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Explanation: In November 1918, Germany had just lost the First world war to the allied powers due to a variety of factors but mainly attributed to the naval blockade by Britain. Many German people felt that they had not truly lost and were instead pulled out of the war by the newly formed government known as the Weimar Republic after the Abdication of the Kaiser. After the loss of the war France and the allies demanded reparations for the damage caused by the war This was labelled in the Treaty of Versailles. This lead to problems as the French army began to seize parts of German land and possessions. One particular piece of land that was especially important to Germany was a piece of land called the Alsace-Lorraine Rhineland which was seized originally from France in the Franco-Prussian wars but was at the time used as Germany's industrial heartland. As part of this seizure France demanded that it keep the workers working and that all manufactured goods and resources would go to France as further part of reparations. In secret German workers were told to look as if they were working but not get any work done so that they were not directly benefiting France. As well as this, many German people were worried that there would be further political problems because their country had lost millions of men and now was being torn apart by the reparations due.
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