Transcript Industry in Nazi Germany

Industry in Nazi Germany
Leann & Sarah
Economy
• German Industry booming
• Unemployment rates decreased (History
Learning Site)
• Mandatory to work- ‘work shy’ sent to
concentration camps
• War – conscription & weapon making
• National labor services- farming, building,
digging etc.
• Unemployment figures (excluding women)
(History Learning Site)
Total
January 1933
6 million
January 1934
3.3 million
January 1935
2.9 million
January 1936
2.5 million
January 1937
1.8 million
January 1938
1.0 million
January 1939
302,000
Slave Labor
• Slave Labor was crucial in the success of the
Nazi Germanic empire
• Slaves were usually captured Jews
• Types of labor- hard labor, domestic servitude,
factory labor etc.
(Andreas Mink, 2002)
Aryanization
• Anti – Semitism
• Prior to 1993, Jews owned 100 000 businesses
across Germany.
• Boycotting
• Stages of Aryanization, voluntary and involuntary
• Legalization 1938
• 40 000 remaining Jewish Businesses
(Wikipedia, 2012)
• Best for the Germanic people
• Jewish forced to register property
• Blocked bank accounts
(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
2012)
(German History Documents)
Brands that thrived
• Hugo Boss
– Nazi Uniforms
– Employed forced labor (slaves)
– Saved company from bankruptcy
(Lauren Paxman, 2011)
• Volkswagen
– Peoples car
– The beetle was named by Hitler
– 4/5 workers were slaves
– Requested slaves from Auschwitz
(11points.com, 2008)
• Kodak
– Employed slave labor from concentration camps
(11points.com, 2008)
• Siemens
– Slave Labor
– Built gas chambers
(11points.com, 2008)
• Bayer
– Part of company, IG Farben, manufactured gas for gas
chambers
– Funded experiments on concentration camp prisoners
– IG Farben profited the most out of all businesses with
connections to the Nazis
(11points.com, 2008)
• Coca Cola Fanta
• BMW
• Daimler Chrysler
• Ford
• Standard Oil
• Chase Bank
• IBM
• Random House Publishing
• Opel
(Theawfultruth.com) (11points.com, 2008)
“Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic
national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie
in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation.”
― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
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References
11points.com (2008) 11 Companies That Surprisingly Collaborated With the Nazis 11Points.com. [online] Available at: http://www.11points.com/NewsPolitics/11_Companies_That_surprisingly_Collaborated_With_the_Nazis [Accessed:
23 Jul 2012].
En.wikipedia.org (2007) Aryanization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [online]
Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryanization [Accessed: 23 Jul 2012].
Fathom.com (2000) Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning. [online] Available at:
http://www.fathom.com/feature/121781/index.html [Accessed: 23 Jul 2012].
Germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org (1945) GHDI - Image. [online] Available at:
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1945 [Accessed: 23
Jul 2012].
Historylearningsite.co.uk (1933) The Nazis and the German Economy. [online]
Available at:
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazis_and_the_german_economy.htm
[Accessed: 23 Jul 2012].
Paxman, L. (2012) [online].
Ushmm.org (1935) Anti-Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany. [online] Available at:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/arti