Policies to reduce unemployment
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- Policies to reduce unemployment
- National Labour Service (RAD)
- Started by Weimar Government and continued by the Nazis
- From July 1935, it was compulsory for all men aged 18-25 to serve 6 months on this
- Many hated the RAD: pay was low, long hrs and boring work
- Why Hitler wanted to get people working
- Unemployed were dangerous politically - poor & hungry then they would turn to political parties for help
- Unemployed were believed by the Nazis to be a burden on society and a waste of valuable resources
- Job creation schemes - construction projects
- Public buildings
- Sports facilities - stadium for the Berlin Olympics, 1936.
- 7000 km of motorways connecting up the country
- Rearmament
- Nazis provided jobs through building up their stockpile of arms - TofV had restricted this, but this provided many jobs
- Invisible unemployment
- Government figures showed that this was falling, but didn't include:
- Jews being forced out of jobs
- Women being dismissed or leaving their jobs
- Unmarried men under 25 doing RAD
- Opponents of the regime who were sent to concentration camps
- Dropped from 4.8 million in 1933 to 0.3 million in 1939
- Government figures showed that this was falling, but didn't include:
- National Labour Service (RAD)
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