the first necessity, the german layman was on the verge of poverty, the writer stephansweig later recalledardened the german people did not embitter him and did not make him ready to accept hitler like inflation. 23 is a year of fantastic inflation, when a gold mark, which cost about 10,000 paper marks, a year later it was already worth 10 million. mark by the end of the year. it was already worth billions by the end of the twenty- third year, there were about a hundred trillion in circulation; little money was cheapened. every day person. they started to shave, agreeing on one price, and by the end of the shave it turned out that it was already necessary.