Pupils are far more likely to study the Weimar Republic, the Russian Revolution, or the politics (but not social history) of the Tudors.

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The mark briefly outlived the fall of the German Empire and the foundation of the Weimar Republic in 1918, but was ruined by the inflation of the early 1920s.

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The Germans abhor inflation thanks to their historical run-in with hyper-inflation from 1921 to 1924, a catastrophe so severe that by its finish, the Weimar Republic was forced to issue one trillion mark notes.

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