Deutschtum
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"Many elements [in Bagdad Cafe] connoting "Germanness" however, surface repeatedly. Jasmin's husband, for instance, stops at the Bagdad Cafe after abandoning his wife, and before she arrives there herself. He enters and asks for a beer, but once he finds out there is none to be had, he orders coffee. This feeds into a two-pronged running gag involving coffee ..."--When Heimat Meets Hollywood (2007) by Christine Haase |
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Deutschtum is a German term meaning "Germanness". It may either refer to German character, the belonging to the German people or the entirety of German ethnic groups in foreign countries.
An anti-Western concept of a romanticized Deutschtum has been an important component of German nationalism, when the conceptions of Volk (people) and Gemeinschaft (community) were driven to their racist extremes during the Third Reich.
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