Editing Reichsmark (section)

=== Expansion outside the Reichsmark ===
{{main|Öffa bills|Mefo bills}}

During this period a number of [[Shell corporation|shell companies]] were created and authorized to issue bonds outside the Reichsmark in order to finance state projects.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Bastisch, Andre |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/724193260 |title=Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen im Dritten Reich von 1933-1936 |year=2007 |publisher=GRIN Verlag |isbn=978-3-638-68655-6 |oclc=724193260}}</ref> Nominally exchangeable at a 1:1 rate for Reichsmarks but then discounted by the Reichsbank this created secret monetary expansion without formally renouncing the gold standard of the Reichsmark.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kopper |first=Christopher |date=April 1998 |title=Banking in National Socialist Germany, 1933–39 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0968565000001414 |journal=Financial History Review |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=49–62 |doi=10.1017/s0968565000001414 |s2cid=154770245 |issn=0968-5650|url-access=subscription }}</ref>