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Rampant inflation - 1923
Study the price of the postage stamps to see how rapidly the inflation took hold.
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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