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Nazi Germany — From economic crisis to military rearmament
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Nazi Germany reduced unemployment from six million to under one million in just five years — but the economic machine Hitler built made war inevitable. Discover how rearmament, deficit spending, and the suppression of labour rights transformed Germany between 1933 and 1939.
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By nineteen thirty-three, Germany's unemployment rolls held roughly six million people. Nearly a third of the entire workforce had no job, no income, and no clear prospect of either.
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