Hyperinflation: The government tried to solve the problem of not having money with simply printing more. The money was virtually worthless so prices went up. Wages began to be payed daily rather that weekly. However, some benefited from this situation, the government and big industrialists were able to pay off huge debts in worthless marks. However, middle class citizens for example may have found that their life savings, which in 1921 may have bought them a house, could now not even buy a loaf of bread. Once Germany eventually recovered from this situation, there was bitterness directed towards the Treaty of Versailles.