Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2011
Abstract
After the First World War the Entente Powers needed to make sure that Germany would not return to war actions. For this reason they agreed on the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine.
The British occupation of the Rhineland is in many aspects very surprising in comparison with the "traditional" British policy. This book deals with the British occupation of the Cologne zone in the years 1918-1926.
It has three main topics: the "Rhineland question" in the international relations, work of the various inter-allied committees in occupied Rhineland and the life in the Cologne area, with emphasis on analysis of the "coexistence" of Germans and British, and the analysis of the everyday lives of British soldiers of the occupation army.