Search results for "Ruhr" - New World Encyclopedia

Scheidt, in an abandoned textile mill in the Ruhr region of Germany. It was there that Hesse began sculpting with materials left behind in the abandoned ...

thrust assault on both the Saarland and the Ruhr Area. Newly promoted to Field ... Rhine into the industrial heartland of the Ruhr. Aggressive pursuit of the ...

in close coordination with the same Ruhr industrialists and German ... to the French during the occupation of the Ruhr District. In 1925, after his ...

plans to internationalize or let France annex the Ruhr area, Germany's main industrial center, were finally dropped in mid 1947, due to the emerging ...

year as an apothecary at Mörs near Krefeld in the Ruhr area (1865-1866), he spent a short time at the high school in Karlsruhe and later became a student ...

1923, during the French occupation of the Ruhr and became a member in 1924 ... of Mönchengladbach on the edge of the Ruhr district. His family was Catholic ...

of many of Germany's factories. Coal from the Ruhr industrial region was transported to France by train. Clemenceau also wanted to protect secret ...

main tributaries on this stretch are the Ruhr and the Lippe. Like the Upper ... agglomerations Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Ruhr area. Here the Rhine flows ...

===Invasion of the Ruhr Valley, 1923=== Occupation of the Ruhr the industrial heartland of Germany, the Ruhr, despite the fact that action ...

his strategy of a single thrust to the Ruhr with Operation Market Garden ... of the German Army Group B in the Ruhr, Montgomery's role was ...

and lead to the country’s industrial Ruhr Valley heartland. It is the longest water bridge in Europe. Engineers first conceived of joining the ...

Inspired by the general strikes, a communist uprising began in the ... French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr region, Germany's most ...

Coal from the Ruhr industrial region was transported to France by train. French military had taken over towns in key locations such as Gau Algesheim ...

vital importance because they included the Ruhr Area, the center of Germany ... Berlin" and the industrialized Ruhr Area—both with working-class ...

Cordiale occasioned by the French invasion of the Ruhr, but also the controversy over the Geneva Protocol, which threatened to dilute British sovereignty ...

world. On 9 August 1939, Göring boasted "The Ruhr will not be subjected to a single bomb. If an enemy bomber reaches the Ruhr, my name is not ...

went south as the northern pincer of the Ruhr encirclement and the U.S. ... main industrial areas (Upper Silesia, Saar, Ruhr, and the German speaking parts ...

control over the German coal areas of the Ruhr and Saar, using these resources ... in order to limit production, and the Ruhr Area was in danger of being ...

(1957-58) ended up tarred and feathered in the Ruhr. Hilary Spurling, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/27/henry-moore-sculpture ...

power. A new attempt was made at the time of the Ruhr Crisis. The Red Army was mobilized, ready to come to the aid of the planned insurrection. Resolute ...

Germany, many are employed in the mines of the Ruhr area, as were their ancestors in Silesian mines. In order to facilitate their integration into West ...

regions of the Rhineland, the Saar, and the Ruhr valleys. ... Raw materials could travel up and down the Ruhr Valley without having to unload ...

See It Nows final broadcast, "Watch on the Ruhr" (about postwar Germany), aired July 7, 1958. Three months later, on October 15, 1958 ...

and power capabilities deriving from the Ruhr and Eder rivers. This raid later became the basis for several films. ==See also== * Canal ...

whilst the Germans found what they needed in the Ruhr valley. Although the Russians had no such colonial empire, they did have vast amounts of territory ...

coal and mineral deposits. The Rhineland, the Ruhr area and the Saar area (Germany's second largest center of mining and industry), Upper Silesia ...

issue and the French occupation of the Ruhr. German delegates then joined the meeting, and the London Settlement signed. This was followed by ...

with France after French troops occupied the Ruhr to enforce the payment of German war reparations; he described the French Prime Minister (and former ...

population and the industry of the Ruhr and Rhineland. Eventually it helped pave the way to German unification under the Prussian throne. However ...

of new opportunities abroad. By 1809, part of the Ruhr Valley in Westphalia were being called "Miniature England" because of its similarities ...

and their long-term goal was the capture of the Ruhr area, the industrial heart of Germany. With the Allies paused for lack of supplies, Gerd von ...

The five largest metropolitan areas are: Rhein-Ruhr with 11,785,196 inhabitants, Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region with 5,822,383, Berlin 4,262,480, Hamburg ...

poison gas. We could drench the cities of the Ruhr and many other cities in Germany in such a way that most of the population would be requiring constant ...

thrust into Germany's industrial Ruhr Valley, crippling Germany's ability to wage war. Russia's revised Plan XIX implied a mobilization ...

first, which would threaten the vital German Ruhr Area. It would also provide a basis for a successful long-term air and sea campaign against the United ...