Community of fate

A community of fate is a group of people who are exposed to a common fate , e.g. B. a risky or dangerous situation .

Examples of this are castaways , hostages or people trapped in a mine . Sometimes a special community of fate develops between hostages and their hostage-takers, which can lead to Stockholm Syndrome .

“Community of Fate” in political contexts

"People" as "community of fate"

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Especially during the time of National Socialism , the term “ people ” was often described as a community of fate.

The term is - like the expressions "blood community", " national community " and "blood and fate community" - a catchphrase that is often used in the ideology and language of National Socialism .

“The Reich German Catholics cannot be surpassed by anyone in their loyalty to the people and the Reich and they affirm the National Socialist revolution because a judgment over the age of individualistic isolation and dissolution was a return to the eternal order of creation, to the Germans' community of blood and fate and on the völkisch nature. "

- Alois C. Hudal : The Foundations of National Socialism , 1936

"Through God's creation we are placed in the blood and fate community of the German people and, as bearers of this fate, are responsible for their future: Germany is our task, Christ is our strength!"

- From the confession of the German Christians

The term is still used today in ethnic contexts.

Other peoples, such as the Jewish people, are often portrayed as a community of fate.

Immigration and community of fate

The CDU politician Volker Kauder demanded of immigrants in Germany shortly after the Berlin “ integration summit ” of the German federal government in July 2006: “Whoever wants to become German must also admit to the German community of fate and thus to German history.”

Euro crisis

In connection with the euro crisis which was EUR - Monetary Union repeated by various politicians, including Angela Merkel , referred to as "common destiny".

Web links

Wiktionary: community of fate  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• www.dhm.de
• www.dradio.de: “The first Americans in the morning. Voices and pictures from the end of the war in 1945 "
• Spiegel Online: Community of Destiny. Experience of assassination makes Schäuble and Lafontaine mild.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theodor Much: No consensus in sight: Can “Judaism” be defined? , haGalil.com , accessed August 10, 2020.
2. ↑ Quoted from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 16, 2006.
3. ^ "The monetary union is a community of fate" , dossier Greece in crisis in the Tages-Anzeiger , May 19, 2010.