Workers and work in Nazi germany.

By Nathan Emmett

• When Hitler came into power, one of his main prioritys was to get six million unemployed workers jobs.

• To solve this problem, Hitler and the Nazis forced many Jews and women out of their jobs.

• Hitler planned to make Germany an independent and strong country, which meant building his army both in strength and size.

• The army quickly turned from 100,000 men in 1933, to 1,400,000 in 1939. The men in the army were not classed as unemployed, so this took 1,300,000 people off of the unemployment register.

• To equip the army, 46 billion marks were spent on equipment and weapons. So thousands of people were given work in making the tools.

Work in Germany

• Hitler’s first action was to set up a National labour service ( Reichsarbeitsdienst or RAD).

• This organisation gave men jobs in public works schemes – digging drainage ditches on farms, building schools, planting new forests and building hospitals.

• Men in the RAD had to wear military uniform and live in camps.

• They were given only pocket money as wages, but for thousands of men, that was better than life with no work at all.

Unemployment in Germany

January 1933 - 6,014,000

January 1934 - 3,773,000

January 1935 - 2,974,000

January 1936 - 2,520,000

January 1937 - 1,853,000

January 1938 - 1,052,000

January 1939 - 302,000

Women’s roles

• Woman were not entitled to work, instead they would stay at home doing house work and having children.

• Women did this because Hitler wanted them to breed an ‘Aryan’ race ( which was being tall, blue eyes, blonde hair and athletic/muscular). He wanted as many children to fit this description so that they could be leaders of the future.

• The women were given medals depending on how many children they have.