Blood and Soil

 From “ Why We Fight?” - Handbook for Wehrmacht commanders.

The leader:

“For the first time, perhaps since human history began, the realization has been brought to this country that of all the tasks set before us, the most sublime and therefore most sacred for man is the preservation of the blood-bound species given by God.

For the first time in this kingdom it is possible for man to apply the gift of knowledge and insight given to him by the Almighty to those questions that are of greater importance for the preservation of his existence than all victorious wars or successful economic battles! 

The greatest revolution of National Socialism is to have opened the door to the realization that all of man's mistakes and errors are time-dependent and can therefore be improved, except for one single thing: the error about the importance of preserving his blood, his species and thus the the form given to him by God and the nature given to him by God." (Adolf Hitler.)

4. The German Reich must be a farming empire or it will perish. This demand has nothing to do with one-sided professional politics, but is simply the necessary conclusion from the study of the laws of life and history. 

The vitality of Germanic peoples is only secured if - like a forest in its trees - they remain firmly rooted in the soil that forms their living space through a sufficiently large number of vital farming clans. We are all the descendants of the Germanic farmers who cultivated our people's soil at the time of the conquest and from whose attitude the morality of the German people ultimately emerged. 

What truly species-preserving living systems were created in our people emerged from this rural-Germanic mental attitude and must still be a binding law for us today - even if modified according to the needs of the time. This does not mean that we should all become farmers again, but it does mean that we must put a stop to the unrestrained urbanization of attitudes, which always leads to a turning away from the laws of life, and through appropriate legal measures, we should see the peasantry as a source of nourishment, a source of blood and a source of culture keep our people alive. 

As long as our people have had such a peasantry - history also teaches this - they have overcome even the greatest blood losses caused by wars that they were forced to wage in a relatively short time.

That's why the Reich is fighting for the space we need so that we can become a strong farming people again alongside our industrial activities.”