@Dominique 166624 wrote:
I have some old bills from Hitler’s time, you used to need a wheel barrel full of 100,000 DM bills to buy a loaf of bread. They didn’t even time to print new bills to keep up with inflation, they just printed new amounts on them. Just print lots of worthless money, ruin the economy, and go to war with a whole bunch of countries and become the ruler of the world.
that’s actually not true Dom. i mean you probably do have the 100,000 bills :roflmao: but they are not from Hitler’s time.
german hyperinflation took place in 1923 a little bit after the end of WWI. Hitler only came to power a decade later.
Hyperinflation did not directly bring about the Nazi takeover of Germany; the inflation ended with the introduction of the Rentenmark and the Weimar Republic continued for a decade afterward. The inflation did, however, raise doubts about the competence of liberal institutions, especially amongst a middle class who had held cash savings and bonds. It also produced resentment of Germany’s bankers and speculators, many of them Jewish, whom the government and press blamed for the inflation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic :hattip: