Hitler and the peasants : agrarian policy of the Third Reich, 1930-1939

The structure crisis in German agriculture from the end of the 1st World War National Socialist ideology and peasant protest before the accession to power interlude - Alfred Hugenberg, "Dictator of the Economy" the "Reichsnahrstand" in the National Socialist power system the "Marktordnung" internal colonization versus preservation of the large eastern estates the Erbhof law - myth and reality of the new peasantry the battle for production extending the living-space - the myth of the Balkans the exodus of the rural population and the shortage of agricultural labour the 4 year plan the failure of the "Peasant Utopia" a comparison with the agrarian policy of fascist Italy.