unemployment in nazi germany

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  • Created on: 22-02-22 12:24
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  • employment in nazi germany
    • the reich labour service
      • provided men 18-25 with jobs
      • had to serve 6 months lived in camps and had very low pay
      • received military training while working
      • helped hitler show that unemployment was reducing
      • was only temporary so didn't fully reduce unemployment
    • invisible unemployment
      • to not count certain groups in official records
        • groups not included: Jews, unmarried men under 25, women who were kicked out of their jobs, opponents of the nazis
        • part time workers were counted as full time workers
      • hitler could produce propaganda showing the nazis were reducing unemployment
      • did not reduce unemployment at all it just looked as though it had been reduced
    • job creation schemes
      • hitler pumped billions of marks into job creation schemes
      • he gave money to private firms to employ more people
      • undertook road building scheme
        • building autobahns for army in future wars
        • 125000 men involved
      • did reduce unemployment was quite successful
    • rearmament
      • hitler determined to build up armed forces in preparation for war
      • thousands of young men given jobs
        • army grew from 100000 to 1400000
      • war meant more armaments needed
        • increase of factory workers
      • did reduce unemployment was quite good

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