One Deutsche Mark note (1948 series)
1948 ・ paper ・ 20th century ・ The western occupation zones
EINE DEUTSCHE MARK / SERIE 1948. It is one of the earliest D-mark notes, put into people's hands by the currency reform of 20 June 1948. Each person received forty marks to begin with, and old deposits were cut down sharply. And the next morning — so the story is handed down — goods that had been held back stood on shop shelves that were supposed to be empty. The miracle of the shop window. The arrival of a money that could be believed changed the towns in a single night. The first cry of the D-mark, which came to be called the hardest currency in post-war western Europe.