phrase at that precise moment of the video.

[@T0nrat]

Aber es kennt doch kaum ein „nicht-deutscher“ die alten Strophen der Nationalhymne.

[@Wulphie7278]

Not all Americans are rubes. F.U

[@andreasth3r3b3ll3]

It says one thing, 50 % percent i love, 50 % percent i hate, so i can´t decide to give my love to you. And that is a bit of the reality in Germany, we have 20 % that miss a leader, and we have 20 % that would like everything more like in Socialism. 60 % are the "normals" and live with the given conditions. Germany is not united, it searches it way into the future. Thx for your Reaction.

[@wildwine6400]

Yeah... you should have left the credits it is always fine to play it .listen enjoy it take it in. It was the Rammstein song Sonne played on piano

[@benjaminlanden7425]

Sonnes piano version is The jewel of the Crown 😍😍

[@wildwine6400]

You'll probably get some flack or dislikes off people for not knowing what is going on but don't don't let it get to you. People have been spoiled with reactions to this video with in depth analysis by historians/scholars/vocal trainers/germans etc and seemingly expect everyone to know all the symbolism and history represented in the song and video Hope for some more soon

[@klausreiger7315]

Why are you turning the Volume down, when Flake starts playing piano ? That's a sin !

[@flipchartpad]

Not Flake though

[@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 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 😄 My recommendation for a reaction: The band "Lord of the lost" and their song "Under the sun". Greetings! Mega

[@xxxplane12xxx6]

here we go again, immer die gleichen Leute hier, nicht wahr ;)

[@megatwingo]

@@xxxplane12xxx6 :-)

[@a.p.1470]

Von wegen immer die gleichen Leute, als ob man schauen würde wo es eine neue Deutschland-Reaktion gibt ;) Aber bei ihr hier schaue ich auch so schon öfter und gerne mal, weiß nicht, sie hat irgendwie ihre eigene, sympathische Art und Weise.

[@megatwingo]

@@a.p.1470 👋😎👋

[@chrismeadows4216]

My compliments to you for the depth in this comment, and my thumbs up!!! 🥰💙

[@cyberrich]

Great reaction checkout Liliacs Dear father which was just released you will see a different side to Melodys this video is insane.

[@CavHDeu]

You said it nearly right but use the english a, like in dance, instead.

[@jestraalman]

Ruïned the reaction by not paying attention to the masperpiece that is the outro.....

[@neiletordee5407]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYnZZGSFotN-p7M Rammstein - Mein Herz brennt 😜✌️

[@tosa2522]

First! Let' start!

[@tosa2522]

The woman symbolizes Germania the personification of Germany. Thanks for not skipping the credits. The piano version of the song Sonne is so beautiful.

[@jasonjessicaforlife]

Wtf!

[@JakobFischer60]

Oh, Americans are allowed to call them Ramsteen, that is okay.

[@BetterEveryDayYouTube]

I'm trying to fix it in my brain. Until the viewers of my videos clarified the pronunciation, I had known the pronunciation as 'ramsteen.' I'm not sure if that's what they had said on the radio, around my friends, or what. That's just how it is imprinted in my mind. So, each time I think of them or say the band name, I am making the effort to correct it. I'll think I'm doing great and then hear myself say the wrong one. 🤦‍♀️

[@berlindude75]

@@BetterEveryDayKZbin Just think of how you pronounce "Einstein". ;) Or memorize this easy mnemonic for the German diphthongs "ei" and "ie": "When 'e' and 'i' go walking, the second letter does the talking." -- Hence, "ei" sounds like AYE, and "ie" sounds like EE. :)