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English
Etymology
From folk + -dom, a calque of German Volkstum. In German, only sense 2 is associated with Nazism.
Noun
folkdom (uncountable) (chiefly history, especially Nazism)
- character of a people, folklore, that which defines a people’s original nature and culture (or an individual's tie to it)
1932, Carl von Ossietzky, “Anti-Semites”, in Anton Kaes et al., editor, The Weimar Republic Sourcebook, University of California, published 1995, page 279:Folkdom cannot be applied to a nation of several score millions; it is a term restricted to a region and pervaded by peasant memories. There is no German folkdom, but one for each of the German tribes, for Thuringia, for the Rhine, for Bavaria. There is no British, no French, no Spanish folkdom, but those of Scotland, Normandy, Biscay.
- matters to do with German minorities outside the Reich as well as Germanization and colonization (cf. blood and soil)