Blood and Soil

(Blut Und Boden)

   Nazi racial ideology held that the German community derived its strength from the purity of blood and its roots in the soil. This definition precluded Jews from ever becoming Germans because they lacked pure blood and roots in the soil because of their Semitic origins. Using the metaphor of the parasite, the Nazis depicted the Jews as a foreign element that insidiously attacked the nation’s immune system. Nazi propaganda warned that if the nation (Volk) was ever to become healthy, it must purge itself of this foreign substance.