Types / 1939
20 Reichsmark, 1939
Reichsbanknote — Zwanzig Reichsmark
common
What was happening
Reichsbank notes of the Nazi period, distinguishable at a glance by the eagle and swastika replacing the older Reichsbank arms. The designs turn to idealised German types — a peasant girl, a Hitler Youth boy — in place of the scientists and burghers of the 1920s issues. The same currency financed rearmament and then the war.
