Concerning the people who were famously photographed with wheelbarrows full of useless money during the great depression: Did any of them somehow hold onto those ridiculous quantities of paper currency until the economy rebounded, and did it regain it's worth and make them wealthy?

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Superplaner

Short answer: No.
The hyperinflated reichsmarks were decomissioned and as such rendered effectively useless to anyone but a collector.

That said, they do have a bit of a collectible value so I suppose some people may eventually have made a bit of money that way.

Source: When Money Dies - Fergusson, A. 2010

ParkSungJun

There wasn't any hyperinflation during the Great Depression. A Depression is by its very nature deflationary. This is due to significant confusion in pop history that amalgamates the early 1920s Weimar Hyperinflation with the late 1920s Great Depression. They are two different economic phenomena.