How did the nazis tackle unemployment?
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- How did the nazis tackle unemployment?
- They took up and expanded old schemes
- Before the Nazis came to power the national labour service had been started.
- This used government tuned money to provide jobs for the unemployed
- Such as building bridges, roads, forests
- This used government tuned money to provide jobs for the unemployed
- Hitler was especially keen on the building of the first motorways, Autobahns
- Before the Nazis came to power the national labour service had been started.
- All men had to spend 6 months in the labour Service at the age of 18
- they only earned 50p per week
- All their food and lodgings were provided
- They wore uniforms and marched to work everyday like soldiers
- Most of the work was done by hand, meaning there were more jobs
- Re-armament
- 1935 Hitler ordered the building of submarines
- this went against the treaty of Versailles
- The army was increased from 100,000 to 1,400,000 by 1939
- Every man had to do 2 years military service after he left the labour service
- 1935 Hitler ordered the building of submarines
- Many people were removed from the unemployme-nt list
- Such as Jews, many women, young men in the national labour front.
- This meant that about 4,000,000 people were now officially 'Employed'
- By 1936 recorded unemployme-nt was down from 6 million to 1 million
- by 1938 industry was short of workers
- Hitler wanted the Germany economy to be self-sufficient so that it would be able to operate even in war
- They took up and expanded old schemes
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