blood and soil

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

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.
   • 1953 September 6, “R.W. Darre Dead; Hitler Minister”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

   • 2021 November 21, Oliver Milman, “Climate denial is waning on the right. What’s replacing it might be just as scary”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     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.