After the Versailles Treaty

Conan Fischer is Professor of European History at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. His publications include Stormtroopers: A Social, Economic and Ideological Analysis, 1929-35. (1983), The German Communists and the Rise of Nazism (1991),.The Rise of the Nazis (1995 & 2002), The Rise of National Socialism and the Working Classes in Weimar Germany (1996), and The Ruhr Crisis 1923-1924 ( 2003) . He is currently completing Europe between Democracy and Dictatorship; 1900-1945 (forthcoming 2008).Alan Sharp is Professor of International Relations and Provost of the Coleraine campus of the University of Ulster. His publications include The Versailles Settlement: Peacemaking in Paris 1919 (1991) – of which a new edition is appearing shortly,; Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century: Rivalry and Cooperation (2000) - a collection of essays co-edited with Professor Glyn Stone and articles on various aspects of Lord Curzon’s tenure of the Foreign Office and the career of Sir James Headlam-Morley.

• Introduction. High Politics. The Enforcement of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919–1923. Occupation. The British Zone of Occupation in the Rhineland. 'Hut ab', 'Promenade with Kamerade for Schokolade', and the Flying Dutchman: British Soldiers in the Rhineland, 1918–1929. French Policy in the Rhineland, 1919–1924. Reparations. The Reparations Debate. The Human Price of Reparations. Reparations in the Long Run: Studying the Lessons of History. Disarmament. Disarmament and Big Business: The Case of Krupp, 1918–1925. Making Disarmament Work: The Implementation of the International Disarmament Provisions in the League of Nations Covenant, 1919–1925. Self-Determination/Identities. From Lothringen to Lorraine: Expulsion and Voluntary Repatriation. The Versailles Settlement and Identity in French Flanders. 'The Sore which Would Never Heal': The Genesis of the Polish Corridor