Pearl Buck, the American writer who became famous for her novels of China, was in Germany in 1923. She wrote later: "The cities were still there, the houses not yet bombed and in ruins ...

This map shows West Germany and was printed in the USSR in 1988. It describes a country, Germany, that has completely changed its shape and was printed in a country that no longer exists.

During the hyperinflation crisis of 1923, Hitler saw an opportunity. People across the country had many different ideas about how Germany was being run. The individual states had different ...