1935 ⇒ he reintroduced conscription for German army 1936 ⇒ he announced a 4 year plan ⇒ under the control of Goering ⇒ aimed to get the German economy ready for war within 4 years. Priority ⇒ had to be given to rearmament ⇒ and Germany had to be made as self sufficient as possible → in food and industrial production → policy known as autarky Goering ⇒ proceeded to manage the economy through a series of regulations ⇒ which controlled most aspects of food, prices and raw materials ⇒ setting new targets that private industries had to match. 4 year plan ⇒ one of the very few clear policy documents that Hitler ever wrote.
Conscription ⇒ reduced unemployment. Need for weapons, uniforms, equipment ⇒ created jobs in coal mines, steel mills and textile mills. Engineers and Designers ⇒ also gained new opportunities ⇒ when Hitler decreed that Germany would have a world class air force.
Besides bringing about economic recovery ⇒ these measures boosted Hitler’s popularity ⇒ they renewed national pride. Germans ⇒ began to feel that Germany had finally emerged from its humiliation in WW1 and TOV. → was now able to put itself on equal footing with other great powers.