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Hitler And The Impacts Of Hitler By Adolf Hitler

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Adolf Hitler was a man that originally came from Poland, and was elected as chancellor in January 1933. He then went on to appoint himself Führer over a Nazi dictatorship, using communism and the Jewish as scapegoats. Throughout the Nazi reign, they had escalating levels of impact on the lives of people, especially women, children, workers, and the minorities, who were people of colour, gypsies, Jews, homosexuals and the disabled. When Hitler and the Nazis came into power in 1933, they had many problems to deal with. One of these was unemployment. Unemployment was at an all-time low of around 6 million, which was about 10% of the population at that time (including women, children elderly and minorities). Hitler dealt with this by creating many projects such as the autobahn, increasing conscription (which took 1 million unemployed), and also because of the increase in soldiers, weapons production grew exponentially. To encourage Germans to work, Hitler also introduced the KdF (Strength through Joy) organization, which promised public holidays, movie and play tickets, sporting activities, and later on, they even promised the "People's Car" to every German worker. This was an ambitious program set up to give every German worker an affordable car, the Volkswagen Beetle. This never happened, with next to none getting cars. It was not all positive for the workers though, as trade unions were banned and all workers were forced to join the German Labour Front. Due to the strict

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