215: 1919 – Germany VI | The History of the Twentieth Century

A fifty billion mark note. That’s a European billion, meaning 50,000,000,000,000, or fifty trillion, as we would say in the USA. It was worth about US$12.

The German government continued to drag its feet on reparations payments, sparking a Franco-Belgian invasion of the Ruhr region.

Inflation ran wild, owing to the government’s policy of simply printing new money to pay the bills. Strikes and unrest broke out across the country, while in Munich, right-wing extremists attempted a coup.

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I’d like to know more about the campaign to publicize the contribution of German Jews to the war effort. I found mention of a 1932 memorial book that had this as a goal: https://www.jmberlin.de/en/12-of-12000-introduction

But you’re speaking of the 1920s, I think. I can’t find anything from those years. What source(s) are you relying on?