In retrospect, you can trace the steps to hyperinflation ... and it was due to lose part of the production of the Ruhr and of the province of Upper Silesia. The Weimar Republic was politically ...

Poincare's firm announcement to Mr Bonar Law that 'Whatever happens, I shall advance into the Ruhr on January 15.' It was France, not Britain who, in Sir Eric Geddes's famous phrase of 1918 was ...

In books, paintings and plays of social protest, the Ruhr Valley was long pictured as a brutally black furnace of heavy industry, as ugly as the coalpits on which it is built. It has also been ...

Impact of the Treaty of Versailles Weaknesses of Weimar government Political instability – the Spartacist, Kapp, and Munich Putsches Hyperinflation Events in the Ruhr 1923 Germany emerged from ...