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by, the Junker class, the peasant fared badly in the years
following 1929. Mortgages could act be paid and their
land was taken over by the urban bankers. Foodstuffs
they raised could net be sold except at a very low price
because there was no money with which to bay. They could
receive no help from the Junker class, for the republic had
ceased to subsidize them because of the acute shortage of
money.
Poverty and even hunger was enveloping the peasantry.
Even during the prosperous years of 1934-1928, there had
been many who were not able to make a decent living from
the land, not because of the lack of industry, but be-
cause of the distribution of the land and the lack of
fertile soil. The peasant, go long a lever of the soil,
was being uprooted.
Off and on for about a century the Junkers had lived
on state support. They had come to take it for granted
that, in one way or another, by tariffs or direct sub-
ventions, the state would guarantee them a living "accord*
ing to their station." Despite the heroic use of ferti-
lizers, they were unable to produce grain at the world
price. But since they represented the former ruling class
and since one of their number, Paul Von Hindenburg, was
president of the republic, and since they knew what they
wanted, they actually contributed to the impoverishment of
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Looney, Droel H. The Rise of the National Socialist Party in Germany, thesis, 1941; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc75272/m1/60/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .