Savings

In recent years, scholars and political analysts have drawn comparisons between contemporary American society and the Weimar Republic, Germany's short-lived democratic experiment between the world wars. Both societies grappled with …

hyperinflation of the early 1920s wiped out the savings of the middle class, leading to widespread economic …

Germany’s post-war economic crisis culminated in hyperinflation in 1923. The dramatic events that year contribute to shaping the retrospective chronology of the Weimar Republic: the crisis appears to conclude the …

and large parts of the middle-classes lost their savings and possessions, including houses, jewellery, musical … (Mittelstand) had not only suffered poverty and lost their savings, but their sense of standing in society. Those …

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‘Down our street’, Advertisement from the National Savings Committee, 1943. History of Advertising Trust O&M …

Content in British Society, 1939-1951 is arranged in collections corresponding to the archives from which they were sourced. You can read more about the archive materials selected for this resource …

campaign. ● Campaigns created by the National Savings Committee, including the War Loans and Warship … "Squanderbug" campaign, intended to promote wartime savings over excessive household consumption. ● The Ministry … Health Service, National Insurance, and National Savings programmes. ● Recruitment for the nursing profession …

A file of correspondence and reports concerning political relations between Albania and the United Kingdom. The documents cover discussions on the possible resumption of relations between the British and Albanian …

aimed at achieving I ' I i, substantial savings in staff costs. I Mr. Humphrey Atkins: The gold …

with the conclusions of the review; with the savings recommended for this year; and with the further …

A file of correspondence and reports concerning the economic situation of Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union. The documents include a number of studies on the financial problems facing …

decree of "forcing" of the economy (eg energy savings; ^ increases in lignite production; cuts in …

A file containing documents concerning the internal political situation in West Berlin. Subjects covered in the file include the activities of neo-Nazis and the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany …

that this did not mean the end of reform. Many savings were possible eg in the fields of health and agriculture …

the Government has now embarked on a quest for savings. These will produce visible cuts in benefits … economies almost inevitably involve manpower savings. Thus in the major administrative centres of …

it agreed to im- The doubling of the Credit & Savings third part of which was paid earlier in port …