In 1923, at the most fevered moment of the German hyperinflation ... of the Ruhr and of the province of Upper Silesia. The Weimar Republic was politically fragile. But the bourgeois habits ...

In the 1920s and ’30s, clerks at The Times collected stamps from overseas mail. The postage tells of a fluid world history.

the German chancellor took decisive action to maintain control of the situation: On September 26 [Chancellor Stresemann] suspended seven articles of the Weimar constitution, himself declared a ...

Story: The hyperinflation experienced in Weimar Germany in the early 1920s followed its defeat in World War One a few years earlier. As a result of the war, Germany was required to pay large ...

Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany” and Frank McDonough ... the absurdities of hyperinflation, the ...

The Weimar Government’s response to the Ruhr invasion also led to hyperinflation, which caused financial disaster for many people. Back to top How did the Treaty of Versailles punish Germany?

There is far more to 1919-1939 Germany than it simply being a prelude ... It was a period of not only struggle as hyperinflation and reparations cut holes into longcoats, but also of steady ...

Amount of reparations to be paid Stayed the same overall (50 billion Marks) but Germany only had to pay one billion Marks per year for the first five years and 2.5 billion per year after that ...