Unemployment policies 1933
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- Unemployment policies
- The Labour Service Corps
- Provided young men with manual labour jobs.
- From 1935, it was compulsory for all men aged 18-25 to serve in the corps for 6 months.
- Lived in camps, wore uniform and received low pay.
- Job Creation schemes
- Hitler spent billions on job creation schemes, rising from 18.4 billion marks in 1933 to 37.1 billion, 5 years later.
- Introduced a massive road-building programme to provide Germany with 7000km of autobahns (motorways).
- Invisible unemployment
- Official figures did not include:
- Jews dismissed from their jobs.
- Unmarried men under 25 who were pushed into National Labour schemes.
- Women dismissed from their jobs or who gave up work to get married.
- Opponents of the Nazi regime held in concentration camps.
- Official figures did not include:
- Rearmament
- Hitler was determined to build up the armed forces in readiness for future war.
- Reduced unemployment.
- Re-introduction of conscription in 1935.
- Army grew from 100,000 in 1933 to 1,400,000 by 1939.
- Heavy industry expanded to meet the needs of rearmament.
- Coal and chemicals doubled in the years 1933-1939.
- Oil, iron and steel trebled in the years 1933-1939.
- Billions were spent producing tanks, aircraft and ships.
- In 1933, 3.5 billion marks were spent on rearmament.
- This had increased to 26 billion marks by 1939.
- In 1933, 3.5 billion marks were spent on rearmament.
- Hitler was determined to build up the armed forces in readiness for future war.
- The Labour Service Corps
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