Today -100: March 12, 1923: Pitiless avenging is the worst kind of... oh, you know

For the first time, resistance to the French occupation of the Ruhr is expressed in the time-honored form of assassination, with a French lieutenant and a French stationmaster shot outside Buer. This is the first time any of the occupiers have been killed. PM Poincaré promises the murders will be “pitilessly avenged,” and France responds by taking hostages, including Buer’s burgomaster and police chief, and is threatening to fine the town 100 million marks, which is the equivalent of some money.

The French keep saying that Germany is just bound to offer to make a deal just... any... day... now.

No, NYT, the name of Hitler’s party is not the Nationalist Royalists. Anyway, something called the German Liberty Party is now allied to it. Never heard of it.

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