There is an article pointing out that the new Deutschmark is being planned fro this weekend (the night from 15th to 16th of May). It would be exchanged 1:1 with the actual Euro.
Angela Merkel will hold a speech tonight at 21:00h about a decision of general prinicpal. This weekends the ATMs will have limited functionality - announced by the local banks (Sparkassen).
There were rumours about new DM notes that were shown around in meetings of the highest positions in banks. Bank clerks of the Deutsche Bank said - although forbidden - that they had billions of Euros in stock in Frankfurt.
There were massive money transports the last days all around in Germany, what for?
Many supermarkets have been told to eliminate the €-sign on the price tables - I looked around in a huge discount supermarket - it true, they have disappeared.
The media is making DM-campaigns (a subtile way to prepare the population?).
Many sites with .de domains informing about the topic were taken out of the net yesterday.
Also it is not possible to buy used cars before this weekend...
I wonder if this is a macabre joke willing to provoke a panic or if it is really true that the information fits together with the leaked infos from the Deutsche Bank.
It is a fact that such a currency reform has taken place before also and also without an early announcement in order to keep people from panicking and taking their money from their bank accounts and savings books - because all money exceeding 1,000€ will go to the government - repairing it's financial situation and backing up the new currency.
I do not doubt this happens - since Germany and the smaller EU countries alone are no longer in a position to back the €, now that France, Italy, Spain and Portugal are bankrupt or almost bankrupt also...
http://www.hartgeld.com/filesadmin/pdf/Art_2010-161_DM2.pdf