Скачать с ютуб 11th January 1923: French and Belgian troops marched into Germany and occupied the Ruhr в хорошем качестве

11th January 1923: French and Belgian troops marched into Germany and occupied the Ruhr

France and Belgium had grown increasingly frustrated by Germany frequently defaulting on the reparations that had been agreed in the Treaty of Versailles. The occupation was met with passive resistance, which was only called off on 26 September as rampant hyperinflation crippled the German economy. Although the French leader Raymond Poincaré was initially reluctant to occupy the Ruhr, he had grown increasingly exasperated by Germany’s regular defaults and the lack of international support for sanctions as a way to persuade the government to pay. He argued that the reparations themselves were not the issue, but rather that allowing Germany to defy this part of the Treaty of Versailles could lead to further attempts to undermine the Treaty at a later date. It was Germany’s failure to provide the full quota of coal and timber in December 1922 that provided France and Belgium with the excuse to occupy the Ruhr on 11 January 1923. They established the Inter-Allied Mission for Control of Factories and Mines to ensure that goods payments were made, but the Germans responded with a campaign of passive resistance that stopped production. Tensions were high between the occupiers and Ruhr locals and, by the time Gustav Stresemann’s new government called off the strikes in September, approximately 130 German civilians had been killed by the occupying armies. The occupation enabled France and Belgium to extract reparations, but it was Germany that won international sympathy. The last occupying French troops finally left the Ruhr on 25 August 1925.