Talk:Richard Walther Darré

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Richard Walter Darré (1895-1953), SS-Obergruppenführer, was one of the Nazi leading ideologists. Soon after the Nazis had come to power, from June 1933 to May 1942, Darré served as the Reichsminister of Food and Agriculture, Director of the Reich and Settlement Office, and Reich Peasant Leader. He took a leading part in setting up the SS Race and Resettlement Office, a fiercely racist, anti-Semitic organization. He developed a plan for "Rasse und Raum" (race and space, or territory) which provided the ideological background for the Nazi expansive policy. Darré strongly influenced SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler in his goal to create a German racial aristocracy based on selective breeding. This policy led to the annihilation of millions of non-Germans until the end of the war. Darré was captured in 1945 and tried at the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings (the Ministry Case, 1947-49). Sentenced to 5 years in prison, he was released in 1950 and died in Munich in 1953.

This looks like a copyvio but can't find it. Secretlondon 22:04, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] How Can One Put an Accent Mark?

BKH2007, 24 June 2004

[edit] Wrong name

The title of this page is wrong: He was Walther, not Walter. Not sure how to fix it.

82.17.109.162 16:04, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Did he really make this speech?

The quoted extract from the "chilling" speech seems a little implausible; even in the way it's cited, it's described as hearsay. Fog of war perhaps? It seems intrinsically unlikely since Darre generally spoke highly of the British, regarded them as racially Nordic, and argued (from his experience at an English school) that Germany could learn from the strengths of the English education system. On the other hand, it's possible that he was telling the German crowd what he thought they wanted to hear. Or it could be simply what the media in Britain wanted the British to think the Germans were saying. It would be nice to know. For this article, it would be better to quote from what he actually wrote, rather than from what he is said to have said.

This is with no doubt a propagandistic fabrication. Do you really want to quote as fact everything British magazines wrote in WW2? No further sources?
It really sounds like the British atrocity propaganda about allegedly cannibalistic German soldiers devouring Belgian children in WWI. Remeber that one? I hope nobody will re-quote those British articles as fact in Wikipedia.
Wikipedia should really have higher standards.
217.236.225.70 10:03, 30 October 2007 (UTC)