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Flashcards in Nazi Germany 1933-39: Life for Workers 1933-39 Deck (13)
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1
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What major working groups were effected by the regime?

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  • Peasants and farmers
  • Landowners
  • Middle Class
  • Working Class
2
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How did life change for peasants and farmers?

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  • Industrialisation favoured urban populations
  • Farm debts and mortgages were written off
  • Tariffs on imported goods maintained
  • Reich Entailed Farm Act forbade division of land 1933
  • Reich Food Estate 1933 supervised food production, prices and wages
3
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Did farming life improve overall?

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  • Income increased at first
  • Growing disillusionment in 1936 due to rural to urban migration
  • Acts meant farmers could only pass estates to one child
  • Providing for children was difficult
  • Issues grew with conscription in 1939
4
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How did life change for landowners?

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  • Initially fearful of Nazi interference with ownership
  • Nazis were unconcerned with activities and did not threaten estates
  • In 1945 Soviet occupation estates were broken up
5
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How did life change for middle class under Nazis?

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  • Hoped to benefit from Nazis after business dominated 20s
  • Largest sector to vote Nazi
  • Trading regulations introduced to protect craftsmen
  • Benefited from confiscation of Jewish businesses, leading to low interest loans
  • Mittelstand declined as could not compete with businesses
  • Worsened by Nazi rearmament policy
6
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How did life change for workers under Nazis?

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  • Trade Unions banned 1933, replaced with DAF (German Labour Front)
  • DAF membership increased from 5 million 1933 to 22 million 1939
  • KdF (Strength through Joy)
  • 10.3 million KdF holidays by 1939
  • Working conditions regulated by SdA (Beauty of Labour)
7
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Summarise working life under Nazis

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  • Some elements improved through the DAF
  • Workers were firmly under government control
  • Strike action removed and dealt with harshly
8
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What changes were made to working hours?

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  • Working week increased from 43 hours 1933 to 47 hours 1939

- Workers pressurised to work overtime

9
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What changes were made to business?

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  • Industry was increasing due to Schacht’s plans
  • Management salaries grew from 3700RM to 5420RM from 1934-38
  • Profits from 2.8% to 6.6%
10
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How much did management salaries grow?

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From 3700RM in 1934 to 5420RM in 1938

11
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What happened to unemployment?

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  • Dropped 6.1 million 1932 to 0.5 million 1938
  • This was because Jews and women uncounted
  • Labour Board workers uncounted
12
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What happened to German access to goods?

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  • Access to goods fell in most areas

- From 1927 to 1937, consumption of eggs by working class families fell 404 to 237

13
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What happened to wages?

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  • Real wages only rose above 1929 levels in 1939

- Workers had to pay tax, insurance and DAF contributions

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