Images - Economy and Labor

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1.	Hindenburg and Hitler to the Farmers’ Rescue: National Socialist Election Poster for the Reichstag Election (March 5, 1933) In the elections of the late 1920s and early 1930s, the NSDAP benefited from a massive surge of support from Germany's rural population, which was continuing to suffer the effects of a persistent....
2.	Richard Walther Darré, Reich Farm Leader and Reich Minister of Nutrition and Agriculture (1933/34) In 1933, the "blood and soil" ideologist Richard Walther Darré took control of Nazi agricultural policy. As Reich Farm Leader and Reich Minister of Nutrition and Agriculture, Darré coordinated and....
3.	Appeal of the German Workers’ Front after the Dissolution of the Free Trade Unions: Then as Now, We Remain Comrades (May 2, 1933) The worldwide depression and persistent widespread unemployment had been undermining the cohesion and morale of the labor movement for years and had seriously destabilized the trade unions. Only....
4.	Unemployed Men Standing in Front of the Berlin Employment Office (June 22, 1933) The persistent worldwide depression and the mass unemployment associated with it were among the main catalysts for the general radicalization of the political climate in Germany – a process from....
5.	German Industrialists Salute the Flag at a Rally for the German Economy in Berlin (November 7, 1933) The NSDAP's twenty-five point plan had promoted a quasi-socialist direction for the economy and had included the nationalization of companies and land reform. After taking office, however, Hitler....
6.	Unemployed Man in Hamburg: I’m Looking for Work! (1934) On February 1, 1933, in his first radio address as Reich Chancellor, Hitler declared that his most important goal was bringing....
7.	The Fight against Unemployment: Graph Presented by the Reich Ministry for Employment (1934) The Nazis' widely trumpeted success in the "battle against unemployment" ensured the approval of the general population and allowed the regime to establish itself domestically. In 1934 the Nazi government....
8.	Hitler with Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht (May 5, 1934) As president of the Reichsbank, Hjalmar Schacht (right) played a major role in financing the first phase of the National Socialist "military economy." For example, he developed the "Mefo bill" credit....
9.	Increase-Employment-Lottery on Jungfernstieg in Hamburg: Every One-Dime-Lot Purchased Helps Needy Compatriots Find New Jobs (May 24, 1934) Nazi propaganda promised that economic and social need would be quickly overcome. In the foreseeable future, the German national community would be able to live in harmony, solidarity, and prosperity.....
10.	Female Clerks in the Brunningen Grocery Store in Munich (1934) Hitler believed that the catastrophic supply situation during the First World War had eroded the German....
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