Volksgemeinschaft

national community

noun FOLKS-ge-mine-shahft Rare

Also means

people's community

Usage Note

Volksgemeinschaft originally meant a community bound by shared culture and language. Caution: the term was heavily appropriated by Nazi ideology; in modern German it is rarely used neutrally and is almost exclusively found in historical or critical contexts.

Examples

"Der Begriff 'Volksgemeinschaft' ist historisch schwer belastet."

Natural Translation

The term 'national community' is heavily burdened historically.

Literal Translation

The concept 'people's-community' is historically heavily burdened.

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