Living in Nazi Germany - working for Hitler
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- Working for Hitler
- RAD (German Labour Association)
- Created 100,000s of jobs
- Planting forests
- Building motorways
- Building hospitals
- This was done straight away in 1933, and by 1934 over 2,000,000 jobs were created
- It was a huge opportunity to extend Nazi control into people's lives
- RAD member wore uniform, lived away from home and lived under Nazi discipline
- They were willing to do it because it gave them a bed, clothes, food and some pay
- It was better than being unemployed
- Created 100,000s of jobs
- German Labour Front (no more unions)
- Union leaders were democratically, and unions decided about fair pay and hours
- Nazis didn't like this and scrapped unions and replaced them with the German Labour Front
- Gave workers freedom such as cheaper holidays, but they couldn't question how many hours they worked or what their pay was
- Allowed hours to go up without needing to increase pay
- Union leaders were democratically, and unions decided about fair pay and hours
- KDF (strength through joy)
- The Nazis used this to contol Germans even when they weren't working
- Lesiure activities such as theatres, museums and cinema were all run by the Nazis
- It also ran subsidised holidays for workers
- Hitler also incresed the size of the army from 100,000 in 1933 to 950,000 in 1939
- Went against Versailles, but created nearly a million jobs
- Germany could not really afford any of this, but Hitler refused to let this stop him
- RAD (German Labour Association)
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