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.

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 ...