 Complete the following phrase:  132 billion gold marks 31.5 billion, 6.6 billion pounds were demanded from Germany in reparations, of which only 50 billion had to be paid. In order to fice the purchases of foreign currency required to pay off the reparations, the new German republic printed tremendous amounts of money  to disastrous effect. Hyperinflation plagued Germany between 1921 and 1923. In this period the worth of fiat Papiermarks with respect to the earlier commodity Goldmarks was reduced to one trillionth one million millionth of its value. In December 1922 the Reparations Commission declared Germany in default, and on 11 January 1923 French and Belgian troops 