Journal Review: German History, 30 (2012)

In the current volume of German History, Julia Roos explores the propaganda campaign against the French occupation of the Rhineland: 'During the early 1920s, an average of 25,000 colonial soldiers from North Africa, Senegal and Madagascar formed part of the French army of occupation in the Rhineland. The campaign against these troops, which used the racist epithet "black horror on the Rhine" (schwarze Schmach am Rhein), was one of the most important propaganda efforts of the Weimar period. In..