Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Tackling economic problems in Nazi Germany
- National Labour service
- The NLS was a scheme to give young men manual labour jobs.
- From 1935 it was compulsory for all men aged 18-25 to serve in the RAD for 6 months.
- Workers lived in camps, wore uniforms and were given low pay and carried out military drills as well as work.
- Job creation schemes
- Hitler spent millions on these schemes. from 18.4 billion marks in 1933 to 37.1 five years later
- The Nazis subsidised large firms, mainly in construction
- Introduced a massive road building programme to provide 7000km of autobahns
- other schemes such as building hospitals and schools and houses
- Controlling the economy
- Goering had drawn up the four year plan, in attempt to move Germany closer to the autarky or self sufficiency
- They tried to produce replacements of materials that can only be obtained from abroad
- chemical company IG Ferban was paid to develop a method of extracting oil from coal
- The attempts didn't work in reducing the amount of good imported into Germany
- Invisible unemployment
- To keep their unemployment figures low they;
- Jews dismissed from jobs
- RAD for unmarried men under 25
- Women dismissed from jobs
- opponents held in concentration camps
- Rearmament
- Hitler was determined to build up the armed forces for future war
- Unemployment was greatly reduced because of this.
- conscription meant thousands of young men into the military.
- the army grew from 100,000 in 1933 to 1.4 million in 1939
- heavy industry expanded to meet needs of rearmament.
- Coal and chemical industry doubled.
- oil, iron and steal trebled.
- billions spent producing tanks, aircrafts and ships
- in 1933, 3.5 billion marks was spent on this.
- the figure increased to 26 billion marks by 1939.