<P> French conservatives had been denouncing the assimilationist policies as products of a dangerous liberal fantasy . In the Protectorate of Morocco, the French administration attempted to use urban planning and colonial education to prevent cultural mixing and to uphold the traditional society upon which the French depended for collaboration, with mixed results . After World War II, the segregationist approach modeled in Morocco had been discredited by its connections to Vichyism, and assimilationism enjoyed a brief renaissance . </P> <P> Critics of French colonialism gained an international audience in the 1920s, and often used documentary reportage and access to agencies such as the League of Nations and the International Labour Organization to make their protests heard . The main criticism was the high level of violence and suffering among the natives . Major critics included Albert Londres, Félicien Challaye, and Paul Monet, whose books and articles were widely read . </P> <P> The humiliating peace terms in the Treaty of Versailles provoked bitter indignation throughout Germany, and seriously weakened the new democratic regime . That Treaty stripped Germany of all of its overseas colonies, of Alsace and Lorraine, and of predominantly Polish districts . The Allied armies occupied industrial sectors in Germany's West, who was not allowed to have a real Army, Navy or Air Force, stationed troops in the Rhineland . Reparations were demanded, especially by France, involving shipments of raw materials, as well as annual payments . </P> <P> When Germany defaulted on its reparation payments, French and Belgian troops occupied the heavily industrialised Ruhr district (January 1923). The German government encouraged the population of the Ruhr to passive resistance: shops would not sell goods to the foreign soldiers, coal - mines would not dig for the foreign troops, trams in which members of the occupation army had taken seat would be left abandoned in the middle of the street . The German government printed vast quantities of paper money, causing hyperinflation, which also damaged the French economy . The passive resistance proved effective, insofar as the occupation became a loss - making deal for the French government . But the hyperinflation caused many prudent savers to lose all the money they had saved . Weimar added new internal enemies every year, as anti-democratic Nazis, nationalists and Communists battled each other in the streets . See 1920s German inflation . </P>

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