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> some folk

A very specific folk.

Volksgemeinschaft is a German expression meaning "people's community", "folk community", "national community", or "racial community", depending on the translation of its component term Volk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksgemeinschaft

[dxdm]

Your quote leaves out the most interesting part: the word is now associated with some particularly folksy folk who notoriously used it in their. genocidal ideology

> The concept was notoriously embraced by the newly founded Nazi Party in the 1920s, and eventually became strongly associated with Nazism after Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

(From your Wikipedia link.)

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Yeah - I thought people would make the connection from the bit I posted.

‘Folksy folk’ is a great euphemism.