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Sep 17, 2026
Gavin MichalHOST
It quietened down a little bit after the war, but then re-emerged in the 1930s, as you know, with National Socialism eventually leading to Nazism.
Gavin MichalHOST
But the Volkisch belief, before it became entangled with the Nazi ideology, The pure folkish belief, that was something that intrigued and interested Rabbi Soloveitchik.
Gavin MichalHOST
But let's speak a little bit about the actual belief system.
Gavin MichalHOST
What is folkish belief, German folkish belief? So I think the best way to define it is to say that it was an anti-universalist movement.
André ErlenGUEST
The folk, das Volk.
Volodymyr YermolenkoHOST
Volkisch, yeah, it's a very bad word.
André ErlenGUEST
It's a very bad word.
André ErlenGUEST
And also they say, well, it's also a construction already, a narration, because das Volk, the people were not singing.
ThomasGUEST
He says, what is Europe? There is no geographical definition of our continent, but only an ethnic national.
ThomasGUEST
The word he uses is Völkisch.
ThomasGUEST
and cultural one.
ThomasGUEST
The frontier of this continent is not the rural mountains, but rather the line that divides the western outlook on life from that of the east.
Thomas777GUEST
You know, that's just a fact.
Thomas777GUEST
Um, it, um, you know, the, uh, what also is interesting is that it, without, it doesn't stray in anything approaching like Volkisch language or like outright nationalism, or like nationalism with a lowercase N, you know, like nationalism type of the boogeyman type is dead, obviously, but they talk about how the time has come, we, you know, they need to look out for the German people, like, and anybody politically engaged must, because these are critical times, you know, and anybody who would be interested in following them, you know, it's, they, it would be a mistake for to try and seek out, um, opportune targets to, you know, um, as, as this time of transition is underway, you know, um, because it's not, it wasn't clear like what the parameters were yet.
Thomas777GUEST
Um, as well as like what the objective would be, you know, and, um, divided Germany was, it was a unique situation that was like neither war nor peace.
Thomas777GUEST
You know, like I made the point, um, People on the inter-German border, particularly where tactical nuclear forces were based, and in the Fulda Gap, which would have been the Fulda Gap in the North German plain, is where force of back armor would have absolutely assaulted in the middle of war.
ThomasGUEST
You know, that's just a fact.
ThomasGUEST
It, you know, the, what also is interesting is that it, without, it doesn't stray in anything approaching, like, Volkisch language or, like, outright nationalism, or, like, nationalism with a lowercase n, you know, like, nationalism of the type, of the boogeyman type is dead, obviously, but they talk about how the time has come, we, you know, they need to look out for the German people, like, and anybody politically engaged must, because these are critical times, you know, and anybody who would be interested in following them, you know, it's, they, it would be a mistake for to try and seek out, um, opportune targets to, you know, um, as, as this time of transition is underway, you know, um, because it's not, it wasn't clear like what the parameters were yet.
ThomasGUEST
Um, as well as like what the objective would be, you know, and, um, divided Germany was, it was a unique situation that was like neither war nor peace.
ThomasGUEST
You know, like I made the point, um, people on the inner German border, like particularly where tactical nuclear forces were based and in the fold of gap, you know, where, which would have been, you know, the, the fold of gap in the North German plane is where like Warsaw Bank armor would have absolutely assaulted the mental war.
Bryan SteckerHOST
Tell me more about that.
Joshua MillerGUEST
Um, so this is, this is what's often called the Völkisch movement.
Joshua MillerGUEST
Um, if, you know, if you were to look this up on Wikipedia, you look up Völkisch movement, you know, this is gonna get you to this.
Joshua MillerGUEST
Um, as, uh, the, the Christian churches were kinda declining in popularity, um, in the pre-World War I years, both in, uh, Germany and in Austria, uh, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, um, there is this...
Joshua MillerGUEST
A- and you can...
Joshua MillerGUEST
Um, the, a, a- an obsession with, uh, runes, with the, you know, the, the, uh, ancient German writing script, and all of these kinds of things.
Joshua MillerGUEST
And, and in this milieu, this s- racial pseudoscience kinda goes hand-in-hand with it.
Joshua MillerGUEST
And, uh, when you get the racial s- pseudoscience, which is evolutionary in its origins, and you get the occult mysticism and they c- of the Völkisch movement, and they come together, it's what scholars call Ariosophy, so this philosophy of the, of the so-called Aryan race.
Fraser MyersHOST
They're not quite analogous.
Katja HoyerGUEST
No, I think the difference is that they do have a wing within the party and quite a strong one that, um, has this eth- this ethnic element or Völkisch, as it's known in, in Germany, the idea that you define the German people on ethnic grounds rather than on citizenship, um, alone.
Katja HoyerGUEST
And that is obviously something that goes against the Constitution, which treats kind of all German citizens the same irrespective of their ethnicity or their skin color or their religion.
Katja HoyerGUEST
Um, and so that is an aspect I feel that is less the case in other, uh, kind of right-wing parties that we see across, um, Europe and, and the Western world more widely.
Annette DittertGUEST
The bigger they grew, the more radical they became.
Annette DittertGUEST
Alice Weidel was not part of the very radical Völkische, the tribal nationalist-
Alex AndreouHOST
Mm.
Alex AndreouHOST
Mm
Dan GehringHOST
We'll continue.
speaker_8NARRATOR
Or in German, Völkisch.
speaker_8NARRATOR
And these experts say it offers clues as to the AFD's real agenda.
speaker_8NARRATOR
Because behind one word lies
Josh AddisonHOST
No.
Josh AddisonHOST
So the, the Völkisch movement, which I think that predates the Nazis, but sort of led into it.
Josh AddisonHOST
This-
M. R. X. DentithHOST
It does, yeah.
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