INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
NAZISM IN GERMANY
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20%
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30%
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40%
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50%
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fritzsche writes: “At the height of the crisis, in the winter of 1932, more than 40 percent of all workers in Germany were unemployed.
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: -In 1932, however, with the country mired in the depths of the Great Depression and some 15 million people unemployed, Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt won an overwhelming victory in the presidential election.
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.
Detailed explanation-5: -At the height of the Depression in 1933, 24.9% of the nation’s total work force, 12, 830, 000 people, were unemployed. Wage income for workers who were lucky enough to have kept their jobs fell 42.5% between 1929 and 1933.