Unemployment fell from over 5 million in 1933 to 302,000 by 1939.
Unemployment was falling everywhere in the 1930s as the world recovered from the Great Depression, although it did more fall sharply in Germany.
The figures were manipulated with the ‘invisible’ unemployed being excluded from the figures.
Many jobs were artificially created by (like the expansion of the army) and often involved very high levels of government spending that could not be maintained in the long term.
