Did Hitler Get An Economic Miracle In Germany
Did Hitler Perform An Economic Miracle In Germany?
Hitler is one of history's most infamous ruler and dictator. Regarded as one of the most a vicious and static like man, he ordered the mass murder of Jews, disabled people, gypsies and many other non pure' people. Although considered as such a negative and dark character in modern history Hitler did have some positive influence on Germany during his time as Führer. Hitler took a country in mass debt and unemployment and turned it around. He nearly complete eradicated all unemployment in the space of six years and thus boasted the national funds. Hitler in a lot of ways did achieve a miracle however his means in doing so are not always justified.
After the death of President Hindenburg, …show more content…
on 2 August 1934, Hitler became the new president giving himself the title Führer and Reich Chancellor.' To gain complete control Hitler even ordered the army to swear total obedience to him and the country. He was now the most powerful man in Germany and the supreme dictator; Hitler was the Führer'.
When Hitler came to power Germany was suffering from some of the worst economic problems ever experienced by any western democracy in history.
Rampant hyperinflation, massive unemployment and a large drop in living standards were primary factors. The Versailles treaty was considered by most Germans as a punishing and degrading document which forced them to surrender resource-rich areas and pay massive amounts of compensation. Germany ended up paying only fraction of them. However, the reparations did damage Germany's economy by discouraging market loans, forcing the government to finance its deficit by printing more money which caused rampant hyperinflation. Although some did see Hítler as a means to abolish these, the country was already unstable before any industry leaders were supporting Hitler. Even those who supported Hitler's appointment did not want Nazism in its entirety and considered Hitler a temporary solution in their efforts to abolish the Republic. As part of Hitler's promises he gave in the election campaigns of 1932-33, he promised these suffering Germans, work and bread.' His priority was to give them jobs. Hitler had to find some means to create jobs for these people, and to find the money to pay their
wages.
Luckily for Hitler previous governments had already started to set up job-creation schemes, one of these being The National Labour Service. The scheme gave young men jobs on projects needing large amounts of manual labour, digging ditches and other such menial tasks. Hitler took control of the Labour Service and expanded it, giving uniforms to the men and sent them to work camps. Here they did military drills as well as work and received pocket money rather than wages. Then in 1935 a law was passed stating that all men between 18 and 25 must spend at least six months in the Labour Service. With thousands of young German men joining the service the unemployment figures decreased rapidly.
After coming to power Hitler also took control of the road-building programme started by Hindenburg. A law he passed in 1933 expanded this programme to the creation of a motorway network, and gave jobs to no less than 80,000 men over the next period of five years. Other laws also gave the government grants to build new homes, hospitals, schools, libraries and other public services. These constructions offered many more jobs and in order to give as many jobs as possible, using technology was banned and thus all building work had to be done by hand.
In the US Roosevelt and the government set up huge construction programmes, building skyscrapers and massive community construction schemes, to offer jobs to the millions of unemployed people affected by the depression. However Hitler's way of fighting a lot of the depression was his Rearmament programme. He made it his priority after gaining power to build up Germany's previously crushed armed forces. From 1935 all 18 to 25 year olds had to do military service, for at least two years. The armed forces then grew from the previously Versailles opposed maximum figures of 100,000 in 1933 to 1.4 million in 1939, removing around a million from the unemployment figures.
Hitler's racist and extremist views also helped to cut down the unemployment figures. By issuing the various anti-Semitic laws Hitler managed to remove all Jews from their jobs and eradicating them from the countries citizenship records, thus they were no longer counted on unemployment figures, as they were no longer citizens of Germany. Women were also affected in similar ways. The unemployment figures only really counted men, as so when Hitler started to urge women to quite their jobs, stay at home and be good German wives, men started to replace them in their jobs. Hitler managed to do this through temptation with marriage loans and force by making all women in civil servant positions redundant.
Hitler is one of history's most infamous ruler and dictator. Regarded as one of the most a vicious and static like man, he ordered the mass murder of Jews, disabled people, gypsies and many other non pure' people. Although considered as such a negative and dark character in modern history Hitler did have some positive influence on Germany during his time as Führer. Hitler took a country in mass debt and unemployment and turned it around. He nearly complete eradicated all unemployment in the space of six years and thus boasted the national funds. Hitler in a lot of ways did achieve a miracle however his means in doing so are not always justified.
After the death of President Hindenburg, …show more content…
on 2 August 1934, Hitler became the new president giving himself the title Führer and Reich Chancellor.' To gain complete control Hitler even ordered the army to swear total obedience to him and the country. He was now the most powerful man in Germany and the supreme dictator; Hitler was the Führer'.
When Hitler came to power Germany was suffering from some of the worst economic problems ever experienced by any western democracy in history.
Rampant hyperinflation, massive unemployment and a large drop in living standards were primary factors. The Versailles treaty was considered by most Germans as a punishing and degrading document which forced them to surrender resource-rich areas and pay massive amounts of compensation. Germany ended up paying only fraction of them. However, the reparations did damage Germany's economy by discouraging market loans, forcing the government to finance its deficit by printing more money which caused rampant hyperinflation. Although some did see Hítler as a means to abolish these, the country was already unstable before any industry leaders were supporting Hitler. Even those who supported Hitler's appointment did not want Nazism in its entirety and considered Hitler a temporary solution in their efforts to abolish the Republic. As part of Hitler's promises he gave in the election campaigns of 1932-33, he promised these suffering Germans, work and bread.' His priority was to give them jobs. Hitler had to find some means to create jobs for these people, and to find the money to pay their
wages.
Luckily for Hitler previous governments had already started to set up job-creation schemes, one of these being The National Labour Service. The scheme gave young men jobs on projects needing large amounts of manual labour, digging ditches and other such menial tasks. Hitler took control of the Labour Service and expanded it, giving uniforms to the men and sent them to work camps. Here they did military drills as well as work and received pocket money rather than wages. Then in 1935 a law was passed stating that all men between 18 and 25 must spend at least six months in the Labour Service. With thousands of young German men joining the service the unemployment figures decreased rapidly.
After coming to power Hitler also took control of the road-building programme started by Hindenburg. A law he passed in 1933 expanded this programme to the creation of a motorway network, and gave jobs to no less than 80,000 men over the next period of five years. Other laws also gave the government grants to build new homes, hospitals, schools, libraries and other public services. These constructions offered many more jobs and in order to give as many jobs as possible, using technology was banned and thus all building work had to be done by hand.
In the US Roosevelt and the government set up huge construction programmes, building skyscrapers and massive community construction schemes, to offer jobs to the millions of unemployed people affected by the depression. However Hitler's way of fighting a lot of the depression was his Rearmament programme. He made it his priority after gaining power to build up Germany's previously crushed armed forces. From 1935 all 18 to 25 year olds had to do military service, for at least two years. The armed forces then grew from the previously Versailles opposed maximum figures of 100,000 in 1933 to 1.4 million in 1939, removing around a million from the unemployment figures.
Hitler's racist and extremist views also helped to cut down the unemployment figures. By issuing the various anti-Semitic laws Hitler managed to remove all Jews from their jobs and eradicating them from the countries citizenship records, thus they were no longer counted on unemployment figures, as they were no longer citizens of Germany. Women were also affected in similar ways. The unemployment figures only really counted men, as so when Hitler started to urge women to quite their jobs, stay at home and be good German wives, men started to replace them in their jobs. Hitler managed to do this through temptation with marriage loans and force by making all women in civil servant positions redundant.