Welcome To Our Shorts! React To Rammstein - Deutschland (MV)

...how nice it would be if you shut up until the video is over...

In my opinion, you are the first Americans, who reacted to this video, who got the message right and transferred it to your own history! It gives me hope!

What you just felt and worked through in your conversation was the entire intent and purpuse of the song and video. I was surprised and amazed how deeply this moved you. Kudos! It really doesn't matter that you didn't pick up on every single reference. You fully got the message.

Hey you Beard guys, i‘d like to sag that i enjoyed your conversation very much. 1. I am from Germany and this Peace of Art touches me every time i watch it again. We grew up with the knowledge about the 3rd Reich. I‘ll never forget, when i first read about it. Alone in my room with my new history book for school when i were round about 10 in the 80s. I saw these pictures and read it and ran to my mom, hit the book onto the table and asked totally concerned „Is this true? Did you knew this?“. She prepared the meal and had her thougts somewhere else… she looked at me, than at the book, to me again… and sadly said „yes, that‘s true. There were these horrible times“. I will never forget this situation. More or less over the years - guess i am in your age - i tried to dive into history to try to understand what happened and why people were able to do these things or just accepted these things. 2. And as a result, and you mentioned it, we have to know our history. If our goal is to live in a society of respect to each other and were the talents of people are supported, we have to teach young people what happens or could happen, if you follow the ones who just follow fear and hate an ignorance (i.e. Content of „Angst“). And if you teach people just that you are the best, and the rest is rubbish, you could forget what is real and what is fake. Like you see in russia. Although Stalin were not better than Hitler, the russions love him and want that time back and do everything for it. But the russions did not won against the nazis because of him. More correct is they won although Stalin was there. And furthermore because of him, millions of people were killed. But that‘s not what is in russian schoolbooks and on tv is tought. There everything the russians did in the past was heroic and awesome and all the other „new“ countries should also want to come back to mother russia, because everything were so beautiful. And everyone who has some issues with this meaning… is automatically not of „other opionion which can be discussed“. No, if you have other thougts you are an enemy that talks fake shit. 3. In former days i were a bit ashamed for beeing german because of this history. Today i know, that humans are not good. We want to be. But we struggle from time to time and are weak. Then we follow these rough feelings. Which never ends in something positiv. But here you might see, why patriotism is not a big thing in germany. I am not proud to be german. I am proud what i reached in my life by myself and regret some things i should‘nt have done. I am happy and lucky that i am german and love to live here. But „to be proud“ on something is somehow final. And that means no reflection and critism anymore. And to belong to a nation means just to belong to a sort of „organisation“. It is an abstract somehow virtual concept of trying to unify more people. Somehow the same like religions. Or even sport clubs or even teams at work. Are you there to support and push to become better, or are you there to separate and divide to protect yourself and feeling better. I believe that just the first way is the only one to have success on the long run and make neighbourhood, company and even societies better Greets from old europe

As a German (and student of history), this song has a special place in my heart. It is a very creative journey through the origins of the place we now call Germany (strictly speaking, German history is younger than US history as the United States existed before Germany did. The transition between "Germanic" via "German speaking" into "German" was a long one. This is what "so young and yet so old" means). And it summarizes the relationship towards my country and it's history perfectly and also the feeling with regards to patriotism and why it is so uncommon in Germany at least in the traditional sense. I would call myself a patriot in the sense that I try to help moving forward towards a better future for me and my country. On this track, it is necessary to face the past as it was, understand why things happened and what might be necessary to change things for the better. I am not a patriot in the sense that I try to connect myself to any romanticised aspect of the past to cherish and honour it for some reason. It is simply not productive towards a better future and it can be dangerous on top of that.

You guys made the best reaction video I have seen so far and you are the first US-Americans to analyze this video so well. No pointless talking and especially no thousand interruptions to make stupid remarks. You guys are great! ... Best regards from Germany ! 👍❤️

Well, Rammstein explained their problem of loving their homeland with this epic work. Many Germans of the same generation share these feelings, plus the Rammstein members were born in East Germany when the Wall was up and working. So they grew up with bondage and were part of the story they told us in this video. All Germans of this generation grew up with this guilty conscience. We were born after the war, in my case 20 years after the end of WWII, but we all had relatives who were personally involved...parents or grandparents. We had and still have to deal with people who lost loved ones through the actions of our relatives and of course suffered as a result. So it's no great surprise that we who have done nothing wrong, still feel shame when we encounter victims or the victims' descendants.This feelings and shame is also the reason that you don't see often that germans wave the german flag, except at a football match with the nationalteam or when foreign leaders come to vistit germany. But I see a light at the end of the tunnel: Generation Z rejects this guilt and shame of the past. Yes, it's easier for them because they don't have to deal with the victims from back then. At the latest with the death of the Rammstein generation, this German trauma will come to an end.

one of the best videos. i'm from germany and this video is really really great and also hard to watch. great reaction!

Very good reaction! In Germany, students are mercilessly honestly confronted with the Holocaust every year in history class. Wars, especially such wars, cannot be glorified. Also because this is part of every school education, Germans react particularly sensitively to autocrats like Putin, Bolsonaro, etc. Even 14-year-olds do that. I don't know if you like it, but nationalist autocrats include Donald Trump. Students hate nationalism and recognize that and address it in class in no uncertain terms. And then they hang out in front of the touch displays during the breaks and follow with great enthusiasm how Biden will prevail against Trump in the 2020 US election.

my family comes from both countries. I live on the border between France and Germany. this burden (WW2) is hard to bear for the Germans. what rammstein says is to accept and assume the good and the bad in order to move forward. this song, the first time I listened to it touched me deeply. nothing shocked me. my grandmother, not knowing and speaking only German, cried. and said: thank you to them for putting words on our relationship with our history. #danke

Hello guys. This was a fantastic reaction to this masterpiece of art. Kudos. I'm from Germany so let me give you some thoughts from someone who's born here. First of all, first time I watched the video I was shocked and deeply moved. The song/ video takes a very deep look into our german souls and how most of us feel about our country. It's a love- hate- relationship. The video is loaded with tons of symbols, that as a German you catch onto. Let's start: in the intro you see Germania ( Personification of Germany) during roman/ germanian tribes time. The red Lazer represents the "red thread" of the story/ history. Astronauts from the future bringing Germania in a glass coffin (snow-white) so she can lead through the/her german history. Next you observe the twenties(Weimar Republic).The prison scene representing the rough, violent times especially for the majority of the population struggling to survive. Money raining down/ the great depression. And Germany's first try as a democratic state. In between Germania is dressed in knight's armor awaking her knights/band with the Lazarus spear. Next Germania is pushed in a wheelchair by the band through the Berlin Holocaust Memorial with burning bodies. (Imagine the Statue of Liberty being pushed in a wheelchair. What a strong image!) Next vignette the office scene showing east Germany and west Germany reunited (1989). Then you're being taken back to mideveal times, monks/ church are feasting off of Germania. In most scenes you'll see some church man involved. No coincidence. The concentration camp scene in the background you see V2 rockets ignition. The inmates are wearing different types of stars on their chests and a sign on the gallows reads: no photos. Germania wears an eye-patch first on her left, than on her right eye. Than a quick shot of Germania dressed modern with lots of gold leading german shepherds., representing Germany's wealth. The 70's scene shows the RAF- extremists holding Germania/ Germany hostage. Next vignette is the witch burnings shifting to the book burning. If you have a close look, at minute 4:45 you see a church man holding up a cross hugging a Nazi, symbolising the churches over all position to the horrific events happening during 1933-1945. The birth scene. Germania is giving birth to dogs respectively "Leonberger" a breed preferred by Kings and Queens. The Breed almost went extinct during WW1 and WW2. A cardinal or federal judge is helping (dressed in red) a new Germany being born. At minute 5:50 you see the riots against refugees homes in the 90's in Hoyerswerda. Molotovs are being thrown and a car is being pushed over with the help of a man dressed in Nazi uniform. Than the scenes/ time vignettes start shifting faster and faster, showing how many times, when circumstances becoming to extreme everything is falling apart and Germania ( dressed in knight's) armor is crying. The outro is the piano version of the song "Sonne" which completed how we feel thinking of our past: a sense of sadness. To sum it up. Germany has a long, wild, violent, unique history, because we as a state of today exist only since 1989. Yet the roots go back a very long time. "Young and yet so old" I hope that helped a little to understand the video and with that us Germans. We don't have a strong feeling of patriotism, but a strong sense of unity. It's complicated. With love from Germany 🤘

I really enjoy your reactions to Rammstein and the talks afterwards. Keep it up & greetings from Germany

I'm so obsessed by Rammstein that I keep going to see every reaction I can find. Yours is maybe the 20th I saw, and it's my favorite.

Actually the concentration camp scene has not only jewsish people reference although obviously that was the biggest group. The signs on the chest say jewish, gay, disabled and something else. :) Great reaction guys PS: My personal opinion to being patriotic and being "proud" of a country is basically. If you are a patriot you want to change a country for the better which also means not agreeing with things that happen or happened. I think a patriot is not someone who looks back and defends everything or tries to make excuses. I think a patriot wants to really bring the country forward and make it better for everyone in the country and that means to start to refelct the past. You can never move forward if you deny or try to erase the past. Best regards from Germany

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

As a native German this video touches me every time and I like it a lot. It is a truly masterpiece of music, pictures and art. What always impresses me, how foreigner such as you start to discus about their land and find paralls to their history. That's what art means to me talking about seeing things different then the other ones. I guess you got the message of them. I totally agree to Rammsteins, it is hard to love Germany!

Tonight. I am checking out…..Rammstein. Live!! In person. At the Linc in Philly. Can’t wait. Headed there soon to tailgate. Been waiting nearly 3 years since I got the tickets (Covid postponed x 2). Who is jealous? Hehehe

Great video guys, I absolutely recommend the Deutschland breakdown video by Three Arrows, very informative

I'm a 39 year old German and this video shows the struggle for me and many people of my generation. I want to love my country but I can't because of our past. It is really hard to understand that but we have to do all we can that this will never happen again! It would be cool to have the german flag outside of the house but it's not the right time! Anyway. Great reaction!

Every time I watch this I think, "All of this from a metal band?" Then, considering this was their first video in about ten years, you wonder if it took them ten years to make it. Imagine the planning and effort that went into making this video. Every shot was packed with symbolism, and they must have known they were going to get some blowback on this. Even the idea of making Germania black must have been controversial. BTW, there are a few excellent "analysis" videos out there that discuss this in great detail.