ocr: 'By upholding the old German custom of entailment, the Reich Government wishes to retain the peasantry as the blood spring of the German nation... The Law is intended to work towards a healthy distribution of agriculture units, since a large number of viable small and medium-sized farms, distributed as evenly as possible over the whole country, forms the best guarantee for the maintenance of the nation and the State'. (Noakes & Pridham 384-5)
