Britain's Alleged Balancing
11-08-2023
On 11 August 1923, when any consumer in either republican or occupied Germany had to pay a few hundred thousand, if not millions of marks for a single bread, Great Britain sent a note to these mainland allies. According to London, they had acted in conflict with international law: The Rhineland occupations were said to be illegal.(1)
It cannot be denied that this allied controversy went down in school and history books. In this blogpost this standard interpretation from 1945 is questioned.
1. Klaus Schwabe, Versailles: das Wagnis eines demokratischen Friedens 1919–1923, Leiden, Boston, Singapore, Paderborn 2019, p. 225.
📘 Peter de Bourgraaf, Hundert Jahre Urkatastrophe. Der Kolonialvertrag 1919, p. 101–102.