WHY Germany Collapsed in 1923

1924 Democrat Narcotics Plank: Recognizing in narcotic addiction, especially the spreading of heroin addiction among the youth, a grave peril to America and to the human race, we pledge ourselves vigorously to take against it all legitimate and proper measures for education, for control and for suppression at home and abroad. Subsidized, paywalled academics nowadays announce as fact that the German mark sold at 17000 to the dollar in January 1923.( link ) Yet according to the December 1928 National Geographic Magazine, p. 667, the mark was at 7000 to the dollar in the first days of January, 1923. Which version do you believe? After 32 years' reading these exhortations to look away from relevant facts, I believe none of them. Instead I call attention to recorded facts all of them struggle to omit, elide, blinker, blank out and ignore . Here is a newspaper chronology of the year 1923.( link ) Observe that "habit-forming" drugs are mentioned exactly once March 1st, ...