Dealing with unemployment

  • Hitler wanted to create jobs, about five million

  • The National Labour Service helped co-ordinate job creation schemes

  • The Labour Service Corps provided young men with manual labour jobs

  • He introduced a public works scheme to create jobs

  • This included building new hospitals, schools and autobahns; conservation programmes too

  • There were major house-building programmes too which was labour-intensive work

  • The Olympic games meant more jobs as well

  • He set about rearming Germany too which created jobs in armaments factories; and as well as weapons it meant equipment and uniforms too, so more jobs

  • It also included creating the Luftwaffe and shipbuilding which helped to boost the iron and steel industry

  • More manufacturing jobs meant that coal mining increased too, and he recovered the Saar coalfield

  • Conscription also helped reduce unemployment – increasing the size of the army to 550,000 by 1936

  • And that Jews were removed from their jobs and women, particularly married women, were “encouraged” to do so created jobs for others (and they were not registered as unemployed)

  • Hitler wanted Germany to be economically self-sufficient

  • And he introduced policies to benefits farmers

  • The New Plan for the economy was introduced by Schacht in 1934

  • In 1936, Goering was put in charge of the Four-Year Plan to prepare Germany for war