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How Did Hitler Deal With The Great Depression

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Hitler and Roosevelt took leadership roles in their nations when their countries were still suffering from the after-effects of depression and the First World War. Unemployment rate in the US was 25% while the one for Germany was 30%.The leaders had the task of finding solutions for the various challenges that their nations were facing. It was their duty to find solutions because the citizens opted for new leadership as a way of solving their problems and planning for their nation’s future. Franklin Roosevelt believed that the primary cause of the problems that they were facing as a country was the failure of his predecessors. He claims that the predecessor s failure was through their stubbornness and incompetence. He also blames the challenges on financial policies that are making others miserable while enriching others. Roosevelt also cites lack of visionary leaders as well as lack of ethics was also a cause of the issues that they were facing. People in prominent leadership roles betrayed …show more content…

Taking action on the strategies to reduce cost instead of only talking about the policies was also part of Roosevelt’s plan. Hitler’s plan for tackling unemployment was the reorganization of business life and the administrative and fiscal systems of states and communes. Hitler set out a strategy for dealing with unemployment and as a result, getting the peasants from a quagmire. In dealing with the banking and financial sector, Roosevelt suggests that there should strict supervision of these banking and financial sector. He also plans on ensuring that people get enough sound currency. Another plan by Roosevelt was urging Congress to set aside detailed measures for dealing with the economic challenges. On the other hand, Hitler’s plan on dealing with the financial difficulties was compulsory labor service and avoiding experiments any experiments that would harm their

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