Very close. it was in fact after WW1 that this occurred. There were stories where families would wallpaper the inside of their houses with banknotes, solely because it was worth sod all.MattRooney06 said:baisicly massive countrywide depresion
in germany after WW2 (i think) they printed loads of money to pay of their war debts
the result of this ment that the shopkeepers raised their prices to compenstate for the amount of money going around, this ment that the value of the money went down, so people were paid with more money, which m,ade the costs of food go up
A famous cartoon of the time shows how a thief stole the metal basket holding all of someones money, because it was worth more.
And it is very interesting