When One War Ends, The Seeds of Another....

One of the many punitive measure that the Allies perpetrated on Germany (after the first world war) was the French occupation of Germany's Ruhr industrial region. It was a huge area and the reason that this was so devastating was because it just happened to be where Germany a) mined most of its coal and b) manufactured a significant quantity of its steel/pig iron. How in the hell that these moronic Allies ever thought that Germany was supposed to pay off its huge war debt, reparations, etc. with a 23% unemployment rate/an essentially de-industrialized economy (never mind the fact that Hitler was able to exploit it majorly) is so far beyond me that I simply cannot deal with it.