Hitler and the peasants : agrarian policy of the Third Reich, 1930-1939

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Hitler and the peasants : agrarian policy of the Third Reich, 1930-1939

Gustavo Corni ; translated by David Kerr

Berg : Distributed exclusively in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1990

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La politica agraria del nazionalsocialismo 1930-1939

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Translation of: La politica agraria del nazionalsocialismo 1930-1939

Bibliography: p. 278-299

Includes index

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Gustavo Corni offers a balanced and comprehensive study of Nazi agricultural policies and German agriculture between 1930 and 1939. The author gives a full account of the decisive rural support for the Nazi party during this period and describes how the Nazi agrarian ideology was developed to gain mass support.

Table of Contents

  • The structure crisis in German agriculture from the end of the 1st World War
  • National Socialist ideology and peasant protest before the accession to power
  • interlude - Alfred Hugenberg, "Dictator of the Economy"
  • the "Reichsnahrstand" in the National Socialist power system
  • the "Marktordnung"
  • internal colonization versus preservation of the large eastern estates
  • the Erbhof law - myth and reality of the new peasantry
  • the battle for production
  • extending the living-space - the myth of the Balkans
  • the exodus of the rural population and the shortage of agricultural labour
  • the 4 year plan the failure of the "Peasant Utopia"
  • a comparison with the agrarian policy of fascist Italy.

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