Years the Marks Lost Their Weight

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 ce...