One to one.
Prior to the Wall coming down....if you were walking around East Germany and wanted to exchange D-Marks....the rate was generally five to ten Ostmarks....to buy one single D-Mark.
There was some discussion after the Wall came down and the fairness rule created....was that it'd be a one-to-one exchange.
In the end...East Germans brought in 431-billion Ostmarks, and were given D-Marks. Yeah, you could say that the true value here was crap, but that was among forty-odd things done to make it fair. 431-billion D-Marks were more or less invented out of thin air, in the end.
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