In the summer of 1945, the victorious Allies met in Potsdam to formalize plans for the occupation of Germany. Representatives from the U.S., USSR, and Great Britain agreed on the boundaries of ...

In the Rhineland, in the courtyard of Mainz's Grand Ducal Palace, the French 8th Infanterie de Ligne stood at attention last week, each poilu perspiring profusely beneath his mountainous load: ...

In 1944, the émigré political scientist Ernst Fraenkel published a book called Military Occupation and the Rule of Law — Occupational Government in the Rhineland 1918-1923 to alert the future ...