Ploughing, sowing and the Battle for Production, 1937
A single ox draws a plough, a sower casts seed in the morning haze, and a poster of the Reich Food Estate summons Bavarian farmers to the Four-Year Plan.
A pale ox in a neck collar draws a plough across a broad field at the edge of the forest; a man in a hat, silhouetted against the morning haze, strides over the harrowed soil casting seed in wide arcs, and an old man with a metal seed bowl on a cord dips his hand into the grain. On a village wall hangs a framed notice of the Reichsnährstand, Landesbauernschaft Bayern, with an eagle, a swastika and the motto Blut und Boden.
The notice begins: Bayerische Bauern und Landwirte! Der 2. Vierjahresplan verlangt die Steigerung der ... Nahrungsmitteln und Rohstoffen ... Darré had proclaimed the Erzeugungsschlacht, the battle for production, in 1934; from 1936 Hermann Göring's Four-Year Plan demanded that German farms feed a nation preparing for war.
