[6] This was dubbed the "Baltic Third" (baltische Drittel) and originated in the promise made by the Baltic aristocracy in 1915 to give a third of their land to the government for resettlement, with modest compensation.
[7] However, the power of the Junkers meant that only approximately a quarter of this land was surrendered to the government.
[8] The law did not significantly alter the ownership structure of German agriculture.
German democracy rejected the road of agrarian revolution, the road traveled by most of the countries in which the economic power of large estate owners was curbed after the World War.
Translated into the realistic language of practical politics, this meant that the Junkers had been saved again".