“It was horrible. Horrible! Like lightning it struck. No one was prepared. The shelves in the grocery stores were empty.You could buy nothing with your paper money.
– Harvard University law professor Friedrich Kessler on on the Weimar Republic hyperinflation (1993 interview)”
http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/hyperinflation.php
The interesting thing is, people in the country did OK.
It’s the urban dwellers that were suddenly and viciously screwed.
It’s all about the *necessities* of life.