Blood and Soil (German: Blut und Boden ) is a nationalist slogan
expressing Nazi Germany's ideal of a racially defined national body ("Blood")
united with a settlement area ("Soil"). By it, rural and farm life forms are
idealized as a counterweight to urban ones. It is tied to the contemporaneous
German concept of Lebensraum , the belief that the German people were to
expand into Eastern Europe, conquering and displacing the native Slavic and
Baltic population via Generalplan Ost.
"Blood and soil" was a key slogan of Nazi ideology. The nationalist ideology
of the Artaman League and the writings of Richard Walther Darré guided
agricultural policies which were later adopted by Adolf Hitler, Heinrich
Himmler and Baldur von Schirach.
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