The British in interwar Germany

• List of Illustrations
• p. xi

• Acknowledgements
• p. xii

• Note on References
• p. xiv

• List of Abbreviations
• p. xv

• Glossary of German and French Terms Used Most Frequently in the Text
• p. xvii

• Maps
• p. xix

• Introduction
• p. 1

• Part I
• The Armistice and the Peace
• p. 5

• Introduction
• p. 5

• 1
• The British-occupied Area of the Rhineland during the Armistice: December 1918-January 1920
• p. 7

• The Armistice and the decision to occupy the Rhineland, October-November 1918
• p. 8

• The first weeks of the occupation
• p. 14

• The voyage of the Rhineland Flotilla, December 1918-January 1919
• p. 18

• The crisis in morale and the formation of the British Army of the Rhine
• p. 18

• British Military Government in the Cologne Zone
• p. 21

• The threat of famine
• p. 26

• The economy
• p. 30

• A clash between two worlds: Anglo-German relations in the Cologne Zone in 1919
• p. 33

• Conclusion
• p. 36

• 2
• The Reluctant Assumption of Continental Commitments, 1919
• p. 37

• The genesis of the control commissions
• p. 37

• The Rhineland
• p. 39

• The creation of the Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission, May 1919
• p. 42

• The triumph of the civilians: The Rhineland Agreement
• p. 44

• Schleswig, Danzig and the eastern borders
• p. 47

• Plans for a further advance into Germany
• p. 49

• Preparing for ratification
• p. 50

• Cologne and Coblenz, June-December 1919
• p. 51

• Organizing the control commissions
• p. 54

• Dispatch of the preliminary commission into Germany, September 1919
• p. 55

• Danzig and the plebiscite commissions
• p. 58

• Conclusion
• p. 62

• Part II
• Enforcing the Treaty, 1920-2
• p. 63

• Introduction
• p. 63

• 3
• The Plebiscites, 1920-2
• p. 71

• Schleswig, January-June 1920
• p. 71

• Allenstein and Marienwerder, January-August 1920
• p. 75

• Upper Silesia, 1920-2
• p. 80

• The plebiscite
• p. 86

• The third Polish uprising and the return of British troops
• p. 87

• The Upper Silesian question referred to the League
• p. 91

• British business and Upper Silesia: A postscript to the plebiscite
• p. 95

• Conclusion
• p. 96

• 4
• Danzig: The 'Gibraltar of the North'
• p. 98

• The economy, food and coal
• p. 100

• The proposed Polish-Danzig convention
• p. 102

• Danzig and the Soviet-Polish war, July-August 1920
• p. 103

• Creation of the Free City
• p. 106

• Conclusion
• p. 107

• 5
• The British Element in the Inter-Allied Control Commissions, 1920-2
• p. 108

• The impact of the Kapp Putsch and the Ruhr uprising, March-April 1920
• p. 111

• The resumption of inspection
• p. 112

• Moral disarmament
• p. 120

• Divisions within the British element of the IAMCC, 1921-2
• p. 121

• The proposed Committees of Guarantee
• p. 124

• Conclusion
• p. 126

• 6
• Britain and the Rhineland, 1920-2
• p. 127

• Sir Harold Stuart, January-October 1920
• p. 128

• The British Army of the Rhine and the 'Colognials', 1920-1
• p. 133

• Passing the buck to the Quakers: The food question
• p. 137

• Arnold Robertson's appointment as high commissioner, October 1920
• p. 141

• The sanctions crisis
• p. 142

• Lord Kilmarnock
• p. 150

• The shadow of Poincaré
• p. 152

• The British Zone, 1922
• p. 154

• Inflation and the production boom
• p. 154

• 'Tommy as Croesus': The BAR in 1922
• p. 157

• The Ruhr again
• p. 160

• Part III
• The Turning Point: The Ruhr Crisis, 1923-4
• p. 163

• Introduction
• p. 163

• 7
• The French Occupation of the Ruhr and German 'Passive Resistance', January-September 1923
• p. 167

• The British reaction: 'Benevolent passivity'
• p. 167

• Cologne as a 'Trojan Horse'
• p. 173

• 'The island of the blest'?
• p. 175

• Conclusion
• p. 178

• 8
• France's Hollow Victory
• p. 179

• MICUM, the Régie and the Rhenish Notenbank
• p. 179

• The separatist challenge
• p. 185

• Conclusion
• p. 190

• 9
• The Impact of the Ruhr Crisis on the Control Commissions, 1923-4
• p. 191

• The five points and the Allied demand for a general inspection
• p. 195

• Conclusion
• p. 198

• Part IV
• After the Ruhr Crisis, 1924-30
• p. 199

• Introduction
• p. 199

• 10
• The Consequences of Dawes and Locarno for the Occupation and the IAMCC, 1924-7
• p. 203

• The Dawes Plan and the London Conference, April-August 1924
• p. 203

• The slow return to normality: The Rhineland, 1924
• p. 205

• The impact of the Dawes Plan on the Rhineland
• p. 208

• The evacuation of the northern zone deferred
• p. 210

• Breakthrough over the security question
• p. 211

• The occupation on borrowed time, January-November 1925
• p. 212

• The Wauchope-D'Abernon axis
• p. 214

• Locarno
• p. 216

• The evacuation of Cologne and the northern zone
• p. 217

• Winding up the IAMCC
• p. 223

• Conclusion
• p. 227

• 11
• The British in the Wiesbaden Bridgehead, 1926-30
• p. 228

• The problems of occupation in the Locarno era
• p. 228

• 'The lost legion': The Rhine Army, January 1928-July 1929
• p. 235

• The re-emergence of the evacuation question, 1928-9
• p. 237

• The Hague Conference, 6-31 August 1929
• p. 240

• The last months of the Rhine Army, September-December 1929
• p. 241

• The end of the Rhineland occupation, June 1930
• p. 243

• Conclusion
• p. 243

• Conclusion
• p. 245

• Notes
• p. 251

• Select Bibliography
• p. 314

• Index
• p. 326