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Study the price of the postage stamps to see how rapidly the inflation took hold.
Stamp 8 marks
Stamp 30 marks
Stamp 75 marks
Stamp 400 marks
Stamp 800 marks
Stamp 1 million marks
Stamp 2 million marks
Stamp 4 million marks
Stamp 5 million marks
Stamp 500 million marks
Rampant inflation - 1923
The inflation was so fast that they could not make new stamps, but printed the new prices on top of the old stamps.
By the autumn of 1923 it cost 500 million marks to post a letter!
   
   
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Jewish Tradition
Antisemitism
Hitlers Rise to Power
The Third Reich

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