Andrea Wagner: Ein Human Development Index für Deutschland und die Entwicklung des

Lebensstandards im „Dritten Reich“, 1933–1939

The paper uses the concept of human development and its measurement, the Human Development Index, to examine welfare changes in Germany between 1933 und 1939 on a regional level. A “German-specific Development Index” reflecting Germany’s specific priorities and problems is applied, too. It is argued that the standard of living may have been higher in 1939 than in 1933 through the decline in unemployment, even if a stagnation in income and health and a decline in education possibilities is taken into account. This result confirms what we know from the statements of many contemporaries. From a retrospective view however, the balance sheet of success of the Nazi economic policy to increase peoples’ living standards seems to be rather meagre.

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