Frauke Petry, one of the two main leaders of the right-wing Alternative for Germany party, says the racist word “völkisch” should be destigmatized. The term has heavy Nazi connotations. […] Duden, the German dictionary of record, defines "völkisch" as follows: (National Socialist) (in the ideology of National Socialism), concerning a people as a purported race; of or belonging to a people as a purported race(obsolete) national. “It’s unacceptable to reduce the word ‘völkisch’ to ‘racist,’” Petry said. “I myself don’t use the term, but I have a problem with the negative connotations of the concept ‘völkisch’ being extended to the...