To What Extent Did The Nazis Achieve Their Economic Aims During The Years 1933-39

Question 1

3 factors

Answer 1

Unemployment
Rearmament
Wealth of the people

Question 2

Unemployment

Answer 2

• unemployment dropped from 6 million in 1933 to 2 million in 1935, an actual labour shortage by 1939 with almost no unemployment (only 335k)
• wages for worker improved slightly (Christmas bonuses)
• 1935 Reich labour service created, helped mitigate effects of unemployment on the German economy, militarise workforce and indoctrinate it into nazism (involved 400k men who would have been unemployed)
• unemployed men aged 19-25 made to do 6 months labour in farming or construction

Question 3

Rearmament

Answer 3

• 1935 : Hitler ordered a faster pace of rearmament, Schacht had to devise a scheme to borrow money and control inflation
• gov incentives for private industry to produce armaments helped create jobs an increase output, gov expenditure increased by 70%
• ‘guns or butter’ debate that Hitler was achieving his aims but at the expense of the quality of life of ordinary Germans
• boosted profits of big weapon companies

Question 4

Wealth of the people

Answer 4

• wages for workers increased by Christmas bonuses
• advertisement of ‘people’s car radio and cruises gave off the impression they were having a rise in loving standards but in reality the economy was under severe strain
• hidden unemployment through jews
• workers