French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr
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- Lords of Finance whole source · open book
In early 1923, when Germany was late in meeting a reparations payment for that year—the precipitating incident was the failure to deliver one hundred thousand telephone poles to France—forty thousand French and Belgian troops invaded Germany and occupied the Ruhr valley, its industrial heartland.
chapter: 7. DEMENTED INSPIRATIONS - German REPARATIONS