Two ways unemployment fell

GCSE · History · AQA · H1.6 — Changes in the lives of German people 1933–1939: women, workers, education, persecution of minorities and the development of antisemitic policy to 1939

Question

Describe two Nazi policies that reduced unemployment between 1933 and 1939. (4 marks)

Mark scheme — 1 + 1 each:

Public works (1) — building autobahns, drainage projects, public buildings under the RAD (1).
Rearmament from 1935 (1) — soaked up workers in armaments factories (1).
Conscription from 1935 (1) — 1.4 m men in the army by 1939 (1).
Removed women and Jews from official statistics (1) — created "invisible unemployment" (1).

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