![]() ![]() ‘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. Rome never again attempted to take the lands east of the River Rhine, known as Germania. Three legionary standards were captured, a loss symbolic and moral, as well as physical, and decades were spent trying to recover them. The Romans were ambushed by an alliance of Germanic Tribes, led by a chieftain called Arminius (the original Hermann the German). Roman soldiers creep through the woods in the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The video opens in AD 16, on the ‘barbarian’ side of the limes, the border of the Roman Empire. At over nine minutes, it gives us a panorama of events and historical and mythical figures, and there are so many references and Easter eggs that fans and commentators will be poring over it for some time to come. ![]() ![]() Rammstein’s Deutschland takes us on a thrilling, violent, and moving journey through German history. Rammstein's Deutschland video explained: introducing Germania ![]()
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