employment and the Reich labour front

• how many were unemployed when Hitler became chancellor?

  6 million
• what was the national labour service and how did it help increase employment?

  -Compulsory for all men 18-25 to serve for 6 months on the scheme

  
  

  -Worked on public works such as building roads and draining marshes

  
  

  -Many hated it - pay was low, hours long and work boring

  
  

  -gave unemployed men work to do
• what were the public work schemes and how did they reduce unemployment?


  -created 100,000 new jobs by

  -building new schools

  -building new autobahns

  -building new hospitals
• how did Nazi autobahn project help reduce unemployment?


  -new network of autobahns to like major German cities were built

  -gave unemployed men jobs to do and improved transport links
• how did Nazi rearmament reduce unemployment?


  1935- Hitler secretly broke treaty of Versailles and reintroduced conscription

  
  

  -new tanks, battleships .planes etc created thousands of jobs

  
  

  -army grew from 100,000 to 1.4 million in five years

  
  

  -industries grew as they made arms, uniforms weapons etc
• what groups were classed as invisibly unemployed?

  -women who were forced to give up jobs

  -men conscripted into the army

  -people imprisoned in concentration camps

  -jews who were forced to give up their jobs
• what were problems with the Nazis policies to reduce unemployment?


  -policies cost money and Nazi gov in debt

  -Nazis exaggerated there success

  -invisibly unemployed ignored in unemployment figures
• what were positives of the Nazi polices to reduce unemployment?


  -most men who weren't Jewish or in concentration camps were working

  -large businesses benefitted from there being no trade unions and increased employment
• what was the Reich labour front?


  -Nazi trade union or DAF

  -It was created to replace independent trade unions when they were made illegal by Hitler.
• when was the Reich labour front created?

  may 1933
• what was the DAF set up?

  to control workers rights and employers
• what benefits did the DAF bring?


  -promised to improve workers right and working conditions

  -ran two side schemes beauty through labour and strength through joy to improve Germans lives
• what negative did the DAF bring?


  -workers couldn't strike

  -need permission to leave jobs

  -lost permission to negotiate wages or working conditions with employer
• what was the beauty through labour scheme?

  -scheme by Reich labour front to improve working conditions by building new toilets canteens ect
• what was the strength through joy scheme?

  Provided workers with leisure activities such as theatre tickets and sports events to encourage hard work