Versailles

Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind save those from the library at front. Author was president of Reichsbank, piloting Germany through the financial dangers of 1923 to 1929. It was the historic German financial collapse of 1923 that first brought Dr. Schacht into prominence. In November of that year he was made the Imperial Currency Commissioner with the specific purpose of stemming the nation's hyperinflation. This book is one of the best contributions yet made to an understanding of post-War difficulties in finance and economics. In particular," -- from the intro. Book concerns a long argument against reparations to be paid by Germany post world war one. Contents include: The question of responsibility, Bleeding Germany white, From the Dawes plan to the Young plan, Financial purgatory, The Hague protocol, Currency policy, The contradictions of reparations, etc. 271 pages.