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Blut und Boden (German expression that means "blood and earth", abbreviated as Blubo) refers to an ideology that focuses on ethnic origin, based on two factors: ancestry (blood of a people) and the earth (as long as food source for socio-cultural agriculture and habitat). Thus, it exalts the relationship of a people with the land that occupies and cultivates. By extension, it gives great value to the virtues of rural life and the peasantry as an essential racial origin of the German people.

The concept was built from racist and pangermanist theories that developed at the end of the 19th century in Germany and constitutes a central element of national socialist ideology. Critics of this ideology see in it a legitimation of the warmongering career, since it proposed to guarantee the existence of the people itself through the destruction of other peoples to guarantee the appropriation of foreign lands. [Required quotation]

The expression was coined at the end of the 19th century, in part, supported by national racialism and romanticism. French thinker and novelist Maurice Barrès coined and disseminated between 1897 and 1902 the understanding of the concept of the French homeland as "the terre et les mortts of France" in his trilogy Roman de l'énergie Nationale: les Déracinés (1897) , L'Appel au Soldat (1900) et Leurs Figures (1902) The conceptual turn achieves that the revolutionary, democratic or republican idea, of the nation or homeland used in its origin in front of the regime of privileges, aristocratic, ecclesiastics and monarchists, To impose the free will of the majority, now with Barrès it is impregnated with traditionalism and with it the concept derives in conservative and even in reactionary paganism.