The Ruhr Crisis, 1923-1924
The Ruhr Crisis, 1923-1924

Author: Conan Fischer

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780198208006

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In January 1923 French and Belgian forces occupied Germany's Ruhr District and seized its prime industrial assets in lieu of unpaid reparations. This unilateral attempt to enforce the crumbling Versailles settlement precipitated a wider struggle for long-term control of Western Germany andultimately for the very survival of the Weimar Republic. The Ruhr Crisis is the first comprehensive account of a definitive and mutually self-defeating confrontation, which marked one of the great untold tragedies of European history yet, paradoxically, sowed the seeds of Franco-Germanreconciliation after 1949. It demonstrates how and why the people of the Ruhr waged a grass-roots mass campaign of passive resistance against the invaders, and evaluates the human and political price of their ultimate failure. To this end, the author exploits a broad range of local and regionalsources, many for the first time, to bring together the high politics of the crisis and intimate, often disturbing, accounts of the daily struggle in the mines, towns, and villages of the Ruhr. It is a ground-breaking contribution to the history of inter-war Germany.

Britain and the Ruhr Crisis
Britain and the Ruhr Crisis

Author: E. O'Riordan

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2001-01-30

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Examining British policy during the Ruhr occupation crisis of 1922-24, this work highlights the difficulties Britain faced when dealing with her European neighbours and provides insight into the complexity of British foreign policy at this time.

After the Versailles Treaty
After the Versailles Treaty

Author: Conan Fischer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1317996305

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Designed to secure a lasting peace between the Allies and Germany, the Versailles Settlement soon came apart at the seams. In After The Versailles Treaty an international team of historians examines the almost insuperable challenges facing victors and vanquished alike after the ravages of WW1. This is not another diplomatic history, instead focusing on the practicalities of treaty enforcement and compliance as western Germany came under Allied occupation and as the reparations bill was presented to the defeated and bankrupt Germans. It covers issues such as: How did the Allied occupiers conduct themselves and how did the Germans respond? Were reparations really affordable and how did the reparations regime affect ordinary Germans? What lessons did post-WW2 policymakers learn from this earlier reparations settlement The fraught debates over disarmament as German big business struggled to adjust to the sudden disappearance of arms contracts and efforts were made on the international stage to achieve a measure of global disarmament. The price exacted by the redrawing of frontiers on Germany’s eastern and western margins, as well as the (gentler) impact of the peace settlement on identity in French Flanders. This book was previously published as a special issue of Diplomacy and Statecraft