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French soldiers during the Ruhr occupation
rally protesting reparations
inflation in the Weimar Republic
French soldiers during the Ruhr occupation
Nazi-led rally against the Treaty of Versailles
division of Germany into occupied zones
Japanese black market after World War II
Economic and political crises faced by Germany's Weimar Republic
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Impact of the deutsche mark in Germany
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Walther Rathenau
Walther Rathenau
German statesman
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes
British economist
Bertil Ohlin
Swedish economist