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> WW2 was caused in no small part by the Wall St Crash, which was a direct cause of hyperinflation in Germany

Could you please clarify how the Crash of '29 caused hyperinflation in Germany in the early 1920's?

Or do you mean the August 1919 to December 1920 slide? That doesn't suffer from violations of the law of causality, but nor is there any evidence that it caused the Weimar government to print ever increasing amounts of money in higher and higher denominations, which started in June 1921, six months after Wall Street had started to recover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_R...



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