Hyperinflation 1923 Character Match-Up: Inference, Empathy & Evaluation | Free GCSE Resource

A free, high-impact GCSE taster activity introducing students to the human impact of hyperinflation in 1923. Using a carefully designed Character Match-Up, students infer how different groups — workers, business owners, apprentices and performers — experienced Germany’s economic collapse in contrasting ways.

This short resource showcases the Asa Merrin style: clear modelling, purposeful inference, and structured evaluation. It can be used as a starter, plenary, homework task or as a bridge into a full lesson on the hyperinflation crisis.

This free resource includes:
• A five-character match-up activity with realistic, historically grounded quotes
• A modelled example and a complete teacher answer key
• A short evaluative task (“Who suffered the most, and why?”)
• Optional challenge questions to deepen analysis
• Clean, intuitive slide design ready for immediate classroom use

Perfect for helping students strengthen key GCSE skills — inference, explanation and evaluative judgement — while gaining a vivid understanding of how hyperinflation shaped German lives in 1923.

Designed for Edexcel GCSE (Weimar & Nazi Germany) but easily adaptable for AQA, OCR and Eduqas.