Inflation's Effect On The Citizens Of The Weimar Republic

Before 1919 Germany was under the power of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Kaiser has all control over the Germany. He always elected the government officials. But World war one changed that all. Germany citizens were always under the impression that they had their power over the world even then empire was falling apart. When the people of their country figured out that they were lied to, they rebelled again the government. There was a drastic change in the change of on Germany’s Government after the world war one. Germany was a giant mess the day world was one was over. Germany needed a big recovery to get itself back on its feet. After world war one, Germany had become a democracy country. “After a short period of political chaos, the members of the Reichstag met in the small town of Weimar, near Berlin, and set up a new …show more content…
They had fallen off their own feet. Their situation was so bad that the government had to print money 24/7. Inflation had a drastic effect on the citizens of Germany. Many older generation were having a difficult time living through this time of their history. “In 1922, a loaf of bread cost 163 marks…November 1923, a loaf of bread cost 200,000,000,000 marks” ( ). The inflation effected people so bad that they got paid by the hour. The money you would have earn during the start of your shift, would be valued at nothing by the time you got out of work that same day. “The group that suffered a great deal - proportional to their income - was the middle class. Their hard earned savings disappeared overnight” ( ). Imagine being a good citizen of Germany and you always paid your taxes and saved up lot of money for retirement. Now that money was so worthless, you could have earn that in maybe half days of work. These were the difficult time that the citizen of Germany had been trough. Their citizens couldn’t live in a place where they had called their home all because of their harsh