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Weimar Republic hyperinflation from one to a trillion paper marks per gold mark; values on logarithmic scale.
May 23, 2023 · History | May 23, 2023. How Hyperinflation Heralded the Fall of German Democracy. In 1923, the collapse of the Weimar Republic’s economy impoverished millions and gave Adolf Hitler his...
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Article History. Bank run during the Weimar Republic hyperinflation crisis. Date: 1922 - 1923. Location: Germany. hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic, economic disaster in the Weimar Republic in 1922–23 that impoverished millions of German citizens and paved the way for the rise of the Nazi Party.
Jan 1, 2023 · From 1921 to 1923, the Weimar Republic suffered one of the greatest economic crises in German history: hyperinflation. During the "Golden Twenties" the German mark rapidly lost nearly all of...
The 1923 hyperinflation. In early 1923 German workers embarked on a prolonged general strike, a protest against the Ruhr occupation. The Weimar government decided to subsidise this strike, a decision that had a devastating impact on Germany’s already depleted economy. In 1922 the ministry ordered increased print runs of banknotes, hoping to ...
In the nearly full century since Germany’s bout with hyperinflation, historians and economists have examined Weimar government records, private business reports, and anecdotal sources such as letters, in order to determine the extent of the process and ultimately how it began.
The hyperinflation episode in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s was not the first hyperinflation, nor was it the only one in early 1920s Europe or even the most extreme inflation in history (the Hungarian pengő and Zimbabwean dollar have both been more inflated). However, as the most prominent case following the emergence of economics as a scholarly discipline, it drew interest in a way that ...
