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which is what gives money its value. This production, and not a bank or gold reserve, is the first
cover for a currency." - Adolf Hitler
"In the course of carrying through our program for which we have calculated four years, two and onequarter
million out of 6 million unemployed have already received employment again within a period
of eight short months." - Adolf Hitler
THE REICHSTAG FIRE
"The German people have no reason to envy the rest of the world an acquisition of any kind. But
what would the world say about Germany if we had held a farcical trial for the benefit of a criminal
who had attempted to set fire to the British Houses of Parliament, a trial which could have had no
other object but to place British justice and her legal administration below the level of such a
scoundrel." - Adolf Hitler
GERMAN EQUALITY WITH OTHER NATIONS
"I wish and will continue to wish, that the German people should learn that by reason of practical
examples afforded by their ability and work, they are not a second-rate or inferior people in
comparison with others. On the contrary they are their equals according to all true standards of values
and therefore entitled to equal rights in all respects." - Adolf Hitler
CHAPTER.5
LIFE IN HITLER'S GERMANY
Economic and social conditions began to improve. Hitler's Government by September, 1936 had
reduced unemployment from 6,014,000 (January, 1933) to less than 338,000 by 1936. National
income had increased from 41 billion marks to 56 billions. German trade was prospering. Deficits of
the cities and provinces had almost disappeared. Expenditure for armaments was minor.
Unemployment was eliminated mainly by:
1) Increased government spending on public works; infrastructure, railways, roads, public
building projects.
2) Indirect support to private works projects.
3) A sharp reduction in taxation to create incentive.
4) Reduction in taxation and increased state contributions to make employment more attractive.
5) Public good workfare schemes, (non-competitive) with private and government schemes.
The effect was an injection of increased wages into the national economy, increased consumer
spending which in itself led to job increases. By 1936 there was a shortage of labor, especially in the
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