Foy, Belgium the edge of the "Bois Jacques", south of Foy. Foy, Belgium Foy () is a village in Belgium, near Bastogne. Foy is in the Ardennes Forest region, an area of more than 11,000 square kilometers. It is largely in what today is Wallonia, the French-speaking area of southern Belgium, but it extends into France, Germany, and Luxembourg. In World War II, Foy was heavily occupied by German forces during the Battle of the Bulge. The U.S. 101st Airborne Division held the "Bois Jacques" just outside town. After being relieved by General George S. Patton's U.S. Third Army, the 101st retook
History of Germany to a swing to the right. Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was elected President in 1925. In October 1925 the Treaty of Locarno was signed by Germany, France, Belgium, Britain and Italy; it recognised Germany's borders with France and Belgium. Moreover, Britain, Italy and Belgium undertook to assist France in the case that German troops marched into the demilitarised Rheinland. Locarno paved the way for Germany's admission to the League of Nations in 1926. The actual amount of reparations that Germany was obliged to pay out was not the 132 billion marks decided in the London Schedule of 1921 but