The full-length video shows Rammstein assume different roles during famous eras of German history and features scenes from Weimar, Nazi and communist East Germany. Throughout, they sing about a love-hate relationship with their German identity.
The band stirred some controversy among the Jewish community for posting a shorter promotional clip that showed band members dressed up as Nazi concentration camp prisoners.
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The cover for Rammstein's new single "Deutschland", displaying an African female actor (Rubey Commey) as "Germania".[/caption]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeQM1c-XCDc
The music video itself, as well as the song's lyrics are, suffice to say, cryptic and packed with double meanings.
[Verse 1]
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 a very long time (You are, you are, you are, you are)
Your breath is cold (So cold, so cold, so cold, so cold)
The 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)
[Chorus]
Germany – my heart in flames
Want to love and damn you
Germany – your breath is cold
So young, and yet so old
Germany!
[Verse 2]
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)
Presumptuous, superior
Take over, hand over/puke
Surprise, assault
Germany, Germany over all
[Chorus]
Germany – my heart in flames
Want to love and damn you
Germany – your breath is cold
So young, and yet so old
Germany – your love
Is a curse and a blessing
Germany – my love
I can't give you
Germany!
Germany!
[Bridge]
You
I
We
You
You (Overwhelming, redundant)
I (Supermen, weary)
We (Who climbs high will fall deeply)
You (Germany, Germany over all)
[Chorus]
Germany – my heart in flames
Want to love and damn you
Germany – your breath is cold
So young, and yet so old
Germany – your love
Is a curse and blessing
Germany – my love
I can't give you
Germany!
A right-wing interpretation?
That, or at least a protestation against the deconstruction of the German and wider European identity. Lead singer, Till Lindemann, finds that "de-traditionalisation" is disturbing, and stated there is also no authenticity anymore.
The material doesn't give much away to the untrained eye. At a glance, I would say it looks like another propaganda piece for cultural Marxism - an African in historic European regalia is a red flag - but several other interpretations of the material may possibly suggest otherwise:
The black woman represents Germania (black(skin), red(eyes), gold(armour).
She's overtaken by:
- Greed (the business/banking scene),
- Lust (making out with Till's head)
- Gluttony of the elites (priests eating from her on the table)
and on of top of that she isn't even white anymore.
Everything is falling apart:
- their economy (banking scene)
- their society (police scene)
- their beliefs (Auschwitz book burning scene)
and in the end everything falls into chaos.
Germany is both ill and sterile and can't even give birth to a child (childbirth scene where they pull out a puppy, this may represent white people having pets instead of children). This scene is emphasized by the hazmat suit wearers surrounding Germania.
Germany is soon after dead, they send her in a coffin to space.
Other interpretations:
- At the start an African "Germania" is seemingly beamed into a Germanic forest by a sophisticated civilization, and is depicted in ancient history in an encounter with the Romans, she is seen with the head of a German man. This could demonstrate the denial of white European/German history by Marxist academics.
- We see the modern Catholic Church turn its back on Germans, eating from the body of liberal multicultural Germany as a balkanized and divided electorate. Under the table we see subjugated gimp-masked people flailing; possibly the disregarded German people. Eating from a woman's body is also an erotic thing to do, suggesting both the gluttony and sexual transgressions of the fallen Catholic Church. Rats are seen to congregate around them too.
- We see the politburo of the communist/masonic administration, the thing responsible for modern Germany's fall.
- The black woman representing Germania is seen wearing lots of jewelry/bling and walking with a band of dogs on leashes, escorted by modern riot police. Perhaps representing modern liberal Germany increasingly becoming a police state of gangster proportions. The attire seen perhaps depicts Germania as a modern, rapidly degenerating Americanized Germany. Police seen to defend this cultural and social regression (political correctness?).
- Gang of transgender/LGBT people kidnap Germania from the mentioned police. Demonstrating the failure of the German state to defend Germany from terror related incidents as well as cultural and social decay.
- Sons of futuristic (German?) civilization find memoriam of German civilization and Germania herself. Germany's history and culture is alien to the populace, hence the spacesuits.
- Nazis and liberal Germania are both killed together by Jews. One fell as much as the other. Perhaps represents the guilt of the "Holocaust" and Jewish persecution being pushed on Germany in both its conservative and liberal form, this tirade of reverse persecution is endless.
- African (multicultural) Germania is pregnant.
- Futuristic Germania gives birth to some ragged mutts (mongrels/a dog of no definable type or breed/a person of mixed descent). Demonstrates multi-ethnic and mixed race societies having no roots. The dogs could represent weak men (a dog should not be birthed by a woman), whether they are pure bred or mutts themselves. Apparently these dogs are mixed breed German Leonbergers. The Leonberger dog became popular with several European royal households, including Napoleon II, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, the Prince of Wales, Otto Von Bismarck, Emperor Napoleon III, and Umberto I of Italy. This could suggest these are purpose bred dogs (people) to satisfy the ruling aristocracy.
- Faces of disappointed & disgusted German men/medics in protective gear, when they see what the inheritors of Germania have become.
- Marxist/Freemasonic/Communist forces clash with Germany's history and identity. Cultural Marxism at war with Germany.
- Terminally ill Germania is finally put into a coffin and shot into space to be forgotten forever.
- The red heifer's (cows) shown in the birthing scene. The red heifer (Hebrew: פָרָה אֲדֻמָּה; para adumma), also known as the red cow, was a cow brought to the priests as a sacrifice according to the Torah, and its ashes were used for the ritual purification of Tum'at HaMet ("the impurity of the dead"), that is, an Israelite who had come into contact with a corpse.
- In order to purify a person who has become ritually contaminated by contact with a corpse, water from the vessel is sprinkled on him, using a bunch of hyssop, on the third and seventh day of the purification process. (Numbers 19:18-19). We see a water sprinkle overlay during the birthing scene to illustrate this. The corpse is clearly going to be Germania.
- The Temple Institute, an organization dedicated to preparing the reconstruction of a Third Temple in Jerusalem, has been attempting to identify red heifer candidates consistent with the requirements of Numbers 19:1–22 and Mishnah Tractate Parah. In recent years, the institute thought to have identified two candidates, one in 1997 and another in 2002. Some believe that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ cannot occur until the Third Temple is constructed in Jerusalem, which requires the appearance of a red heifer born in Israel.
- Susceptible and subverted Black Germania is held hostage, is eaten from at a table by gluts, leads German identity and history into conflict with the state.
- "The Germania", written by the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus around 98 ad and originally entitled On the Origin and Situation of the Germans (Latin: De Origine et situ Germanorum), was a historical and ethnographic work on the Germanic tribes outside the Roman Empire.
In the first stanza, we get some confusion of identity—you, I, we. There is mention of being different and separate. This could be a reference to the Cold War and Germany's separation. This stanza could be setting the scene for what the New Germany is today.
The first two lines of the second stanza sound like a comment on the current situation in Germany. Germany is in flames and wants to love all the immigrants. There could also be the double meaning of Germany being a burning world power, like a furnace getting the job done, so they think they can take in a bunch of refugees. When they take them in, however, the flame of Germany is cooled. Germany is so young and foolish yet so old as a country.
There is a confusion of identity again in the third stanza. The Germans have, they let crying refugees in, they love them for a short while, and then they turn on the Germans. Arrogant Germany thought they and the EU could take all these people in, but they couldn't, and now, they have been taken over. Through the Schengen Agreement, the refugees invade all.
In the final stanza, we get more confusion of identity, meaning multikulti, if you haven't picked up on that by now. "You (overpowering superfluous) / I (Superman, tired)."
