begun to follow this disastrous trend. By 1930 the birth rate in the countryside was as low as 20 per thousand. For Darré this confirmed the most basic tenets of his theory. The German race, born out of a deeply rooted connection to the soil, was simply not capable of sustaining itself in a society dominated by an urban culture propagated by the Jewish agents of commerce and free trade. Confined to the cities, the German race was doomed to extinction.
