The Shocking Story of Children and Worthless Currency | Rare History in Photos

Hey everyone, welcome back to our channel! In today's video, we're going to take you back in time to the Weimar Republic in 1922. Get ready to hear the shocking story of children playing with stacks of hyperinflated currency!
Post First World War Germany was hit by one of the worst cases of hyperinflation in recent history. The German mark fell from 4.2 marks to the dollar to 8.91 marks per dollar during the First World War, but paying war reparations caused an economic collapse with the exchange rate rising to a mind-boggling 4,200,000,000,000 marks per dollar by the end of 1923.