Occupy Germany 1918-1930

This film recounts the occupation of Rhineland and Ruhr by the allied from the end of World War I until the withdrawal of the French troops in 1930. This gripping story is full of tension and dramatic moments: Die Schwarze Schande campaign, the invasion of the Ruhr, the strikes of the German coal-workers and their repression... It is also a key episode of the inter-war years : during this occupation rose German nationalism, that would pave the way for Adolf Hitler’s march to power, but also the first attempts of Franco-German reconciliation (symbolized by Gustav Stresemann and Aristide Briand’s 1926 Nobel Peace Prize), which are the first steps toward European construction. This story will be told mainly from archives, with a few shootings of Rhineland and Ruhr’s actual cities and landscape.