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Heimat is a quintessentially German concept, which roughly means homeland.
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Homeland is a word that memoirist Ernestine Bradley, who grew up in Nazi Germany, describes as saturated with nationalist power: Heimat is a German word which has no satisfactory equivalent in other languages.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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The National Socialists introduced the term 'Heimat' -- Homeland.
Naomi Wolf: The Attack on MoveOn.org and Other Dangerous 'Fingerprints' 2008
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Homeland is a word that memoirist Ernestine Bradley, who grew up in Nazi Germany, describes as saturated with nationalist power: "Heimat is a German word which has no satisfactory equivalent in other languages.
Naomi Wolf: Read Part Two of the Introduction to End of America 2008
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Under the overall administration of the SS, it was administrated by the RSHA (comparable to Chertoff's 'Homeland Security' - in German 'Heimat Sicherheit' - and was considered a dual organization of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD - security service and also a suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei.
Archive 2006-03-01 Michael Caddell 2006
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Under the overall administration of the SS, it was administrated by the RSHA (comparable to Chertoff's 'Homeland Security' - in German 'Heimat Sicherheit' - and was considered a dual organization of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD - security service and also a suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei.
Just look around you. Michael Caddell 2006
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All Berlin, to the socially progressive Southerner, represents what our own "Heimat" should become.
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All Berlin, to the socially progressive Southerner, represents what our own "Heimat" should become.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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Other than street names and colonial architecture, an annual carnival is held in major towns across Namibia, complete with street processions, oompah bands, beer-drinking and witty speeches on topical issues, just like in Cologne back in the old "Heimat" or home country.
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The result was this "Heimat," in which naturalism was wedded to a mellow sentimentality, caressing to audiences bred upon the drama of perfumed adultery.
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