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“Firm and rightly grounded in its own time and place, The Downfall of Money nonetheless resonates in our own.†―The Washington Times“One of the brightest historians writing today.†―Newsweek“Taylor (Dresden) adds to a solid body of work on 20th-century Germany with this chilling account of the human face of hyperinflation in the 1920s Weimar Republic.†―Publisher's Weekly“Excellent . . . By skillfully weaving together economic history with political narrative and drawing on sources from everyday life as well as the inner cabinet of diplomacy, Mr. Taylor tells the history of the Weimar inflation as the life-and-death struggle of the first German democracy . . . This is a dramatic story, well told.†―Adam Tooze, Wall Street Journal“A well-organized, fast-moving political narrative . . . Taylor's history provides plenty of revelant lessons for today--and not only for Europe.†―Kirkus Reviews“Exorcising Hitler has . . . colorful anecdotes and harrowing recollections, an omnivorous intelligence and wide reading in the scholarly literature.†―New York Times on Exorcising Hitler“Important . . . very commendable . . . fills an important gap in German history in English.†―Wall Street Journal on Exorcising Hitler
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Frederick Taylor was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School, and read History and Modern Languages at Oxford, and did postgraduate work at Sussex University. He is the author of the acclaimed bestseller, Dresden. He edited and translated The Goebbels Diaries. He lives in Cornwall.
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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press; Reprint edition (March 3, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1620402378
ISBN-13: 978-1620402375
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6.2 x 1.1 x 9.2 inches
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Frederick Taylor is a historian, not an economist. In "The Downfall of Money" he writes a history of Germany from 1914 to 1925 through the lens of the great inflation that befell that country. For example the German Mark falls from 4.2 to the dollar in August 1914 to nearly 7 trillion to the dollar by the end of 1923. He tells the story of how an ordinary wartime inflation which occurred in all of the major combatants turned into a hyperinflation in the postwar era as Germany was weighed down by reparations payments along with a social democratic imperative to fund the welfare state.He tells the story as to how the inflation impacted various stratas of society with big winners and big losers. The losers were well represented in the German middle-class who patriotically bought war bonds that were to become worthless and for many of them their wages failed to keep up with the inflation. The winners were farmers who held real assets and saw their debts erased by inflation along with the great industrialists who witnessed a stock market boom and the elimination of corporate indebtedness. By the end of the inflation the entire domestic debt of Germany was eliminated. To be sure the external debt was enormous.Along the way we witness the rise of the Freikorps, the killing of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht and the assasination of Walter Rathenau, a Jewish industrialist who served as foreign minister. There is also a cameo appearance of a demobilized corporal who would one day rule all of Germany.Harris certainly has a feel for the history of the period. However, I only wish he would have integrated charts and tables in the text in order to get a better understanding of what was going on in the macroeconomy. Further he should have spent more time discussing the stabilization program that came in 1924 that broke the inflation and of its consequences. Nevertheless the book is well worth the read.
This is an absolutely excellent book on inflation. The author starts with the fact that the Germans did not pay for the war with more taxes (which the US did mostly during WWII). It just printed money. This meant inflation, but it wasn't crippling. After the War, the Germans were in chaos with an attempted Communist takeover which was defeated followed by an attempted right wing takeover which was defeated by the SPD organized general strike. The SPD lead the government and was generous with social benefits even if it did not have the money to pay them. This meant more inflation. Now it was getting bad. But the clincher was the French/Belgian occupation of the Ruhr and the Ruhr workers going out on strike. The Weimar government continued to pay them. Nice sentiment, but you can't pay people and get no economic work in return. The result was the horrendous 1923 inflation which totally destroyed the German currency and Middle Class savings. One would think we would learn from this historical experience. But Argentina hasn't. It is going down the same inflationary path (without a war to blame it on). The Argentine Peso was 1 to 1 with the Dollar in 2000. It is 12 to the Dollar in Jan 2014......and worse is to come. These two case histories (Germany 1914-1923, Argentina 2000-2014) should be taught in every university economics curriculum. I hope that Frederick Taylor is writing a book about Argentina.
Most readers are aware of the hyper inflation that ravaged post World War I Germany but few understand the causes. This book does an excellent job explaining the government policies that resulted in this economic calamity. The book is also written in terms that readers unfamiliar with economics are able to understand.
At the worst of the hyper inflation a U.S. dollar was worth 3 billion marks. Workers were paid twice a day and their wives anxiously awaited the payments so they could run out buy whatever could be had.I found the most interesting part was the explanation of why solid middle class Germans followed Hitler. During WW1 they patriotically bought war bonds and invested in real estate, were landlords and had their savings as well as the bonds wiped out after the war. They associated the Weimar Republic and hence Democracy with this along with the "stab in the back" and turned not to the Left for remedy but to the Right where the National Socialists promised a better tomorrow and revenge on those who betrayed the Fatherland.There is a lot of dry economics and many lists of currency rates and prices to get through but it's well worth it. A terrific cautionary tale against an unsound economy.
Purchased this book expecting to understand the underlying conditions and economics that led to the infamous hyperinflation of Weimar Germany. Through ~125-150 pages there was nothing but politics and history of the WWI. If this is what I wanted, I would have bought a WWI book instead. Stopped reading around 125-150 pages.
Hyperinflation in Germany was a piece of history I wanted to learn and this book taught me well. If you don't think inflation is the evil that destroys the middle class and the society, then this book will convince you otherwise. It still breaks my heart thinking about some of the people in this book and what they had to endure between WWI and WWII.
this book was an insightfull and a really good read!I was a child, growing up in Germany after the 2nd world war and could identify with a lot of stuff in this book, especially the loss or exchange of money. It also gave me an insight of how and why Hitler came to power at that time in Germany and how the German people suffered after the 1st world war. After the 2nd world war (which in my view was a continuation of the 1st) the German people continued to suffer. My family were refugees from the East (now Ukraine) into Germany and were very very poor .and had to beg for food, mostly from the farmers
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