Germany 1889 During May 1889 nearly 100,000 German miners went on strike in the Ruhr Valley. They demanded wage increases and an eight-hour workday and raised other grievances. Faced with employer intransigence, some miners petitioned Kaiser Wilhelm...
The Occupation of the Ruhr between 1923 and 1924, by troops from France and Belgium was a response to the failure of the German Weimar Republic under Cuno to pay reparations in the aftermath of World War I. Having been thwarted in its attempts to...
Elspeth Y. O'Riordan. Britain and the Ruhr Crisis. (Studies in Military and Strategic History.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. x, 237. $69.95. ISBN 0-333-76483-8. The occupation of the Ruhr by Franco-Belgian forces in January 1923 has remained for historians an important landmark in...
The final stages of the US offensive against the German pocket in the Ruhr is launched, writes James Cusick. Troops from the 8th Infantry Division in the south and 79th Infantry Division in the north are nearing each other. The pocket is almost split....
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