Co ordination of society

• Sept. 1933: The Reich food estate set up by Darre: Regulates agriculture, control prices and wages and sets production quotas.
• As a result, farmers overall income increased by 41% between 1933 - 36
• Reich entailed farm law: protect smaller farms. farms of around 30 acres were 'hereditary' and could not be divided on the death of the farmer, instead, it was passed to the eldest son
• Introduction of protective tariffs on imports
• reduction on mortgage payments to encourage farmers to stay on the land.
• Generous grants for improvements

Impact:

Economic objectives always took priority over ideology like 'blood and soil'

Hopes of farmers and peasants were largely not met.

• Enforced petty rules resented by farmers
• Controls on sale of produce imposed on choice of crops
• Entailed farm law applied to only 20% of total farms
• Money allocated to clear debts (650,000 RM) mainly went to larger farms
• Agricultural wages never kept up with industrial workers

• Absence of widespread or serious opposition
• A series of plebiscites in the 1930's saw the Nazis obtain 90% of total support

Reasons why there was conformity and support:

• Popularity of some policies
• the effectiveness of propaganda

• There was a fair amount of civil disobedience. (refusal to give the Nazi salute, anti Nazi jokes, refusal to hang flags from homes etc.) in the 1930's
• SOPADE and SD reports indicate people did not wholeheartedly support the regime.
• Lack of opposition WAS NOT evidence of consent: there was an extensive apparatus of terror that made people fear speaking out.
• Plot to remove Hitler by General Beck in 1938
• Assassination attempt by George Elser in 1939