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History of the Second World War

14: The Great Depression Pt. 4 - Unemployment in Germany

History of the Second World War

Wesley Livesay

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.5626 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

We end our series on the Great Depression by taking a deeper dive into how the German government chose to interact with rampant unemployment. Website Patreon Twitter Facebook Discord Email: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.com Sources China During the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 by Tomoko Shiroyama Germany and the Great Depression by Dieter Petzina The Global Impact of the Great Depression: 1929-1939 by Dietmar Rothermund Japan and World Depression: Then and Now Edited By Ronald Dore and Radha Sinha The Failure of Economic Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, France and the United States 1931-36 by Patricia Clavin The Forgotten Man by Amity Shales The Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith The Great Depression in Europe, 1929-1939 by Patricia Clavin The Politics of Depression in France 1923-1936 by Julian Jackson The Slump: Britain and the Great Depression by John Stevenson and Chris Cook The World in Depression 1929-1939 by Charles Kindleberger Unemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany Edited By Peter D. Stachura The Gold Standard and the Great Depression by Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin Life Expectancy during the Great Depression in Eleven European Countries by Tim A. Bruckner, Andrew Noymer, and Ralph A. Catalano The Origins and Nature of the Great Slump Revisited by Barry Eichengreen Socialism and Wages in the Recovery from the Great Depression in the United States and Germany by Peter Temin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Music Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War

0:47.4

Episode 14, The Great Depression Part 4, Unemployment in Germany.

0:53.3

This week, a big thank you goes out to Brent, Daniel, Brendan, Victor, and Rob for their

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support on Patreon, where they now get access to special ad-free versions of all of these episodes,

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plus special Patreon-only episodes released once a month, like this month's episode on the

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1:23.6

In most of the nations that we discussed during these Great Depression episodes, there

1:27.8

were economic problems caused by the global economic crisis known as the Great Depression.

1:33.0

There were monetary shortages, deflation, unemployment, and other issues.

1:37.2

But for the most part, these problems did not spoole out into drastic changes within the

1:41.8

makeup of society.

1:43.7

Changes did occur, for sure, and there were changes that we will continue to bump up against

1:47.7

for the remainder of the episodes discussing the events of the 1930s.

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