At 08:08 PM 10/18/2002, Barry E. Muller wrote: >And this from a Beierl! ;-) My folks left Bavaria in ?mid-19th c? and the last vestige of Germanness died with my father's mother, I think; possibly before that. My mom's people were Sassenachs...
>What did you read in this book that would lead you to suspect a different >meaning than "people"? I'd always taken the Volks in Volkswagen and Volksempfaenger to mean something like "proletariat's" or possibly "citizens'" -- but it seems to have much more of the sense of "Nordic Aryans (preferably tall, blue-eyed, blond, broad-shouldered, slender-hipped) with characters of iron self-restraint and belief in reincarnation down through the generations of the clan" -- that is, in the sense of *a* people defined genetically and by history. But I'm struggling a bit with the whole thing because the entire story of Himmler and his...um...private universe is quite surrealistic, as is (to me) the entire German history encompassing the Wars. david
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