The Money Germans Burned to Stay Warm | Sneak Peek

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Hey guys, it's Chris and your box is on the way, but I wanted to give you an early look before the full video goes live tomorrow. This right here is a real German banknote. Look at that number, 10 million marks. This was printed in 1923 [music] and it could barely buy a newspaper and a few months later it couldn't buy anything at all. People were burning these to stay warm because the paper was worth more than the money.

[00:00:28]And here's the crazy part.

[00:00:31]It is completely blank on the back and there is a reason for that.

[00:00:36]And on the front, [music] some of the text on here that's printed is some of the craziest text I've ever seen. Then there's this tiny coin with a small tree on it. The same tree [music] shows up again more than 50 years later on a completely different piece of currency and that's after the country experienced two world wars, a wall that went up and came back down. Germany chose twice not to let that symbol change. So why a tree? Well, that's part of the story. The full video drops soon and everything I just showed you is in your packet heading your way right now.

[00:01:19]See you soon.

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