When Hitler assumed the German chancellorship in January 1933, 34
percent of Germany's work force was unemployed. By 1936, before
Hitler's rearmament program took hold of the economy, most of the
jobless had disappeared from official unemployment statistics. How
did the Nazis put Germany back to work? Was the recovery genuine?
If so, how and why was it so much more successful than that of
other industrialized nations? "Hitler's Economy" addresses these
questions and contributes to our understanding of the internal
dynamics and power structure of the Nazi regime in the early years
of the Third Reich.
Dan Silverman focuses on Nazi direct work creation programs,
utilizing rich archival sources to trace the development and
implementation of these programs at the regional and local level.
He rigorously evaluates the validity of Nazi labor market
statistics and reassesses the relative importance of road
construction, housing, land reclamation, and resettlement in
Germany's economic recovery, while providing new insights into how
these projects were financed. He illuminates the connection between
work creation and Nazi race, agriculture, and resettlement
policies. Capping his work is a comparative analysis of economic
recovery during the 1930s in Germany, Britain, and the United
States.
Silverman concludes that the recovery in Germany between 1933
and 1936 was real, not simply the product of statistical trickery
and the stimulus of rearmament, and that Nazi work creation
programs played a significant role. However, he argues, it was
ultimately the workers themselves, toiling under inhumane
conditions in labor camps, who paid the price for this recovery.
Nazi propaganda glorifyingthe "dignity of work" masked the brutal
reality of Hitler's "economic miracle."
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