This is also a recipe for hyperinflation. The Weimar Republic was created in the aftermath of World War I, shortly after Germany accepted defeat by signing the Treasury of Versailles on June 28, 1919.

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 its ...

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 first chance at seizing power ...

hyperinflation history 101 HUNGARY: 1945-46 Weimar Germany and Zimbabwe have both captured our popular imagination when it comes to money-printing ad absurdum, but post-war Hungary has both of ...

But I’ve now read in more depth about the hyperinflation of Weimar Germany, in the form of the book When Money Dies, by Adam Fergusson (first published in 1975, and reprinted in 2010), and have ...

The Weimar Republic attempted to finance its World War I reparations payments by printing lots of German marks with no backing by gold or other assets. The value of the mark began plummeting in 1920.

The most well-known example of hyperinflation occurred during the Weimar Republic in Germany in the 1920s. From the beginning of World War I through November 1923, the German government issued 92. ...

Iran now faces the certain prospect of hyperinflation, similar to what occurred in the Weimar Republic of Germany between 1921-1923, when accelerating inflation rapidly eroded the value of the ...

The German Hyperinflation, 1923. ... Supermoney, and Paper Money, from which this account of the Weimar Republic's disastrous hyperinflation is excerpted. ...

Any account of Germany’s economically embattled, politically fractured and culturally avant-garde Weimar Republic is haunted by the same, insistent question: How could Weimar fail and Hitler ...