File concerning the policies adopted by the National Socialist Party to restore the strength of agriculture so as to create self-sufficency and to preserve the peasantry as a bulwark against liberalism and socialism and to maximise domestic food production, includes: Notes from Raymond Bertrand's book, "Le corporatisme agricole et l'organisation des marchés en Allemagne" on this policy of "Autarky"
Notes from R. Walther Darré's (appointed by Hitler to organise the Nazi movement among the farmers in 1930, in 1933 appointed Minister of Agriculture and Nutrition) books "Das Bauerntum als Lebensquell der Nordischen Rasse" and "Um Blut und Boden" regarding the importance of "yeomanry" in Nazi race philosophy, such preeminence justified according to him the particular attention given to agriculture in Nazi policy
Extracts from J.E. Farquharson's book, "The Plough and the Swastika - The NSDAP and Agriculture in Germany 1928-1945" dealing with Nazi legislation combating speculation and virtual transfer of peasantry into neo-feudal regime. Peasants voted for NSDAP in Reichstag elections of September 1930 to show dissatisfaction with Government's policies on taxes, price of fertilisers and low tariffs. Notes on policies advocated by Nazi's: Reichsnährstand shelter from market forces and Erbhofgesetz - law of hereditary entailment, settlement programme, Erzeugungsschlacht self-sufficency, (1934), 4-year plan - wartime economy (1936), rural migration (1933-39)
Various references to the continuing crisis in German agriculture and food shortages

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