Within the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (later the German Democratic Republic), the East German mark (additionally named "Deutsche Mark" from 1948 to 1964 and colloquially referred to because the Ostmark-actually Eastmark) was launched just a few days afterwards within the type of Reichsmark and Rentenmark notes with adhesive stamps to cease the flooding in of Reichsmark and Rentenmark notes from the West. The introduction of the brand new foreign money was supposed to protect western Germ...