Too Many Commas
Children of the Weimar Republic play with devalued banknotes, 1919. Others found use for the worthless marks as wallpaper, craft and kite material, and kindling.
Children of the Weimar Republic play with devalued banknotes, 1919. Others found use for the worthless marks as wallpaper, craft and kite material, and kindling.
In 1923, the Associated Press reported on a new malady sweeping through the Weimar Republic, which was then experiencing extreme hyperinflation, with an estimated 93 quintillion marks in circulation. Berliners were said to be “prostrated by . . . a desire to write endless rows of ciphers and engage in computations more involved than the […]
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