Richard Walter Darré, Obergruppenführer in the SS and a senior member of Adolf Hitler’s cabinet, served as the Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture until 1944.

His ideas, as elaborated in The Peasantry as the Lifeblood of the Nordic Race and his thought-provoking sequel, A New Nobility of Blood and Soil, proved extremely influential on National Socialist thinking and greatly strengthened the party’s agrarian and agriculturalist wing.