Employment and living standards

Question 1

What was unemployment in 1933

Answer 1

5 million

Question 2

What was unemployment in 1939

Answer 2

0.3 million

Question 3

Name all strategies to reduce unemployment

Answer 3

• RAD
• Autobahns/public work schemes
• Rearmement
• Invisible unemployment
• Strength through joy scheme
• Beauty of Labour
• The volkswagen people’s car

Question 4

What was the RAD

Answer 4

• national labour service
• 1933
• public work; repairing roads, planting trees, draining marshes
• 1935 compulsory to join
• 422, 000 1935
• men 18-25 must join for atleast 6 months

Question 5

What was the autobahn strategy

Answer 5

-7000 mile transport network built
- over 125,000 men employed
- spending on public works grew
- created more jobs
- boosted men’s livelyhoods

Question 6

What was the rearmement strategy

Answer 6

people joined armed force
72,000 employed in aircraft construction 1935
26 billion marks spent on armed forces 1939
by 1939 over 1.3 million men in armed forces

Question 7

what was invisible unemployment

Answer 7

• women + jews forced to give up work - figures weren’t counted
• men forced to join RAD if unemployed
• people who were only in part time work counted as fully employed

Question 8

what was the strength through joy scheme

Answer 8

• provided rewards for people if they work
• concerts and holidays provided
• encouraged productivity by making workers happy

Question 9

what was the beauty through labour scheme

Answer 9

• improved conditions of work places
• reduced noise, provided canteens and swimming pools
• workers had to help construct these in spare time so wasn’t very popular

Question 10

what was the volkswagen scheme

Answer 10

• promised incredible beautiful car to show off - for family
• people paid 5marks a week towards car
• manipulated workers
• nobody had apparently paid enough by 1939
• money used towards rearmement

Question 11

Benefits of living standards under nazis

Answer 11

• More employment
• average wages increased by 20% compared to 1933
• car ownership increased
• less people in poverty
• more order

Question 12

Weaknesses of living standards under Nazis

Answer 12

• lack of freedom as German worker citizens lost their rights
• you couldn’t negotiate for better pay in the RAD
• strikes were banned
• cost of food rose which lead to future problems
• invisible unemployment ruined lively hoods of many people