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Nazi Germany 1933-1945
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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
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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
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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 989705,623 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
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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: http://www.johndclare.net/Nazi_Germany3_ Gunsnotbutter.html
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YearTotal Unemployed 19336 million 19343.3 million 19352.9 million 19362.5 million 19371.8 million 19381 million 1939302,000
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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
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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
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