During the 19th century, the Ruhr was the driving force behind Germany’s rapid evolution from a loose confederation of small states into the most powerful country on the continent.

The Rhine and Ruhr are German and must remain German. Long live a united and indivisible Germany. In spite of the verbosity of experts, it is too early to appraise the significance of the Ruhr ...

Germany's Ruhr area used to be a Social Democrat stronghold, but the populist AfD has risen to popularity amid the region's ...

Lifting Its Face. Tucked into an area the size of Delaware, with 25 cities larger than Gary, Ind., and a population of 8,000,000, the Ruhr until recently turned out 85% of Germany’s iron and ...

THE economic geographers' maps show a black smudge running along both banks of the Rhine from just north of Cologne almost to the Dutch border. Loosely called "the Ruhr," after one of the eastern ...

Germany was incensed, but showed no apparent willingness to mend her ways. Throughout 1922 the demand for further occupation of the Ruhr became stronger in France, the people being convinced that in ...

Focus more closely, however, and this vision of Germany’s future looks a lot less dim. American rust-belt cities such as Pittsburgh shrank by half or more after the 1960s; the Ruhr’s ...

And she visited the Ruhr area in Germany, where she discussed with our members and with German workers who still today remember her very well. Even more recently, ...

Sites of Social Struggle in the Ruhr (Germany) The Ruhr region has been seen as a 'laboratory' for the emergence of democratic achievements, i.e. in the struggle against social inequality, for civil ...