The rate of inflation took off. In six months the Mark, which had been quoted at 9 to the US dollar at the end of the war, fell from 18,000 to over 350,000 to the dollar. It continued falling by the day, by the hour until it was worth less than the paper used to print it; piles of notes were weighed and measured for height rather than counted; in November a glass of beer cost one billion Marks.
