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To: LeoWindhorse
“Wir sind das Volk” - “We are the people”

"Volk" has an extra dimension beyond our American idea of "The People". Das Volk have a primal claim of place. The People is a more abstract political conception. Just sayin' .

7 posted on 12/15/2014 8:19:15 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew
Das Volk is the mystic entity of Germany, incarnated in the "blood and soil" of the Reich. Hitler justified the holocaust as a necessary exercise, medical in nature (all the death camps were run by doctors for this reason), of purifying das Volk, the patient, of debilitating racial impurity.
12 posted on 12/15/2014 8:29:26 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: dr_lew

“The People”. Das Volk have a primal claim of place.
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Well when they find stone and flint arrow heads—they are likely made by their ancestors.

Not like here in America.


22 posted on 12/15/2014 8:43:40 PM PST by ckilmer (q)
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