Volksgemeinschaftn.
/ˈfɒlksɡəˌmʌɪnʃaft/, /ˈvɒlksɡəˌmʌɪnʃaft/, /ˈvəʊksɡəˌmʌɪnʃaft/, U.S. /ˈvoʊ(l)ksɡəˌmaɪnˌʃɑft/, /ˈfoʊ(l)ksɡəˌmaɪnˌʃɑft/, /ˈfɔlksɡəˌmaɪnˌʃɑft/, /ˈvɔlksɡəˌmaɪnˌʃɑft/ Now chiefly historical.
In contexts referring to Germany: a unified national community.In later use chiefly with reference to the concept as espoused by the Nazi Party, which described the Volksgemeinschaft as a strong, harmonious, and homogeneous German society, and which was to be established according to the Party's racial ideologies and political aims.
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society > society and the community > [noun] > a community > other types of community
churchOE
phalanx1602
republic1610
phalanstery1839
faith community1896
technocracy1925
plural community1939
Dogpatch1946
discourse community1972
1919 F. Ebert in Elmira (N.Y.) Star-Gaz. 18 Jan. 12/6 The republic cannot and will not consent to any further diminuation of its national entity—volksgemeinschaft.
1942 Hist. 26 267 Hitler's speeches are full of this conception of a new Volksgemeinschaft.
1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Mar. 32/1 The ideal of the Volksgemeinschaft was a product of the war, and the rhetoric that accompanied it encouraged Germans to think of themselves as citizens rather than subjects.
2020 D. S. Frey in R. E. Tully & B. Chilton Equality More or Less iii. 39 Segregation of Jews and other undesirables from the Volksgemeinschaft necessitated a raft of changes which broke down and reassembled the social fabric of Germany.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2022).
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