That's What I Call Inflation

Germany was not the only country stoking up inflation in the 1920s, printing money to pay its debts (including war reparations), but it was certainly the most spectacular example – the dollar was worth 50 marks in 1922 and 2.5 trillion marks in 1924.
Modified excerpt from The No-Nonsense Guide to World History by Chris Brazier; New internationalist 2011.

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