Which country's Weimar Republic experienced extreme hyperinflation in the early 1920s, leading to people carrying wheelbarrows of cash to buy bread?
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Germany
The hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic was caused by the government printing money to pay striking workers and war reparations. At its peak, prices doubled every few days.
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