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deed, logically they could only have chosen the first course, that of doing nothing at
all and letting things slide … To be sure, this so-called passive resistance as such
could not be maintained for long … Hence any so-called passive resistance has an
inner meaning only if it is backed by determination to continue it if necessary in open
struggle or in undercover guerrilla warfare.
Source M
Monthly averages of Dollar Quotations for the Mark between 1914 and 1923:
July 1914 4.2
January 1919 8.9
July 1919 14.0
January 1920 64.8
July 1920 39.5
January 1921 64.9
July 1921 76.7
January 1922 191.8
July 1922 493.2
January 1923 17,972.0
July 1923 353,412.0
August 1923 4,620,455.0
September 1923 98,860,000.0
October 1923 25,260,208,000.0
November 15 1923 4,200,000,000,000.0
Source N
A personal recollection of the hyper-inflation of 1923.
May I give you some recollections of my own situation at that time? As soon as I
received my salary I rushed out to buy the daily necessities. My daily salary, as
editor of the periodical ‘Soziale Praxis’, was just enough to buy one loaf of bread and
a small piece of cheese or some oatmeal. On one occasion I had to refuse to give a
lecture at a Berlin city college because I could not be assured that my fee would cover
the subway fare to the classroom, and it was too far to walk. On another occasion, a
private lesson I gave to the wife of a farmer was paid somewhat better – by one loaf of
bread for the hour.
(Personal memoir of Dr Freida Wunderlich, found in J W Hiden, The Weimar
Republic, 1974,p.86)
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