Talk:Völkischer Beobachter

message: Yep, just recycling the convenient and mendacious myth that the Nazis were 'right wing'.— Preceding unsigned comment added by  (talk • contribs) 
The NSDAP, or Nazis if you prefer, were Socialists, thus creatures of the left. They were not 'right wing.'  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.30.9.252 (talk) 00:24, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  right wing radicals like the Nazis 

message: I think the description "ethnic observer" would be more accurate, instead of making up a new word like "folkish" whose origin has few to do with the Nazi use of the word "völkisch". That meaning was one of racial and ethnic definition and had nothing to do with "Volk" which translates into "people".
Perhaps there should be no direct translation of Völkischer Beobachter, since the root word Völkisch has no single equivalent in English. The translation currently used, Nationalist Observer, is inaccurate and misleading IMAO. It is telling that the Thule Society chose the name years before the Nazi acquired the paper. Völkisch is a word which became popular in the late 19th century, and it expressed an idea that combines the notions of race, ethnicity, tribe, nation and blood into a kind of mystical identity. Translating it as "Nationalist" or even "Racialist" falls short of the true meaning.ENScroggs (talk) 18:37, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation of name: ethnic/folkish 

message: Advice for German-speakers: Be careful with "since", because it is not used exactly like seit. 213.78.96.182 12:22, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation from German 

message: I find the use of the term "NSDAP" as opposed to Nazi Party misleading. It appears in this and other articles, and would seem to be more of a term used by those particularly knowledgeable in the field of the Third Reich than the general population. It has no resonance or meaning, certainly not as the word Nazi does.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.161.105.140 (talk) 04:11, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  NSDAP vs. Nazi 

message: Was Alfred Rosenberg the edictor of this newspaper between 1920 decade until 1945?Agre22 (talk) 19:02, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Alfred Rosenberg was its edictor until 1945?

message: I'm currently referring to this publication in a rather-bitter comment that compares Fox News, saying that F.N. is our 21st century counterpart to the V.B. I know that's a stretch, but I'd hate to see this page hacked. (I do not refer to Wikipedia, on purpose, preferring to keep some obscurity.)
I also risked translating the headline via Google Translate; the word "massnahmen", alone, translates to "measures". "Hitler" was the last word in the raw translation, and I deduced the full meaning from that. (I'm not yet ambitious enough to transcribe article text! I'm glad to be able to read probably most Fraktur, although Kurrentschrift is another matter.)
Best regards to all, Nikevich (talk) 13:34, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Should this page be protected?

message: "There were large red posters in Prague announcing that today seven Czechs had been shot. I said to myself: if I had wanted to hang a poster for every seven Poles that were shot, then all the forests in Poland would not suffice in order to produce the paper necessary for such posters."
This quote attributed to Hans Frank about hanging Poles never actually appeared in the Voelkischer Beobachter as claimed in the article. So says John Connelly, "Nazis and Slavs: From Racial Theory to Racist Practice", Central European History (Cambridge University Press), Vol. 32, No. 1 (1999), pp. 1-33. Your Buddy Fred Lewis (talk) 02:54, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Falsely attributed, possibly fake quote 

message: I will begin an expansion before the end of the year. Jonas Vinther (speak to me!) 14:59, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  September 2014 

message: "His accomplishments are everlasting!" Hitler said, he just was not constitutionally able to run a big business like a daily newspaper." I assume that "constitutionally able" refers to Eckart's physical constitution (i.e. his health), but the current wording makes it sound like his running a daily newspaper would have violated the German Constitution. A mistranslation? Jah77 (talk) 14:04, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Constitutionally able"