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    The occupation of the Ruhr (‹See Tfd›German: Ruhrbesetzung) was the period from 11 January 1923 to 25 August 1925 when French and Belgian troops occupied...
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    payments in 1922, the occupation was expanded to include the industrial Ruhr valley from 1923 to 1925. In the early years of the occupation, a number of separatist...
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    and Homburg. The occupation was in response to the mobilisation of armed forces by the government of Hermann Müller to suppress the Ruhr Uprising, an attempt...
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    between the Ruhr Question and the Allied occupation of the Rhineland (1919-1930), the Occupation of the Ruhr (1923-1924, 1925), the founding of the state...
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    greater focus on economic problems. The British Occupation Zone included the Ruhr industrial region, which had experienced the heaviest bombing and therefore...
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    Rhenish Republic (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Rheinische Republik) was proclaimed at Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) in October 1923 during the occupation of the Ruhr by troops from France and Belgium (January 1923 –...
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    third-largest area of coal, iron, and steel industry in Germany (after the Ruhr Area and the Upper Silesian Coal Basin). From 1920 to 1935, as a result of...
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    "Quand la France occupait la Ruhr. L'opposition des pacifistes françaises à l'occupation de la Ruhr (1923–1925)" [When France occupied the Ruhr. Pacifist...
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    de Bir-Hakeim in Paris, circa 1900 Monument to Jules Ferry and Autumn, the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, 1910 1924 Medal Occupation of the Ruhr. La Pensée...
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    List of communist states (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Bavaria (1918–1919) Ruhr Council Republic (1920) Soviet Republic of Stormam (1923) Soviet occupation of Germany (1945–1949) Soviet occupation of Berlin (1945–1949)...
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    and worked for Franco-German reconciliation, especially after the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923. An early supporter of the League of Nations, he invited...
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  • Representatives of the French government agree to leave the Ruhr in the Occupation of the Ruhr during the London Conference of World War I reparations. 29...
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    African troops. The troop numbers peaked again at 250,000 during the occupation of the Ruhr, before decreasing to 60,000 men by 1926. Germans viewed the use...
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    favoured Allied occupation of the Rhineland. In 1922 Poincaré returned to power as prime minister. In 1923 he ordered the Occupation of the Ruhr to enforce...
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  • military occupations, both historic and contemporary, but only those that have taken place since the customary laws of belligerent military occupation were...
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    correspondents, and with their own eyewitness accounts. De Gaulle wanted access to German coal in the Ruhr as reparations after the war, the left bank of the...
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    Weimar Republic (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    The hyperinflation fueled by the government's response to the occupation of the Ruhr caused the cost of a loaf of bread to rise from 3 Reichsmarks in...
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    was forced to surrender to the U.S. Ninth Army, having been trapped in the Ruhr Pocket. Remnants of the division continued to fight in the Harz mountains...
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    default, the economic occupation of the Ruhr, the French-Belgian railway Régie, and finally, the military occupation of the Ruhr within a year. The great...
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    of the most urbanised regions of Europe, between Paris, London, the Rhine-Ruhr (Germany), and the Randstad (Netherlands). The Brussels-Capital Region has...
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    École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, the French military academy, in 1924. After service with the French Occupation of the Ruhr and in Morocco, he returned...
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    Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen Sr. (April 1, 1888 – September 12, 1969) was a senior United States Army officer who fought in both World War I and...
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    Jacques Doriot (category La Liberté (French newspaper) editors)
    Communists. In 1923, Doriot was arrested for violently protesting French occupation of the Ruhr Area. He was released a year later, upon being elected to the French...
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    Black Horror on the Rhine (category Occupation of the Rhineland)
    American public opinion to a pro-German position. However, the French occupation of the Ruhr on 11 January 1923 caused the Auswärtige Amt to lose interest in...
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    north, east, and south. Following the reduction of the Ruhr, the 15th Army was to take over occupation duties in the region as the 9th, 1st and 3rd Armies...
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    from the Gaullist objective of permanent occupation or control of parts of German territory such as the Ruhr or the Saar. Despite stiff ultra-nationalist...
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  • from which he never recovered. After the war, the Ruhr became part of the British Zone of occupation. The British dismantled Krupp's factories, sending...
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  • preparation for Allied invasion of France. Chastise (1943) — the bombing of Ruhr area dams popularly known as the "Dambusters" raid. Corona (1943) — bombing...
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    Bizone (category Allied occupation of Germany)
    the British occupation zones on 1 January 1947 during the occupation of Germany after World War II. With the addition of the French occupation zone on 1...
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    behind in reparations payments in 1923, France seized the industrialized Ruhr region. The British Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, who viewed reparations...
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