Let's Learn German with Rammstein "DEUTSCHLAND" (lyrics explained) | Max & Sujy React 

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I believe the reason why they took this actress for the representation of Germania is because she perfectly reflects the colours of the country. Because she is completely dressed in gold and wears a red lipstick. The explanatory video is ok, but if you want to know more about the song, especially about the historical events in the music video, then I would recommend the video “Deutschland by Rammstein: An Analysis” from the RU-vid channel Three Arrows.

Lady and Sir thank you for beeing so interested in my country 👍👍

Now i'm even more keen on your reaction to the official music video! When will we see it?

The line Germany above everything(alles) was written before Germany existed,expressing the desire for a nation state ,Rammstein changed it to above everyone(allen),as this is what the nazis made of it eventually.

Very smart to watch this explanation first! This way you will be able to watch the video with completely different eyes, with a much better understanding. Germania is black beacuse of the german flag colours: BLACK (she) RED (her lips) and GOLD (her amor)

The German actress Ruby Commey playing Germania (i.e. personified Germany) in the music video is almost always shown wearing costumes featuring red and golden colors. Together with her black skin, this forms the republican German tricolor black-red-gold which as horizontal bands ordered from top to bottom also forms the contemporary national flag of Germany.

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Hi, I'm from Germany. Rammstein is playing a classic "Industrial Metal" style. A 50-50 mix of synthesizers and hard metal guitars. A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman as Germania. Germania is the personification of the German nation. It isn't and wasn't a goddess or Joan of Arc. The glass coffin: It is Little Snow White from the Grimm-fairytales....and from their own video "Sonne". Only with black skin and in space. The piano song at the end is the song "Sonne", too. The words "Germania Magna" at the beginning are a Roman name for the area of Germany, that wasn't conquered by the Roman Empire at that time. Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were the Roman conquered areas (Roman provinces) of Germany. The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) means: Germany as a unified state is very young. A unified German nation is only existing from 1871 onwards. Before that year of unification Germany was made of countless, little mini-states and the people identified first and foremost as Prussians, Hessians, Saxons etc, etc, etc. and only in a second line of thought they had a lose sense of being somehow Germans, too, as a kind of unifying second identity. So the area & the landscape where the Germans are living and the Germans themselves as a people...are thousands of years old. But only recently, in 1871, there was a unified Germany as one single state. So Germany as a unified state is very young...and at the same time it is thousands of years old. The battle of the Teutoburg forest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike). That battle is of ABSOLUTE importance for the German history. The hanged bodies in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, who were gruesome sacrificed to the Germanic gods...and were partly nailed to the trees. The Varus-(Teutoburg)-Battle was already in 9 AD. In 16 AD were the vengeance campaigns of commanding field general Germanicus under Emperor Tiberius Augustus. Therefore we see here the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they are watching their dead comrades hanging in the trees or getting their heads chopped off (for nailing them to the trees). In reality the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army in the various ways they were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed at the trees. Slaves were liberated even decades after the battle. After the scenes with the Romans we saw the Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster (the burning Zeppelin in the background). The moustaches and clothing from the fight scene are from WWI and post WWI years. From the working class people in WWI and the roaring 20's. In the WWII years later on this kind of big bushy moustache was already out of fashion. The falling banknotes in the prison are not about corruption. That scene is about the hyper-inflation of the 1920's, that took away the savings of the Germans and left them in deep poverty and desperation. One had to pay a loaf of bread with a handcart full of nearly worthless banknotes back then and it hit the German people deep down inside and in their souls. Especially the poor ones and the simple workers. The V2 rocket (first manmade object in space) as technical triumph of the German spirit...and at the same time the killing of the concentration camp prisoners in the bunker factories below the mountains during the production of that rocket. This scene in the video could be a representation of a very specific concentration camp. It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein mountain. A mixture between a big, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp. The concentration camp inmates had several different markings for different kinds of convicts and their "crimes" sown to their chests, like it was in reality, too. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the star of David for Jews and two of them were marked with the double-triangles for Jehovas Whitnesses. The book burnings of the Nazis and the burning of the witches of the church. In the same scene with the book burning there is EVEN MORE going on. The cooperation of the church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA-man. The scene with the sign with the Hammer and a pair of compasses in a circle of wheat is the sign of the GDR (DDR). The socialist German state in the east that existed before the German reunification. Therefore it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene at the concentration camp). The scene with Rammstein wielding guns (the pumpgun) and taking Germania hostage was about leftwing terrorism of the 1970's. The terrorists were called the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion). My interpretation of the red scanner-like beams: There are two different kinds of beams. The massive straight red light beam that goes up into the heavens AND there were those smaller, thinner "scanner" beams. Aliens (or humans from the future) are scanning the whole German history. Like some real scientists are scanning and excarvating ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues, for example. The massive red light beam is the red ribbon of time that ties together all the historical events. PS: As for the dogs: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog-owner nation. The dog is a firm part of Germany. PPS: They didn't eat the body of the woman and her inner organs, even if it really looked that way. They were eating the national dish of Germany, that was put on the body of the black woman: Sauerkraut, Kassler & sausages. In my opinion it symbolizes the church eating itself fat on the goods and values and food of Germany during the simple people (farmers, simple workers etc) lived a long time in a kind of hell of poverty and serfdom (the red fetish area below the table with Germania on it). But that eating scene could indeed have a double meaning. It could represent the 30 years war, that was fought for religious reasons and depopulated large areas of Germany. It forced the people to commit canibalism because nobody was there anymore to produce food. Except the fat, wealthy people of the church, of course. They were still able to eat enough. Only the simple people at the bottom (farmers etc) died from hunger and had to fight and die in that war. The 30 years war was the biggest catastrophe in Germany until WWI happened. PPPS: The short scene with the dogs and their gas masks = WWI, where in reality animals (messenger dogs & horses) AND soldiers were wearing gas masks, too. PPPPS: The puppies at the end are Leonberger dogs. The Leonbergers nearly went extinct during WWI and WWII. PPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet. Till sings the famous, often misinterpreted, line of the "Deutschlandlied" (Song of the Germans), that is not forbidden in Germany but simply isn't sung anymore in our modern national anthem. Till sings in his version the line "Deutschland über allen" (Germany above everybody) What is a BIG change to the real line in the orginal Deutschlandlied-song. In the original Deutschlandlied song it is written as "Deutschland über alles" (Germany above everything). The real, whole line of that old Deutschlandlied goes "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles. Über alles in der Welt" (Germany, Germany above everything. Above everything in the world). This line is often misinterpreted by many people as chauvinism and as a looking down upon all other countries on this planet. But that is wrong and not many people know about that in Germany and elsewhere. The writer of that famous line didn't meant it in a chauvinistic way. When that song was written, Germany was divided into umphteenth mini-states, what made Germany relative powerless and defenseless. Therefore the task of German unification was the goal above any other goal for all Germans (at least the writer of the song meant it that way). So the main goal for all Germans had to be the united Germany. The goal of "(united) Germany above everything else". That was, how that line was meant by the writer of the song. The line isn't forbidden, like many people wrongly think. It's simply not sung anymore and not part of the official anthem of modern Germany anymore. This has NOT its reason in the seemingly chauvinist meaning of "Deutschland über alles", like many people wrongly think. This whole stanza of the Deutschlandlied isn't sung anymore, because in other parts of the stanza are borders and landscapes mentioned, that aren't German borders and landscapes anymore. We want to live in peace with the people and countries, who are now living in those former German lands and therefore we don't sing about those old borders and landscapes anymore. It has nothing to do with the "Deutschland über alles" line in that stanza, like many people wrongly are thinking. Finally: The scenes I'm now talking about are pretty dark and low light. The WWII submarine in the submarine bunker during the astronauts are walking by with the glass coffin. I think, the choice of the black woman as main actress was made, because: a) it makes any accusations of racism and fascism against Rammstein useless b) she represents one colour of the German flag and she is wearing the rest of the colours of our German flag as makeup and jewellery and clothes on her body: Black, Red and Gold c) it provokes many people EVEN MORE 😄 Greetings Mega

I think the exitement about "du hast" in other lyrics is hyperbolic. I mean "you have" is a pretty common start to sentences in many languages.

2:56 "du hast" and "du hasst" is not just pronouced _almost_ the same. it is pronounced _exactly_ the same. That's the point.

you can just enable the english subtitle in the Ramstein videos. In english you have also simular sounding words. e.E. "wear" and "where".

Nice reaction. A remark on "Meine LIebe kann ich Dir nicht geben" (I can not give you my love). Gustav Heinemann the third president of West Germany (1969-1974) answered in an interview on if he doesn't love his country "Ach was, ich liebe keine Staaten, ich liebe meine Frau; fertig!" (Oh no, I don't love states, I love my wife; that's it!). So imagine Justin Trudeau saying something like this. I would assume that this what cause him some trouble. The Generation of Till Lindemann (born in the 1960ies) has difficulties to say that they are proud of Germany or that they love Germany. Representative surveys have shown, that the younger generations don't feel like this. However, Germans don't show their love for their country through waiving flags. On being to hard on our self: I don't think so. The Nazis with the support of many Germans systematically schemed to invade foreign countries to displace the local population, killing people because the Germans were deemed as the super race and robbing the invaded countries. Because of this 40 to 50 Million people died in WWII in Europe. Every sixth Pole was killed. This should not be forgotten. However, one can not be responsible for the crimes of their ancestors. BTW: The englisch translation of the über... section of the lyrics is partly misleading (überfallen is not hijacking but invade in the context, Übermenschen means superhuman in the sense that the others are subhumans). Finally, I would like to see more humility from other countries (UK, France, Japan, the USA and Italy comes to mind) with an imperialistic past.

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Especially here in the east people are more likely to vote for the AfD (Alternative for Germany) which is more of a right extremist party. Because they feel more understood. They also don't have a great political record so it is alarming for me that they almost won the EU Parlament election with 2nd place.

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I think the video does not refer so much to how other Germans feel about Germany, but more to how Rammstein themselves feel about Germany. And it's not that they feel misunderstood because of their patriotism. They simply cannot feel the love for their country that they would want to feel, due to its history, but also due to recent events which show that there are many people in the country who have not learned any lessons from this history. I don't want to go through the entire video now, but there are a few other inaccuracies in this explanation. So just keep that in mind 😉

In the original video Rammstein - Deutschland (4:19-4:32) we can see a scene of persons dressed in black where schooting against the police, what give us a very frightened and dark side, what problems Germany must been challenged in his modern history. --- Time of the RAF terror in Germany (1970-1998) After the founding members of the first generation of German terrorists were secured in Stuttgart prison, and the state was transformed into an all-encompassing police and manhunt apparatus with the help of BKA chief Herold, the limit of terror was reached in 1977. The Second Generation had kidnapped the president of the employers' association, Hans-Martin Schleyer, and murdered his motor pool in Cologne. The government in Bonn, led by Helmut Schmidt, now addressed the terrorists personally in a televised speech: "You may feel a triumphant sense of power at this moment. -But you should not deceive yourselves. Terrorism has no chance in the long run!" After Schleyer's kidnapping, a dragnet search is immediately launched within a 30-kilometer radius of Cologne and a special "Doctor Schleyer" commission is set up. The German government now deploys all police forces in the Cologne area to find Schleyer and free him from the hands of the terrorists. After the Schleyer kidnapping, news reaches Bonn that a German Lufthansa plane carrying 86 passengers has changed course, been hijacked by foreign terrorists and is circling over the African continent. The terrorists demand the release of the RAF's founding members from prison and their departure to a country of their choice. When the plane lands in Mogadishu, the terrorist leader issues an ultimatum to the government in Bonn. Either the founding members are released or the Lufthansa plane is bombed. With Schleyer's life and the lives of 86 passengers hanging by a thread, the RAF and its allies had now gone too far. Here they had reached the innermost vulnerability of the German state. The democratic constitutional state with its liberal order, which had been established after 1949, was now put to the test. Should the state allow itself to be blackmailed by terrorists in order to save human lives? For Helmut Schmidt, the matter was clear, especially after the Lorenz kidnapping: "A state cannot be blackmailed! The Bonn crisis staff sends the message to Mogadishu that the founding members of the RAF seem to be released and flown out to Mogadishu. In reality, to buy time, Bonn dispatches the German anti-terrorist unit "GSG9" (which was formed after the 1972 terrorist attack in Germany and of whose existence the population knows nothing) to Mogadishu to storm the plane. After the terrorists receive the news that the German allies will be released, the GSG9 lands in Mogadishu by day. At night, the task force approaches the plane from behind, gains access to the plane, and murders three of the four terrorists. Among them is the leader. All 86 hostages are freed. Meanwhile, in Bonn: Chancellor Schmidt receives the news that the operation was successful, and all passengers are alive. A sigh of relief in Bonn. Meanwhile, at Stammheim Prison: The founding members receive the news of the successful operation over the radio. -They all commit collective suicide the same night. Wiesbaden the day after: BKA chief Herold is beside himself. With the suicide in Stammheim, the Federal Republic has created martyrs. (Even if not intentionally). Hans-Martin-Schleyer could not be found after an extensive search. He is murdered on the Belgian-French border after the failed Mogadishu operation. French police officers find a car with German license plates in which Hans-Martin-Schleyer's body is found. -Germany is informed. The funeral service becomes an act of state. After the murder in Stammheim, many members and sympathizers of the RAF break away. Until 1998, the Third Generation continued to carry out attacks, including against high government officials. It disbanded in 1998. Unlike the First, the Second German Republic survived. And it set the limits to terror. According to the motto: "Bonn shall never become like Weimar!". Even if it cost Schleyer his life.

I think he meant germans are quite cold,compared to people from more southern countries who are more open.

Sie ist vielleicht die bescheidenste und herzerwärmendste Person, die es gibtSie ist vielleicht die bescheidenste und herzerwärmendste Person, die es gibt❤❤

I disagree with the explanation given at 13:47. I rather think that Germans are generally critical or dissatisfied with the way they were and are governed, and which wrong decisions were and are repeatedly made by German leaders. And today's democratic state also has a constitution that constantly divides its citizens into winners and losers, which constantly undermines the values of unity and brotherhood invoked in the national anthem. Sure, things are better or fairer than they used to be, but enough is never enough.

Just wanted to mention, this "meeting" to depart people from Germany, never happend! Courts already prooved that! It's just the thing, that news never reaches mainstrem media! Nice and interesting reaction, greetings from Deutschland :)