Reducing unemployment

Cards (4)

  • How did Nazis reduce unemployment?

    Nazi labour service
    Tweaking numbers on unemployment stats- Hidden unemplyment
    Autobahns
    Rearment/Conscription
  • Some examples of Hidden unemployment:
    Women not included
    Prisoners not included
    Men working in Nazi labour service only 6 months at a time, still included
  • The Nazi labour service was voluntary in 1933 before it wasnt IN 1935
    Focus on building public things
    All projects made visible for public to see
    Autobahns, Hospitals, Libraries, Olympic stadium
  • Conscription and Rearming was against the Treaty of Versailles 1919
    1935 introduced compulsory conscription, so needed weapons for army, more workers in factory
    1936 Herman Goering put in charge of four year plan