Nazis and the workers

Cards (8)

  • Hitler promised lower unemployment to ensure popularity among the industrial workers
  • Hitler needed good workers to create the industries that would help to make germany great again
  • Strength Through Joy (KDF): gave workers cheap cinema tickets, sports, and holidays
  • thousands of people saved 5 marks a week to buy the Volkswagen Beetle, the "people's car". No-one actually received a car because production was halted by the war in 1939
  • Beauty of Labour movement: improved working conditions in factories
  • workers were angry because they lost their trade unions and were forced to join the DAF (General Labour Front)
  • The DAF (General Labour Front) meant workers couldn't strike for better pay or conditions
  • workers thought that their standard of living was still lower than it had been before the Depression