the german economy under the nazis

Question 1

what promises did the nazis make to people durring the great depression and before 1933

Answer 1

• they would restore the pride of german people by getting them working and suppoerting businesses who could make this happen
• they would take firm action against trade unions and communists who where suposivly undermining german business
• they would create jobs by opening armaments factories to build weapons in deffence of the treaty of versails

Question 2

what did the nazis do to tackle unemployment?

Answer 2

creating huge public work programs building motorways, schools and hospitals
they provided jobs for milions of men and although they paid poorly they did restore some pride

Question 3

in what ways did remiliterisation improve umemployment?

Answer 3

from 1935 onwards german men where conscribed to the army and more factories where set up to build weapons. both created lots of jobs

Question 4

what impact did. nazi polocys have on women and jewish people? and what was significant about the employment figures?

Answer 4

• women and jewish people where sacked from there jobs to create vacancies for men
• jewish small businesses where closed down allowing german ones to flourish
  women and jews where not counted in the unemploymen figures

Question 5

why did german workers want to be part of the DAF (german labour front) and what did they have to do if they wanted to be appart of it?

Answer 5

all those in the DAF where paid well and treated well. they had regular working hours and it was almost imposible to be sacked however to benifit from the above they had to demonstrate complete loyalty towardss the nazis

Question 6

in what ways did the nazis control big businesses?

Answer 6

• the nazi government controlled prices, set wages, capped profits and controlled imports
• businesses could no longer run there afairs there own way
• farmers where given money to help pay off loans but where also given quotes to meeet for food production which limited there freedom

Question 7

why did the nazis want germany to be self sificiant?

Answer 7

to make them apear really strong and powerful. they felt reliing on other countrys would make them apear weak so they wanted to be completely independent

Question 8

how did hitler aproach self sificiancy?

Answer 8

he ordered scientists to find artificial substatutes for food and materials such as wool, cotton, cloth, petrol and make up

Question 9

where the nazis successfull in tackling unemployment?

Answer 9

when hitler came to power there where 6 million people unemployed but by 1938 this figure was down to 500,000. for this reason many people suppoerted the nazis but ofcourde there where many loopholes within the statistics