German Growth Under the Nazis
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- German Growth Under the Nazis
- Unemployment
- Started huge programme of public works
- Gave jobs to thousands
- Autobahns (motorways) started in 1933
- Fiddled with statistics to make unemployment look lower
- Didn't count women or Jews
- Invisible unemployment
- Didn't count women or Jews
- Rewards encouraged work
- All men 18-25 could be recruited into National Labour Service
- Strength through joy
- Workers given cheap holidays and leisure activities
- Beauty of labour
- Encourage factory owners to improve conditions
- Volkswagen seen as an ambition
- Nazis abolished Trade Unions
- Output increased and unemployment almost ended
- Wages still quite low and workers unable to strike or campaign
- Started huge programme of public works
- Military
- Built up armed forces to create work
- Secretly, as ToV had banned it
- 1935: Military conscription re-introduced
- 1936: Four Year Plan
- Prepare the country for war
- Industrial production increased
- To make Germany self-sufficient
- Sacked generals and replaced with Nazis
- Goering in charge of Luftwaffe
- Built up armed forces to create work
- Effects of war on economy
- Women had to work as men joined the army
- Esp. after 1941 when German forces were doing badly in Russia
- Albert Speer: Minister of Armaments 1942
- 1942 - 1944: weapon production tripled
- Germany used slave labour from conquered countries
- Help war effort
- Industries unrelated to war neglected
- Civilians killed through Allied Bombing Raids
- Women had to work as men joined the army
- Unemployment
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