winners

• black-marketeers were able to buy up food stock and sell them at much higher prices
• people with debts, mortgages, and loans could pay them back with worthless money, as the mark became extremely weak
• enterprising business people that had taken out loans could repay them easily, and people leasing property on long-term fixed rents gained because the real value of their rent payments decreased
• owners of foreign currency and foreign exchange were able to benefit significantly