itler announced the First Four-Year Plan ¡§to rescue the German people, to safeguard German food supplies, and to rescue the German workers through a powerful attack on unemployment¡ . According to Guillebaud, the Four-Year Plan can be summarized into four main disciplines ¡V increasing the demand for labor directly by means of public works; and by means of stimulating private investments; decreasing the labor supply by granting marriage loans, tax remissions and withdrawal of women from workforce; and lastly, increasing consumption . To create more jobs, the government initiated and financed a lot of public construction work, like the construction of superhighways (Autobahnen), automobiles and communication lines. Two ¡§Reinhardt Programs¡ were published to subsidize motor-road, residential and agricultural buildings¡ repair and reconstruction. The abolition of the motor-vehicle tax and the reduction of various taxes, such as the land tax (Grundsteuer), greatly encouraged consumption, productivity and private investments, which in return increased more job opportunities. Marriage loans and tax privileges for hiring female domestic workers were granted to withdraw women from entering the industry. Furthermore, the Nazi leaders inherited some public work measures that were already brought out by the von Papen and Schleicher government. For instance, the Nazis leaders still applied the Reich Labor Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst) created in 1931 to give military training in advance of actual army service . All of these gave an immediate improvement on the labor market and a relief to all German citizens.
             Not only were there economic recovery and reorganization taking place in the cities, but there were also two important measures performed in the rural areas of Germany as well. The first one was the emergence of ¡§Reich Food Estate¡ (Reichsnahrstand) in the summer of 1933. Under this policy, every agric...