Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic was significantly driven by the reparations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles and the German government's decision to finance war costs through borrowing and pr

“the academic consensus I would say for the most part is that uh economists would say the hyperinflation uh was partly triggered and maybe even mostly triggered by uh article 231 of the Versail treaty which stated that Germany was to was chiefly responsible for World War I.”