Western Civilization II / Unit 10 WC2 0911 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Who Is "the People"? Nationalism's Unanswered Question
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The idea
The people, das Volk, le peuple, il popolo, meant those rooted in the soil. Who was German: by language, place, religion or ancestry? Prussia or Austria? What of Germans in Bohemia and Poland? The questions were postponed while the goals stayed out of reach.
In practice
Nations as the end of war, they believed.
Where people slip
The postponed questions return in units 11 and 14.
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