The Great Inflation

Title: The Great Inflation
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The Great Inflation

In late-1922 the German government were forced to ask the Allies for a moratorium on reparations payments; this was refused, and she then defaulted on shipments of both coal and timber to France. By January of the following year, French and Belgian troops had entered and occupied the Ruhr. The German people, perhaps for the first time since 1914, united behind their government, and passive resistance to the occupying troops was ordered. A government-funded strike began …showed first 75 words of 2405 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2405 total…and Politics since 1815Æ, (London: 1935), pp. 561 - 562. Kolb, op. cit., pp. 40 - 41. Shirer, op. cit., p. 63. David Fischer, op. cit., p. 193 The argument in this paragraph is drawn from David Fischer, op. cit., pp193 -194, Paul Kennedy, æThe Rise and Fall of the Great PowersÆ, (London: 1989, pp. 357 - 373, and D. H. Aldcroft, æFrom Versailles to Wall StreetÆ, (New York: 1977), chs. 1 & 2. David Blackman, æEuropean Inflationary Trends: 1815 - 1945Æ, (London: 1954), pp. 321 -322. David Fischer, op. cit., pp. 194 - 5. Kolb, op. cit., pp. 194 -195. Shirer, op. cit., p. 61.

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