Written Narration : Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

Runaway inflation is when prices increase rapidly every few hours.  For example a pound of butter cost 2.4 marks in 1914, 4 years later  the price raised to 3 marks and the next year it was 6,000,000,000,000 marks.  If we were to buy wallpaper for the house, using money to cover the house is even cheaper then buying wallpaper.