Acronyms that contain the term volksdeutsche 

Volksdeutsche

In Nazi thinking, Volksdeutsche were "German in terms of people or folk". The term is the plural of Volksdeutsch. The words Volk and völkisch conveyed the meanings of "folk" and "race" while adding the sense of superior civilisation and blood. These terms were used by Nazis to define people in terms of their ethnicity rather than citizenship and thus included Germans living beyond the borders of the Reich, as long as they were not of Jewish religion. This is in contrast to Imperial Germans, German citizens living within Germany. The term also contrasts with the usage of the term Auslandsdeutsche since 1936, which generally denotes German citizens residing in other countries. Volksdeutsche were further divided into Racial groups, — a minority within a minority in a state — with a special cultural, social and historic development as described by Nazis.

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