"Nazi propaganda stirred hopes in times when banks were shut down, unemployment reigned and destitution was a common sight." what do you mean by this sentence??Please help

Following points can help you:
Nazis established total control over the people in the following manner:

 

a. In Hitler people saw a leader who could avenge the wrong done to them by virtue of Treaty of Versailles.
He promised to restore the dignity of Germans and build a strong nation. His massive propaganda influenced people who considered him a saviour who could deliver and save the people from distress. 

b. Hitler created a strong security force and surveillance to ensure order in the society.In an attempt to ensure political stability he laid the foundation of a totalitarian state dismantling all democratic structures, the enabling act can be seen in this context, all political parties except for Nazi party and trade unions were banned.

c. The police and the security forces acquired extra constitutional powers.The forces deported people to torture chambers and to concentration camps and arrested people without following any legal procedures.

d.  Massive propaganda was carried out  against the Jews with the Nazis's racial policy declaring Germans as pure Aryan race and considering Jews as undesirables. Nazi state sought to indoctrinate people and the youth of the country by controlling media, schools and entire education system which was aimed at glorifying Nazi ideology.

e. Hitler established total control over the education system .Ideological training was provided to the children, books were rewritten to popularize Nazi thinking and beliefs, like racial science was introduced.

f. Nazi's foreign policy also aimed
 at uniting Germans all over the world under the slogan of One people, one empire, one leader, and followed an aggressive foreign policy.

g. The state established total control over economy, foreign policy was linked with the overall economic reconstruction plan, Areas were conquered so as to accumulate resources. Nazi's established total control over economic production and kept a check on the price of essential commodities.

 

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This in simple words meansthere wasa lot of uneployement in germany at that time
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