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Following World War II, Inflation Became So Bad That Germans

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Following World War II, inflation became so bad that Germans stopped using Reichsmarks for transactions, and instead used cigarettes for small transactions and cognac for large transactions. Which of the following best describes this situation?


A) Reichsmarks were plentiful and valuable, but Germans preferred to barter.
B) Germans wanted to disassociate themselves from the Third Reich.
C) Cigarettes and cognac functioned as money in Germany in this period following World War II.
D) Cigarettes and cognac were more plentiful than Reichsmarks, so Germans found them more convenient to use for transactions than Reichsmarks.

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