Occupation of the Rhineland
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The Occupation of the Rhineland placed the region of Germany west of the Rhine river and four bridgeheads to its east under the control of the victorious Allies of World War I from 1 December 1918 unt
French soldiers at Ehrenbreitstein Fortress watching over the Deutsches Eck, 1929
Paul Tirard, the French chairman of the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission
Henry T. Allen, commander-in-chief of the American occupation army in the Rhineland
French troops entering Essen during the occupation of the Ruhr
Rhineland
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The Rhineland is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section, sometimes encompassing parts of Belgium. It is the main industrial heartland of Germany because
Occupation of the Rhineland
…November 1918, the Treaty of Versailles and the parallel agreement on the Rhineland occupation signed at the same time as the Versailles Treaty. The Rhineland was demilitarised, as was an area stretching fifty kilometres east of the Rhine, and put under the control of the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission…
Deutsches Eck, Koblenz
Roman and barbarian parts of the Rhineland
Attack by the Swedish army on the Spanish troops in Bacharach during the Thirty Years' War