La Ruhr – Charbonnages et Industries. French occupation map. 13 January 1923
SKU: P-6-110810
'La Ruhr - Charbonnages et industries du bassin Rhénan-Westphalien'
This map of the Ruhr, Germany’s industrial heartland, was published on 13 January 1923, just two days after French and Belgian troops began their occupation of the region in response to Germany’s failure to meet the reparations obligations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. Although still legally German territory, the Ruhr was effectively wrenched from Berlin’s control: the government ordered passive resistance, workers struck, production collapsed, and Berlin financed the shutdown by printing money, precipitating the catastrophic hyperinflation of 1923. The Ruhr thus became a crucible of economic paralysis, sabotage, and political confrontation until passive resistance was abandoned in September and the Dawes Plan began stabilising the situation the following year. Yet the crisis had already inflicted deep political damage. On 8 November 1923 Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party made their first major bid for national attention in the Beer Hall Putsch, citing the “chaos” of the Ruhr occupation as proof of Weimar weakness—a moment of radicalisation that foreshadowed the forces that would ultimately lead to the Second World War.
Size 40 x 59 cm | 15.5 x 23.0 inches
Date Published: 13 January 1923 [dated]
Type: Antique resources map
Author: Peltier, G.
Publication: L’Illustration
Condition: Good |
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