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''Deutschtum'' () is a

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...

term equating to "Germanness". It may either refer to the

character and spirit, the belonging and yearning to the German people or the entirety of German ethnic groups residing in foreign countries.Denotations of "Deutschtum"
at Duden online ''(in German)'' An anti-Western concept of a romanticized ''Deutschtum'' has been an important component of

German nationalism German nationalism () is an ideological notion that promotes the unity of Germans and German-speakers into one unified nation state. German nationalism also emphasizes and takes pride in the patriotism and national identity of Germans as one n ...

, when the conceptions of ''Volk'' (people) and ''Gemeinschaft'' (community) were driven to their extremes during the

Third Reich Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

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*{{cite book, last=Verheyen, first=Dirk, title=The German question: A Cultural, Historical, and Geopolitical Exploration, year=1999, publisher=Westview Press, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uTBxLHDVX5UC&q=The+German+question:+a+cultural,+historical,+and+geopolitical+exploration, location=Cambridge, England, UK; Malden, Massachusetts, USA, isbn=0-8133-6878-2 German culture German nationalism

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