Author : Bernd Widdig
Release : 2001-03-21
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 703/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany by : Bernd Widdig
Download or read book Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany written by Bernd Widdig. This book was released on 2001-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of the most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. In his original and authoritative study, Bernd Widdig investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic. He argues that inflation, with its dynamics of massification, devaluation, and the rapid circulation of money, is an integral part of modern culture and intensifies and condenses the experience of modernity in a traumatic way.