German-American family's Mark securities are erased by inflation

Crossing the Atlantic he befriended a German-born family from Milwaukee who held enormous securities in Marks and thought themselves very rich; by the time they returned the inflation had wiped them out completely.
Date (happened)
c. 1925
unresolved
  1. c. 1925 estimated · possible
    Why M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 042): its source passage 548648 does not exist on www: left off
    Reasoning Self-dated within the same telling passage (548648) and consistent with season parent 955's 1925-26 England trip; the ten-day Atlantic crossing fits an outbound or return leg of that trip.
Place
Persons
Told
  1. 2 December 1968 estimated
    Source God's Almighty Power and Wisdomdelivery claim d1 on lecture nid 1911, chrome dateline '12/2/68'
    Reasoning The witness passage 548648 is embedded in lecture nid 1911's transcript at position 9; that lecture's delivery date is fixed at 1968-12-02 by claim d1 (certain, chrome dateline at word 0, weekday-checked as a Monday consistent with his regular pattern, and corroborated independently by d0's reading of the same date from the raw source file). Since the passage is itself the telling, the told date equals the delivery date, capped at certain per the inheritance ceiling.
Sources

Source

  • God's Almighty Power and Wisdom ¶9 (I went over on a boat with this German family from Milwaukee and they had enormous securities in Marks and they thought themselves very, very rich. They were American by adoption, but they were Germans by birth.)