Through publicly funded emergency relief programs concentrating on agricultural land-improvement projects and road construction, the "Erich Koch Plan" for East Prussia allegedly made the province free of unemployment; on August 16, 1933 Koch reported to Hitler that unemployment had been banished entirely from East Prussia, a feat that gained admiration throughout the Reich. Koch's industrialization plans led him into conflict with R. Walther Darré, who held the office of the Reich Peasant Leader (Reichsbauernführer) and Minister of Agriculture. Darré, a neopaganist rural romantic, wanted to enforce his vision of an agricultural East Prussia. When his "Land" representatives challenged Koch's plans, Koch had them arrested. COUNT 3
QSN1 How were East Prussians able to pay for land improvements and road construction? ANS1 publicly funded emergency relief programs QSN2 What was the name of the initiative to help with the new projects in East Prussia? ANS2 Erich Koch Plan QSN3 What did Koch report to Hitler in 1933? ANS3 that unemployment had been banished entirely