SZT5177252: French newspaper shop in Essen, 1923 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177258: French soldiers guarding a coal transport at Hamm, 1923 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177261: French soldiers confiscate a German car in Gelsenkirchen, 1923 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177297: Funeral procession of the Essener Blutopfer (Essen blood sacrifice), murdered by the French, 1920s / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177318: Destroyed room of a welfare office in Gelsenkrichen, 1923 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177254: French night camp at the Hotel Kaiserhof in Essen, 1923 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177257: French armored vehicle crew in the Ruhr area, 1923 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177260: French soldiers confiscate a car in the Ruhr area, 1923 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177293: Funeral march for the Essener Blutopfer (Essen blood sacrifice), 1920s / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177350: Accident of a French locomotive at the railway station in Euskirchen, 1920s / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177371: Railwayman arrested by the French in the prison of Aachen, 1920s / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177380: Criminal convicted by the French military court in the occupied Mainz , 1923 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177395: Large rally against the French occupation of the Ruhr in New York, 1920s / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177419: Liberation ceremony in Speyer, 1930 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177440: The English marching off from Koenigstein, 1929 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177449: French soldiers leave their barracks in Mainz, 1929 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177458: Parade of the withdrawing French before High Commissioner Paul Tirard, 1929 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177467: Liberation ceremony in Mainz, around 1930 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177476: Pilots listening to a speech during a liberation ceremony in Cologne before their deployment, 1930 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177479: President Paul von Hindenburg giving a speech at the liberation ceremony in Aachen, 1930 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177488: Arrival of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg in Wiesbaden, around 1930 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177512: May demonstration of the KPD, 1930 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177515: May Day of the Berlin KPD, 1926 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177539: Street fight, 1929 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177313: The devastated Chamber of Commerce Bochum, 1923 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177337: View of the French-occupied harbor customs office in Mannheim, 1920s / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177346: The French building the Dortmund-Ems Canal, 1920s / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177361: Expelled families from the Ruhr area after their arrival at the station in Weilburg, 1920s / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177379: Portrait of two trade unionists condemned by the French military court in Mainz, 1923 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177388: President Ebert holding a speech in Hamm for delegates from the occupied Ruhr area, 1923 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177406: American soldiers on their way to Koblenz Bahnhof, 1923 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177412: The British leave Cologne, 1925 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177424: Arrival of the first policemen in Essen, 1925 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177445: Lowering the French tricolor at the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress near Koblenz, 1929 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177457: French officers in the occupied Mainz, 1930 / Bridgeman Images

SZT5177478: President Paul von Hindenburg at the liberation ceremony in Trier, 1930 / Bridgeman Images