Blue tiles

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A blue tile - the 100 DM note

In the GDR, blue tiles (also: blue tiles) was a slang term for the D-Mark issued in the Federal Republic of Germany . The name alluded to the blue color of the 100 DM note on the one hand, and on the other hand to the valuable blue and white painted ceramic tiles from Delft (or other manufacturers ), which were highly valued in the Baroque era . In contrast to the also common term Westgeld , the term blue tiles was used as a camouflage name . In newspaper advertisements in which the use of the term D-Mark or Westgeld would not have been possible under GDR foreign exchange law aspects, information such as “Offer blue tiles, seek…” was found. The "hard western currency" was often the actual means of payment in the GDR when it came to rarities.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blue tiles . In: Der Spiegel 16/1981 of April 13, 1981, pp. 101-102. Online at spiegel.de.
  2. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Schmidt: About rarities in the supply of the GDR . Website of the working group of contemporary witnesses in senior studies at the University of Leipzig. Online at uni-leipzig.de.