Baldur von Schirach was head of the Hitler Youth movement in Nazi Germany. The young of Nazi Germany had a very important role to play in Hitler’s Germany, so Schirach, as the head of all youth movements, must have been held in the highest esteem by the Nazi leader.
The Holocaust was the murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the
Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Mass killings began in June
1941 with the shooting of Jewish civilians during the German invasion of the
Soviet Union. At the end of 1941, the Germans began deporting Jews to killing
centers in occupied Poland. By May 1945, about two out of every three Jews in
Europe had been murdered.
The fortunes of the National Socialist German Workers Party changed with the Wall Street Crash in October 1929. Desperate for capital, the United States began to recall loans from Europe. One of the consequences of this was a rapid increase in unemployment. Germany, whose economy relied heavily on investment from the United States, suffered more than any other country in Europe.
Before the crash, 1.25 million people were unemployed in Germany
Hitler, who was considered a fool in 1928 when he predicted economic disaster
People began to say that if he was clever enough to predict the depression maybe he also knew how to solve it.
was now seen in a different light
However, the policies that Hitler introduced did help to reduce the number of people unemployed in Germany.
The government banned the introduction of some labour-saving machinery.
These policies often involved taking away certain freedoms from employers.
By 1937 German unemployment had fallen from six million to one million. However, the standard of living for those in employment did not improve in the same way that it had done during the 1920s.