Blood and Soil (German: Blut und Boden) was a phrase and doctrine exploited by Adolf Hitler to provide moral justification for the ejection of the Jewish, and generally non-Germanic, people. Hitler redirects here. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ...

Origin

Existing in the region long before Hitler, the phrase "Blood and Soil" itself serves as a less specifically anti-Semitic expression, referring to the nationalistic literary movement exemplified by Friedrich Griese among others. Such literature was principally concerned with nostalgic, idealized and even quasi-mystical depictions of German peasant life as an embodiment of the qualities of German blood and German soil and was generally aimed at a less intellectual audience than many other genres. While on a literal level, the term emphasizes nationalism and a group of people's right to live on the soil (land) from which they descend. When used by Hitler, it was applied to generalize the Jewish people as a race without roots or native land which therefore did not belong in Germany. ... Friedrich Griese (1890–1975) was a German novelist. ... In a detail of Brueghels Land of Cockaigne (1567) a soft-boiled egg has little feet to rush to the luxuriating peasant who catches drops of honey on his tongue, while roast pigs roam wild: in fact, hunger and harsh winters were realities for the average European in the... Eugène Delacroixs Liberty Leading the People, symbolising French nationalism during the July Revolution. ... This article concerns the term race as used in reference to human beings. ...

As a Nazi ideology

R. Walther Darré popularized the phrase at the time of the rise of Nazi Germany. Darré was an influential member of the Nazi party and a noted "race theorist" who assisted the party greatly in gaining support among common Germans. The phrase was simple in meaning and it helped many Germans fully recognize some of the goals of the Nazi party as well as accelerating racism against not only Jews but foreigners. Richard Walther Darré (14 July 1895 - 5 September 1953), SS-Obergruppenführer, was one of the Nazi leading ‘blood and soil’ ideologists. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... The (German: Nazional- socialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) [National Socialist German Workers Party]); generally known in English as the Nazi Party, was a political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. ... Scientific racism is racist propaganda disguised as science. ... Manifestations Slavery · Racial profiling · Lynching Hate speech · Hate crime · Gay bashing Genocide · Holocaust · Pogrom Ethnocide · Ethnic cleansing · Race war Religious persecution Movements Discriminatory Aryanism · Neo-Nazism · Hate groups White/Black/Latino supremacy Radical Islam · Fundamentalism · Kahanism Anti-discriminatory Abolitionism · Civil rights · Gay rights Womens/Universal suffrage Childrens rights...

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