Thanks
to Joost! A bit more clarity now. So the Flaschenhals was really a bottleneck
and not entirely occluded. Still I will find out in March next year how the
traffic connections were to mainland Germany.
The
area right of the Rhine was supposed to be de-militarized, the areas within the
orbits, however , were occupied by French and American armies, respectively.
And, as my information goes, the French also took the Flaschenhals on 25th
May 1923, along with the Ruhr district, and so put an end to the fiction of a
"free" state.
Elsewhere, new "republics" popped up, founded by people who seeked
co-operation with the French rather than confrontation. Sometimes also
propagated by sinister people. Too much for this one to go into details,
but when I remember our history lessons at school, we had to learn all
about these unsuccessful attempts to establish a German-French understanding.
"Separatisten-Republiken" they were called. Unfortunately for all, we had to
suffer another world war, before we became civilized.
Wolfgang
joost
nice
so were these
thin red striped territories
being within neither the french nor american
orbits
yet behind the allied front
somewhat of both or neither or all
allied countries or what
& anyone who is lost
look under photos
not files
& not alphabetically but the final item
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "P. Joost Lemmens"
<joostik@y...>
wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Under "Files" I have posted a
small excerpt from the
> map "Mitteleuroppa nach dem 1. Weltkrieg"
[Central Europe after
the
> 1. World War]; Grosser historischer
Weltatlas, III. Teil, Neuzeit;
> Munich 1967.
>
> (Picture
name "Flaschenhals".)
>
> The "Flaschenhals" or bottleneck is the
red-striped part between
> Koblenz (yellow-striped US-zone) and
Wiesbaden (purple-striped
French
> zone). The legenda notes
"Territories occupied after the
conclusion
> of the Treaty of
Versailles, 1920-1925" for all these red-striped
> territories.
>
> From this map the zone appears to have been broad enough to
contain
> at least some road connections to the rest of Germany.
OTOH one
> should remember that this was a period of weak central
government
and
> almost total anarchy in some parts of
Germany.
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