A Run on the Banks: Germany in the 1920s · 1:40

1929

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A man smokes a cigarette lit with a Reichsmark note. Germans hurry to withdraw cash amid hyperinflation in the country’s financial crisis of 1929. The police struggle to hold back the crowds.

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