First reaction to Rammstein - Deutschland (What's happening?!)

[@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. Here in this reaction unfortunately cut away. :-( 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 Mega

[@SarahDengler]

Oh thank you so much for that info! I wish had done some research before hand and not end up looking like an idiot, nonetheless I appreciate this info. 🙏

[@megatwingo]

@@SarahDengler You didn't look like an idiot. Many things in this video aren't even known to many Germans, unfortunately. The only thing I really disliked in the context of this reaction was the cutting away of the complete ending with the end credits and the additional scenes and the very moving piano version of the Rammstein song "Sonne".

[@SarahDengler]

Yeah, sorry about that, i thought it was done 😬

[@pitstoppels9769]

recht gut erklärt :-)

[@megatwingo]

@@pitstoppels9769 Dankeschön! :)

[@robertzander9723]

Rammstein is usually not so hard to understand, but with that specific song, it's necessary to know a little bit about the history and culture, with a few skills of the language. It's good song if you have a clue about the history, it's not just WW2, the red light is the symbol of the Red Thread through our history.

[@SarahDengler]

Thank you for the info 🙏

[@ComfortForster]

First time I watched this band I was amazed, this is just a master piece. Nice reaction.👍🏽👍🏽💯

[@SarahDengler]

Thank you sis❤️

[@fredsonne9352]

I feel there is something missing about Germania, the personifcatiion of Germany. I read somewhere, and I bought into the idea, that the video clearly presents her as something alien: Garmania (Magna) is what the Romans callled the territory and the people populating it 2000 years ago, although there were many different German tribes living in those woods. And at the end, Germania is put in a glass coffin like snowwhite and in a sleep like death is sent back into space. So the idea of the German nation or is presented as an originally foreign concept, showing how over centuris the Germans have been struggling to give meaning to national identity: What should we be? Different tribes? Christian under Rome? Empire or regional power? Catholic or protestant? Monarchy or republic? Communist or nationaalist (Weimar)? Are we in a fight against another race? Is a devided Germany capitalist (quasi fascist) in the West and socialist (a defacto class society) in the east? Can a reunified Germany accept a black woman as German (the German actress Ruby Commey playing germania was born in 1991). In paintings Germania is often accompanied by sun rays, marking the dawn of a new era. I thiught the video with all the red beams and dark chapters of German history is also about the future of German national identity, as Snowwhite will some day wake up from her sleep again.

[@cidie1]

I liked watching how shocked you were watching this music video. 🙂 it's more interesting than the first reaction just going along with all of it! it is dark but I think it is very interesting as well I've watched several reactions of this video now and I think you glance something new each time.

[@dmwalker24]

It's more symbolism than can be caught in a single viewing. And that's assuming the person viewing it went in with quite a lot of information about German history. I've seen this probably 50 times, and there are surely still 100 things I know nothing about. In that way it's kind of similar to a symphony. Having so much to unpack keeps it interesting.

[@Tarackgul]

Hello, to bring in a little light ..... The woman represents the patron saint of the Germans "Germania" which stands for the country Germany. In the video you will notice the colors black, red and gold, the colors of Germany. You wears gold armor, a black eagle on his arm in front of a red background. It is by and large about Germany's dark past from Roman times to a possible future. The red light (rays) symbolizes the red thread of itself The singer refers to the fact that you love your country on the one hand, but on the other hand you hate, you want to love it and also hate it. If you look at it that way, it is a coming to terms with the past and working through the darkest history of Germany.

[@abadyr_]

the woman is a personification of the country. But there is not saint called "germania", it was just the roman name for the area.

[@visual_chris]

There's so much message in this video its surreal and even for a german way to overwhealming

[@gerrygrouwe70]

It is about the historie of germany brought to you in a different way I agree ramstein is from former east germany so they did grow up in a different world not like germany is now. Maybe that is why they made the video this way

[@vbvideo1669]

Nice reaction! :)

[@SarahDengler]

Thank you 🙏

[@aireactions2633]

Did you do more Rammstein?? I can't find any. It's a fantastic rabbit hole to go down. Mein Hertz brennt, on its own has 3 must watch versions! Sonne, Mein Teil, Du hast.... more pleeeeease!

[@peterhowells7309]

Greetings from Scotland! Diana Ankudinova to Ramstein! THAT's quite a leap of faith Sarah! However if you want to "reset" your musical brain, it's a good place to start. These guys play for keeps! POWERFUL music! Your face throughout and at the end said very clearly "I'm confused! What was that I just listened to/watched?" OK Ramstein fans, here's you chance to "put it in a nutshell" for Sarah, 'coz I ain't even gonna try! 🤣🤣👏👏

[@SarahDengler]

Lol that's true! It's my mistake for not doing some research before the song

[@peterhowells7309]

@@SarahDengler No, It's all good! ALL music has it's place, it's just that some music should have a warning screen first maybe? 🤣🤣 As a reaction it was fascinating! Diana Ankudinova's song for next Saturday has been announced - "Путь" (Way or Path) She sang this when she was 12/13yo so she knows it well. Also, the guest on the show is a famous singer of this particular song! Interesting! There is a short clip on her "shorts" channel kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4Cbp3mhaM19r68

[@Ray1969.]

Hey Sarah… just donated to the channel. Keep doing your thing girl! Thank you for reacting to my last request. Much appreciated

[@SarahDengler]

Thank you so much for your donation, i really appreciate it and thank you for your last request that one will live with me for life now 🙏🙏🙏😊

[@bertkassing8541]

Deutschland, das Land ohne Geschichte unter diesem Namen. Das Land meiner Vorfahren. Damals hieß es noch nicht Deutschland. Ein Land, das in kleine Königreiche geteilt ist. Es wurde schließlich Deutschland. Darum geht es in diesem Lied.

[@abedrayton6398]

From other people's breaksdowns i've seen: The dog thing at the end is both because Germans tend to be dog lovers, so that's Germany being reborn. The dogs are also Leonbergers, Breed that almist went extinct in WW1/2. The monks are from the 30 years war, when the church ate well and the people(the red bsm scene under the table) starved. They're eating shnitzel and sauerkraut and stuff off of her. For anyone who needs it said- the hanging scene and the officers getting shot in the face is WW2/the Holocaust The boxing scene is the Weimar period I think. The crossdressing/kidnapping scene is left-wing political violence in the late 20th century. The guys in suits to have some kind of orgy are the political leadership of East Germany being decadent hypocrits The modern riot scene with dogs in gas masks was 1990s maybe? I forget. And space = Germany's future looking back. They're using red scanner beams on Germania, and the vertical red beam is the thread of Germany's history. And after it all, "My love I cannot give you."

[@abedrayton6398]

Oh, and the book-burning scrne had the monks/church embracing the n*zis

[@SarahDengler]

Woww! Thank you so much for the breakdown! Rewawatching it now, i will understand what happening. Appreciate that 🙏

[@abedrayton6398]

@@SarahDengler i had to look a lot of it up, especially the dog thing. I guess i didn't realize just how much Germans like dogs 😆

[@tidenhub71]

Big mistake ... 😉😉 - Like many others, you don't look at the credits in full either. Like the actual video, these are a milestone and, in my opinion, you need to let what you see have an effect.

[@SarahDengler]

My bad

[@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 🤘 😎

[@asator2746]

Tis is the comment HaZadeur1 posted under every Deutschland reaction.... in case he forgot you: 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. There are many more historic and political references but this should be fine for now^^

[@SarahDengler]

Thank you so much for the info 🙏 very much appreciated👍

[@asator2746]

@@SarahDengler I'm glad I was able to help you understand the video a little better^^

[@arnodobler1096]

Hi even a native German can´t check all the scenes in this masterpiece 👍👍

[@SarahDengler]

Its confusing

[@arnodobler1096]

​@@SarahDengler Roman tribes at the beginning google Varus Battle Weimar Republic is the fight the "girls" with guns are the RAF red army fraction a terrorism group in the 70´s with a lot of woman the monks eating from the woman? the church and the nobility exploited the people in the Middle Ages Hindenburg Disaster

[@SarahDengler]

Thank you for the info, it all seem very Dark

[@aixmhros]

best part of the vid, Till dressed as Ulrike Meinhof

[@leonardleonard3769]

После попсовых легких клипов в США видимо такой поток информации не просто усвоить

[@sebastianmiftari84]

History right! First Battle of Varus vs Arminius, later the holocoust, then red army fraction ....

[@SarahDengler]

Wow, thank you for the info 🙏

[@lipoo4425]

we and you mean everyone - all nations have done some strange things ... and everyone can translate that into their own language I think...

[@rudolfbart]

dear I am german and i even didnt understand anything was confuseing romans hitler eastgermany if I cant check it how can you but in all was sort of ok

[@thundercoyote5859]

yeah they are known to have some weird songs good reaction video

[@SarahDengler]

Thank you 😊

[@Ray1969.]

Hey Sarah! I know I gave you a new one which you’ve already responded to that you would react to (thank you in advance for that), but here is another one you will love. It is the song Hurt, originally written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails but covered here by the legend Johnny Cash. Johnny loved the song and asked Trent if he could cover it. This was the last song Johnny did before his death and I think it spoke to him because it in many ways encapsulated his life, his memories, regrets and was his goodbye. Unbelievably touching and honest. Enjoy! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnKrdJmQibd6n6s

[@SarahDengler]

Oh yes! i know "Hurt" , that song is the literal representation of a broken soul. It breaks my heart every time i hear it

[@giftymartin2063]

Welcome to the world rammstein,

[@SarahDengler]

Thank you darling

[@arnodobler1096]

the end you cut of is the song Sonne Piano Version it´s beautiful

[@SarahDengler]

Yeah, i edited that part, sorry

[@felixtschaetsch4528]

Dengler is a german Name.

[@SarahDengler]

I'm married to a German

[@felixtschaetsch4528]

@@SarahDengler congratulations.

[@tonydelapa1911]

I had to look twice then laughed out loud when I saw the “WTF” on the screen icon for this video. Doesn’t seem to fit you or else I have not been paying attention. :)

[@SarahDengler]

Yeah, it was all very confusing to me at first but now with the help of Rammstein's fan i get it now =)

[@janetlawson4482]

Hi Sarah, I watched what I could, and while I am sure it is an accurate depiction of history, much of history is horribly dark and disappointing to me to see how humans have and still are treating one another, 2020 in parts of the US , so I stopped, sorry Janet ❤️

[@SarahDengler]

Oh Janet i understand, I should have left a warning at the beginning of the video while editing. Sorry

[@janetlawson4482]

Sarah, don’t worry about that at all, I have a very hard time with violence , my own PTSD, long story and too much information, but I want to support your channel. I guess what I am saying is I gave you a view and a comment for the post, it wasn’t meant to make you feel bad❤️

[@XEZ22]

nooo u didnt listen to piano outro!

[@bunnydontcare3664]

Love and best health wishes to u and all u love from Germany. Have a good day...

[@SarahDengler]

Thank you and to you too!

[@andrebonow7198]

you have to learn german to understand this full...its about history and its more on the left side ...

[@derekludwig4407]

I gave you a thumbs up, but...this song and video is very powerful to some of us..please research to understand the powerful message thT this sing is. That you for at least reacting...footnote..maybe most Nigerians are proud to be but are Deutsch even allowed or want to

[@Norbert1819]

The German History often was very dark. You need some lessons about the German history. We are living in the middle of Europe. Today we have the highest standard, and the life here is save...now....That could have an end. The next war against Putin will come...We are waiting....

[@derbrandmeister4660]

Looks more like Funland to me.

[@SarahDengler]

it will look that way if you have a clue of whats going on

[@towtiw9049]

im thinking your Reaktion is real! !

[@SarahDengler]

It is =)

[@oxleee9171]

Hi i have only one thing i dont likes on this music Its a Black Woman i video ( iam not racist) In history example In nazi germany doesnt exist to be a black person of higher rank in the army. The only place in Africa when they got there. but nice video

[@christiandengler6689]

but good thing you are not racist! Otherwise one might think that your argumentation is just nonsense and that you are in fact the R-Word!

[@Nomis3586]

dont they teach u history i the states?

[@christiandengler6689]

wrong on so many levels! Du weisst wirklich nicht, was für ein Idiot du eigentlich bist, oder?

[@mYmsKy]

German History but into song 7 min....

[@SarahDengler]

thats very impressive

[@rolandmeier2407]

RaMMstein - not RaMstein. ;)

[@SarahDengler]

My bad, i'll correct that. ;)

[@akihiko3544]

Hört mal Böhse Onkelz or Hämatom

[@michaosanna]

they are only in it for the money, that's all to say about this "Machwerk". It is provocative for sure, but in the end it is only theatrical pompous power metal for nobody's use, surely a bit scary and angry, but not very special and little inventive, so let's put it into the bin. mfg!

[@SarahDengler]

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[@ReadersOfTheApocalypse]

​@@SarahDengler This video is a wild ride through 2000 years of complicated German history. It perfectly captures the German soul and it expresses very well, how a lot of Germans feel about their country. The extreme ambiguity of love and hate towards it - check out the lyrics, e.g. the final "My love I cannot give you" - no patriotism possible. A bit graphic, ok, but German history and culture has always been this way! Ever seen old German books for little children or Geman fairy tales? It's all about war, suffering, starvation, torture, pain and death! (e.g. check the lyrics for the nursery rhyme "Maikäfer flieg!") Unfortunately, you have to have a profound knowledge of German history to even understand half of the symbology. And you need to watch it several times before you can pick up half of what's going on. Reading multiple comments on possible interpretations will also help. Some users post these under every single review... For example the woman (with her black skin, shiny armor, dress, red lipstick and jewelry) represents Germany in form of Lady Germania and the colors of the German flags: black/red/gold for the republican and black/white/red for the imperial. She's half victim and half villain and her eye patch makes her blind on the respective side of the political sprectrum. Only for the dogs at the end have I seen vastly different interpretations. The one that makes most sense is about the noble but extinct dog-breed "Leonberger" that got revived after the war - an ambivalent image for Germany too: artificially resurrected and higly regarded, but nothing more than dogs - brutal, submissive animals. Ready to restart the cycle of history. (And Germans love dogs more than children) Additionally they included some Rammstein insider-stuff like Snow White and the glass coffin from their song "Sonne" (the piano theme during the credits). You could spend hours analyzing this absolute masterpiece...