Dealing with Germany's Economic Problems 1933-1939
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- Dealing with Germany's Economic Problems
- National Labour Service Corps (RAD)
- Provided young men with labour jobs
- 1935 - made compulsory for all men aged 18-25 to servicefor 6 months
- Received low wages, lived in camps and completed army drills
- Public works scheme
- Building autobahns (motorways) and schools, hospitals and houses
- Rearmament
- Reduced unemployment
- Hitler made Germany war-ready
- 1935 - reintroduction of conscription
- 1933 - 100,000 strong
- 1939 - 1.4 million
- 26 million marks spent on rearmament
- 3.5 million marks spent on rearmament
- 1939 - 1.4 million
- Control of the economy
- Deficit spending
- Mefo bills (credit bills) finance public spending
- Four year plan
- Established to make Germany self sufficient
- Autarky
- Invisible unemployment
- Unemployment fell from 6 million in 1933 to 350k in 1939
- The figures didn't include the following:
- Unmarried men under 25 pushed into labour schemes
- Jews/women dismissed from their jobs
- Opponents of the Nazi regime held in concentration camps
- National Labour Service Corps (RAD)
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