and kitchen, indoor toilet and running water, the rent might be as much as 1,380 Reichsmarks. That was roughly four times the amount that the equivalent working-class family in Germany actually spent on housing. In total, to have matched the standard of living of Detroit in either Frankfurt or Berlin in the early 1930s would have required an income of between 5,380 and 6,055 Reichsmarks, sums that were beyond the wildest dreams of the majority of the German workforce.
