The Peasantry as the Lifeblood of the Nordic Race

<p>Richard Walter Darré Obergruppenführer in the SS and a senior member of Adolf Hitler's cabinet served as the Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture until 1944. His ideas as elaborated in<em> The Peasantry as the Lifeblood of the Nordic Race</em> and his thought-provoking sequel<em> A New Nobility of Blood and Soil</em> proved extremely influential on National Socialist thinking and greatly strengthened the party's agrarian and agriculturalist wing.</p><p></p><p>In this book Darré examines Nordic civilizations and convincingly argues from multiple angles-biology history archaeology animal breeding religion and philosophy-that without a robust and prosperous peasantry at the foundation holding up the thinkers and decision makers at the top their societies inevitably wither and fail. By demonstrating the stark differences between what he terms as the inherently peasant Nordic race and the various nomadic races Darré captures a duality between the civilization-building and the civilization-destroying races of the world. He argues that the peasant and nomadic characteristics of these respective races are inherent to their being-coded in their genetics. Importantly he puts forward the claim that the rootless and destructive nature of a nomadic race is not limited to wandering the steppe and raiding on horseback. In the modern era these same nomadic races torch civilizations in much more sophisticated ways: exploitative capitalism Bolshevism and sexual degeneracy.</p><p></p><p>Now available for the first time in English this foundational text is essential for anyone seeking a truly complete understanding of the ideology and worldview of National Socialism. Antelope Hill Publishing is proud to present this first-of-its-kind translation of<em> The Peasantry as the Lifeblood of the Nordic Race</em>. Meticulously translated and researched by Angelo Geting this book preserves and contextualizes a fundamental part of a world-changing historical movement.</p>