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HITLER’S NAZI GERMANY
The Economy in Nazi Germany
1933: Work to Do
• The Task at Hand
• Hitler’s Aims– Maintaining popularity– Preparing for War
The RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst) - National Labor Front
• Organizing Men for Work
• Public Works
• Militarizing Labor
Hitler in Need of Economic Support
• Industrialist Support• Hjalmar Schacht - Reich
Minister of Finance (1934-1937)
• Ignoring Socialist Promises
• Getting into Bed with Big Business
No Coherent Economic Plan
• Lack of a Plan
• Adoption of Approaches– Autarky– Deficit Financing– Wehrwirtschaft
• Nothing Extraordinary
The Attack on Unemployment
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Unemployment (inmillions)
The Attack on Unemployment
• How Was Unemployment Tackled?– Public Works– Expansion of Industries– Massive Re-armament– Conscription
Results on Labor, Output, GNP, and Wages
• Shortage of Labor
• Rise in Industrial Output
• Rise in GNP
• Wages?
The German Labor Front
• Elimination of Trade Unions
• The German Labor Front - Dr. Robert Ley
The German Labor Front
Workers! Your institutions are sacred to us National Socialists. I myself am a poor peasant’s son and understand poverty…Workers! I swear to you we will not only keep everything which exists, we will build up the rights and protection of the workers even further.
- Dr. Robert Ley
The German Labor Front
• Labor Improvements
• Loss of Negotiating Power
• Few Complaints
3,740 HOURS: LEISURE IN NAZI GERMANY
• German Labor Front Control Over Leisure
• Kraft Durch Freude (KDF) - Strength Through Joy
Strength Through Joy
• Massive Leisure Programs Established
• Travel Tours, but for whom?
• Control over Entertainment
Strength Through Joy
The Volkswagon
• KDF Selling Cars – the Volkswagon
• VW Beetle Purchasing Scheme
• No Workers Ever Got a Beetle
The VW Beetle
The Four Year Plan (1936)
• Problems with Re-armament
• Problems with Finance
• “Guns or Butter?”
The Four Year Plan (1936)
• 4 Years for Autarky– Impatient with Trade
Deals and Schacht• Enter Goering-
Commissioner Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan
• Turning Inward
• Gearing up for War
The 4 Year Plan - Rearmament
• 1933 vs 1939
• Massive Arms Spending form 1936-1939
• Ready for War?
The Nazi Economy – Historical Debate
• Did Hitler Plan Full Mobilization of the Economy?
• Richard Overy: “Hitler miscalucated.”
• Tim Mason: “Worker discontent and failure of wages influenced war.”