1914 - 1930

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This is a 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-German reconciliation after 1949.

"In January 1923 French and Belgian forces occupied Germany's Ruhr District, which contained 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 …