Editing National Primitivism (section)

==History==

The German expression was coined in the late 19th century, in tracts espousing [[File:Racism.png]] racialism/racism and [[File:RomanticNationalism.png]] [[Nationalism|romantic nationalism]]. It produced a [[File:Region.png]] [[Localism|regionalist]] literature, with some social criticism. This romantic attachment was widespread prior to the rise of the [[File:Nazi.png]] [[Nazism|Nazis]]. Major figures in 19th century German agrarian romanticism included Ernst Moritz Arndt and Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, who argued that the peasantry represented the foundation of the [[File:PanGerman.png]] German people and [[File:Conservative.png]] conservatism.

[[File:Ultranat.png]] Ultranationalists predating the [[File:Nazi.png]] Nazis often supported [[File:Farm.png]] country living as more healthy, with the [[File:Artaman_League.png]] Artaman League sending urban children to the countryside to work in part in hopes of transforming them into [[File:Wehrbauer.png]] Wehrbauern (lit. "soldier peasants").

[[File:WaltherDarré.png]] Richard Walther Darré popularized the phrase at the time of the rise of [[File:Nazi.png]] Nazi Germany in his 1930 book Neuadel aus Blut und Boden (A New Nobility Based On Blood And Soil), in which he proposed a systematic [[File:Eugen.png]] [[Eugenicism|eugenics]] program, arguing for selective breeding as a cure-all for the problems plaguing the state. In 1928, he had also written the book Peasantry as the Life Source of the Nordic Race, in which he presented his theory that the alleged difference between [[File:Nordmodel.png]] Nordic people and [[File:PanSlav.png]] Southeastern Europeans was based in the Nordic people's connection to superior land. Darré was an influential member of the Nazi Party and a noted race theorist who assisted the party greatly in gaining support among common Germans outside the cities. Prior to their ascension to power, Nazis called for a return from the cities to the countryside. This agrarian sentiment allowed opposition to both the middle class and the [[File:Arist.png]] [[Aristocracy|aristocracy]], and presented the farmer as a superior figure beside the moral swamp of the city.