In retrospect, you can trace the steps to hyperinflation, but some of the reasons remain cloudy. Germany abandoned the ... province of Upper Silesia. The Weimar Republic was politically fragile.

On September 26 [Chancellor Stresemann] suspended seven articles of the Weimar constitution, himself declared a State of Emergency...Germany had become a military dictatorship, no less ...

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

People on fixed incomes, like students, pensioners or the sick, found their incomes did not keep up with prices. People with savings and those who had lent money, for example to the government ...

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 ...

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 ...