Workers

Question 1

What was the DAF (3)

Answer 1

Purpose- to replace the trade unions that were abolished and ensure they didn’t interfere with Hitler’s plans
Benefits;
- this guaranteed the workers a job as all workers had to work in the DAF
Disadvantage:
- freedoms restricted such as prevented from moving jobs without permission
- Working hours increased

Question 2

What was the KDF (4)

Answer 2

Name: Strength through Joy
Purpose: to improve the workers’ free time and offer incentives
Benefits: provided picnics, cheap cinema, and a broad range of sporting activities. Cheap holidays were arranged including the 10,000 family rooms holiday camp at Prora on the Baltic Sea. Low taxes
Disadvantages: No Volkswagen Beetle given or striking allowed. Not able to change jobs. Program holiday camp never opened

Question 3

What was the SDA (4)

Answer 3

Name: Beauty of Labour
Purpose:
- to encourage workers to be proud of their work.
- It ran campaigns for to improve working conditions through better lighting, washing facilities or noise reduction
Benefits :
- encouraged workers to be proud of their work.
- Workers were provided with a canteen.
- Noise reduction, measures, lighting, washing facilities
Disadvantages:
- workers couldn’t campaign against long hours

Question 4

What was RAD ? (4)

Answer 4

• RAD was the Reich Labour Service
• Compulsory for all men aged 18-25
• Had to carry out work for the government such as road building and tree planting, for a very small amount of money
• This took them off the unemployment register and provided cheap labour for state building programmes

Question 5

What happened to women and Jews in the workplace?(2)

Answer 5

• Married women were forced from the workplace, while many Jews were removed from their jobs
• They were not registered as unemployed

Question 6

What were the unemployment statistics in Germany ?

Answer 6

January 1933 it was 6 million (nearly 33%)
January 1936 it was 2.5 million
January 1939 it was 302,000

Question 7

Describe Nazi attempts to reduce unemployment

Answer 7

• Public Works made a programme of public works building autobahns, waterways and railways. This opened up 15,000 new jobs and a fifth of government spending was on autobahns
• Conscription created jobs in the army and therefore army size grew from 100,000 to 1.4 million. The new recruits were removed from the unemployed register and this gave over 1 million men a job by 1939
• Rearmament created jobs in industries such as making planes and bullets. This successfully created thousands of jobs
• Autarky (Goering’s 4 year plan) of economic self sufficiency meant new factories were constructed, a number of imported goods were cut and higher targets were set for production of essential materials. This created jobs in factories and reduced unemployment but it never achieved economic self sufficiency.
• RAD (National Labour Service) was a compulsory national service with very little pay. The people who joined weren’t considered unemployed when hired and every man needed to work and afterwards men went into the army. RAD was established to lesen the effects of unemployment and to militarise the work and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideologies. Every man aged 18-25 must spend 6 months in the labour service in preparing to be a soldier
• In Weimar Germany there had been 100,000 female teachers and 3000 doctors. Within a year most had been sacked or encouraged to leave. They wanted women to focus on Kirche, Küche and Kinder.