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Political Cartoon: Smothered by Big Government

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After the poll I shared the other day, this cartoon seems appropriate. Maybe the better lesson to be learned, thought, isn't that we should fear big government (though we should, as this t-shirt makes clear), but that statism destroys the human spirit.

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(1936)

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“Only when things went economically wrong for Germany did the Nazi Party flourish, and vice versa. Their election successes and their membership rose and fell in exact parallel to the unemployment figures. During the years of prosperity between 1924 and 1928 the Nazis as good as disappeared from the political arena. But the deeper the [economy] subsided into crisis, the more firmly did the fascist party sit in the saddle.”
Alfred Sohn-Rethel, economist

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negro “Germany appeared to be on the brink of civil war. The young Weimar Republic was wracked by armed street fighting waged mainly between Communists and Nazis. Foreclosures, bankruptcies, suicides and malnourishment all skyrocketed. Six million Germans, 40 per cent of the working population, were unemployed; and thousands found themselves without a place to live… As anxiety and fear gripped the masses of unemployed men, blatant prejudices resurfaced against full-time female workers. Women were urged to give up their jobs and return home to their traditional roles as wives and mothers. Some of them gladly complied. Others were despondent, either because of their financial need to work or because they worried that the few advances made by women would be permanently stifled.”
Irene Guenther, historian

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1/3 of the workforce was unemployed by 1932, and this negatively affected the unemployment insurance scheme. Workers were forced out of their homes.

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1/3 of the workforce was unemployed by 1932, and this negatively affected the unemployment insurance scheme. Workers were forced out of their homes.

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Protectionism is protecting a nation's own industries and farms in foreign competition. Nations wanted to protect their resources in order to save their economies, so they restricted imports from other countries, especially if they were cheaper than home-produced goods. A main problem with protectionism is that other countries get upset and begin to restrict imports as well, which could ultimately damage the economy if it is dependent on exporting goods.

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German farm boy, 1940s by Karl'sfriend, via Flickr

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18,000 farmers had gone bankrupt by 1932
Farmers were hit by high interest rates and plummeting prices of food. Bankruptcy of farmers led to a shortage of food in Germany. This lead to a large rise in the price of food due to supply and demand.