This happened after WWI (think Great Depression), when inflation caused German currency to be practically worthless. It was worth so little that they burned it when they needed to start a fire. There are stories of people filling wheelbarrows with paper money to try to buy bread.
to burn - brennen
No, they don't burn money
Money to Burn was created on 2000-06-12.
Money to Burn - album - was created in 2004.
English "the money" is German: "das Geld".
A curios of little value issued during the height of German hyperinflation. The German currency was of so little value that a wheel-barrow of money was needed to buy a loaf of bread and it was cheaper to burn the money for heating than buy coal or wood.
It means that someone is rich.For example,I just found out that bella's boyfriend has money to burn.
He burnt it to watch it burn.
Heinrich Heine, a German poet, wrote this in his play "Almansor" in 1821. The quote refers to the Nazi book burnings in 1933 and their subsequent persecution and extermination of people.
paper money and the use of coal to burn
there is value to german money from ww2 but only because it's money
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