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The Bavarian Peasants' League (, or BB) was an agrarian
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in
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,
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, from 1893 to 1933. It has also been known in English as the Bavarian Farmers' League. The BB represented the farming interests in the
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and in the German Reichstag. The BB was represented in the
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with two ministers.


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