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The Weimar Hyperinflation: When Money Became Wallpaper
When the German mark collapsed in 1923, a loaf of bread cost billions. Lucas and Luna explore the dizzying spiral of hyperinflation that turned paper savings into kindling, empowered speculators, and radicalized a traumatized middle class. They walk through the specifics: how the Weimar government printed money to pay war reparations, the French occupation of the Ruhr that triggered a general strike, and the surreal details of daily life — wheelbarrows full of cash, stamps costing millions, and children playing with bricks of worthless notes. They also examine the human cost: pensioners wiped…
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