1919-1924: Inflation

Women Waiting in Line to Buy Sub-standard Meat (1923)

 

Women Waiting in Line to Buy Sub-standard Meat (1923)

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Women waiting in line in Berlin, in hopes of buying sub-standard meat (1923).
 

School Meal (1921)

 

Hungry boys at school lunch (1921)

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Hungry boys at school lunch (1921)

Personal Accounts of the Inflation Years

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During the inflation years, people who had saved their money in banks or were living on pensions or disability checks found themselves bankrupt. Those with jobs found that their salary increases could not possibly keep up with the almost instantaneous rise in prices. Artist George Grosz described what shopping was like in those days.

Inflated Weimar Currency (1923)

 

Inflated Weimar Currency (1923)

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German children with stacks of inflated currency, virtually worthless in 1923.

Five Million Mark (1923)

 

Five Million Mark (1923)

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German five million Mark (1923), issued by Bayerische Staatsbank.

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