Volk
Sign in to savethumb|Dem Deutschen Volke (), the dedication on the Reichstag building in [[Berlin]] The German noun Volk () 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).
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- Etymology
- German national identity
- Nazi era
- After 1945
- Outside of German
- See also
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thumb|Dem Deutschen Volke (), the dedication on the Reichstag building in [[Berlin]] The German noun Volk () 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).
Within an English-language context, the German word is of interest primarily for its use in German philosophy, as in Volksseele ("national soul"), and in German nationalism – notably the derived adjective völkisch ("national, ethnic").