What does the saying 'Blood and Soil' mean?

In 1933, the Nazi Party made “Blood and Soil” an official policy, declaring some farmland hereditary. Farmers needed an Aryan certificate to prove that they were a member of the Aryan race in order to receive the law's benefits. read more

Though a German expression decades before Hitler came to power, “Blood and Soil” was popularized by the prominent Nazi theorist Richard Walther Darré in 1930, three years before he became Hitler’s minister of food and agriculture. read more

"Blood and soil" is derived from its original German form, "Blut und Boden." The phrase gained prominence as an anti-Semitic chant after Nazi ideologist Richard Walther Darré used it during the ascension of Nazi Germany. read more

Blood and soil (German: Blut und Boden) is a slogan expressing the nineteenth-century German idealization of a racially defined national body ("blood") united with a settlement area ("soil"). read more