Volksdeutsche
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In Nazi German terminology, Volksdeutsche were "people whose language and culture had German origins but who did not hold German citizenship." The term is the nominalised plural of volksdeutsch, with
Volksdeutsche of Sudetendeutsches Freikorps in Czechoslovakia, 1938
Volksdeutsche of Łódź greeting German cavalry in 1939
Volksdeutsche meeting in occupied Warsaw, 1940
Entry to Volksdeutsche office in Kraków, 1940
Volksgemeinschaft
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Volksgemeinschaft is a German expression meaning "people's community", "folk community", "national community", or "racial community", depending on the translation of its component term Volk. This expr
Volksdeutsche
…abroad), and morphed into the Volksdeutsche in a process of self-radicalisation. This process gave the Nazi regime the nucleus around which the new Volksgemeinschaft was established across the German borders. Volksdeutsche were further divided into "racial" groups – minorities within a state minority – based on…
Richard Walther Darré addressing a meeting of the farming community in Goslar on 13 December 1937 standing in front of a Reichsadler and Swastika crossed with a sword and wheat ear labelled Blood and Soil (from the German Federal Archive)
1934 poster, translated People's Health, Volksgemeinschaft, Protection of Children, Protection of Mothers, Combating Begging, Care for Hikers are the tasks of National Socialist People's Welfare: Become a Member.
Hitler Youth at rifle practice, c. 1933