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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. But "die Heimat" had a particular meaning

to Nazi Germany beyond the literal meaning of "homeland."

The specific aspects of Heimat — love and attachment to homeland — left the idea vulnerable to easy assimilation into the Fascist "blood and soil" literature of the National Socialists since it is relatively easy to add to the positive feelings for the Heimat a rejection of anything foreign. . . . It was conceived by the Nazis that the Volk community is deeply rooted in the land of their Heimat through their practice of agriculture and their ancestral lineage going back hundreds and thousands of years. The Third Reich was regarded at the deepest level as the sacred Heimat of the unified Volk community—the national slogan was Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Führer. Those who were taken to Nazi concentration camps were those who were officially declared by the SS to be "enemies of the Volk community" and thus a threat to the integrity and security of the Heimat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimat

That's creepy and disturbing. I fear there are some ultranationalist types in the U.S. who feel pretty much the same way about the "homeland."