Nazi policy- 1) Unemployment.

Question 1

1. Attempts to reduce unemployment (5)

Answer 1

a. Set up (3)
b. The National Labour Service Corps (6)
c. Job creation schemes (3)
d. Hidden unemployment (3)
e. Rearmament (4)

Question 2

1. Attempts to reduce unemployment (5)
   a. Set up (3)

Answer 2

i. By this point more than three years of the great depression
ii. Unemployment reaching 6 million.
iii. Hitler had appealed to the unemployed and promised to create jobs if elected.

Question 3

1. Attempts to reduce unemployment (5)
   b. The National Labour Service Corps (6)

Answer 3

i. It’s RAD for short
ii. A scheme to provide young men with manual labour jobs
iii. From 1935 compulsory for all men aged 18-25 to serve in RAD for 6 months
iv. In 1939 it was extended to women.
v. It was intended to educate German youth in the spirit of National Socialism and give them a respect of manual labour.
vi. Workers in Labour service Camps (3)

Question 4

1. Attempts to reduce unemployment (5)
   b. The National Labour Service Corps (6)
   vi. Workers in Labour service Camps (3)

Answer 4

1. Wore uniforms.
2. Received low pay.
3. Carried out military drills as well as work.

Question 5

1. Attempts to reduce unemployment (5)
   c. Job creation schemes (3)

Answer 5

i. Hitler spends millions on them (2)
ii. Funded private firms especially in the construction industry.
iii. Public Works Schemes building (4)

Question 6

1. Attempts to reduce unemployment (5)
   c. Job creation schemes (3)
   i. Hitler spends millions on them (2)

Answer 6

1. Some 18.4 billion marks in 1933
2. Some 37.1 billion marks 1938

Question 7

1. Attempts to reduce unemployment (5)
   c. Job creation schemes (3)
   iii. Public Works Schemes building (4)

Answer 7

1. 7000 Km of “autobahns” (motorways)
2. Hospitals
3. Schools
4. houses

Question 8

1. Attempts to reduce unemployment (5)
   d. Hidden unemployment (3)

Answer 8

i. Nazis used questionable methods to keep down the actual FIGURES of unemployment as official figures did not include: (4)
ii. Official figures also counted part-time workers as being fully employed.
iii. By 1939- only 35,000/25 million male workers listed as unemployed

Question 9

1. Attempts to reduce unemployment (5)
   d. Hidden unemployment (3)
   i. Nazis used questionable methods to keep down the actual FIGURES of unemployment as official figures did not include: (4)

Answer 9

1. Jews dismissed from jobs.
2. Unmarried men under 25 who were pushed into National Labour Service schemes.
3. Women dismissed from jobs or who gave up work for marriage.
4. Opponents of Nazis held in concentration camps.

Question 10

1. Attempts to reduce unemployment (5)
   e. Rearmament (4)

Answer 10

i. Hitler determined to build up armed forces in readiness of future war.
ii. Conscription (3)
iii. Heavy industry (2)
iv. Vehicles of war (3)

Question 11

1. Attempts to reduce unemployment (5)
   e. Rearmament (4)
   ii. Conscription (3)

Answer 11

1. Reintroduced in 1935
2. Army was 100,000 in 1933.
3. Army was 1,400,000 in 1939.

Question 12

1. Attempts to reduce unemployment (5)
   e. Rearmament (4)
   iii. Heavy industry (2)

Answer 12

1. Expanded to meet needs of rearmament.
2. Coal usage doubled in years to 1933-1939

Question 13

1. Attempts to reduce unemployment (5)
   e. Rearmament (4)
   iv. Vehicles of war (3)

Answer 13

1. Producing
2. In 1933, 3.5 billion marks spent.
3. In 1939, 26 billion marks spent.