![]() My mother’s bank manager gave her appalling advice - he didn’t know what he was talking about either. My relations didn’t know the value of anything. The Jewish women would turn up at parties or at thé dansants when we were all broke, wearing the silver fox furs - three at a time for ostentation - and diamonds which they had bought from our relations for a song - or what, when they saw them again, had become a song. ![]() It was resented when Jews bought these things. And if you had to sell a valuable writing desk for money which was worth only half as much a week later, of course there was ill-feeling. That made them think - it made them think when the price of a set of old silver spoons went up from 20,000 to 40,000 crowns in a matter of a week or two. They started selling their valuables because they couldn’t buy food - the china from the mantelpiece, the furniture, the silver. ![]() ![]() All my relations thought it would stop the next week - and they went on thinking so. They didn’t rush to get rid of their money (that was what the Jews and the Germans did). They didn’t understand what inflation meant. “My relations and friends were too stupid. ![]()
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