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Provision of work in Germany during the Great Depression, 1929-1932

Housing development during the Great Depression, 1929

An unemployed works on a house of a settlement. The Reich government plans to settle about 100,000 unemployed in the suburbs of Berlin within a year. The unemployed get some land and the materials provided.

Men working in the garden during the Great Depression, 1932

Men working in the garden in the settlers preschool of the German construction community in Gatow. There, around 50 unemployed people are housed in barracks, who are retrained as agricultural workers.

Steuergutschein (tax remission certificate), 1932

View of a Steuergutschein (tax remission certificate) issued by the Reich Minister of Finance, Count Schwerin von Krosigk in Berlin, September 30, 1932. It has five coupons that can be cut off only by the financial or customs office.

Gymnasts build sports facilities, 1932

Unemployed gymnasts do voluntary work and build sports facilities.

Gymnasts build sports facilities, 1932

Unemployed gymnasts do voluntary work and build sports facilities.

Gymnasts build sports facilities, 1932

Unemployed gymnasts do voluntary work and build sports facilities.

Volunteers working in a road construction in Vogtsbrugge, 1932

80 young unemployed people work on a new street at the municipal estate Joachimshof.

Members of the Voluntary Labour Service (FAD) at work, around the 1930s

Workers push away a cart with dirt on the rails. (Undated photo).

Construction of an airfield by the FAD in Baden, around the 1930s

Members of the FAD build an airfield, and they take the debris away with a cart on rails (Undated photo).

Men of the Voluntary Labour Service (FAD) at work, around the 1930s

Members of the FAD remove debris and dirt with a cart on rails (Undated photo).

Men of the Voluntary Labour Service (FAD) fighting against unemployment, around the 1930s

Using a wagon on rails these two men with naked upper body take dirt and debris away (Undated photo).

Members of the Voluntary Labour Service (FAD) working on drainage, around the 1930s

Men of the FAD clear away dirt and debris from the rails with a cart (Undated photo).

A member of the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst (FAD) at work, around the 1930s

With a naked upper body this tattooed worker shovels earth (undated photo).

Food preparation at the Voluntary Labour Service (FAD), around the 1930s

Members of the FAD prepare food for the workers and smear butter on slices of bread (undated photo).

Members of the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst excavate a sink, around the 1930s

Men of the FAD excavate a sink with a pointed hook and shovel (Undated photo).

Coffee break at the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst - Voluntary Labour Service (FAD), around the 1930s

Members of the Voluntary Labour Service serve a cup of coffee from a pot.

The Voluntary Labour Service (FAD) moves to the workplace in Kummersdorf, around the 1930s

Members of the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst marching in their uniforms and with a music band from Klausdorf at Zossen to their voluntary labor camp in Kummersdorf (Undated photo).

Volunteers restore a sports field, around the 1930s

By laying new lawn, these members of the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst - Voluntary Work Service (FAD) try to make the Eichkamp sports field in Berlin ready for use again. Here, the lawns are taken from the neighboring Grunewald forest with the permission of the forestry administration (undated photo).

Volunteers in a camp of the FAD, around the 1930s

Members of the FAD load rubbish and dirt into several lorries on rails (undated photo).

Volunteers at a railway construction, around the 1930s

Members of the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst - Voluntary Work Service (FAD) carry a section of railway line to an elevated position (Undated photo).

Deployment of a section of the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst- Voluntary Work Service, around the 1930s

The volunteers march out in their uniforms and with a music band from the headquarters of the Bismarckhohe camp (Undated photo).

Volunteers going to the workplace in Klausdorf near Zossen, around the 1930s

Members of the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst - Voluntary Work Service (FAD) are going with their shovels and in uniform from their work camp to the workplace while singing.

Members of the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst - Voluntary Work Service (FAD) eating, around the 1930s

The volunteer did not have to pay anything for accommodation and meals (undated photo).

Volunteers at the construction of a drainage ditch, around the 1930s

Members of the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst (FAD) help in the making of a drainage ditch between fields in a rural environment (undated photo).

Volunteers working on dewatering in Stuedenitz, around the 1930s

In the eastern part of Germany in particular, the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst - Voluntary Work Service (FAD) helped with the dewatering and clearing of huge swamps, as here in Stuedenitz in the district of Ostpriegnitz. Volunteers are pulling out a large stump (Undated photo).

Members of the Voluntary Work Service (FAD) taking a break, around the 1930s

Volunteers place their work equipment near a building and have a rest (undated photo).

Women at the Voluntary Work Service (FAD), around the 1930s

Women and girls also took part in the FAD as volunteers, but their number remained low. Here, three women chop and saw wood (Undated photo).

Working volunteers trenching, around the 1930s

Members of the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst - Voluntary Work Service (FAD) make a ditch (probably a drainage ditch) on a field (undated photo).

Working volunteers during sewing and shoemaking, around the 1930s

Members of the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst - Voluntary Work Service (FAD) repair shoes and stuff a jacket (undated photo).

Volunteers peeling potatoes, around the 1930s

Members of the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst (FAD) peel potatoes together. One of the volunteers is wearing a swastika armband (Undated photo).

Teenagers, ca. 1930

Young people standing and sitting together.

Unemployed young people in a bookbinder workshop in Berlin, 1931

In the employment office Berlin-Mitte young people are engaged in a bookbinding workshop, to keep them away from the street and preserve their work attitude (according to the original caption).