Impact of Unemployment

• 40% of factory workers, 50% of those under 30 and 60% of university graduates were out of work by January 1933, when unemployment hit 6 million.
• Even those in work suffered from higher taxes and wages reduced by 1932 to 70% of their 1928 level.
• The unemployed could no longer afford their rent so homelessness increased with makeshift shanty towns
• There was an increase of arrests for theft of 24% between 1929-32.
• By July 1932, the Nazi number of seats in the Reichstag rose from 12 to 230, the communists from 54 to 89.