Original sentence: By the first decade of the 20th century there were scholarly societies as well as individual folklore positions within universities, academies, and museums.Folklore chronicled the mythical origins of different peoples across Europe and established the beginnings of national pride.However, the study of German Volkskunde had yet to be defined as an academic discipline.In the 1920s this originally apolitical movement was coopted by nationalism in several European countries, including Germany, where it was absorbed into emerging Nazi ideology.The vocabulary of German Volkskunde such as Volk (folk), Rasse (race), Stamm (tribe), and Erbe (heritage) were frequently referenced by the Nazi Party.Their expressed goal was to re-establish the purity of the Germanic peoples of Europe
Edited sentence: By the first decade of the 20th century there were scholarly societies as well as individual folklore positions within universities, academies and museums, however the study of German Volkskunde had yet to be defined as an academic discipline.Folklore chronicled the mythical origins of different peoples across Europe and established the beginnings of national pride (read: nationalism).In the 1920s this originally innocent movement was usurped by nationalistic political forces in several European countries, first and foremost in Germany.It was during this decade that an unfortunate congruence with national socialist ideology was seen to take place; the vocabulary of German Volkskunde, words such as Volk (folk), Rasse (race), Stamm (tribe) and Erbe (heritage) mapped neatly into the political dogmas of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.Nordic, tribes in Europe.The expressed goal of the National Socialists was to re-establish the purity of the Germanic, i