The November 1932 general elections were held amid public hysteria over Germany ’s economic depression. Despite expensive emergency makework programs, more than 5 million people were still unemployed on election eve. In some areas the jobless rate was 75 percent. More than 17 million persons – about a third of the entire population – were dependent upon a welfare stipend equivalent to a few dollars per family per month. Such families knew hungry nights once or twice weekly.
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"Before the end of his forth year in power, Hitler had ended the Depression, cut unemployment from six million to one million, grown German's GNP by 37%, and increased auto production from 45,000 vehicles to a year to 250,000. City and provincial deficits had disappeared. This success goaded Churchill, before Hitler had ever moved on Austria or Czechoslovakia, to confide in American General Robert Wood, at his flat in London in November 1936, "Germany is getting too strong and we must smash her."
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"You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest."
Winston Churchill - 1940
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