Page "Nazi architecture" Paragraph 71

The number of skilled and unskilled workers required to erect Hitler's increasingly gigantic buildings created a labour problem.

When he assumed power in 1933, there were still many unemployed workers in Germany, some of whom were given work on public building schemes that Hitler thought would stimulate a sluggish German economy and at the same time provided him with popular propaganda " Hitler Creates Jobs " ( Gr Hitler schafft Arbeit ).

The majority of the unemployed were quickly absorbed by the armaments factories and not by the construction industry, as Nazi propaganda suggested.