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Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

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[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 62 points 10 months ago

That Germany is Europes biggest economy. 100 years ago Europe was fresh out of WW1 and Germany was bankrupted as punishment.

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Mid 1930s that headline would also be quite disturbing

[-] mifan@feddit.dk 7 points 10 months ago

Mid 1940s it would've been a great laugh.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

100 years ago today, a loaf of bread cost one billion Deutsche Marks.

And by billion they meant twelve zeroes.

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