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Source D
The Nazi agricultural ‘expert’, Walter Darre, romanticises the peasantry.
At the bottom of his heart the true peasant …has only a deep mostly silent contempt
for the city dweller or non-farmer … The peasant directs the farm, he is the head, the
other limbs; but all together they are visible for the farm … To be a peasant therefore
means to have a feeling for the organic and interplay of forces in the work as a whole.
(cited in Nazi Ideology before 1933- a Documentation, B Millar Lane and L J Rupp
(eds), Manchester 1978)
Source E
A Nazi Party statement of March 1930, possibly written by the Strasser brothers,
emphasises the peasantry will find their place within a broadly based movement.
The present distress of the farmers is part of the distress of the entire German people.
It is madness to believe that a single occupational group can exclude itself from the
German community which shares in the same fate; it is a crime to set farmers and city
dwellers against one another, for they are bound together for better or for worse.
… The old ruling political parties which led our people into slavery cannot be the
leaders on the road to emancipation.
The war of liberation against our oppressors and their taskmasters can be
successfully led only by a political liberation movement which, although it fully
recognises the significance of the farmers and of agriculture for the German workers
as a whole, draws together the consciously German members of every occupation and
rank.
This political liberation movement of the German people is the National Socialist
German Workers’ Party.
Source F
At the Nuremberg Rally of September 1934 Hitler comments on the place of women
in Nazi society.
If one says that man’s world is the State, his struggle, his readiness to devote his
powers to the service of the community, one might be tempted to say that the world of
woman is a smaller world. For her world is her husband, her family, her children
and her house. But where would the greater world be if there were no one to care for
the small world ? … Providence has entrusted to women the cares of that world
which is peculiarly her own … Every child that a woman brings into the world is a
battle, a battle waged for the existence of her people.
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