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Another sign that economic inequality has risen in Germany can be seen in the fact that the number of Germans living below the poverty line has increased from 11% in 2001, [10] to 12.3% in 2004, [11] and about 14% in 2007. According to 2007 government statistics, one out of every six children was poor, a post-1960-record, with more than a third ...
Hitler called for Germany to have the world's "first army" in terms of fighting power within the next four years and that "the extent of the military development of our resources cannot be too large, nor its pace too swift" [italics in the original] and the role of the economy was simply to support "Germany's self-assertion and the extension of ...
Families living in a single room and cellar apartments causing health issues due to a lack of rest can be seen as a cause of growing poverty. [13] To describe worsening conditions the German term of "schlafgänger" [ 14 ] became common, describing workers renting a shared bed for a few hours of the day.
Hitler completely reorganized the economic landscape in Nazi Germany. The Reichswirtschaftskammer ("Reich Economic Chamber") consisted of over two hundred organizations and national councils involved in industry, commercial, and craft lines. Large public works programs, such as the construction of the Autobahn, stimulated the economy and ...
The Four Year Plan (German: Vierjahresplan) was a series of economic measures initiated by Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany in 1936. Hitler placed Hermann Göring in charge of these measures, making him a Reich Plenipotentiary (Reichsbevollmächtigter) whose jurisdiction cut across the responsibilities of various cabinet ministries, including those of the Minister of Economics, the Defense ...
In 1975, a report on poverty published by a CDU politician called Heiner Geissler estimated that 5.8 million people lived below the public assistance levels. As the opening sentence of the report put it, "Poverty, a theme long since thought dead, is an oppressive reality for millions of people."
Burchardt, Lothar. "The Impact of the War Economy on the Civilian Population of Germany during the First and the Second World Wars," in The German Military in the Age of Total War, edited by Wilhelm Deist, 40–70. Leamington Spa: Berg, 1985. Chickering, Roger. Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914–1918 (1998), wide-ranging survey; Daniel ...
With recent economic schemes and company abuses, such as in the Bernard Madoff scandal, [13] the Enron scandal, and the financial crisis of 2007–2010, the German model of a rigidly structured and regulated economy has become more attractive. From 2003 to 2008, Germany (a nation with only 80 million inhabitants) was the world's biggest exporter.