Nazi economy

Question 1

3 main methods of economic recovery

Answer 1

1. Reich labour service
2. Cutting taxes on small businesses, families, hevay industry
3. New plan 1934

Question 2

How much was invested in the Reich labour service

Answer 2

1 billion

Question 3

How much did the labour service decease unemployment

Answer 3

1932-36 5 million–> 2 million

Question 4

Drawback of the reich labour service

Answer 4

Expensive
increase debt
harder to fulfil rearmamanet

Question 5

Positive and negative impacts of cutting taxes to help recovery

Answer 5

Stimulated economy by giving more spending money
- production rose
wages rose 7%

Increased imports
Balance of trade crisis

Question 6

When was the New plan and what was it?

Answer 6

1934
Protectionist policies eg import quotas

Question 7

Impact of the new plan

Answer 7

Solves balance of trade crisis

Very expensive as more arms spending
Standard of living lowered

Question 8

What was the 4 year plan

Answer 8

Top priorities = Rearmament, autarky in food/ industrial production
to prepare for war

Question 9

successes of the 4 year plan (3)

Answer 9

Coal/ steel production increased

Self-sufficient in bread, sugar, potatoes

Increased production of ersatz by 500%

Question 10

Failures of 4 year plan (5)

Answer 10

Domestic steel production more expensive than imported steel
Mopre efficient to import

Creatong ersatz rubber expensive and required more miners than Germany had

Only produced 20% of artificial oil required 1939

aircraft production decreased 1st year as Goering refused to use assembly lines

Couldnt deliver amount of steel commanded by military

Question 11

How many holidays did KdF provide

Answer 11

10 million

Question 12

women living standards

Answer 12

-increased maternity benefits
-1933 law for reduction of unemployment- marriage loans for women who gave up their jobs

war: more work opportunities due to labour shortage
BUT 1/2 mans wage, forced into prostitution

Question 13

Industrialists living standards

Answer 13

-benefitted from no trade unions- low wages, high hpours
-Gov contracts to produce military equiptment
-some helped develop nazi policie eg chemical companies

Question 14

Industrial workers living standards (4)

Answer 14

X No trade unions- working hours increased, pay decreased

X Nazi Trade union couldnt negotiate

X Pay didnt reach pre-depression levels

X Better off in weiamr

Question 15

Farmers living standrads

Answer 15

Reforms to protect farmers
- Price controls
-Family farms couldn’t be bought by big landowners

-Price controls reduced profits

Question 16

Why did the Nazis have impossible war plans?

Answer 16

• not rich enough to suppory schemes
  -Targets for arms production impossible

-SHortage of skilled labour meant couldnt easily exract foreign resources

INvasion plans relied on economic sucess

Question 17

How did the nazis have administrative chaos in the war

Answer 17

4 centres of economic power- little coordination, fought over resources

Tensions undermined efficiency

No standardization

Question 18

How did Speer fix the problem of administrative chaos

Answer 18

Central planning board

Question 19

Successes in Albert Speers rationalization (3)

Answer 19

Within 6 months, ammunition production increased 97%
Arms production increased 60%

3 shift day = more productivity

by 1944 producing more aircraft than UK