Years the Marks Lost Their Weight. Ordinary lives erased when Weimar's currency stopped meaning anything

In 1923, a German professor's life savings could not buy a loaf of bread. This was not an accident of economics but a deliberate destruction of a class. Before the Savings Vanished traces how the Weimar Republic's response to war debt-uncontrolled money printing-systematically wiped out the Bürgertum, the educated and propertied middle class that had anchored German society since the nineteenth century.