INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
NAZISM IN GERMANY
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3 million
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300, 000
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6 million
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Nazis came to power in the midst of the Great Depression. The unemployment rate at that point in time was close to 30%.
Detailed explanation-2: -Between the summer of 1929 and early 1932, German unemployment rose from just under 1.3 million to over 6 million, corresponding to a rise in the unemployment rate from 4.5 percent of the labor force to 24 percent.
Detailed explanation-3: -The employment rate dropped to 71.8 percent in De-cember 1923, when almost one-third of all German trade union mem-bers were unemployed.
Detailed explanation-4: -From mid-1929 to January 1933, the number of Germans who had full-time jobs fell from 20 million to 11.5 million; by the start of 1933, at least 6 million Germans were unemployed.