This is a study of the radical peasant trade union which thrived in parts of south and west Germany in the 1920s. The Free Peasantry, as it was known, challenged the authority of the state through food delivery strikes, a separatist putsch which ended in bloodshed.
The peasants of the south and west; the Bavarian Palatinate; the birth of the free peasantry; the free peasantry and the controlled economy; the free peasantry and separatism; the end of the free peasantry.
