The word "Volk" had a particular resonance in Nazi thinking. The term völkisch movement, which can be translated to English as "the people's movement" or "the folkish movement", derives from ' but also implies a particularly racial undertone. Before the First World War, "völkisch" thought had developed an attitude to the arts as the German '; that is, from an organically linked Aryan or Nordic community (""), racially unpolluted and with its roots in the German soil of the Heimat (homeland).