The Jazz Age — Season 1, Episode 8: Black Exchange
Drama, Comedy • 50 min • 1 season, 14 episodes
Episode synopsis
In the early 1920s, Germany was in a state of economic chaos, crippled by reparations; the value of the Mark fell until it impoverished the middle-class. One victim was Herr Tonn, whose avarice led him to 'sell' his own daughter and steal money to make more on the black exchange.
About The Jazz Age
An anthology of 1920s set plays and musicals, transmissioned from 10 September to 10 December 1968 on BBC One.