ABSTRACT
The National Socialist programme came to a Germany already too far down the path of industrialization to be ultimately successful. The prerequisite for agrarian prosperity was a recovery of the entire national economy, in which agriculture had a vital part to play. Adolf Hitler commissioned Walther Darré to build up an agrarian cadre within the NSDAP in July 1930. National Socialist propagandists were able to use resentment all the more effectively through their infiltration of existing farmers' associations. The Law of Hereditary Entailment (EHG) is to preserve the peasantry within the framework of old Germanic inheritance laws. The most important attempt to work out a new form of market organization can be found in the writings of Gustav Ruhland, a pre-1914 publicist for the Agrarian League. In the final analysis, Hitler failed to stop the political clock which he believed the French Revolution had set in motion: economic and political liberalism.
