Thursday, July 17, 2025

Story Post: Königsberg Electorate Votes for Agrarian Nationalism

In the 1933 elections the German region of Königsberg voted 54% for the National Socialist party. The East Prussian capital became known as ‘Hitler’s Fortress City’ and as such came under heavy attack from the British air force and the Soviet army at the end of the war. The book ‘German Blood, Slavic Soil’ illustrates how the Nazis adapted their message to a particularly agrarian-populist variant of their ideology in order to win over the rural electorate, and how this led to problems later when the underlying ethno-nationalist policies of the Reich resulted in a need to separate Germans, Poles, and Lithuanians in order to put their ethnic cleansing into practice.

posted by JonathanDark at 17 Jul 2025 14:28:00 UTC Comments (5)

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Clucky: he/him

17-07-2025 14:40:57 UTC

Score 4 not really sure where the “Agrarian” bit fits here but solid effort

Darknight: he/him

17-07-2025 14:55:52 UTC

Score 5, nothing imo faults this (other then, you know, nazis)but I can’t ding anything just for that cause history.

Josh: he/they

17-07-2025 15:21:46 UTC

@Clucky (tipping my hand here but) The 1933 election saw a deliberate strategy by the Nazis to promote a more agricultural-populist message in the east! Think “Polish farmers coming for Aryan jobs”. The book cited above by some handsome stranger is really interesting on the electoral strategy pursued in that election, which was nominally free and fair.

Score 5, who knows who submitted this but they sure know their stuff.

Bucky:

17-07-2025 19:16:30 UTC

Score 4 for cleanly describing an actual event, with one point deducted for proper noun usage as I normally do.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

17-07-2025 19:35:39 UTC

Score 4, nice knowledge on this one

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