There was a guy there who was able to see the collapse of the currency coming and took out loads of debt to buy loads of companies in different industries. As hyper inflation took hold and his debt got inflated away, he paid back his nominal debt with worthless money and became the richest man in Germany.
There were students from America who were there when it happened who literally did what I just said about buying a house. Their parents sent them gold and you could literally buy up a whole street of houses for a single ounce of gold.
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