How did Martin Heidegger connect Dasein with a people or Volk?

In his seminal work Being and Time (1927), Martin Heidegger connected the individual human existence, or Dasein, to a people or Volk through the concept of historicity.12

While Being and Time is often interpreted as focusing on the individual, Heidegger argued that Dasein does not exist in isolation but always "temporalizes"—or acts in time—as part of a larger social and historical collectivity. Within this framework, historicity signifies that Dasein possesses a heritage upon which it must act. This involves making a conscious decision to actualize or engage with specific elements of a collective past.1

Heidegger emphasized that Dasein is inherently future-oriented: it responds to its collective past, within the context of the present, for the sake of its future. By framing history as a project that humans undertake to respond to their collective heritage, he positioned the Volk as a central historical actor. This conceptualization of historicity was later criticized by some scholars for its parallels to the Führerprinzip and the nationalist ideologies prevalent in Germany during the 1930s.13