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Reich Farmer's Day in Goslar, 1936

The emblem "Blood and Soil" at the 4th Reich Farmer's Day in Goslar 1936, which is organized by the Reichsbauernrat before the Reich Harvest Festival. Under the eagle and the inscription "blood and soil" is the emblem of the Reichsnaehrstand.

Harvest Festival in St. Florian, 1940

During the harvest festival of the Kreisbauernschaft (district farming community) Linz in St. Florian a cart loaded with grain drives through an arch decorated with harvest crown, greens, flags and swastikas .

Harvest festival on the Bueckeberg, 1937

View of the parade of the SA standard bearers at the Reich Harvest Festival on Bueckeberg.

Plan of the Harvest Festival on Bueckeberg, 1933-1937

The plan for the Reich Harvest Festival on Bueckeberg near Hameln showing the restricted area and the road blocks for vehicular traffic, the parking spaces, the march routes for participants as well as the railway lines. Undated map.

Adolf Hitler at the Erntedankfest (harvest festival) on Bueckeberg, 1937

View of the Reich Harvest Thanksgiving Festival (Reichserntedankfest) on Bueckeberg during a speech by Adolf Hitler, flanked by SA standard bearers.

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Harvest Festival at Bückeberg (Weserbergland) , 1933-1937

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Harvest Festival at Bückeberg (Weserbergland)

Harvest festival on Bueckeberg, 1934

View of participants at the Reich Harvest Festival on Bueckeberg.

Harvest festival on Bueckeberg, 1933-1937

View of participants of the Reich Harvest Festival on Buckeberg in traditional costumes and a harvest wreath. Undated picture.

Adolf Hitler at the harvest festival on Bueckeberg, 1935

At the Reich Harvest Festival on Buckeberg Adolf Hitler is greeted by the participants of the festival.

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Harvest Festival at Bückeberg (Weserbergland) , 1933-1937

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Harvest Festival at Bueckeberg (Weserbergland)

Harvest festival on the Bueckeberg, 1936

View of a part of the thousands of flags above the "Erntedankstaette des Deutschen Volkes" on the eve of the Reich Harvest Festival on Bueckeberg near Hameln.

Harvest festival on the Bueckeberg, 1936

View from the grandstand to the parade route on the eve of the Reichserntedankfest (" Reich Harvest Festival") at the Bueckeberg near Hameln.

Harvest festival on the Bueckeberg, 1936

Overview of the Bueckeberg on the eve of the Reichserntedankfest (Reich Harvest Festival).

Harvest festival on the Bueckeberg, 1936

View of a uniformed guard soldier of the SS in front of the "Erntedankstaette des Deutschen Volkes" and hundreds of swastika flags on the eve of the Reicherntedankfest (" Harvest Festival") at Bueckeberg near Hameln. On the right edge of the picture is a mobile "post office".

Harvest festival on Bueckeberg, 1935

Overview on the huge crowd that has gathered for the Reich Harvest Festival on Buckeberg at Hameln.

Harvest festival on Bueckeberg, 1933-1937

View of participants in traditional costumes at the Reich Harvest Festival on Buckeberg at Hameln, enjoying themselves while they wait for Adolf Hitler to ride past. Undated picture.

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Harvest Festival at Bückeberg (Weserbergland) , 1933-1937

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Harvest Festival at Bueckeberg (Weserbergland)

Harvest festival on Bueckeberg, 1936

View of the parade ground surrounded with flags for the Reich Harvest Festival at the Buckeberg. In the foreground SA men are standing.

Adolf Hitler at the Harvest Festival on Bueckeberg,1935

View of the podium during the greeting of Adolf Hitler at the Reichserntedankfest (" Reich Harvest Festival") on Bueckeberg, on the left and right stand SA standard bearers.

Harvest festival on Bueckeberg, 1933

Aerial view of the Reich Harvest Festival and the parade ground on Bueckeberg at Hameln.

Distribution of title deeds to settlers, 1930s

Party officials of the NSDAP distribute title deeds to peasant settlers for reclaimed peaty soil. Undated picture.

German cult, 1935

Elementary school children model historical events: A model made by school children shows returning warriors in southern Germany in 600 B.C.

Honoring ceremony for farmers in Neenstetten, 1935

In Neenstetten on the Swabian Alb takes place an honoring ceremony for farmers. View from city hall on the festival ground in the village center.

Inauguration of Hierlshagen, 1936

At the official inauguration of the village of Hierlshagen, established by the Reich Labor Service and named after Konstantin Hierl, in Sprottebruch at Primkenau (district of Sprottau) in Silesia, uniformed service providers and young farmers in traditional costume have lunch together.

German cult, 1935

Elementary school children model historical events: A elementary school child works on the straw roof of a house from the Bronze Age.

Launching of a replica Viking ship on the river Weser, 1934

Gauleiter Carl Roever (in SA uniform at the lectern) holds a speech at the launching of the replica Viking ship "Stedings Ehre" in Oldenburg. The ship will be used in the documentary of the Nazi cultural community, "Deutscher WaldDeutsches Schicksal" (German ForestGerman Destiny). It is a 24m long replica of the so-called Nydam-ship, from the 4th century A.D. which was found in the Nydam Moor in Schleswig.

Walther Darre at the consecration of the Bauernhochschule at Gransee, 1933

Reich Food Minister Walther Darre on the way to the inauguration of the Maerkischen Bauernhochschule zu Gransee.

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Agriculture, 1933-1945

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Agriculture

German cult, 1935

Elementary school children model historical events: A student reconstructs a Germanic boat from around 1500 B.C.

Training for farmers, 1940

Hitler Youth members are trained as future Ostlandbauer (Ostland farmers). Here they have to disassemble a mower, assemble it again and adjust it.

Peasant family, 1930s

A farmer and family man from the Pongau reads to his family in the evening from the newspaper ("Nationalsozialistische Landpost"). In the corner a portrait of Adolf Hitler has replaced the crucifix. Undated picture.

Harvest Festival, 1942

Working-class girls and young farmers on their way to the meadow in a village in Lower Lusatia, to help farmers collect the harvest. In front a girl is playing on the accordion. She is followed by two girls carrying a floral wreath. Behind, alongside other girls, march boys with agricultural tools.

Launching of a replica Viking ship on the river Weser, 1934

Launching of the replica Viking ship "Stedings Ehre" in Oldenburg. The ship will be used in the documentary of the Nazi cultural community, "Deutscher WaldDeutsches Schicksal" (German ForestGerman Destiny). It is a 24m long replica of the so-called Nydam-ship, from the 4th century A.D. which was found in the Nydam Moor in Schleswig.

Erzeugungsschlacht (Battle for Production), 1935

An economic advisor helps the small farmers on their farm with the so-called Wuerttembergischen Dunglege (composting of manure on concrete slabs with rainwater) that is recognized as being particularly useful.

Erzeugungsschlacht (Battle for Production), 1935

An economic advisor at a farmer's meeting on modern dung issues shows a model of the Wuerttembergische Dunglege (a method of composting manure on concrete slabs with rainwater).

Erzeugungsschlacht (Battle for Production), 1935

An economic advisor speaks in the farmhouse parlor at the table on seed sequence for the following year in order to draw the maximum sustainable yield from the soil.

Jakob Sinn in "Die Saat geht auf", 1935

Jakob Sinn (right) when shooting the film "Die Saat geht auf" (Hans von Passavant) in Neuwesteel (East Frisia), the most recent farming village of the Reich. Left on the wall hangs a poster "The Reichserbhofgesetz (Hereditary Farm Law) protects the bond of blood and soil".

Hans Kerrl at the opening of the Landeserbhofgericht (Regional Hereditary Farm Court) in Celle, 1934

The Prussian Minister of Justice Hans Kerrl during his speech at the opening of the Prussian Landeserbhofgericht (Regional Hereditary Farm Court) at the first meeting in the Castle of Celle.

Grandfather and grandson farming, 1941

Two farmers, a grandfather and his grandson in an alpine landscape, carry scythe and other farming tools for harvest, while the father has to fight as a soldier on the front.

Registration in the Erbhofliste (list of farms in the same family for 200 years), 1938

A district judge presses a farmer's hand, after the Court has appointed him an Erbhofbauer (hereditary farmer) by registering him in the Erbhofliste (list of farms in the same family for 200 years). Next to him at the gate of the house, stands another farmer with farming tools.

Green Week, 1934

Visitor of the agricultural exhibition "Green Week" in Berlin look at an illustration of the history of German agriculture, including among others the chapters "Destruction of liberalism" and "The emancipation of the serfs of National Socialism".

The exhibition "Schaffendes Volk" (Productive People), 1937

In the area of the Reichsnaehrstand an illustration shows "The basis for the measures of the Reichsnaehrstand": Reichserbhofgesetz (Hereditary Farm Law) and Reichsnaehrstandgesetz (Heritage Law). Furthermore quotes from Richard Walther Darre (Farmer is someone who cultivates his hereditary land and looks at his duties as an assignment for his family and his people.) and Adolf Hitler ("The future Germany will be a farmer's kingdom or it will perish"). On the board you can also see the slogans "The farmer is the foundation of the state", "Fight the decay" and "Battle of Production".

Preparations for the Green Week, 1934

A painter puts the finishing touches to the picture "For better or worse, we are bound together" for the Green Week exhibition. It shows a worker and a farmer with hammer and plow, who shake hands and illustrate the partnership of workers and farmers.

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Agriculture, 1933-1945

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Agriculture

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Agriculture, 1933-1945

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Agriculture

Hermann Goering-Koog, 1935

View of a settlers farm on the newly inaugurated Hermann Goering Koog in the west of the peninsula Eiderstedt at the Tuemlauer bay. The roofs of the houses are covered with straw in Old Frisian style. The Koog was handed over to the 50 new settlers on 20.10.1935.

The Kurmark exhibition "Farmer, Worker, Soldier" in Frankfurt / Oder, 1937

During the opening of the Kurmark exhibition "Farmer, Worker, Soldier" in Frankfurt an der Oder visitors look a painting and plants on the floor in the Hall of Honour of the "Farmer" exhibition.

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Agriculture, 1933-1945

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Agriculture

Franz Ritter von Epp, 1930s

Franz Ritter von Epp (2nd from left) and other Nazi officials look at the model of a large settlement. Undated picture.

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Agriculture, 1933-1945

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Agriculture

Signpost on the Frankfurt Oder Bridge, 1935

Signpost "After the German East" on the Oder bridge in Frankfurt an der Oder. Above you can see a farmer and his son. Below, a medieval coat of arms of the Teutonic Order with a swastika.

Election campaign in Austria, 1938

Election propaganda in the streets of Vienna before the referendum on the annexation of Austria: "The same blood belongs to a common Reich" by Adolf Hitler.

The exhibition "Lebendige Vorzeit" (Living Prehistory) of the Technical University of Berlin, 1930s

At the Technical University in Berlin takes place an exhibition on Germans titled "Lebendige Vorzeit" (Living Prehistory). View of a Germanic carriage from around 100 B.C., which should be a faithful replica of a bog discovery near the Danish town of Dyberg. Above there is a banner with a quote from Hans Schemm: "Whoever said the Germans were uncivilized nations falsifies history and commits a crime on the German people".

Harvest festival in Klein Kienitz, 1937

The Hitler Youth Gefolgschaft (Escort) 1/61 celebrates the harvest festival together with the population of the small village of Kienitz in Brandenburg at Rangsdorf. Look at a guard with spade before Landheim "Myrkheim" of the HJ Gefolgschaft.

Agriculture, 1939

An older and a younger man (shirtless), probably a farmer and a soldier, look in the camera while performing agricultural work in East Germany .

Soldiers during the harvest, 1930s

Two soldiers of the 9th Infantry Regiment from Potsdam help harvesting, here during the rye harvest in the surroundings of Berlin. Undated picture.

"Daughter of a farmer from Oldenburg" by Wolfgang Willrich, 1935

Drawing by Wolfgang Willrich from his book "The Peasantry as Guardians of German Blood", Blut und Boden-Verlag, Goslar 1935. Frieda Heinen, daughter of a farmer in Conneforde at Varel in Oldenburg, 1934.

"Pomeranian Fisherman" by Wolfgang Willrich, 1935

Drawing by Wolfgang Willrich from his book "The Peasantry as Guardians of German Blood", Blut und Boden-Verlag, Goslar 1935. Fisherman Ewald Rasch, Lubmin in Pomerania.

"Peasant woman from Braunschweig" by Wolfgang Willrich, 1935

Drawing by Wolfgang Willrich from his book "The Peasantry as Guardians of German Blood", Blut und Boden-Verlag, Goslar 1935. Lisel Deere, a peasant woman in Enessen, Brunswick, wife of the Landesobmann.

"Peasant woman from Baden" by Wolfgang Willrich, 1935

Drawing by Wolfgang Willrich from his book "The Peasantry as Guardians of German Blood", Blut und Boden-Verlag, Goslar 1935. Amalia Albiter, born Engesser, 1934. Kreisbauernfuehrer (district farmer leader) in Hausen vor Wald, Baden.

"Peasant from Hanover" by Wolfgang Willrich, 1935

Drawing by Wolfgang Willrich from his book "The Peasantry as Guardians of German Blood", Blut und Boden-Verlag, Goslar 1935. Friedrich von der Ohe, farmer in Marwede, 1934.

Industrial Exhibition in Berlin, 1938

Rustic furniture from Lower Saxony and naturally dyed carpets of the "Deutsche Heimatwerke" in an exhibition of the Reichsnaehrstand in Berlin. On the carpet in front there is an Odalrune.

Exhibition of the Reichsnaehrstand in Munich, 1937

A girl group of the Reichsschule fuer Leibesuebung Burg Neuhaus (Reich School of Physical Exercise) in traditional costumes while performing folk dance at the exhibition of the Reichsnaehrstand in Munich.

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Agriculture, 1933-1945

Nazi Germany, Blood and Soil: Agriculture

Adolf Hitler on the Bauerntag (Farmers' Day), 1934

An Erbhofbauer (hereditary farmer) hands over the harvest crown to Adolf Hitler (seen from behind in party uniform).

Hermann Goering at the Green Week, 1935

Overview during the speech of Hermann Goering at the opening of the Berlin Green Week.

Bauer letter from 1933

Document that was issued for farmers in Brandenburg on 10/01/1933 at the People's Harvest Day. These documents were given to families who farmed more than 200 years their farm.

Draft for the Erbhof book, 1934

The second prize of the competition for designs for the Erbhof book went to the design of the book cover by Bruno Bielefeld and Mary Lohr Berlin.

exhibition visitor with an "Erbhof" book, 1934

A woman with the hand-bound book "Erbhof" by Otto Dorfner at the exhibition "German Bookmaking" in the Academy in Berlin.

Three generations of a farming family, 1934

Three generations of a farming family. They maintain the family farm which has existed since 1385 in Iblershof in Oberpfalz. Left is the farmer's wife with her daughter, in the middle is the grandmother and on the right is the farmer Johannes Ibler.

Female farmer and her children working in the garden, 1934

This female farmer from Iblerhof in Oberpfalz works with her five children in the garden. Iblerhof is a family farm which has existed since 1385.

Italian journalist, 1937

The groundbreaking of the Erbhoefedorf (Erbhof village) Rosengarten at Worms. 4th from left: the Gauleiter of Hesse, Sprenger. The Italian journalists are standing on the right.

National Socialist art: Nazi propaganda

Old farmers and members of the Hitler Youth make music.

'Blood and Soil' in National Socialism: Reich Farmers Convention in Goslar

The fourth Reich Farmers Convention was inaugurated by the spokesman for the Farmers Convention Prime Minister a. D. Granzow on November 26, 1936 in the city hall of Goslar which is decorated with the eagle, swastika and the slogan 'Blood and Soil' (pictured).

Art , Painting during National Socialism: Herbert Tiebert

The painting 'The Traditional Farmer' by Herbert Tiebert from the Great German Art Exhibition in 1938 held in the House of Art in Munich. The farmer represents the paragon of the people with the slogan 'Blood and Soil', the Nazi government attempted with this to gain a broader group of followers in agricultural areas.

Feierabend by Arthur Kampf

Farmers wash up - watercolor by Arthur Kampf.

Summer from Wilhelm Hempfing

A young peasant woman in a corn field - the painting "Summer" hung in the exhibition "The German man" in the Berlin Kunsthalle.

Posters at the Agricultural Exhibition in Berlin, 1935

The paintings compare the ' Regeneration of the peasantry' under the reign of the Nazis with the drainage of the Oderbruch under Frederick the Great. The images were used as decoration at the Agricultural Exhibition in Berlin.

Josef Hilz in his studio, 1935

The Munich painter Josef Hilz with a model.

Deutschlands Erwachen - Mural in the Brown House

Murals in the Brown House in Munich: 'Deutschlands Erwachen' by Arthur Wirth, Chemnitz. Swastika, rising sun and avenging warrior should represent the beginning of a new era.

Installation for the Harvest festival of a local NSDAP group

Harvest monument of the local NSDAP group Weissensee. Swastika flags flank the monument for the Harvest festival.

Promotional poster for the 'Green Week' in 1934

Promotional poster for the 'Green week' from 27. January to 4. February in 1934 in Berlin in the exhibition halls at the Kaiserdamm.

Poster for the "Green Week" in 1934

An illustration for the "Green Week" in 1934 represents the idealized notion of the "Bauernreich".

Symbol of the 'Green Week' in 1934

The symbol of the 'Green Week' in Berlin from 27. January to 4. February 1934. A Reich Eagle with the swastika, which carries a dagger and an ear and the tag 'blood and soil'.

Students at an exhibition about the peasantry, 1942

Pupils of the elementary school in Charlottenburg view a painting in the traveling exhibition 'The country calls you ', which symbolically represents the colonization of Eastern Europe by German farmers: A farmer is crossing the German-Polish border under the heading: 'The present war creates unimagined opportunities for the agricultural profession.'

Teaching in a school class, 1933

The teacher explains to a school class the life on a Germanic farm.

The painting 'Reifezeit' (Time of Ripeness), 1941

The painting 'Reifezeit' (Time of Ripeness) by Johannes Beutner at the exhibition 'Der deutsche Mensch' (The German Man) in the Kunsthalle in Berlin.

Walter Darre opens 'Green Week', 1937

Reich Agricultural Leader Walter Darre speaks at the opening of the Agricultural exhibition in Hall I on Kaiserdamm.

Propaganda exhibition "Farmer, Worker, Soldier" in Frankfurt an der Oder, 1937

Visitors to the Kurmark show "Farmers, Workers, Soldiers" look at the display "Farmer and Agricultural Worker". The propaganda exhibit served, among other things, to glorify the "German" peasantry and to propagate the Nazi Blood and Ground myth.

Harvest Festival on the Bueckeberg, 1937

Hitler salutes party alignments on the harvest festival on Bueckeberg, 1937. At the left of Hitler Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, at the right the personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann.

Reich Harvest Festival at Bueckeberg, 1935

Reich Peasant Leader and Minister for Food and Agriculture Walter Darre during his welcome speech at the Reich Harvest Festival. On stage with him are among others Adolf Hitler (left) and Joseph Goebbels (4th fr left).