“There’s been a shift in German national identity over the last 15 years or so, and I think the use of these terms has reemerged against that backdrop,” he said.”The columnist charged that Petry had dug up the term because “it expresses the wish to reject everything that does not belong to one’s people”.Rather, he said, “what they want is to strengthen national patriotism and to say that there is no historical responsibility for Germany to welcome every Muslim here”.Such speech should not be interpreted as an attempt to resurrect fascism, said the professor at Dresden University.While the Nazis had used the word to define the Germanisation of people in regions seized by the Third Reich, today it is used in the far-right milieu as shorthand for immigration.
Reunification 26 years ago may also have played a part, as it meant that “discourse in Germany is now partly being influenced by east Germans in a way that it hasn’t been before”, he said.A politician belonging to Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union went on to also use the term “Umvolkung”. It is, until today, a symbol for Nazism and its ideology to exterminate and murder everyone who is not German. “It stirs up the fear that too many foreign people are coming who can change the status quo,” he wrote.. The Umvolkung of Germany has already begun.What has changed is that there has been a “resurgence in the collective memory of Germans as victims” in World War II.”
Political scientist Hans Vorlaender Custom Classic Smoke Alarm suppliers said: “In eastern Germany, and in particular in Saxony state, there is a greater propensity to use these terms.Die Zeit columnist Kai Biermann pointed out that “the term voelkisch was a synonym for extreme nationalism and racism.. Action is needed!”Hans Kundnani, political analyst at the German Marshall Fund, noted that politicians would not have used these controversial terms two decades ago..“They had a different historical experience, and had a different engagement — less of an engagement with the Nazi past.As a result “Germany has become a little bit less critical about the Nazi past than it used to be,” he said.”“This is because, especially in Saxony, they are much more conservative and more nationalist in their thinking,” he said, noting that the AfD and Pegida were playing to this.Bettina Kudla drew fire when she said in a tweet that: “Merkel disputes it
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