Hitler: The Workers
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- Created on: 17-11-22 09:22
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- Hitler: The Workers
- Aims
- Always a threat of challenge to Gleichschaltung
- Working class made up 46.3% of German Society
- German Labour Front (DAF)
- Established May 6th 1933
- Not compulsory but membership still grew to 22 million in 1939
- 1936 - DAF provided courses to improve skills - more than 2.5mill went
- 1938: Volkswagen Scheme
- Workers pay 5 marks per week to eventually buy a car at subsidised rate
- No workers ever received one
- Workers pay 5 marks per week to eventually buy a car at subsidised rate
- By 1939, the DAF had 44,500 employees
- Trade unions banned on May 2nd 1933
- Strength Through Joy (KDF)
- Workers gain strength through experiencing 'joy' in leisure
- Made content by holidays, sports and cultural activities
- Used as a propaganda technique to indoctrinate workers
- Encouraged competition and improve working standards
- KDF wardens placed in every factory/workplace
- Hugely popular and reconciled those previously hostile to Nazi regime
- Workers gain strength through experiencing 'joy' in leisure
- Wages and Conditions
- 1938 - 34,000 factories had improved working conditions
- Production of consumer goods struggled to keep real incomes
- Wages frozen at 1933 levels
- However, employers used bonuses and health insurance as incentives
- Paid holidays increased from 3 days per year to 12 days per year
- Average working week increased from 43 hours to 47 hours
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