Workers in Nazi Germany 2
- Created by: Alice Edwards-King
- Created on: 09-06-15 17:21
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- Workers in Nazi Germany
- Working Class Labourers
- Form the bulk of the 6 million unemployed
- Had to work in government programmes or lose unemployment benefit
- It allowed some to feed their families
- Councils provided cheaper housing
- Wages on schemes often bought less than benefits
- German Workers Front
- Employers and employees belonged to the DAF
- Bad housing
- DAF
- A lot of people complained about the amount of work
- Put them to work building new motorways, hospitals, schools and other public buildings
- Allowed them to earn money
- A massive organisation to control the workers
- Reich Labour Service
- Nazis tried to use RAD to indoctrinate young adults
- Didn't improve lives
- Unpopular as it was hard, manual labour and poorly paid
- RAD
- All 18-25 year olds who were male had to do 6 moths work service
- Beauty of Labour
- Persuaded employers to improve working conditions in factories
- Organised campaigns
- 'Good ventilation in the work place'
- 'Hot meals in the factory'
- Strength Through Joy
- Encouraged people to save up for travel and holidays
- Organised the leisure time of workers
- Offered the chance to start paying towards a Volkswagen car
- Very popular with workers
- Working Class Labourers
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