Hitler continued to refer to corporatism in propaganda, but it was not put into place, even though a number of Nazi officials such as Walther Darré, Gottfried Feder, Alfred Rosenburg, and Gregor Strasser were in favour of a neo-medievalist form of corporatism, since corporations had been influential in German history in the medieval era.

There he met Rudolf Höss, who was later commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, and Walther Darré, whose book, The Peasantry as the Life Source of the Nordic Race, caught Hitler's attention, leading to his later appointment as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture.

Darré was a firm believer in the superiority of the Nordic race, and his philosophy was a major influence on Himmler.

: Nazi Minister Walther Darré was born in Argentina.

Along with Joseph Goebbels, Gottfried Feder and Walther Darré, Röhm was a prominent member of the party's " socialist " faction.

Carl-Otto Fast, founder of the Westrogothian School (" Västgötaskolan "), was a notorious Nazi who collaborated with SS Ahnenerbe, Richard Walther Darré and eugenicists from Hadamar in Germany.

" Founded on July 1, 1935, by Heinrich Himmler, Herman Wirth, and Richard Walther Darré, the Ahnenerbe's goal was to research the anthropological and cultural history of the Aryan race, and later to experiment and launch voyages with the intent of proving that prehistoric and mythological Nordic populations had once ruled the world.

Richard Walther Darré ( born Ricardo Walther Oscar Darré, 14 July 1895 – 5 September 1953 ) was an SS-Obergruppenführer and one of the leading Nazi " blood and soil " ( German: Blut und Boden ) ideologists.

Although his parents ' marriage was not a happy one ( Richard Walther remembered his father as a hard drinker and a womanizer ), they lived prosperously, and educated their children privately until they were forced to return to Germany as a result of worsening international relations in the years preceding World War I. Darré gained fluency in four languages: Spanish, German, English, and French.

Against this backdrop Darré began to develop the idea that the future of the Nordic race was linked to the soil in what came to be known as " Blut und Boden ".

Darré was given the rank of SS-Gruppenführer.

Darré was generally on bad terms with Economy Minister Hjalmar Schacht, particularly as Germany suffered poor harvests in the mid 1930s.

By September 1938, Himmler was already demanding that Darré step down as leader of the RuSHA in favour of Günther Pancke.

Darré finally had to resign as Reich Minister in 1942, ostensibly on health grounds, and was succeeded by his state secretary Herbert Backe.

The transcript of a 1940 speech given by Darré was published in Life magazine, 9 December 1940: " by blitzkrieg ... before autumn ... we shall be the absolute masters of two continents ... a new aristocracy of German masters will be created slaves assigned to it, these slaves to be their property and to consist of landless, non-German nationals .... we actually have in mind a modern form of medieval slavery which we must and will introduce because we urgently need it in order to fulfill our great tasks.

Darré was sentenced to seven years at Landsberg Prison.

In 1931, the SS Race and Settlement Main Office ( SS-Rasse-und Siedlungshauptamt ) or ( RuSHA ), was created by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and SS-Obergruppenführer Richard Walther Darré.

A panel discussion on Wirth's book at the University of Berlin on 4 May 1934 was the immediate impulse for the foundation of the Ahnenerbe Nazi " think tank " by Himmler and Wirth, together with Richard Walther Darré.

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.

Peasants were the Nazi cultural heroes, who held charge of German racial stock and German history — as when a memorial of a medieval peasant uprising was the occasion for a speech by Darré praising them as force and purifier of German history.

He performed a variety of duties in the Third Reich, the most notable of which was succeeding Richard Walther Darré as Minister of Food in May 1942 and as Minister of Agriculture in April 1944, and, during the war, was proposed by Alfred Rosenberg as administrator of Ukraine.

* Blood and Soil: Richard Walther Darré and Hitler's ' Green Party by Anna Bramwell, Abbotsbrook, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire: Kensal Press, 1985, ISBN 0-946041-33-4

* Neuordnung unseres Denkens " New Order of Our Thought " by Richard Walther Darré at archive. org

* Blut und Boden-Ein Grundgedanke des Nationalsozialismus " Blood and Soil-A Basic Tenet of National Socialism " by Richard Walther Darré at archive. org

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** Leadership hierarchy: Reichsleitungsfachberater held by Richard Walther Darré ; Gaufachberater ; Bezirksfachberater ; Kreisfachberater ; Ortsgruppenfachberater

* National-Sozialistische Landpost – NSDAP agricultural paper started by Richard Walther Darré.

* Reichsbauernführer – National Farmers ' Leader ; title given to Richard Walther Darré.

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Darré strongly influenced Himmler in his goal to create a German racial aristocracy based on selective breeding.

A rival fraction whom Hildebrand calls the " agrarians " centered around the agrarian leader Richard Walther Darré, the Party " race theorist " Alfred Rosenberg and the Reichsfũhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, favored an anti-industrial and anti-urban " blood and soil " ideology, expansion at the expense of the Soviet Union in order to acquire Lebensraum, alliance with Britain and opposition to the restoration of overseas colonies as threatening German racial purity.

Richard Walther Darré addressing a meeting of the farming community in Goslar on 13 December 1937 standing in front of a Reichsadler and Swastika crossed with a sword and wheat sheaf labelled Blood and Soil ( from the German Federal Archive )