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Thursday, December 16, 2010

RIP Euro?

Deutsche Mark lies molderin' in the grave. Its spirit goes marching on. RIP Euro? '"Certainly for the older generation," said Niesel, "the feeling is very much one of nostalgia – 'if only we had the D-mark again'." The sentiment is hardly surprising given the turmoil besetting the D-mark's successor, the euro.' http://bit.ly/ewrKMD
'The 67-year-old retired serviceman oversees a shrine to the Deutsche Mark, the symbol of postwar German success, running a small museum devoted to the remarkable birth and lamented death of the currency. The mark was born behind barbed wire in total secrecy in this barracks in 1948 [..] The currency met an early death at the age of 50'

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