German native speaker here. > that word [Führer] is essentially dead in modern German speech. This is not at all the case. It's a perfectly ordinary word. It'

German native speaker here. > that word [Führer] is essentially dead in modern German speech. This is not at all the case. It's a perfectly ordinary word. It's merely burnt in specific (but not even all) political contexts. I went in more detail in another reply further down the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15414994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15414994