The term Volk, in the vision of Nazis,[who?][year needed] had a broad set of meanings, and referred sometimes to the entirety of German nation and other times to the Nordic race.[3] In the writings of leading Nazi thinkers, such as Alfred Rosenberg and Hans Guenther several Völker or "peoples" made up a Rasse or "race", so these two terms did not always denote the same concept. [citation needed][page needed]