In 1933, 7,000 estates of more than 500 hectares, just over 0.2 per cent of all farms, controlled almost 25 per cent of German farmland. By contrast, 74 per cent of all farms in Germany–2.26 million in total–farmed only 19 per cent of the land, in often widely dispersed holdings of between 0.5 and 10 hectares. In the middle were the substantial peasant farms of between 10 and 100 hectares, accounting for 25 per cent of all farms and 43 per cent of farmland.
