Hitler's economy : Nazi work creation programs, 1933-1936

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Hitler's economy : Nazi work creation programs, 1933-1936

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Nazi work creation programs, 1933-1936

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Dan P. Silverman

Creator

• Silverman, Dan P., 1935-

Subject

• Germany -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
• Germany -- Economic policy -- 1933-1945
• Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
• Labor policy -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
• National socialism

Language

eng

Summary

When Hitler assumed the German chancellorship in January 1933, 34 percent of Germany's work force was unemployed. By 1936, before Hitler's rearmament program took hold of the economy, most of the jobless had disappeared from official unemployment statistics. How did the Nazis put Germany back to work? Was the recovery genuine? If so, how and why was it so much more successful than that of other industrialized nations? Hitler's Economy addresses these questions and contributes to out understanding of the internal dynamics and power structure of the Nazi regime in the early years of the Third Reich. Dan Silverman concludes that the recovery in Germany between 1933 and 1936 was real, not simply the product of statistical trickery and the stimulus of rearmament, and that Nazi work creation programs played a significant role. However, he argues, it was ultimately the workers themselves, toiling under inhumane conditions in labor camps, who paid the price for this recovery. Nazi propaganda glorifying the "dignity of work" masked the brutal reality of Hitler's "economic miracle." --

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non fiction

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bibliography