Why is it a bad idea to trust politicians and the government??
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โThe appointment required the suspension of various portions of the constitution with regard particularly to postal secrecy, domestic inviolability and the #expropriation of goods or property generally; and within ten days the new #Devisenkommissar had assumed the right also to seize #gold, #silver, platinum 104 and alloys, whether in coin or raw metal.
This move was in part occasioned by the realisation that as 200 million gold marks had been set aside to guarantee the Reich dollar Treasury bills, Germany's gold reserves were effectively down to the equivalent of less than ยฃ14 million, too little now with which to establish a new currency in which people could believe.
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Thus under the commission's auspices the #Wucherpolizei on September 20 raided the cafes and restaurants of Unter den Linden and the Kurfรผrstendamm in Berlin, forced every customer to produce his wallet or purse, and extracted all foreign money therein. The yield of the day's raids, for which receipts were duly given, consisted of 3,120 dollars, ยฃ36 sterling, 373 Dutch guilders, 475 Swiss francs, 200 French francs, 42,523 Austrian kronen, 37 Danish kroner, 30 Swedish kronor, 1,402 Czech koruna, 800 Hungarian korona, 143 Serbian dinars, 18,000 Bulgarian lewa, 30 Estonian marks, 5,100 Polish marks and 500 Soviet roubles.โ
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