> "Blood and earth"
I'm no expert, but I thought the "Blood and Soil" mantra was referencing how the "real Germans" was of "German blood" and "German soil". It was a calling for nationalism, for kinship based on blood connections.
The expansionism used the "lebensraum" mantra. That the "real German people", as identified by their clean pure blood and soil heritage, needed more space to live.
(I do not claim I am a real expert either, but I did read a lot about it and had loong debates with various neonazis about it)
Im general, yes you are right, but it wasn't so much about the "germans", but the aryan white master race. That must take its natural ruling position over europe. And conquer the lowly slavic lands, not to exterminate them, but to use them as slaves for the pure blood aryans who then would own large lands with workers there.
(It always screamed inferiority complex to me, that the dark haired Hitler installed the blond aryan as the great pure blood example)
Fascism isn’t about reality, it’s about the common delusion.
Anyone who will tell the folks what they want to hear (and isn’t impossible to be delusional about!), can lead.
Sort of. But Hitler definitely believed (most of) his own delusions.
Is that why he gave his personal (Jewish) Dr a cushy way out?