Rammstein - Deutschland | RichoPOV Reacts 

Teacher: "You can't explain Germanys history in 15 minutes!" Rammstein: "We will do it in 10!"

I'm glad you're impressed by one of the greatest music videos ever made. It's a masterpiece of theme, thought and expression.

The video for feuer frei was shot at the same time as triple x the band playing in the mansion scene is Rammstein

Rammstein is truly one of a kind!

If you want to see something mindblowing... Rammstei Ich Will MTV Music Awards 2001... i think that was realy the Absolete BOOM! Especially Live !

Masterpiece!

He sings: "Germany, Germany above all". This is the forbidden verse of the national anthem which was banned after the 2nd World War. Musically a masterpiece and only the least get it.

Check out Till Lindemann (his solo project) with "Steh auf"

If you like this one you and youre ready to go an that Rammstein adventure Im sure youll be up for some bangers so please....Go for It. Explore the Rammstein rabbit hole and see where it will lead you

You really need to know a lot about german history to understand it in deep- provocative and brilliant 🤘

This song is about the love-hate relationship we germans have with our country caused by our long and dark history... The song is just a diamond

I’ve seen a lot of people saying the hanging scene is glorifying the atrocities committed. I disagree. I see it as a German band saying “this happened. We’re not proud of it, but we are not going to pretend it didn’t happen. It’s part of our history whether we like it or not” To do anything else would be the equivalent of a Russian band saying “Stalin who?” Or the British saying “what Empire?”

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.

Ich bin Österreicher und dieser Song + Video berührt mich so unglaublich. Österreich und Deutschland teilt so viel Geschichte und mir kommen immer wieder Tränen bei dem Video. Liebe Grüße an die Schwestern und Brüder und wehret den Anfängen. Vergessen wir niemals was in (Mittel-) Europa in den letzen Jahrhunderten passiert ist und machen wir es besser.

The piano outro is based on Rammsteins song Sonne which is also an absolute masterpiece. Check it out, you won't regret it ;)

The actress represents Germania and the scenes are significant parts of German history, from the Roman conquest, that ended with the old German tribes over the second world war to the RAF terrorism in the 70s and the divided country. I also don't fully get everything but basically the song is about the struggeling relationship Germans have with their country, which I fully agree to. One of the best Rammstein songs in my opinion.

The lyrics are speaking for itself. I can not imange to listen to this as non-german-speaker. And as @Boomer said, all this scenes represent parts of german history. Very interesting.Pure art!

I am so glad and happy you let the piano outro running. A lot of reactors destroy the art by cutting it of. Again a legendary reaction. 👍🏼

As a German I had wo watch this video multiple times to find more and more details and we thoroughly discussed it at home. We still havent figured out everything because it's a mixture of history and a lot of symbolism. And for symbolism all you can do is discuss your interpretation, as long as the creator has not specified the exact meaning they were going for.

As impressive as it is on its own, imagine the band doesnt make a peep for 10 years then just whips this out and slaps it on the table

The fact they are still all the founding members since 94 as well is amazing

This is without a doubt the greatest music video ever made.

EVERY detail in this video has a meaning. Symbols, coulors, clothes, haircuts and even gestures. You have to be a seasoned german to verstehen all of it. Much Love 💙💛💙

Can we all agree that Rammstein videos are in a class of their own!! Very high production values here! The best Rammstein video ever!

All of their official music videos are very well produced, though Deutschland is in a class of its own. Their live shows are also pretty good, perhaps give the song "Sonne" a try (you heard the piano version in the outro)? Try Sonne from their most recent live tour (Stadium tour 2019, either Berlin, Vienna or one of the russian ones), it's impressive.

As a german myself it is so fascinating to listen to the song and watch the video. Every scene is full of details about our history and also our love and hate relationship with our country. They did a outstanding job with this song.

You can´t tell Germany´s history in 10 minutes. Rammstein: Hold my beer....

Das ist auf so vielen Ebenen ein Meisterwerk. Die deutsche Geschichte, die Kunst des Artworks, die Musik, der Text, ... ich kann aus so vielen positiven und negativen Gründen heulen, wenn ich das sehe und höre.

Welcome to the world of Rammstein. Fasten your seatbelt and get ready for some crazy stuff🤘 Best regards from Germany! Here are some suggestions: Sonne live 2019 (Moscow) Benzin live from Madison Square Garden Engel live from Madison Square Garden Mein Herz brennt live at Download Festival 2016 Du hast live in Paris Mein Teil live Hurricane Festival 2013 Should be enough for the moment😄

I copied this commentary but it´s perfekt Originater Megatwingo 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

"I'm extremely impressed" Oh boy, just wait till you see the stuff they pull off on stage 😁 No other band can touch them when it comes to mindblowing showmanship. "Du hast" live @Paris is a classic and a good point to start. It only gets better from there🤘🏻

My wife and I (and our daughter, of course) are all of German lineage. Although we are all Americans, we recognize the images that do not paint us in a favourable light, especially those that were portrayed during the Holocaust. I have seen signs at Jewish temples that say 'never forget'. I would like to add something else. NEVER REPEAT.

If you need further explanation, ask me. That are Parts of the german history.

The song is phenomenal , the clip is phenomenal, and Rammstein are phenomenal! The piano at the end is melody of their song Sonne, another great song of them! Greetings from Bulgaria

This is a masterpiece. This Musicvideo single-handedly encapsulates the feeling every single German shares, which is a love hate relationship with the country. Patriotism doesn't really exist here like it does in other countries, nobody is looking at you sideways for saying you are proud to be Australian, or Japanese, or Peruvian, but you don't hear many people talk like that in Germany, since because of it's dark history everybody resents the country at least a little bit.

Greetings from Bavaria and welcome to the Rammstein rabbithole. 😉 "Du Hast" and "Feuer Frei" (the xXx song) are imho some of their weaker stuff. There is so much more better stuff to get into... Also Till's other project "Lindemann" has much to offer - especially the censored videos or the Moscow Live disc.🤪 Looking forward to more reactions on them.

It's a perfect song for germans. The history, the emotions just everthing. I showed it to my mother (she is a Rammstein fan) who was born before the war (1939 so yes she is 82) and fled from the GDR in 1955 and she just said: perfect - best Rammstein song ever - and who am I to contradict. And both of us studied history - it's an execellent representation of german culture and feeling more than literal history but just true

Yes, Richo, we‘ll go down a Rammstein rabbit hole.

A big yes for the Rammstein-Rabbithole. Dive into it finally... but take the "live" -shows. A big love from Germany.

That is a Artpiece only Germans understand to the fully extend. Welcome to 2000 years of german history.

I think you have to watch "Sonne" live in 2019 they git a crazy stage

Rammstein has many good songs, also the band Lindemann. its the same singer!

This song and the video is a masterpiece. But then the "Sonne"-piano outro is just the icing on the cake!

What an amazing way to start Rammstein again, normally folks go with the Paris performance of Du Hast, Deutschland is where you're normally guided to after getting used to their style. Yeah as others have said it's basically German history and a nod to the future, but done in a way which is just breathtaking. I love this video, one of my all time favourites, with an amazing song woven through it. Well worth checking out their live stuff as they put on a show and a half. Just about anything, but Engel to see those angel wings (that show up at the end of this vid giving Deutschland herself an angelic demeanour) in full force. Ich tu dir weh which will make you laugh and then gasp. Mein Teil, Mein Hertz Brent, Sonne, Amerika, Feur Frei...always go for live when you can, and just enjoy the show. They are amazing, industrial metal at it's finest.

3:04 with a great mustache comes great responsibility

In short this song is about their love for Germany but also the the about the troubled past of said country. It's not a love/hate thing but rather the conflict of emotions. All of them grew up with the Berlin wall and east and west germany. The outro music is called "Sonne" - The sun, and its a rerecord of the song but on the album called "Klavier" (Means Piano, I think) which features several of their songs but only on piano.

It's kind of a problem to make a reaction video for this video. There is so much background you need to know to get the whole picture, but basically it is a bunch of german history, in combination with the legend of Germania (this is where germany comes from) and she is used as a symbol for germany in the video. Anyway, as you can see she doesn't look like you would imagine and the whole controversy this video and song made up when it came out is a video by it's own. The song itself is the whole "love-hate" relationship nearly every german has with his country and the history.... To make it a bit more understandable for the US-citizens: Image a video about Slaves, police violance , 9-11, Vietnam, Kennedy, charles manson (...), and all this is followed by the founding fathers, which are portrayed as ... I don't know, a K-pop band

I'm from germany and I need to cry every time I see this video. THIS explaines how most germans feel about our country. We love it, but hate it at the same time.

You can only feel the song as a German

Now imagine you are at a Rammstein live concert with almost 10,000 fans and they play this song, I can only say one thing: unbelievable!

wikipedia has a good description of the video.. The video shows scenes from over 2000 years of German history; from the Germanicus campaigns to Germania magna in AD 16, to knights, witch hunts, the November Revolution at the end of World War I, hyperinflation in the early years of the Weimar Republic, the Golden Twenties, the book burnings of 1933, the “Hindenburg “-catastrophe, the Second World War, the Holocaust, the history of the German Democratic Republic, the Red Army Faction, up to the May riots. Ultimately, all periods of time end in violence, which runs like a red thread through the centuries. The members of the band take on different roles in the different epochs. The black Germania, accompanied by wolves, cuts off the head of the apparently dead singer of the band, Till Lindemann, who represents a Roman, when the Roman legion arrives. This introductory scene alludes to the population's uprising against the Roman occupiers. Later, Germania reappears in different costumes in all epochs, often surrounded by German shepherd dogs. She is repeatedly shown carrying the dead man's head. She often appears to be passively involved in events, but occasionally she intervenes actively, for example by handing brass knuckles to two men during the Weimar Republic, when she brings knights back to life after a battle, or when she rides an army on horseback leads. Occasionally she is also a victim of events; So she lies as food with sauerkraut in front of monks who eat her, is burned by knights on a pyre, as a general of the SS she is shot in the face by concentration camp prisoners, or she is a fearful hostage of RAF terrorists. In addition, her costumes often mixed her up with historical figures of the respective epoch, such as Saint Mauritius, to whom the imperial insignia was traced, or the dancer Josephine Baker, who lived in Berlin in the 1920s. After kissing the dead Roman's head, she becomes pregnant and later gives birth to several Leonbergers by an obstetrician. Finally, the supposedly dead, but maybe just sleeping Germania is sent into space in a future scenario in a glass coffin reminiscent of Snow White.

I say YES to the Rabbit Hole ! Thanks for the Video Mate

Rammstein is super dope band and it's extremely popular in Russia ☺️ Please, listen to their "Mutter", "Mein herz brennt" (both versions), "Sonne" (the original of the piano outro), "Radio" for starters😉 Please, bring the comment up, guys, so Richopov can see it and make a reaction 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thank you so much for not skipping the Piano Outro 🙏

95% of the pyrotechnics too, till lindemann the front man does him self, he went and got certified years ago and has been doing it for shows for at least 10-15 years, the song sonne, he has massive wings that shoot flames and the fire masks in feuer frei was all his work and engineering ,the man is a bloody genius

Mindblowing, and that is without understanding the lyrics; this is teaching material for symbolism, history, social science... As others will have written, it expresses the ambivalent feelings of (many) Germans to their own country, a place with a 2,500 year history ruined by a period of 12 years in the 20th century (and for many -- including Rammstein -- the 40 years following those).

Gday from Germany! For me Rammstein is the best german Band. I saw them 7 times live🤘🏻 If you're able to go to a Rammstein Show ... do it!!! This video is a masterpiece 🤘🏻

the black lady leading through the video is Germania, the mother of our nation. She shows us all the good and bad things that happened in 2.000 yrs of history like the Lakehurst tragedy with the Hindenburg in 1937, the Haunebu II trip to planet Mars 1947 (?) and even the early beginning including local tribes around the year 0. F***, this is a freakin' masterpiece ! Baron, PEP Cars Frankfurt, Germany

The song and this video are both pure art... Rammstein is getting better and better with the years...

Hab jedes mal Gänsehaut bei dem Song, auch nach dem xten mal hören. besonders bei "Überheblich, überlegen Übernehmen, übergeben Überraschen, überfallen Deutschland, Deutschland über allen" zieht sich bei mir immer alles zusammen :D Großartiger Song.

I listened to this song for the first time xmas day... while I cleaned. Exciting stuff. Great song.

the lyrics cannot possibly translated... they are playing with the language itself. so you could translate the words but not the subtle game the words play with each other giving it different meanings in context

My personal highlight of this video after watching it dozens of times is the two scenes back to back where they show the evil of the far-right as they execute the Jewish prisoner then cut to showing the evil of the far-left as they hold "Germania" hostage/as a shield and shoot people. A beautiful nod to the dangers of extremism that unfortunately people seem determined to forget or ignore nowadays. "Germania" is also wearing an eye patch during the hanging scene but not in any other, I assume this is supposed to mean the country was turning a blind eye to the genocide, but don't quote me on that. And another subtle little detail that often goes missed when viewing for the first time - when they show the Nazis doing their infamous book burning, one of the senior church people from an earlier scene walks up and embraces one of the Nazi soldiers, acknowledging the fact that the church in Germany largely supported the Nazi regime (at least until the Nazis started to muscle in on their authority later down the line). This is very rarely brought up when the subject is discussed or taught in school (at least in the UK).

RAMMSTEIN IS AMAZING. GO TO A CONCERT YOU WILL BE HOOKED FOR LIFE!!!

One fact that I love about this video: it's not only showing Germany's history, it also included a hundred Rammstein references from concerts, songs and videos. Brillant.

You are lucky you started with "Deutschland" - Rammstein. All their videos are great, but this is best by far

Rammstein is amazing, I once saw them live. There was a certain 'shock-factor' in that concert. But it looks like they've always tried to do this. One very popular/known example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hiDakBqvJBs.html The 90's were... different :') They were always a good band, but now they outdo themselves ❤

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 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 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

The outro is the Piano version of their song "Sonne".

The Piano at the end is one of their older songs called "Sonne"

Helllooooo :) love from GERMANY, i must say the phrse Germany Germany over all is forbidden in Germany after Nazi Germany :)

It's pretty sad that "Du hast" your only memory of rammstein...A band that has long since taken over the top of the world.

Awesome reaction , thanks it’s pure art

The 2019 European show is very INTENSE. Sonne (multi-cam) would be cool to see. No pro-shots yet.

That is INCREDIBLE. I have goosebumps! P.S MORE RAMMSTEIN!!!!

Rammstein always have awesome videos, but their live shows are even beyond these. Here are some suggestions: "Sonne" (Live at Download Festival 2016) --> Hot as the name giving sun (Sonne = Sun) "Ich tu Dir weh" (Hurricane Festival / Rammstein Official) --> Great singing and insane stage action towards the end) "Mein Teil" (Live Hurricane Festival 2013) --> Read the story behind the song (a real case of cannibalism!) first „Willst Du das Bett in Flammen Sehn" (Paris Version) --> Pyro Fashion, power, everything that Rammstein stands for "Benzin" (Madison Square Garden) --> Benzin = Gasoline --> burns well. And maybe also a man? There are of course a lot more insane live videos of them: "Links 2,3,4", Engel, "Mann gegen Mann", "Mutter", "Feuer Frei", "Ich will", ... Have fun and rock on! Paris is more a concert movie with post production and released as Directors Cut“. You have to be aware that here a German band is playing in Paris / New York and the French / American audience is singing along in German. Music can unite!

People all over the world watch this video and think:" WTF !!!" Germans only can say this:" It´s complicated!" ;)

Best band in the world. You should check out the piano version of Mein Herz Brennt. It's amazing.

There you go: For your entertainment: You (you have, you have, you have, you have) Have cried a lot (cried, cried, cried, cried) Separated in spirit (separated, separated, separated, separated) United in heart (united, united, united, united) We (we are, we are, we are, we are) Have been together for so long (you are, you are, you are, you are) Your breath cold (so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold)7 Your heart in flames (so hot, so hot, so hot, so hot) You (you can, you can, you can, you can) I (I know, I know, I know, I know) We (we are, we are, we are, we are) You (you stay, you stay, you stay, you stay) Germany - my heart in flames Want to love you and to damn you Germany - your breath cold So young, and yet so old Germany I (you have, you have, you have, you have) I never want to leave you (you cry, you cry, you cry, you cry) One can love you (you love, you love, you love, you love) And want to hate you (you hate, you hate, you hate, you hate) Overbearing, superior Take over, hand over Surprise, ambush Germany, Germany above all Germany - my heart in flames Want to love you and to damn you Germany - your breath cold So young, and yet so old Germany - your love Is a curse and blessing Germany - my love I can not give you Germany Germany You I We You You (overpowering, obsolete) Me (superhuman, fed up with) We (who climbs high, will fall low) You (Germany, Germany above all) Germany - your heart in flames Want to love you and to damn you Germany - my breath cold So young, and yet so old Germany - your love Is a curse and blessing Germany - my love I can not give you Germany

its like a mini history for germany xD romans, germania, weimar republic, nazi germany, RAF (german terror group in the 70s) its just the best video

At next do Ausländer from Rammstein! ;) And then the latest solo-project by the singer Till Lindemann with wonderful french singer ZAZ „le jardin des larms“. It’s so beautiful.

I love Rammstein i love the Songs from there, but there make no more Musik together. Till Lindemann carry on with music. Greetings from Austria🇦🇹

Hello The piano at the end is a version of their song SONNE Many greetings from Germany

You should check out Rammstein - Ausländer, might wanna censure the music video tho :) Edit: It's their catchiest song, imo.

"Meine Liebe kann ich dir nicht geben" is such a sad and yet such a powerful sentence when speaking about their relation with their own country. Makes me tear up almost every time. What a masterpiece this song is.

You should look more videos of em. Like "Mann gegen Mann" or "Mein Land", "Keine Lust" Trust me youll love it!.

this is an absolut masterpiece. be sure to check out the lyrics. without the lyrics you miss 90% of the song. and yes go down this awesome rabit hole

If you want to see a really good analysis of this song and music video you have to watch "Deutschland by Rammstein: An Analysis" by Three Arrows. An excellent video and also a very good channel over all.

Rammsteins artistic value really can't be slept on, they're incredible. They blew up with Du Hast for sure, but its a real shame that's basically what they're known for. They can be funny, emotional, heartwrenching, angry, in love and everything in between. They're worth looking into man, go down that rabbit hole 🤘🏻

Interstingly enough, theres a scene where they eat the woman (A facsimile of Germania or Deutschland) and it looks like a reference to their prior album "Liebe ist für Alle Da". Just noticed this lmao

what brings me to the question : Is there an Oscar or Emmy , such kind of Stuff, for these Artists ?!

I'm german and this is the best music video I've ever seen. To be fair, I like Rammstein alot.

That is what is special about rammstein. At first glance, everything looks messed up. But after the second time you see that it's about the history of Germany.

No one does music clips like Rammstein. F$&kin love these guys

A masterpiece of video art! And a great song as well.

asche zu asche is fuckin awesome as well, radio, mein hertz brennt, mann gegen mann and a lot of their older songs are really good too. dont let me forget Sonne as well

Rammstein has been my favorite band since I saw the video for Du Hast on MTV, so I'll happily go down that rabbit hole with you.

Bro the crocodile hunter just discovered rammstein, my life is complete

Über diesen Song könnte man eine Dr. Arbeit schreiben! Einfach nur fantastisch! About this song you could write a Dr. thesis! Just fantastic!

Rammstein rabbit hole ftw Although you already started with one of the most controversial/discussed ones here in Germany imo. Without a bigger background of German history I think it is almost impossible to understand most of the imagery used and also text pieces.