Economic Policies

• Hugenburg banned foreclosure (prohibited banks from selling farms when the farmers were in debt
• Put import taxes on foreign agricultural products
• Made margarine manufacturers use more buttermilk in their products (which they had to buy from farmers)
• Reich Food Estate, controlled agriculture
• Ensured farms were passed on to eldest son, not split up
• Announced battle for food to persuede farmers to grow more                                     

• Farmers saw their incomes increase by about 40%
• Food production increased by 20% which meant Germany was self sufficent in :

• Famers grew to hate the Reich Food Estate
• Food production was not large enough to feed entire German population without importing food
• Autarky failed

• Leader is Schacht
• Illegal to pay foreigners in their own currency, encouraged foreign countries to accpet German goods as payment instead of cash
• Limited amount of profit so people had to re-invest into business
• Germany IMPORTED more than EXPORTED
• Created the guns or butter crisis         

• Goering incharge
• Guns = rearmament
• Hitler wanted to conquer Ukraine for resources so had to be 'ready for war'
• Forbidden under the 'Treaty of Versailles' so had to hide it under the RAD

• Conscription
• Set up Airforce (Luftwaffe)
• Demanded Guns instead of Butter
• Called for a battle of production
• Wanted to find alternatives for things like oil and rubber
• Army grew from its limit
• Created jobs (army and making equipment)
• Schacht argued wouldn't provide long term stability

• 1933. 3.8 million unemployed
• By 1939, unemployment was only 0.3 million

This was great for propaganda

HOWEVER: They were limited because

• women werne't included
• Jews were sacked and jobs were given to Germans
• Unemployed were obliged to accept any job given to them otherwise classed as 'work shy' and imprisoned

National labour service

• Hitler needed to tackle unemployment figures
• RAD provided jobs he had promised
• Gave men jobs in work schemes, e.g building schools, motorways
• Had to wear uniform, lived and worked in camps, small wages

German Labour Front

• Abolished trade unions
• Bosses couldn't sack workers on the spot
• Could not leave a job without governments permission
• Limitations on the hours a person could work a week were abolished