"Deutschland" ("Germany") is a song by German Neue Deutsche Härte band

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. Released as the lead single from their untitled seventh studio album on 28 March 2019, it was their first new music since the song " Mein Land" in 2011. The song became Rammstein's second No. 1 single in Germany after " Pussy" in 2009. It was also a No. 1 hit in Hungary and Switzerland, reached the top 5 in Austria and Finland, was nominated for the 2019 Kerrang! Award for Best Single.

Music video

The song's music video was directed by Specter Berlin and was released on 28 March 2019 at 18:00

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, following a 35-second

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on 26 March. The lengthy music video sparked controversy; its dark, violent, and macabre styletypical of the band's aestheticfeatures various events from

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, including

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, the

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, the

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, the November Revolution, the

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, the ''Hindenburg'' disaster, the

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and

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, and the division of the country into

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and

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; it also features

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scenes set in outer space, cannibalism in which people were eating Germania, the personification of Germany, and a bank robbery featuring lead singer

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crossdressing as

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. German actress

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appears as Germania throughout the video. The song also twice uses the line "Deutschland, Deutschland über allen" ("Germany, Germany above everyone") as a reference to "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" ("Germany, Germany above everything") from the Deutschlandlied. The ending credits feature a piano version of the band's 2001 single " Sonne"; the introduction features the song called "The Beast" from the '' Sicario'' soundtrack by

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Music video symbolism

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and the Holocaust, Oxford professor Alexandra Lloyd has stated: "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."

Track listing

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External links

Rammstein "Deutschland" music video
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