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"The twenties were coming to an end, and their most lively participants were not only getting older but also more settled and more secure in their domestic lives. But the feeling of security was totally false. Gone were the early days of the cabaret Schall und Rauch,...the days of Café des Westens where the artists of the Sturm spent their days, where Grosz, in a checkered suit, his face painted white as a clown's, posed as the 'saddest man in Europe'" (H. Hess, George Grosz, London, 1974, p. 158). The subject of inflation is recorded in the social histories of 20th Century Europe. The illusion of 1928 that a revived and stable economy and a return to prosperity could be maintained, was shattered by the world economic crisis of 1929.