It is the heart of Germany's industrial system. Small wonder, then, that beginning with the armistice, the occupation of the Ruhr was discussed in French and Belgian circles. By controlling it the ...

The following message was addressed to the world last week by Wilhelm Marx, German Chancellor: On Jan. 11, a year ago, the French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr in violation of the ...

The British Government published its correspondence with the Allied Governments on the subjects of the Ruhr Occupation and Reparation Payments. The object of this publicity of hitherto secret ...

(See "The Ruhr Occupation," by Nicholas Roosevelt, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Vol. IV, No. 1.) The dotted area represents German territory occupied by the Allies under the Versailles Treaty. The region north of ...

Coal and steel from the Ruhr fuelled the German economy during both world wars, and so during the Second World War it was flattened by Allied bombers. In 1945, the British occupied what was left ...

The German government called on workers in the Ruhr to put down tools and resist the occupation, promising that while doing so they would continue to receive a wage from the state. The strikes ...

A condition attached to the protocol means that if, by mid-November, six million tons of coal have not been delivered, the Allies will occupy the Ruhr or some other part of German territory.

The Ruhr, 16 January 1923 - The French army has in recent days moved to take occupation of the Ruhr region of Germany. The French premier, Raymond Poincare, has defended the action in the French ...

In fact, this week marks the centenary of the French invasion and attempted occupation of the Ruhr — an event with cataclysmic consequences that uncannily resembles Russia’s invasion and attempted ...