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That which saw an increase after the Second World War, allowing for the maintenance of a cheap labour force via the influx of eastern immigrants and refugees as well as Gastarbeiter
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Population
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Tenement housing, home to large numbers of the increasing number of workers, often being unsanitary and overcrowded, leading to epidemics
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Mietskaserne
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The period of economic growth from the onset of the industrial revolution until the Panic of 1873
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Gründerzeit
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That party which received 18.2% of the vote in 1930 and 37.3% of the vote in 1932, the latter making them the largest party
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NSDAP
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Those three areas within Germany which saw the greatest impact from industrialisation in alphabetical order
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Berlin, Central Germany, and the Ruhr
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That third trade union movement to have formed by the 1890's alongside the Hirsch-Dunker unions and Free Trade Unions, with a membership of 343,000 by 1913
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Christian Unions
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A group formed in 1893 by Junkers to protect agriculture from foreign competition, somewhat successful in the north but not in the south where peasants established their own groups
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Agrarian League
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The percentage of the workforce that was comprised of women in 1980 compared to 37% in Weimar Germany
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39%
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The percentage of people that worked in industry by 1902
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42%
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That party within which the main debate was as to whether socialism should be achieved through reform or revolution
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Social Democratic Party
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That which increased to 29.9% of the working population during the Great Depression in 1932
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Unemployment
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That class the demands of which many blamed the economic difficulties after 1923 on
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Working Class
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The period from 1923 - 1924 in which excessive printing of money saw the mark fall from 20 marks to the pound in 1918 to 20 billion marks to the pound in 1923 resulting in families and businesses going bankrupt
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Hyperinflation
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The percentage of the Berlin population that lived five or six to a room in 1912
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30%
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That group which rebounded after the Second World War by working with industry such as by servicing machines and providing services
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Mittelstand
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Those, the principal focus of which during the 1860's to 1890's was self help against the risks of sickness, disability, and accidents, as well as the provision of educational and leisure opportunities, only rarely becoming involved in organising strikes
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Trade Unions
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That Junker based group in the Reichstag which tried to ensure continued majorities over the SDP by allying with the upper-middle class and industrial elite 'National Liberals'
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Conservatives
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That group which most benefited in Nazi Germany, largely as a result of rearmament
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Industrialists
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That party which many conservatives and Junkers supports in the 1930's as they saw it as something that could be manipulated to their own ends, allowing them to restore the old order
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NSDAP
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That sector of the economy which grew in West Germany relative to the others
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Service Sector
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