2. How does land ownership provide a sanctuary for holders of wealth? Owning land is the conventional wisdom of creating a haven against financial apocalypse.

3. The History of World War II supports the thesis that land ownership is an asset refuge and sanctuary for wealth.

4. During World War II, estate and buildings were destroyed. The owner found that getting them back was problematic at best. Land on the other hand is always there and everyone knew the landowners even when the landownership records had been destroyed. In 1947, Germany began to rebuild and land prices rose and restored wealth to the rich.

5. What is hyperinflation and how did it affect Germany? Hyperinflation is the uncontrollable printing of money; it is the byproduct of a political machine that lacks confidence and courage; and it results from military campaigns financed by borrowed debt. Germany expected to win WWI and pay the war debt with spoils of war. However, by year-end, 1914, the German stock market had fallen 41%. WWI losses meant in 1918 that Germany possessed huge public debt financed through government bonds, massive increases in money supply, and burdensome war reparations percentages. The allies demanded payment of war reparations of 10% of Germany Gross National Product and 80% of the profits from exports. The financial burden was too much. In June of 1922, inflation was 4% but by December inflation had climbed to 152,221,670,000%. Banks in 1923 charged 35% a day interest and bond-holders missing profits as interest spiral upward and bond prices spiral downward. The devaluation currency destroyed the bond values.

6. Wealth holders need to own their own property, businesses, real-estate, and businesses. Wealth holders moved quickly to pay off debt because during deflation the debt destroys the business and individual. Expensive and hard to earn money must pay back debt money. The lender is the winner during deflation.

7. Hyperinflation creates social disorder and disillusionment. Hyperinflation is characterized by riots for food, high unemployment, and the shutdown of hospitals, institutions, and businesses. People start to demand order and price stability allow for new regimes of power to take control. For example, Schact created a new Reich mark backed by gold. The asset stabilized the hyperinflated mark and money supply became more credible. By 1929, the Germany equity market had declined 74%. Schacht started to print money, manipulate currency valuations, and force individual savings. From 1932-36 unemployment dropped from 6 million to 1 million and from 32-37 industrial-production rose 102%, mostly in military equipment output to ream the German Army, WWI was inevitable.