Before the Nazis came in power, there was a period of high unemployment in Germany, however when the Nazis came in power they promised the German working class to eradicate the problem of unemployment. The German workers were really important to Hitler as their hard work would allow Germany to recover and become great again. There were a number of policies that the Nazis brought up which to some degree did benefit the working class. In order to tackle unemployment, the Nazis came up with a range of ideas like conscription, rearmament and the four year plan. Due to conscription, many of the unemployed were taken into the army. Later on, the four year plan was introduced, which built up munitions, steel, coal mining and textiles industry. Due to the growth of different industries, there were jobs created in different sectors and reduced unemployment further. In addition to all these different plans introduced, there were also many organisations that helped reduce unemployment and the working conditions, like the German Labour Service which reduced unemployment by giving people jobs in public services such as building motorways. Another organisation was the German Labour Front; this organisation was an alternative for trade union used by the Nazis. This organisation helped solve disputes among employers and employee. Due to this organisation the bosses could not sack employees on the spot. Under the German Labour Front, there were many other schemes that were set up which sought out to improve working conditions. One of these schemes under German Labour Front was Beauty of Labour which improved working conditions and provided worker with hot meal that were cheap. There was another scheme ran by the Nazis which encouraged people to buy the Volkswagen Beetle, designed by Ferdinand Porsche. This scheme would allow the German workers to save five marks a week. As a result of these organisations and policies being set up, the German worker did benefit from them, however there was also greater resentment caused by the German Labour Front. The workers had lost trade unions and the membership of the German Labour Front was compulsory which meant that the workers could not go on strikes for higher wages and less working hours. Under the Nazi rule, the working hours were increased and the wages were still low. Even though the working hours were increased, the wages that they received did not reflect that only those who worked in the armament industry had their wages risen .The people who were given jobs the German Labour Service were not entirely happy as their wages were comparatively low. The workers also complained about the hard work and labour. Possibly, we can say that the German farmers were advantaged, to some extent, during the Nazi rule.
The farmer, which the Nazis believed were the backbone to the new master race and the empire to the east, benefited to some extent from the Nazi rule in Germany. Even for the farmers a number of organisations and policies were set up to help farmer recover like the Reich Food Estate which set up central borders for agricultural products to be bought and to be distributed to markets across Germany. This gave the peasant farmers a guaranteed market for their goods at guaranteed prices. Due to the Depression farmer was mostly in debt, but the introduction of the Reich Entailment Farm law solved the problem of debts faced by the farmers. Due to this law the farmers were given state protection. The banks could not seize their farms is the farmers could not pay mortgages or loans. This law ensured that peasants’ farmers stayed in their hands. However these laws did have some drawbacks to it which made it a bit unpopular among the farmers. Due to the Reich Entailment Farm law the banks were not willing to give loans to the farmers as they will not get their money back. Many farmers were enthusiastic about these laws like the industrial workers. The efficient farmers had to be held back by having to work with the same processes as the less efficient farmers. Farms could not be divided between the sons of the family, and only the eldest son of the family could inherit the farm. As a result of this many children of the farmers left farming and worked in better paying industries in Germany. Due to young children leaving farms, the farmers faced a shortage in labour. We can say that the Jews and the Communists did not benefit at all from the Nazi rule.
During the Nazi rule in Germany, the Jews and Communists did not benefit at all as they were seen as enemies. After the Reichstag fire for which the Nazis blamed the Communists and this resulted in many of the Communist in Germany being arrested. Later on, during the process of Gleichschaltung, the Communist party was banned with every other party and many of them were arrested without a trial and thrown into concentration camps. The Jews, on the other hand, were treated a lot more badly than the communists. The Nazis introduced many policies against the Jews, like the Jewish boycott in April 1933, which affected financially. Then the Nuremburg Laws were introduce after which the Jews became subjects rather than citizen as they were no longer considered German citizens and could not keep any kind of relationship with the German citizens. Eventually, the Jews were sent off to extermination camps where they were killed on a mass scale in the Holocaust.
In conclusion, we see that the big businessmen and army benefited the most from the Nazi rule as all the schemes that were introduced were in their favour. The German workers and farmers on the other had did benefit to a certain degree. Unemployment was eradicated for the workers and working condition were made better, however they paid a price by losing their trade unions as now they could not go on strikes and the German Labour Front controlled them and sometimes stopped them from moving onto better jobs. The farmers had their dents written off and were guaranteed market and prices for their products. However due to certain policies the farmers had a shortage of labour. In the end, the Communists and the Jews certainly did not benefit as they were aggressively discriminated against. The Communists were arrested and thrown in concentration camps, while the Nazis started the mass killing of the Jews.
