As the physical articulation of space, architecture and urbanism cannot operate without engaging property. The nation-state of Austria occupies an area of 83.882,32 km². 86,6 percent of this land is the property of agricultural operations, mainly owned by entities classified as “Bauern”. This master thesis deals with the notion of the “(Erb-)Bauer”, introduced in Austria in 1938, as a new class whose legal and rhetorical framing was crucial for the construction of the ideology of “Blood and Soil”. Departing from the concentration subcamp Aflenz an der Sulm, this portrait-as-research unpacks the effects of the “Reichserbhofgesetz” (hereditary estate law) on the landscape of Aflenz and thereby exposes relations of idology, property, finance, law, agriculture and National Socialism as inscribed into the rural town’s history. The master thesis uses this book as a space of exposing these relations that are opening points of engagement through documents, images and texts. As a representation of an anti-fascist, political, open-ended research, it necessitates active engagement by the reader in the deliberation of ideas and concepts, materialized in image and text, making it a performance in itself. Conceptually, the representational form derives from Bert Brecht’s idea of “complex seeing” and is a counter-position to the mono-directional view of fascism and science, realized through a principle of montage, inspired by Pavle Levi’s conception of written films.