reichsmark
noun
the monetary unit of Germany from November, 1924, until 1948.
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Reichsmark
Reichsmarknounthe standard monetary unit of Germany between 1924 and 1948, divided into 100 Reichspfennigs
reichsmark
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[rahyks-mahrk, rahykhs-mahr k]
/ ˈraɪksˌmɑrk, ˈraɪxsˌmɑrk /
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reichsmarks,
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reichsmark
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Reichsmark
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/ ˈraɪksˌmɑːk, ˈraiçsmark /
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Etymology
Origin of reichsmark
1870–75; < German: Reich mark
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As to Hitler, it is well-documented that Mein Kampf made him a fortune – more than 12m reichsmark – not least, Kellerhoff has discovered, because he avoided paying much of the tax due on it.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2015
Flick rode high under the Nazis, with enough holdings in coal and steel to make him a reichsmark billionaire.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out of that came the ruinous inflation of 1923, when the reichsmark plummeted to 4.2 trillion to the dollar, wiping out both the savings and the faith of the middle class.
From Time Magazine Archive
According to the German Art Gallery, Hitler bought one of his 1940s paintings — of happy-looking “farm girls” — for 7,000 Reichsmark.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2018
From 1938, around 1,000 properties worth a total of 200m Reichsmark were bought up by the authorities, for a price fixed by them, to enable the building of Germania.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2016
When I was born, it was changed into the Reichsmark.
From BBC ● May 17, 2012
But he still remembers the Reichsmark notes denominated in millions and billions that years later were tucked into a box with the family’s old black-and-white photographs.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2011
He founded the Reichsbank in 1875 and charged it with issuing the crisp new Reichsmark.
From The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism by Samuel Vaknin
In the end, the fundraiser generated 3 million reichsmarks, about $30 million in today's money.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2025
Then in December the Nazi authorities forced Jews, who had already been required to register assets worth more than 5,000 reichsmarks, to sell property, businesses and stocks to non-Jews, usually at low prices.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
Hitler later claimed the Olympic Games brought half a billion reichsmarks to Berlin.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2018
A carton cost $1 at the PX and could be sold on the street for 1,000 reichsmarks, except that nobody used reichsmarks; one swapped.
From Time Magazine Archive
Men brawl over jobs outside the Zollverein gates, and chicken eggs sell for two million reichsmarks apiece, and rheumatic fever stalks Children’s House like a wolf.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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