The economic situation in Germany after the First World War (1918-1928)

Caricatures by German cartoonists depicting life in Germany after the First World War; cartoonists at work.

Artist Hans Baluschek working on his latest piece.

Pictures of ordinary people by Hans Baluschek.

Artist and graphic artist Käthe Kollwitz at work.

Sketches for paintings.

Käthe Kollwitz gives an interview; the artist's face.

Photographs of a demonstration by German children with banners and posters protecting children from hunger, created by Käthe Kollwitz.

A photograph of children with bowls and pots after receiving free soup.

Distribution of free soup to the unemployed in Germany in the early 1920s.

A child stands in line with a can.

A cook pours soup into pots and bowls for people.

Children eat bread.

Men on a city street near a field kitchen during the distribution of free bread and coffee.

The faces of men drinking from mugs.

Children and the visually impaired during school and at work.

Brush manufacturing.

An elderly worker carries finished brushes to a warehouse.

A photograph of the interior of a pawnshop.

A photograph of a queue at the entrance to a pawnshop.

A photograph of a pawnshop customer receiving money.

A photograph of pawnshop employees at a rack with pawned items and inventorying the pawned items.

A demonstration on a Berlin street against exorbitant reparations.

Photographs of demonstrators with banners.

A demonstration of housewives in Berlin.

A demonstration of members of the "Union of Red Front Soldiers" in the summer of 1924. Columns of children's demonstration.

A workers' demonstration on a Berlin street.

Clashes between demonstrators and the police.

Photographs of bank employees doing their work.

Bills of the Weimar Republic in denominations of one billion and a billion marks.

A pile of devalued banknotes.

A price tag on bread with the inscription: "1 billion marks".

A man counting money at a bakery window.

Price tags at the entrance to grocery stores and shops in Berlin in the early 1920s.

A saleswoman wraps meat in paper.

Hands counting out money.

Selling vegetables from a cart on a Berlin street.

Cash being transported from a bank in hand-operated barred carts.

Bank employees unload wads of money from carts into a car.

Bags with wads of banknotes being loaded into a van.

A truck with money leaves a bank arch.

The face of Reich Chancellor G. Stresemann in 1923. A photograph of Stresemann's speech in the Reichstag.

Stresemann at his desk in his office working with documents.

Festive night fireworks.

Opening champagne bottles.

Filling glasses with champagne.

Men and women having fun and drinking at the bar.

A bartender making a cocktail.

Restaurant patrons dancing in the hall with balloons in their hands.

Workers walking past the guard onto the factory grounds.

Workers walk across the factory grounds to their workshops.

Production processes in the factory workshops.