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Dem Deutschen Volke (lit. ' To the German People '), the dedication on the Reichstag building in Berlin The German noun Volk (German pronunciation:) translates to people, both uncountable in the sense of people as in a crowd, and countable (plural Völker) in the sense of a people as in an ethnic group or nation (compare the English term folk).
The words Volk and völkisch conveyed the meanings of "folk". [ 2 ] Ethnic Germans living outside Germany shed their identity as Auslandsdeutsche (Germans abroad), and morphed into the Volksdeutsche in a process of self-radicalisation. [ 3 ]
Volk is a surname. It means "wolf" in several Slavic languages , and "people" in German . German Volk is the cognate of English folk and related to Fulk , French Foulques, Italian Fulco and Swedish Folke , along with other variants such as Fulke , Foulkes , Fulko, Folco and Folquet.
Magazine advocating for Volkisch politics (1919) The Völkisch movement (German: Völkische Bewegung [ˌfœlkɪʃə bəˈveːɡʊŋ], English: Folkist movement, also called Völkism) was a Pan-German ethno-nationalist movement active from the late 19th century through the dissolution of the Third Reich in 1945, with remnants in the Federal Republic of Germany afterwards.
An Aryan is the descendant of a Volk domiciled in Europe in a closed tribal settlement (Volkstumssiedlung) since recorded history". [22] That definition of 'Aryan' included Estonians, Finns and Hungarians. [22]
The etymology of the Latin word Germani, from which Latin Germania and English Germanic are derived, is unknown, although several proposals have been put forward. Even the language from which it derives is a subject of dispute, with proposals of Germanic, Celtic, and Latin, and Illyrian origins. [10]
Herrenvolk democracy is a nominally democratic form of government in which only a specific ethnic group has voting rights and the right to run for office, while other groups are disenfranchised. [1] Herrenvolk democracy is a subtype of ethnocracy, which refers to any form of government where one ethnic group dominates the state, with or without ...
Lebensraum would be realised by way of ethnic cleansing, the forcible removal of the native Slavic and Jewish populations, and the subsequent repopulation of the border strip with ethnic-German colonists; likewise, the colonisations of Lithuania and Ukraine.