The survey quite readily admits in its array of the facts that although German workers' standards on the eve of the present war were circumscribed as compared with British and French, the German workers did enjoy a new level of well-being Which. if the alternative of unemployment under pre-Hitler conditions is Kept in mind, no doubt offered real advantages to the workers concerned. One point emerges: The Germans in 1938-39 had already felt acutely the problem of labour shortage and placement, the need for adjustment pud redistribution. Under the Na yégime the difficulty was in part Zolved by the mobile Labour Corps, put even this did not quite compensate where time and practice were the only cures, "The survey next discusses population and migration, birth and death rates, the changing age-distribution of population and its pressing effect on industry, capital and labour supply. Clearly there emerges the salient fact that the war of 1914-18 cut a wide swathe into the populations of the combatants now again engaged in war.
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