More Than 4 Million Germans Out of Work
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The January figure marks a postwar record and approaches the dramatic levels last seen during the Weimar Republic that ushered in Nazi dictatorship. The Federal Labor Office said the unadjusted total was 4.03 million people unemployed, up from 3.69 million in December. German politicians and commentators in recent weeks have been drawing increasingly frequent parallels to the 5-million level of the 1930s that helped bring Adolf Hitler to power.
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