Völkisch movement
GERMAN ETHNIC AND NATIONALIST MOVEMENT
Völkish; Volkish; Völkisch; Volkisch movement; Volkish movements; Volkische; Volkisch; Folkisch; Voelkisch; Volkism; Voelkisch movement; Voelkish; Volkist; Völkischer; Folkist Movement; Volkist Movement; Völkisch Movement; Volkist movement; Folkist movement
The Völkisch movement () was a German ethno-nationalist movement active from the late 19th century through to the Nazi era, with remnants in the Federal Republic of Germany afterwards. Erected on the idea of "blood and soil", inspired by the one-body-metaphor (Volkskörper, "ethnic body"; literally "body of the people"), and by the idea of naturally grown communities in unity, it was characterized by organicism, racialism, populism, agrarianism, romantic nationalism and – as a consequence of a growing exclusive and ethnic connotation – by antisemitism from the 1900s onward.