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The British in Interwar Germany analyses the British presence in Germany from the armistice until the end of the Rhineland occupation in 1930. It looks at British involvement in the Rhineland, Danzig, Upper Silesia, Schleswig and East Prussia and on the inter-Allied Control Commissions (IAMCC), which were supervising German disarmament.Drawing widely on a range of primary sources, David Williamson explores the problems facing British military and civil officials, their attitudes towards the Germans and their relations with their allies - particularly the French. The book also examines the everyday lives of the British soldiers and administrators in Germany and their interaction with the Germans, with particular attention being paid to the city of Cologne and the British colony that developed there.This new edition brings David Williamson''s study fully up-to-date and now contains a greater coverage of the relevant social history, as well as maps, illustrations and a useful glossary. The British in Interwar Germany will be of great interest to students and scholars of Weimar Germany and Britain and Europe during the interwar years.>
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Note on References
Introduction
Part I - The Armistice and the Peace
1. The British Occupied Area of the Rhineland during the Armistice: December 1918-January 1920
2. The Reluctant Assumption of Continental Commitments, 1919
Part II - Enforcing the Treaty, 1920-1922
3. The Plebiscites, 1920-22
4. Danzig: 'The Gibraltar of the North'
5. The British Element in the Inter-Allied Military Control Commissions
6. Britain and the Rhineland, 1920-1922
Part III - The Ruhr Crisis, 1923-1924: The Turning Point
7. The French Occupation of the Ruhr and German Passive Resistance, January-September 1923
8. France's Hollow Victory
9. The Impact of the Ruhr Crisis on the Inter-Allied Control Commission, 1923-1924
Part IV - After the Ruhr Crisis, 1924-1930
10. The Consequences of the Dawes Plan and the Locarno Treaties for the Occupation and the IAMCC, 1924-1927
11. The British in the Wiesbaden Bridgehead, 1926-1930
Conclusion
Notes
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Select Biography
Index
About the author
David Williamson is a former head of History and is now a freelance writer and Lecturer.
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[A] well-structured and thoroughly researched chronicle of events . The British in Interwar Germany provides an overview of a significant episode of Britain's engagement as a great power in Europe, in the first half of the twentieth century. Journal of Modern History
