Etymology

blood and soil

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

German Blut und Boden
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  1. German · calque ofBlut und Boden
  2. English todayblood and soil

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

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