blood and soil

English

Etymology

Originated in Nazi Germany. Calque of German Blut und Boden.

Noun

blood and soil (uncountable)

1. A nationalist or Fascist ideology linking a particular ethnicity or heritage to a particular geographic region, as in the concept of Lebensraum (“living space”) in Nazi Germany or 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.

Translations

nationalist mantra

• Azerbaijani: qan və torpaq
• German: Blut und Boden (de) n
• Russian: кровь и почва (krovʹ i počva)
• Swedish: blod och jord