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by wqaatwt 220 days ago
Supposedly Germany was spending around 80% of its tax revenue on interest payments alone. They pretty much had to finance the war through domestic bonds.

So yes, pretty they didn’t have any money to spend on anything else. Of course bonds became worthless well before the peak in inflation.

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Eesh thanks for that detail, didn’t realize it was so crushingly high.