Workers in Nazi Germany
- Created by: Alice Edwards-King
- Created on: 09-06-15 15:35
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- Workers in Nazi Germany
- The New Plan
- Imports limited
- Trade agreements were made with individual countries to supply raw materials
- To get Germany back on it's feet after the depression
- Get foreign trade going and to reduce unemployment
- Government spending channelled into a wide range of industries
- Hjalmar Schat
- Unemployment reduced
- Dismissing Jews and political opponents from certain jobs
- Compulsory labour service
- Work creation projects
- Conscription to the army
- The Four Year Plan
- To prepare the German economy for war within 4 years
- Hermann Goering
- Particularly important that Germany could keep going if it was blockaded again
- Self Sufficient
- Build new industrial plants
- The Hermann Goering Works, a mining and metal works
- Policy of becoming self-sufficient known as autarky
- Use forced labour if needed
- Increase production of the raw materials needed for rearmament
- Persuade big businesses to produce key synthetic raw materials
- Tighten controls on prices and wages
- Reduce imports
- Small Business Owners
- 1936-7, self employed crafts men fell from 1.65 million to 1.5 million
- Competing Jewish firms closed
- 1933-7, value of small business trade doubled
- Difficult to survive because of large department stores taking business
- New department stores banned, existing not allowed to expand
- Farmers
- Food prices increased to ensure profits
- Some farms debt completely written off
- Orders for produce given
- Shortage of labour
- Big Business Owners
- Government controlled
- Wages
- Raw materials
- Prices
- Imports
- What you produced
- 1934-38, salaries rose by 70% on average
- Business promoted by rearmament programme
- Trade unions destroyed and German Labour Front sorted disputes from workers
- Government controlled
- The New Plan
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