Two Masks, Same Face presentation #010 - Blood and Soil

BLOG #010 - Dark Occult Origins of Nazism (Blood and Soil and Lebensraum)

Blood and Soil

“Blood and Soil” (German: “Blut und Broden”) was a concept and slogan which expressed the Volkisch Movement ideal of a racially defined national body (Blood) united with a geographical settlement area (soil). Through the concept of “Blood and Soil”, many Volkisch proponents idealized rural and farm life as preferable to urban living. The German expression of “Blood and Soil” was originally coined in the late 19th century in volkisch writings espousing racialism and romantic nationalism. It produced much regionalist literature, whose romantic attachment was widespread prior to the rise of the Nazis. “Blood and Soil” later became a key slogan of Nazi ideology.

Lebensraum

Tightly tied to the idea of “Blood and Soil” was the German concept of Lebensraum (“Living Space”), the belief that the German people were to expand into Eastern Europe and beyond. The geographical usage of Lebensraum is credited to Karl Haushofer, who viewed it as a means to average military defeat in World War I and reverse the dictates of the Treaty of Versailles, which reduced Germany geographically, economically, and militarily.

During Hitler’s rise to political power, he claimed that the inevitable expansion of Lebensraum would reverse overpopulation, provide natural resources, and uphold German national honor. Nazi usage of the term Lebensraum was explicitly racial, used to justify the mystical “right” of the Aryan Race to fulfill their cultural destiny at the expense of those they viewed as “racially inferior”, such as the Slavs of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the other non-Germanic peoples of the East.

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