Bank on it
One event in 2023 which the government and Bank of England will not want to draw attention to is the 100th anniversary of the peak of the Weimar inflation.
– The value of the German mark had already been plummeting in the early 1920s as the German government printed money to pay reparations to the victors of the Great War.

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