Gustavo Corni offers a balanced and comprehensive study of Nazi agricultural policies and German agriculture between 1930 and 1939. The author gives a full account of the decisive rural support for the Nazi party during this period and describes how the Nazi agrarian ideology was developed to gain mass support.
The author focuses on the tensions between the ideological postulates of the re-agrarianizers and the expansion of the Third Reich's industrial economy. Nazi agriculture is analyzed within the context of the larger political economy of Germany and the interests of the military apparatus.
