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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Texas John, post: 1151111, member: 25813&quot;]The Soviets and their east German puppets made a fortune out of occupied Germany having a single currency. The decision of the Western zones in 1948 to issue a new currency that excluded the Soviet zone devastated its economy. It also led directly to the Western zones forming an independent nation - the Federal Republic of Germany (BRD) - in 1949, that excluded the Soviet zone.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the same year the German Democratic Republic (DDR) was proclaimed in the Soviet zone, but did its best to maintain the fiction of a single, German currency. Upon finally admitting failure in 1956, East German currency began to mention the DDR and later ceased mentioning the Deutsche Mark.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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