Economic issues

• Home war debt

  Assumption that Germany would win the war, 1.44 billion marks debt - 1919
• War Guilt Clause

  accepting Article 231 and reparation payments
• Reparations Bill

  1921 - 6.6 billion to be paid in coal, goods, gold etc but not in marks
• How did the Weimar allow inflation

  Didn't raise taxes
• What was Hyperinflation caused by

  Passive resistance against the french invasion of the Ruhr 11th January 1923
• Problems caused by Hyperinflation

  • prices quadrupled 
  • savings disintegrated 
  • fixed incomes lost their value 
  • people struggled to afford basic necessities
• Positives of Hyperinflation

  • Industrialists benefited
  • Debt was paid off easily