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    The Occupation of the Ruhr (German: Ruhrbesetzung) was a period of military occupation of the Ruhr region of Germany by France and Belgium from 11 January...
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    The Ruhr (/ˈrʊər/ ROOR; German: Ruhrgebiet [ˈʁuːɐ̯ɡəˌbiːt] , also Ruhrpott German pronunciation: [ˈʁuːɐ̯pɔt] ), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes...
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    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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    The Ruhr area was Germany's primary industrial area during the early- to mid-20th century. Most factories were located there. The occupation of the Ruhr...
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    The Rhenish Republic (German: Rheinische Republik) was proclaimed at Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) in October 1923 during the occupation of the Ruhr by troops...
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    The Ruhr uprising (German: Ruhraufstand) or March uprising (Märzaufstand) was a left-wing workers' revolt in the Ruhr region of Germany in March 1920...
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  • Black Reichswehr (category Military of the Weimar Republic)
    role in his decision was the London ultimatum of 5 May 1921, which threatened an occupation of the heavily industrialized Ruhr district if Germany did...
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    Dawes Plan (category History of the foreign relations of the United States)
    stabilise the German currency and ended the occupation of the Ruhr. It resulted in a brief period of economic recovery in the second half of the 1920s, although...
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    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 1922 to 80 billion...
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    The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of...
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  • German October (category Politics of the Weimar Republic)
    existential crisis of the Weimar Republic in 1923. Three major events in 1923, the occupation of the Ruhr, separatist unrest in the Rhineland and the Palatinate...
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    during the occupation of the Ruhr, before decreasing to 60,000 men by 1926. Germans viewed the use of French colonial troops as a deliberate act of humiliation...
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    Cuno cabinet (category Cabinets of Germany)
    the occupation authorities. The Ruhr economy, the industrial heartland of Germany, came almost to a complete stop. The German government paid for the...
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    the economic occupation of the Ruhr, the French-Belgian railway Régie, and finally, the military occupation of the Ruhr within a year. The great conclusion...
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    Wilhelm Cuno (category People from the Province of Saxony)
    who was the chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923, for a total of 264 days. His tenure included the episode known as the Occupation of the Ruhr by French...
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    The actual boundaries of the Ruhr vary slightly depending on the source, but a good working definition is to define the Lippe and Ruhr as its northern...
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  • Küstrin Putsch (category Politics of the Weimar Republic)
    the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr. It failed both in Berlin and in the eastern German town of Küstrin when the colonel in charge of the Küstrin...
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    support from the United States. Thus, the Dawes Plan was negotiated after Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré's occupation of the Ruhr, and then the Young Plan...
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    members of the paramilitary right during the occupation of the Ruhr who had been executed by French authorities in May of 1923. Evidence connecting Kadow to...
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    Essen (redirect from History of Essen)
    ) is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of 584,580 makes it the fourth-largest...
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    zone of occupation. As a result of disputes over German reparations payments required by the Treaty, French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr in January...
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    following the French Occupation of the Ruhr. The Bottleneck was eventually reincorporated with the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. The territory that...
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    Freikorps Oberland (category Paramilitary organisations of the Weimar Republic)
    became the Reichswehr Brigade 21, which in 1920 fought in the Occupation of the Ruhr. The Freikorps itself was dissolved on 21 October 1919. and all the members...
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    Raymond Poincaré (category Members of the 4th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic)
    1923 he ordered the Occupation of the Ruhr to enforce payment of German reparations. By this time Poincaré was seen, especially in the English-speaking...
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    Rentenmark (category Economy of the Weimar Republic)
    policy of passive resistance. This caused the regional economy of the Ruhr, the industrial heartland of Germany, to almost stop. The occupation authorities...
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    Gustav Stresemann (category Members of the 12th Reichstag of the German Empire)
    chancellorship, he abandoned the policy of passive resistance against the French-Belgian occupation of the Ruhr, and introduced the Rentenmark in a (relatively...
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    towards the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr, was at its peak, and parties on the extreme left and right had taken over or joined the governments...
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    Völkischer Beobachter (category History of Munich)
    the occupation of the Ruhr. In that year Hitler replaced Eckart as editor with Alfred Rosenberg, because Eckart's alcoholism had begun to get in the way...
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    contingent—entered the region, initiating the Occupation of the Ruhr. The French Premier Raymond Poincaré was deeply reluctant to order the occupation and had only...
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    Thyssen AG (category Conglomerate companies of Germany)
    ships, machines etc. After the First World War came the occupation of the Ruhr and the loss of many foreign interests; however the company remained viable...
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