Nazi Germany

 Unemployment was 33% or 6,000,000 people  German exports were minimal compared to normal  Needed to reduce unemployment, stimulate the economy  Dr. Hjalmar Schacht was appointed president of the Reichsbank  A non-Nazi, but well respected by businesses

 Reduce unemployment—public works projects  Construction of Autobahnen, planting trees, digging ditches for irrigation  Subsidies for private construction  Loans for industrial activity  Use people instead of machines when possible  Expand the bureaucracy  Discourage female labor—stay home! Have babies!  1935—conscription returns, increase in war materials production: rearmament

 Each worker’s leisure time was calculated and mapped out, the state provided approved recreational activities: Activity# Events# People Theater 21,14611,507,432 Concerts ,623 Hikes 5,896126,292 Cultural Events 20,52710,518,282 Museum Tours 61,5062,567,596 Courses/Lectures 19,0601,009,922 Weekend Trips 3,4991,007,242

 Trade agreements made with other countries; Germany got raw materials & sold back German goods (cars! Volkswagons!)  Ended trade unions & strikes  Seizing Jewish businesses gave money to the government/”German” businesses  Website: Gunsnotbutter.html

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 This was the Great Depression—did the propaganda machine of the Nazis convince Europe that Germany had done something no one else could accomplish?  It was more of a “Bookkeeping Miracle”:  Women were removed from the rate  Jews lost citizenship in 1935 & were removed

 People were given work by the gov’t and told to take it or go to a concentration camp  Conscription (the draft) reinstated (illegally, according to Versailles) in 1935—as men did their time in the military, they were “employed”  4 million were put in the army  Only about 2 million jobs created, and many went towards factories for rearmament