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8 unusual facts about Reichsmark


Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday

On the occasion of the birthday, recipients of small incomes received a birthday gift of fifteen German Reichsmarks, plus five Reichsmarks for every dependent, an expenditure totalling 13 million Reichsmarks.

Isidor Fisch

He had also purchased, with the Hauptmann money, $600 worth of Reichsmarks.

Max Amann

He made a fortune off Nazism; his income jumped from 108,000 RM IN 1934 to 3.8 million RM in 1942.

Raymond Davies Hughes

Using the alias of John Charles Baker, Hughes agreed to broadcast propaganda and went to Berlin where he was allowed a substantial degree of freedom, renting a flat while he was employed as a broadcaster and scriptwriter at Radio Metropole, for which he was paid 600 RM monthly.

Reichsmark

The Soviet Union demanded copies of the engraving plates, ink, and associated equipment in early 1944, and on 14 April 1944 Henry Morgenthau and Harry Dexter White of the U.S. Treasury Department authorized the immediate air transfer of these to the USSR.

Reichspfennig

Reichspfennig, a 1/100 of a Reichsmark, the currency of the German Empire from 1924 to 1948

SMS Lothringen

She was stricken from the naval register on 31 March 1931; the Reichsmarine then sold her, minus her armor plating, to ship breakers that year for 269,650 Reichsmarks.

Wawelberg Group

The Germans announced, in the June 18, 1921 Amts-Blatt der Königlichen Regierung zu Oppeln (Official Gazette of the Opole District), a reward of 10,000 Reichsmarks for information about the perpetrators of the attacks.


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Handelshochschule Königsberg

The foundation stone for the new three-storied building was laid by Prime Minister Otto Braun on 24 November 1930, with construction costing 1,113,000 RM.

Secret Meeting of 20 February 1933

A statement from the IG Farben Trial indicated a total of 2,071,000 Reichsmark had been paid.


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