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::That section was a bit simplistic, and got rephrased. Anyway, the currency was not Deutschmark (or Deutsche Mark in German) but Reichsmark. Deutschmark is post-WWII. [[User:Order|Order]] 22:36, 24 November 2007 (EST)
::That section was a bit simplistic, and got rephrased. Anyway, the currency was not Deutschmark (or Deutsche Mark in German) but Reichsmark. Deutschmark is post-WWII. [[User:Order|Order]] 22:36, 24 November 2007 (EST)
Some comments:
* Learn Together, I did discuss the change, and I did it here, and you changing Deutchmark to Reichmark indicates that you've read this. So, don't complain that I changed it without discussion.
* The reparations that were agree upon were never fully paid.
* The hyper-inflation was only in part caused by reparations. These had to be paid in foreign currency, so printing money wasn't done to pay off the reparation. It was done to pay domestic parties.
* The Reichmark was introduced after the hyperinflation (I got this wrong too), to end hyper-inflation (with an intermediate currency the Rentenmark). Before the times of hyper-inflation it was simple called Mark, or to disinguish it from the Reichmark, it was called Papiermark.
* Hitler wasn't a struggling artist when he rose to power. He was a struggling artist in the 1910s. In the early 1930s he was a well known political activist and successful writer, in terms of money at least since his "Mein Kampf" sold reasonably well.
* Hitler didn't seize the power, he got power through a power sharing deal with established political forces. Of course he didn't share. [[User:Order|Order]] 18:58, 27 November 2007 (EST)