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Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39

Changes in society, 1924–29

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Overview

Rising wages and the unemployment insurance law of 1927, farmers left behind, new housing, women's political rights and work, the new woman and objections to her, the Bauhaus, New Objectivity with Grosz and Dix, and Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

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What happened to workers' wages in the second half of the 1920s?

Key term

Which large group did not share in the prosperity of 1924–29?

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What was done about the shortage of homes in Weimar Germany?

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  1. 1

    What happened to workers' wages in the second half of the 1920s?

    Model answer

    Real wages rose every year from 1924, leaving German workers among the best paid in Europe.

  2. 2

    What did the unemployment insurance law of 1927 give workers?

    Model answer

    In return for contributions from pay, a worker who lost his job received payments from the state.

  3. 3

    Which large group did not share in the prosperity of these years?

    Model answer

    Farmers, whose incomes fell because too much food was being produced worldwide and prices dropped.

  4. 4

    What was done about the shortage of homes?

    Model answer

    Around two million houses and flats were built with government help in the later 1920s, though demand still outran supply.

  5. 5

    What political rights did German women have in these years?

    Model answer

    They could vote from the age of twenty and stand for election, and several dozen sat as deputies through the 1920s.

  6. 6

    How did the kind of work women did change in the 1920s?

    Model answer

    Far more took jobs in shops and offices, and numbers grew in the professions such as medicine, law and teaching.

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