Policies To Reduce Unemployment Flashcards
What was the reich labor service ?
Scheme to provide young men with manual labor jobs
Who was the reich labor service for ?
After 1935, it was compulsory for all men aged 18-25 to serve in the corps for six months
What was the reich labor service like ?
Not great
Workers lived in camps
Wore uniforms
Received little pay and carried out military drill
What did the official figures of unemployment not include ?
- Jewish people dismissed from their jobs
- unmarried men -25 who got pushed into National Labor schemes
- women: either married or dismissed from their job
- opponents of Nazis in concentration camps
Why did the Nazis not include certain groups in their unemployment statistics ?
To keep down the unemployment figures, even if it meant using dubious methods
What did Hitler first spend billions on ?
Job creation schemes
This rose from 18.4 billion marks in 1933 to 37.1 makes in five years
What did the Nazis do to private firms for job creation schemes ?
Subsided private firms
Mainly in the construction industry
What did the Nazis introduce which was part of the Job creation scheme ?
The massive road building program to provide Germany with 7,000 kilometers of autobahns
Was the roan building program a success ?
- By 1938, only 3,000 kilometers had been built with more than 125,000 men involved in construction
- Hitler had hoped the autobahns would enable his troops to move rapidly in the event of war
What was the big thing that reduced unemployment?
Rearmament
Hitler was determined to build up the armed forces in order to prepare for war
What are three features of rearmament ? CHB
- conscription introduced in 1935 took thousands of young men into the army. Army size 1933 100,000 Army size 1939 was 1.4 million ( big expansion)
- Heavy industry expanded to meet needs of rearmament. Coal+ chemicals doubled in the years 1933-1939
- Billions spent on producing tanks, aircraft and ships. 26 billion makes spent by 1939 from a previous 3.5 billion in 1933
