Malgré-nous
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The Malgré-nous were men conscripted into the German military from Alsace–Lorraine after the region's annexation from France during World War II. They are sometimes referred to as the "forced enlistee
Monument to the Malgré-nous in Obernai, Bas-Rhin
Alsace
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Alsace is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in the Grand Est administrative region of northeastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine, next to Germany and Switzerland. In Janua
Malgré-nous
…to as the "forced enlistees" (French: les enrolés de force). Based on orders from Gauleiter Robert Heinrich Wagner, the regional military governor of Alsace, of 25 August 1942, some 100,000 Alsatians and 30,000 Mosellans were drafted by force into the German armed forces. Heller and Simpson (2013) say…
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Colmar
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Château de Hohenbourg