blood and soil

== English == === Etymology === Calque of German Blut und Boden, a slogan of the Völkisch movement (including the Nazi Party), chiefly since the 1920s. === Noun === blood and soil (uncountable) A nationalist, often fascist, ideology that sees genetic heritage (blood) and geographic territory (soil) as the most important values of a nation, typically associated with the idealisation of racial “purity”, reproductive fertility, agriculture and belligerence; examples include Nazism (cf. the concept of Lebensraum) and white nationalism in the United States. ==== Translations ====