farmers

• farmers: promised financial stability, 'blood and soil' and Hitler and Himmler influenced by Richard Darre's 'restore the role and values of the countryside and support the expansion of lebensraum'
• actions for the farmers: after 1935 price controls introduced so farmers did not benefit from food shortages and agriculture was unprofitable.
• actions: many farm labourers moved from the countryside and a rural labour shortage developed, Reich entailed farm law in 1933 designed to preserve the 'peasentry', farm
• actions: farm debts written off aqnd small farmers given low interest rates, Reich food estate on 1933 supervised every aspect
• success: many of the farmers moved into the city's and helped out industry's for Nazi's four year plan, farmers benefitted from an increase in prices, agricultural production increased by 22% from 1928-38, wages higher
• failures: rural labour shortages, Reich entailed farm law added problems as prevented development of large scale farms which were more efficuient, Nazi's failed to invets in agriculture
• failures: Reich entailed farm law created resentment, shortages in labour as men in conscription and 3% of population moved to towns