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• RidderSport@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well Volk is a country’s people in German

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    More so than that. It was the Nazi-era term referring to “the true Aryan German people”, and excluding all the Nazis regarded as degenerate or un-Aryan, as used in the adjective “volkisch”.

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    • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yep. Much like the swastika was a Hindu and Buddhist symbol (that Hindus and Buddhists have largely given up b/c Nazis) “volk” is one of those things the Nazis tainted for good.

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      • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        We do still use the word though, without associating it with the Third Reich at all. It’s a neutral way to refer to ethnicities for example. “Wir sind das Volk” (“we are the people (of this country)”) means the sovereignty of the people.

        “Völkisch” however is tainted (and when non-Germans use “Volk”, it is indeed at least suspicious).

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    • urheber@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m German and I never even knew of that association. (Despite 3 years of WW2 and Hitlers Idiocracy in school)

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      • sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Volksempfänger(propaganda radio), Volkswagen, Volkssturm, völkischer beobachter(nazi newspaper) etc. all originate in that time or were used excessively. So maybe not directly but there are lots of signs or rather word combinations that originated in that time.

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  • waldo_was_here@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And in the dutch language too

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