When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-Inflation Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-Inflation Book

When Money Dies In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the Weimar Republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive possessions such as cigars, artworks and jewels were routinely exchanged for everyday necessities such as bread; a cinema ticket could be bought for a lump of coal, and a bottle of paraffin for a silk shirt. In desperation, the Bavarian Prime Minister submitted a Bill to the Reichsrat proposing that gluttony be made a penal offence. Since its first publication in 1975, When Money Dies has become the classic history of these bizarre and frightening times....Read More

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  • 1906964440
  • 9781906964443
  • Adam Fergusson
  • 6 July 2010
  • Old Street Publishing
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288
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