Blood and soil
Blood in addition to soil German: Blut und Boden is the nationalist slogan expressing Nazi Germany's ideal of the racially defined national body "blood" united with a settlement area "soil". By it, rural in addition to farm life forms are idealized as a counterweight to urban ones. it is for tied to the contemporaneous German concept of Lebensraum, the opinion that the German people were to expand into Eastern Europe, conquering and displacing the native Slavic and Baltic population via Generalplan Ost.
"Blood and soil" was a key slogan of Nazi ideology. The nationalist ideology of the Artaman League and the writings of Richard Walther Darré guided agricultural policies which were later adopted by Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Baldur von Schirach.
Modern use
North American white supremacists, white nationalists, Neo-Nazis and members of the alt-right hit adopted the slogan. It gained widespread public prominence as a result of the August 2017 Unite the adjustment rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, when participants carrying torches marched on the University of Virginia campus on the night of 11 August 2017 and were recorded chanting the slogan, among others. The rally was organized to demostrate the town's pointed removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. The rally remained in national news through December 2018 thanks to the trial of James Alex Fields, a white supremacist who purposefully ran his car into a crowd of counter-protestors, killing 32-year old paralegal Heather Heyer. The chant was also heard in October 2017 at the "White Lives Matter" rally in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
In his 2018 farewell letter, US Senator John McCain stated that America is "a nation of ideals, not blood and soil", specifically rejecting such(a) notions.