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Plundered shop in Berlin, 1923

During a violent demonstration a pants store was plundered in the Grenadier Strasse in Berlin. Protests against the inflation and currency devaluation led to disturbances in Berlin.

Demonstration during the economic crisis, 1923

Policemen evacuate a street after a demonstration in the Scheunenviertel. Protests against the high prices and the increasing devaluation of money led to riots in Berlin.

Policemen clear a street in Berlin, 1923

Policemen clear the Mulachstrasse in Berlin after a violent demonstration. Inflation disturbances led to plundering in Berlin.

Barricaded bakery in Berlin, 1923

A bakery shop in the Schoenhauser Strasse in Berlin was secured with bars against the inflation disturbances.

Inflation coupon, 1923

Coupon with stable value for coal, bread, flour, lard and pasta from the company Gebrueder Spohn GmbH in Neckarsulm.

Inflation: misery, poverty of the population, unemployed people demonstrate in Berlin, 1923

Demonstration in Berlin at the time of the inflation. Inflation: misery, poverty of the population, 1922-1923, Germany 1919-1932, Weimar Republic

Mass feeding during the inflation, 1923

Poor feeding in the period of the inflation.

Drawing depicting the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich by Felix Schwormstaedt, 1923

The Bavarian State Police (foreground) opens fire on the putschists. In the center stand Adolf Hitler with an outstretched arm and right of him, General Erich Ludendorff. The buildings in the background are the Residenz (left) and the Feldherrenhalle (right) in Munich.

Back of a medal for the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, 1923

Back of a medal on the Beer Hall Putsch by Karl Goetz. The Beer Hall Putsch is depicted as the "Munich Theater". It shows Adolf Hitler (in the middle, with steel helmet) and two putschists with gallows and a swastika flag. On the right a Kasperl is dancing. Below the figures is the inscription: "9.11.23 Last performance, let's go to Berlin".

Beer hall putsch, 1923

Painting 'Befreiungskampf an der Feldherrnhalle' (fight for liberation at the field marshall's hall) by Arthur Wirth.

Hitler Coup, 1923

A Freikorps unit occupies the Bavarian Ministry of War in the Schoenfeld Street within the Hitler coup on 9 November 1923. In the middle of the picture is the later Reich leader SS Heinrich Himmler with a flag in his arm.

One trillion Reichsmark, 1923

Banknote worth one trillion Reichsmark. Due to the increasing inflation banknotes with astronomical monetary value are being issued.

School lunch in a Berlin elementary school, 1923

Schoolchildren of a Berlin elementary school sit at long tables in a big hall. In front of them are large pots of food. Two women, presumably the teachers, supervise the children. Daily school meals are supported by foreign donations.

Handing out soup in Berlin, 1923

Feeding of needy people in a soup kitchen of the public relief office in Berlin during the inflation.

Policeman guarding potato fields, 1923

A mounted police officer patrolling at the edge of a potato field while hoarders from the cities wait at the edge.

Voucher of the Reichspost Ministry from the inflation period, 1923

Voucher of the Reichspost Ministry of over fifty trillion Marks.

One hundred trillion Mark, 1923

One hundred trillion Mark is the highest value of the German inflation. Due to the increasing inflation banknotes with astronomical monetary value are being issued.

Five billion Mark, 1923

Five billion Mark note. With the rising inflation, monetary values become more and more astronomical.

Written stamp, 1923

The post has to write stamps with value, here 2 million Marks, on the letters, since the Reichsdruckerei (Reich Printing Office) could not keep up with the depreciation of money and stamps.

Introduction of the Rentenmark, 1923

The legal introduction of the Rentenmark ends the years of post-war inflation. In Berlin's financial district, newspapers are torn right from the newspaper sellers' hands.

Ten billion Mark note, 1923

Ten billion Mark note. With the rising inflation, monetary values become more and more astronomical.

Inflation banknote, 1923

Inflation bill worth one million Mark of Bezirkssparkasse Landau an der Isar in Lower Bavaria. Due to the increasing inflation banknotes with astronomical monetary value are being issued.

Fifty million Marks, 1923

Due to the increasing inflation banknotes with astronomical monetary value are being issued.

Soup kitchen of the Salvation Army in Berlin, 1923

Berliner receive soup at a field kitchen.

Inflation: poverty, misery of the population, demonstration during the inflation in Berlin, 1923

inflation, distress, poverty of the population, 1922-1923, Germany 1919-1932, Weimar Republic

Ten million Mark note, 1923

Ten million Mark note. With the rising inflation, monetary values become more and more astronomical.

Two million Mark, 1923

Two million Mark. Due to the increasing inflation banknotes with astronomical monetary value are being issued.

One million Mark, 1923

Due to the increasing inflation banknotes with astronomical monetary value are being issued.

One million Mark, 1923

Due to the increasing inflation banknotes with astronomical monetary value are being issued.

Children receive food, 1923

During the hardship of the inflation the children were sent out of the cities to camps in the country. In a service building ration carriers get food for a group of children.

Twenty million Mark, 1923

Twenty million Reichsmark. Due to the increasing inflation banknotes with astronomical monetary value are being issued.

Fifty million Mark, 1923

Fifty million Mark note. With the rising inflation, monetary values become more and more astronomical.

The first typewriter competition in Berlin, 1923

The first typewriter competition in Berlin, in which a 200,000 Mark prize of the "Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger" could be won. It was the last months of inflation, when the Reichsmark lost value every day. Participants used Mercedes and Adler typewriters.

Twenty thousand Mark, 1923

Twenty thousand Mark. With the rising inflation, monetary values become more and more astronomical.

Emergency money, 1923

Check, crocheted edition, made of fabric, of the Stadtsparkasse Bielefeld on ten thousand Marks. On the check is a picture of a coal mine with workers, the listings of the reparation payments to be made by Germany and the desire to be free again.

Emergency money, 1923

Berliner people transport their purchase of potatoes, 1923

During the economic crisis in Berliner collect food in strollers and handcarts.

Weimar Republic - International Workers' Aid

Under the slogan "Proletarians of all countries unite!" a shipload of Soviet grain donated by International Workers' Aid is handed over to a representative of the Reich Committee of German Workers' Councils in Bremen in 1923 to support striking workers in Germany. Founded in Berlin in 1921, the KPD-affiliated organization served, among other things, to support workers by offering food and clothing. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv - [automated translation]

Crowd in front of the post office bank in Berlin, 1923

Crowd of people in front of the Berliner Postscheckamt (post office bank) in Berlin, where most account holders always withdrew every inpayment immediately, being in need of money.

Recreation camp for city children

Some poorly clothed children get food and drink in a barren room. On long wooden tables there are jugs of coffee and cocoa, and in front of them are stacks of sliced bread. At the peak of inflation, 3000 city children from poor quarters are accommodated in this Southern German recreation camp, because their parents can no longer feed them. Around 1923.

Chinesinnen in der Mandschurei

Alice Schalek. 'Chinese women in Manchuria - one with children on the arm and one with artificially crippled foot.' 1923. Photograph.

Poster by Olaf Gulbransson as a call for donations for the Deutsches Volksopfer, 1923

After the occupation of the Ruhr by French troops, the government called for passive resistance, which was very costly. To fund it, donations were asked, as on this poster of the famous illustrator Gulbransson, where a hand is depicted, throwing off its chains, with the slogan: "We want to be free, as our fathers were. Donate to the Deutsches Volksopfer".

Inflation: "Raffke" (profiteer) character

Scene from a contemporary film: the so-called "Raffke" or trafficker type, profiteers in the period of inflation.

Inflation: misery, poverty of the population, queue during the inflation in Berlin, 1923

People wait in line for goods in Berlin. Inflation: misery, poverty of the population, 1922-1923, Germany 1919-1932, Weimar Republic.

Overprint banknote, 1923

A thousand Mark bill with One billion Mark overprint of the Reichsbank, because the Reichsbank could not keep up with the reprint of banknotes.

Inflation coupons, 1923

Inflation coupons on different amounts of rye above from Oldenburg and below from Strelitz.

Money with high monetary value, 1923

Banknotes with high monetary value. With rising inflation, monetary values become more and more astronomical.

Billion banknotes, 1923

With rising inflation, monetary values become more and more astronomical.

Emergency banknotes for sale after the depreciation, 1923

The cities offer collectors their emergency money "after the depreciation". Like here the city of Bautzen in a newspaper ad.

Inflation: money, emergency money, banks

For a train ride, German citizens pay billions and trillions. This photograph shows an excerpt from the "Berliner Lokalanzeiger" with lists of the daily prices for the Reichsbahn, food, short and long distance telegraph transmission.

Price information, 1923

This article in the "Berliner Lokalanzeiger" provides information about the daily rates for local transport and for coal.

Emergency money, 1923

Collection of various Notgelds (emergency money). Everyone prints his money himself, the post on postchecks, the community, private companies issue emergency money or vouchers. Thus, the papiermark is taken last.

Coin chart, 1923

Coin chart for the determination of prices in the old and new currency after the currency changeover from Reichs- to Rentenmark. Convertion guidelines were sold everywhere.

Ten billion Reichsmark, 1923

Due to the increasing inflation banknotes with astronomical monetary value are being issued.

Inflation: money, token money, banks, money transport during the inflation, 1922/23

Laundry baskets on a pushcart contain salaries, which are to be paid on the same day. Inflation: money, emergency currency, banks, 1922-1923, Germany 1919-1932, Weimar Republic

Inflation: misery, poverty of the population, soup kitchen in Berlin, 1923

Food for the poor people of Berlin in a soup kitchen during the inflation. Inflation: misery, poverty of the population, 1922-1923, Germany 1919-1932, Weimar Republic

Warning poster, 1923

The government tried in vain to stop the frenzied fall of the currency with proclamations and calls. Posters and warnings, such as that of the Society for the Dissemination of Economic Knowledge, explain the difference between profit and sham gains, but no one listens to it.

One hundred trillion Mark, 1923

One hundred trillion Mark is the highest value of the German inflation. Due to the increasing inflation banknotes with astronomical monetary value are being issued.

Enormous prices for railway tickets, 1923

Price information, 1923

The "Berliner Lokalanzeiger" provides information about various daily prices, such as food, value investments (silver and gold). At the same time, it also informs about the current conversion rates.

"Die Spoetter", 1926

The drawing "Die Spoetter" by Joseph Uhl presents the two different worldviews. The upstanding man symbolizes the upright, honest and national Germans. The characteristic figures symbolize the various vices. Many people living mainly in the province had this picture of the city of Berlin and its society in the 1920s in their mind. The picture was drawn between 1921 and 1923. The picture was made in 1926.

Astrologer in the Friedrichstrasse in Berlin, 1923

Curious passers-by are standing around an astrologer in the Friedrichstrasse.

Norwegian child care organisation, 1923

Examination of children by a Norwegian child care organisation. Right the representative of the child-care organization, Elles Ringnes. Chest auscultation was used, among other things, to detect tuberculosis.

Emergency children's home in Berlin Wilmersdorf, 1923

Seven boys, some of them equipped with shovel or rake, just before gardening.

Feeding of children, 1923

Food distribution to needy children. Right behind adults are standing at a barrier, while on the left the children eat at long tables while are supervised by two women.

Feeding of children, 1923

Harriet Kreisler, here in the middle in a fur coat with hat, feeding the poor and the children of Berlin. Around her are volunteers and some children, at right a container with potatoes. Harriet Kreisler war die Frau des Violinisten Fritz Kreisler.

Hunger, barting for food, lack of coal 1918-1924

Hunger, barting for food, lack of coal 1918-1924, Germany 1919-1932 Weimar Republic

Cartoon on money-grubber in Germany after the First World War, 1923

Caricature of crisis profiteers after the First World War in Germany

Stack of Rentenmark in the safe of the Reichsbank, 1923

An employee in front of stacks of Rentenmark (Debt Security Mark) in the basement of the Reichsbank. The Rentenmark was a currency created by law in 10.13.1923, to stabilize the German currency during the inflation after the First World War. A Rentenmark was the equivalent of one trillion paper marks. In 1924 she was replaced by the Reichsmark.

A Man standing in front of Berlin's Schlossparktheater reading about ticket prices, Berlin Steglitz, 1923 (b/w photo)

instead of money natural produce was used to purchase theatre tickets during the economic crisis,

Inflation in Germany, 1923

A List of prices for newspaper readers in November 1923 before the introduction of the Rentenmark.

Delivery of money in a furniture van, 1923

During the period of the inflation after the war ended, banknotes are delivered with a furniture van in money baskets.

Supply of the needy through the Salvation Army, 1923

east Berlin's poor while eating in a soup kitchen of the Salvation Army.

Laundry baskets with money in the Reichsbank, 1923

Money carriers with baskets of money during the inflation waiting at the counter of the Reichsbank in Berlin.

Construction costs during the inflation on a bridge, 1923

The "Trillion bridge" over the Mach at Singen, with a commemorative plate at the bridgehead immortalizing the sum of the construction costs which was depreciated enormously during the inflation.

Policemen guarding potato fields, 1923

Police officers watch over potato fields at night with a spotlight to prevent thefts, during the period of the inflation.

Unemployed in in Berlin, 1923

Unemployed on an exchange market in in Berlin. Left, a soup kitchen.

Children waiting for the returning hoarders, 1923

Before the railway station Gesundbrunnen children are waiting with handcarts for people who bought food in the country and want to rent the carts.

Funds raising of the German Charity, 1923

A stand of the German Charity, collects in the time of the inflation alms for clothing for the needy people.

Queue in front of the cheap meat counter during the inflation, 1923

People stand in a queue in front of the Munich cheap meat counter for meat and sausages.

Money collection during the inflation, 1923

A woman donates money at the fund raising stand of the organization 'Gebets- und Arbeitsbund Paul Gerhardt' in Berlin.

Coins as commodity, 1923

One man writes down the value of various coins. Through the inflation, the coins became commercial property due to their metal value.

Fundraising by the German emergency assistance during the inflation, 1923

The German emergency assistance tries to alleviate poverty and suffering of the population during the inflation through fundraising.

German cinema-goers are charged the admission price of two charcoal briquettes to see the matinee film 'Judas' as a result of inflation, 1923

German cinema-goers are charged the admission price of two charcoal briquettes to see the matinee film 'Judas' as a result of inflation.

Barter during the inflation, 1923

Women buy a bag of flour from a miller. Instead of paying with money they pay with a silver pot.

Cash messengers in front of the Reichsbank during the inflation, 1923

Cash messengers come with laundry baskets to the Reichsbank, in order to transport the ever-increasing amounts of the Reichsmark.

Stack of Rentenmark in the basement of the Reichsbank, 1923

An employee in front of stacks of Rentenmark in the basement of the Reichsbank. The Reichsmark was an interim currency, created by the law from 13.10.1923, in order to stabilize the German currency during the inflation after the First World War. A Rentenmark complied with one trillion paper marks. In 1924, it was replaced by the Reichsmark.

Queue in front of a Berlin Freibank during the inflation, 1923

People queue in front of a Freibank for cheap meat.

Man in police custody in Berlin, 1923

Police lead away a man, probably a foreign exchange dealer. His blue eyes bears witness that it probably came to scuffles earlier.

People with "panic buying" on a country road, 1923

Women and children with "panic buying" walk along an alley. During the inflation, the food supply was so poor that many people drove out of town in order to "hamster" on the countryside.

Hoarders during the inflation, 1923

Women and men carry food with a handcart. During the inflation, many city dwellers drove to the countryside in order to exchange valuables for food.

Destruction of money during the inflation, 1923

The old bills with which one could still feed a family a few weeks ago, end up the paper press at the rag picker.

Money couriers waiting outside a branch of the Reichsbank in Berlin

During the inflation in 1923 money couriers wait outside a branch of the Reichsbank with large bags to take banknotes for their companies in the Jaegerstrasse in Berlin.

Currency devaluation, 1923

A ten million mark banknote issued at the time of inflation in 1923.

Currency devaluation, 1923

Banknotes issued at the time of the inflation in 1923.

Currency devaluation, 1923

A twenty thousand mark banknote issued at the time of inflation in 1923.

Banknote, 1923

A five billion mark banknote from 1923.

Policeman guards bills during the inflation

During the inflation after the First World War, the monetary depreciation took large proportions. Here a policeman guarding paper money that is ready to be burnt.

Farmers from Saratov on a journey to Siberia

Due to the famine, many people are fleeing in search of food and shelter in several areas of Russia. This also applies to these farmers from Saratov, who are waiting for further transport to Siberia.

Death by starvation in the Soviet Union, 1933

The hasty collectivisation with the arrest of hundreds of thousands of "kulaks" leads to the collapse of large parts of agriculture and thus to the starvation of many people.