Updating/Modernizing the Völkisch Ideology

But what and who was the Volk? After 1945, a völkisch actor who had gone through the roller coaster of National Socialism wrote in retrospect: “Volk was for us a mythical-religious value”, “which could only be grasped symbolically and not defined conceptually”. Volk was the “revelation of elementary natural forces”, a “living organism and an original plant”.