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blood and soil

blood and soil noun: a nationalist, often fascist, ideology that sees genetic heritage (blood) and geographic territory (soil) as the most important values of a nation, typically associated with the idealisation of racial “purity”, reproductive fertility, agriculture and belligerence; examples include Nazism (cf. the concept of Lebensraum) and white nationalism in the United States.

Noun

blood and soil (uncountable)

  1. A nationalist, often fascist, ideology that sees genetic heritage (blood) and geographic territory (soil) as the most important values of a nation, typically associated with the idealisation of racial “purity”, reproductive fertility, agriculture and belligerence; examples include Nazism (cf. the concept of Lebensraum) and white nationalism in the United States.
    • Originator of the Nazi blood-and-soil racial theory, Richard Walther Darre became Agriculture Minister in July, 1933, and announced that his chief aim was to make Germany independent of the world in respect to her food supplies.1953 September 6, “R.W. Darre Dead; Hitler Minister”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    • Representatives of this line of thought around the world are, in many cases, echoing eco-fascist ideas that themselves are rooted in an earlier age of blood-and-soil nationalism.2021 November 21, Oliver Milman, “Climate denial is waning on the right. What’s replacing it might be just as scary”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2022

Origin of blood and soil

Calque of German Blut und Boden, a slogan of the Völkisch movement (including the Nazi Party), chiefly since the 1920s.

Questions about blood and soil

What does blood and soil mean?
Blood and soil means a nationalist, often fascist, ideology that sees genetic heritage (blood) and geographic territory (soil) as the most important values of a nation, typically associated with the idealisation of racial “purity”, reproductive fertility, agriculture and belligerence; examples include Nazism (cf. the concept of Lebensraum) and white nationalism in the United States.
What part of speech is blood and soil?
Blood and soil is a noun.

Words near blood and soil in the dictionary

  1. blood alleys
  2. blood and ashes
  3. blood and guts
  4. blood and ouns
  5. Blood and Sand
  6. blood and soil
  7. blood and thunder
  8. blood and treasure
  9. blood and turf
  10. blood atonement
  11. blood avenger

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