Your quote leaves out the most interesting part: the word is now associated with some particularly folksy folk who notoriously used it in their. genocidal ideology
The concept was notoriously embraced by the newly founded Nazi Party in the 1920s, and eventually became strongly associated with Nazism after Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
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Your quote leaves out the most interesting part: the word is now associated with some particularly folksy folk who notoriously used it in their. genocidal ideology
(From your Wikipedia link.)
Yeah - I thought people would make the connection from the bit I posted.
‘Folksy folk’ is a great euphemism.