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Dollar Crisis Headline Sparks German Fear in Frankfurt
Bild Zeitung reports Nixon price wage freeze and import surcharge rattling Germany. Erika Holler recalls 1962 trip, noting shock at currency drop from three marks sixty six pfennigs to three marks twenty eight pfennigs after the announcement. VW plant in Wolfsburg seen as emblem of export impact.
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