Props to some reporter we've never heard of (whose fake name is literally Spanish for "deutschmark,") for putting together this heelarious couplet, of irony: " ❋ Unknown (2009)
The reason was that many were against it and in the case of Germany, not one opinion poll recorded a majority in favour of giving up the deutschmark. ❋ David Miles (2011)
Much has been written about German nostalgia for the deutschmark; last December some stalls at the Christmas market in Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt let punters pay with the old currency in what proved to be a very popular marketing gimmick. ❋ Unknown (2011)
"The kroon was always meant to be a deutschmark in all but graphic design," he says. ❋ Unknown (2011)
His shop sells two ranges of mugs, one plastered with euro notes, another, also priced at €6.90, depicting the deutschmark. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The euro was accepted reluctantly by the Germans in place of the deutschmark, as a talisman of European union and a way of protecting Germany's export markets across Europe. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In Germany, 30% of voters now want the return of the deutschmark. ❋ Simon Nixon (2011)
Antonia Gugel and her friend Elisabeth Brändl, both in their 80s, are typical of a generation which grew up treasuring the deutschmark. ❋ Unknown (2011)
"We always knew in our heart of hearts that the euro would never be as solid as our deutschmark, but we gave up our beloved currency, which was actually central to our identity, because we believed in the European project so fervently," she says. ❋ Kate Connolly In Berlin (2010)
Earlier this month, 49 percent of people polled by the German newspaper Bild said they want Germany's former currency, the deutschmark, back. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Europe can have floating exchange rates in which the deutschmark becomes Europe's principal currency – the position between the early 1970s and mid 1980s. ❋ Will Hutton (2010)
When Western military officials voided that move and issued the western deutschmark in their sectors of the city, the Soviets responded by closing the road and rail route linking West Berlin to the rest of the country. ❋ ROMESH RATNESAR (2009)
Three weeks later, they introduced a new currency in their zones, the deutschmark. ❋ ROMESH RATNESAR (2009)
The Weimar administration in Germany could not cope with a valueless deutschmark, so they kept printing more. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Holocaust survivors to create a 10 billion deutschmark compensation fund, stipulating payment could not begin until all legal claims originated in the United States against Germany and its industries were dropped. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Nearly 300 million Europeans in a dozen different countries have thrown out their old money, the franc, the lire, the deutschmark, et cetera, all out the window and replaced by this. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The Yugoslav government allocates one deutschmark per day to the many thousands expelled from Croatia and Bosnia; so the refugees from Kosovo can hardly expect much for themselves. ❋ Simic, Charles (1999)
Marsh, Germany and Europe, pp. 70-77 (“deutschmark”); Horst Tetschik, 329 Tage: Innenansichten der Einigung ( Berlin: Seidler Verlag, 1991), pp. ❋ DANIEL YERGIN (1998)
I laughed at [Rod], because he was being [such a] deutschmark. ❋ B-rowl (2006)
