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Hitler took money from the Jews. He stole billions from them. A lot of their money and valuables he put in Switzerland. So he begged, borrowed and stole from the countries he invaded and from his own people.
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The Nazi's didn't use confiscated money or money from invaded countries to begin rearmament. That came later, although the Nazis were indeed confiscating Jewish property early in the Nazi era. This would not have raised nearly the amount of money needed for a full scale rearming.
It is illogical for Hitler to use money from countries he invaded, because he didn't have an army to invade with in the early '30's.
Hitler used a variety of means. One of the most successful was the use of Mefo bills. Mefo was a short version for Metallurgische Forschungsgesellschaft. They were the brainchild of the Minister of Finance, Hjalmar Schacht, in 1934.
It gets a bit complicated. So be patient.
Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was not allowed to rebuild it's army. To get around this Hitler and his government used all sorts of dodgy means and cloak and dagger tricks to begin the build up.
In order to do this, Germany needed huge amounts of money - soldiers had to be paid, technology investigated, weapons built. The money had to be raised and spent in such a way the the Allies would not notice. In other words, no trail leading to where the money came from and went to could be left.
Schact created a shell company, or a fake company called Metallurgische Forschungsgesellschaft (Mefo from now on) to act as a way of getting money to buy weapons. Mefo didn't do anything - it was a fake. The government created what were called Mefo bills - they were bills or credit notes that charged a 4% interest and sold to armament companies who could then redeem them for proper German currency.
So Mefo paid the weapons manufacturers with Mefo bills, who then turned around and traded the Mefo bills in for real money. But since Mefo was owned by the government (but this was a state secret), the government was paying for the rearmament. And again, since Mefo was the government, the Nazis were getting a steady supply of weapons.
The existence of Mefo was so well hidden, no one outside the Nazi ruling circle knew it existed until after WW2. It was the primary means of rearming from 1935 to 1939. It's not known how many Mefo bills were issued.
Oddly enough, Schact was later removed from his job as Minister. He disagreed with many of the Nazi policies and became involved in an anti-Hitler group prior to the war. After a failed attempt on Hitler's life in 1944 (not by Schact) he, along with many others who were suspected of being anti-Nazi was arrested and inprisoned. Eventually he was sent to first Ravensbruck and then Flossburg and finally Dachau. He survived the war but was arrested by the Allies for his role in helping the Nazis rearm Germany. He was on trial at Nurmberg and was found innocent.
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20 $1 bills
18 $1 bills and 1 $2 bill
16 $1 bills and 2 $2 bills
14 $1 bills and 3 $2 bills
12 $1 bills and 4 $2 bills
10 $1 bills and 5 $2 bills
8 $1 bills and 6 $2 bills
6 $1 bills and 7 $2 bills
4 $1 bills and 8 $2 bills
2 $1 bills and 9 $2 bills
10 $2 bills
and so on and so forth appropriately as needed utilizing $5, $10, and $20 bills along with $1 and $2 bills
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Advances made against demand bills are bills purchased
While those made against usance bills are bills discounted
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shopping bills,electric bills,telephone bills and etc
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You can exchange small bills for large bills at a bank or financial institution.
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You can exchange small bills for larger bills at a bank or financial institution.
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Yes, you can exchange small bills for larger bills at this bank.
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He has 40 $1.00 bills and 8 $5.00 bills
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You can exchange small bills for larger bills at a bank or a currency exchange service.
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You can exchange large bills for small bills at a bank, credit union, or currency exchange.
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Revenue Bills or Tax Bills
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all kites are bills of exchange but not all bills of exchange are kites
why?
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No, they have never been called the duck bills.
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Randall Bills's birth name is Robert Randall Bills.
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Appropriation bills begin in the House of Representatives.
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Sister Bills are when the sister dies in the family and The Other sisters have to Pay Bills.
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You can get smaller bills by visiting a bank or an ATM and requesting them in exchange for larger bills.
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Yes, you can exchange 20 dollar bills for 100 dollar bills at a bank.
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Yes, you can exchange 20 dollar bills for 100 dollar bills at the bank.
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Two $2 bills and eleven $1 bills.
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4 2dollar bills, 1 five, and 1 one.
They do make two dollar bills, but they are rare.
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If Joe's wallet contains 10 bills of $5 and $1 denominations and 2 more $5 bills than $1 bills for a total of $34, then he must have 6 $5 bills and 4 $1 bills.
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i know she wrote no scrubs by TLC, and she wrote destiny's child's bills bills bills, and bug a boo... I don't know what else though
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In total, 62 bills were passed by the Parliament. Of these, 50 were Executive Bills (including 4 Budget Bills), 8 were Member's Bills, 3 were Committee Bills and 1 was a Private Bill.
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You can exchange 20 dollar bills for 1 dollar bills at a bank or a currency exchange service.
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You can exchange 20 dollar bills for 100 dollar bills at a bank or a currency exchange service.
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They have always been called the Buffalo Bills!
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You may be able to get help with your bills from your local human services office.
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Ducks have bills but if there is a mutation some ducks could be born with misshapen or missing bills.
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Outstanding bills are bills from before the current one which have still not been paid.
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$14250 ÷ $20 = 712 r 1
You could use at most 712 of the $20 bills and at least 2 of the $5 bills,
You can reduce the number of $20 bills and for each one you reduce it by, you need to increase the number of $5 bills by 4, eg 711 of the $20 bills and 6 of the $5 bills.
You could use no $20 bills at all in which case you would need to use 2850 of the $5 bills.
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$1 bills = $100 money bundle
$2 bills = $200 money bundle
$5 bills = $500 money bundle
$10 bills = $1,000 money bundle
$20 bills = $2,000 money bundle
$50 bills = $5,000 money bundle
$100 bills = $10,000 money bundle
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Let's denote the number of $1 bills as x and the number of $2 bills as y. We can set up a system of equations based on the given information: x + y = 13 (total number of bills) and x + 2y = 15 (total value of the bills). By solving this system of equations simultaneously, we can find that Randall had 8 $1 bills and 5 $2 bills in his pocket.
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Yes, it is possible to exchange 20 dollar bills for 100 dollar bills at the bank.
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Kate has 28 five-dollar-bills and 32 twenty-dollar-bills.
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