Have you ever wondered;
What the life of a coal miner was like between November 1922 and December 1923?
What an account of French treatment of Germans in the occupied Ruhr District during 1923, unbiased by World War 2, would read like?
What was general life like during the hyper-inflation period of 1923 in working class suburbs of Germany?
What treatment at the hands of the French would lead so many Germans to embraced Nazism?
What the state of communism was in Southern Germany prior to the rise of Adolf Hitler's National Socialist German Workers' Party?

If you answered yes to any of the above then likely you will enjoy this book. It was written by Count Alexander von Stenbock-Fermor in 1928 and covers his voluntary employment at the mining works of Friedrich Thyssen, Shaft IV in Hamborn, Ruhr District, Germany during the period of 16th November 1922 to 20th December 1923.

Everything from general life, work conditions and leisure time is addressed as is the treatment experienced from the French & Belgian army during the 1923 Ruhr occupation. Also covered are the communist leanings of many residents and workers in Hamborn and the strike & lockout of workers at the Friedrich Thyssen mine.

An eye opening, intriguing memoir that was easily read. ( )