In 1923, after World War I, the German currency was temporarily named renten-mark (pension mark) before it became the Reichsmark in 1924 ... those whose money had been held in banks. Some of the ...

Deutschmark coins and banknotes were left in circulation until ... Metallurgische Forschungsgesellschaft (MEFO) bills and the reichsmark used in the Western Occupation Zone. MEFO bills were ...

Nothing before or since has matched the speed and precipitous fall of the Reichsmark ... families pasting trillion-mark banknotes onto their walls, more useful now as wallpaper than money.