1. How successful were Hitler’s measures to reduce unemployment and increase production between ?

2. Recap:
What economic problems did Hitler need to deal with and why?

3. Impact of Hitler’s Policies on Unemployment

4. RAD – The National Labour Service
Gave men jobs in public work schemes
Men in RAD had to wear a uniform & live in camps
They were given free meals and pocket money
Built: drainage ditches, schools, a new network of motorways and planted new forests

5. To improve the living conditions of the German people
Kick start the Cycle of Prosperity
What was the aim of Hitler’s Public Works Programme?
To build impressive buildings so that the German people would feel proud
To improve the public transport network for industrial & military use

6. The Car Industry
Designed by Porsche and nicked named ‘The Peoples Car’, known today as the ……?

7. Produced low cost cars which helped to keep the German people happy
Created Jobs in other industries because of the need for standardised parts.
Produced low cost cars which helped to keep the German people happy
Steel
Car Industry
Glass
Good Revision for the Boom in the USA
Rubber
Car Production could easily be switched to the production of military vehicles
Leather
Cycle of Prosperity

8. What other measures did Hitler introduce in order to reduce unemployment?
Jews and women were forced out of their jobs
By 1934 all Jews were sacked from civil service jobs
Unemployed Jews and women were not registered
People who refused jobs offered by the labour service were arrested and put into concentration camps
Trade Unions were abolished & replaced by the ‘German Labour Front’ under Dr Ley
Strikes illegal
Conscription introduced in 1935 and an air-force established

9. Autarky – National Self Sufficiency
Hitler wanted Germany to be a strong independent country that was sufficient in food and materials.
Germany had lost the FWW because it had run out of food and war materials.
German scientist developed all sorts of artificial substitutes such as petrol from coal and coffee from acorns.
These new substitutes were made in Germany and gave the unemployed jobs in new industries.
Hitler also encouraged the growth of the car industry.

10. Limitations of success?
Look at some of the graphs on p what do they suggest?