Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines
…under the invocation of the Virgin Mary and other one of Holy Sébastien. The town of Saint Marie-aux-Mines is mentioned for the first time in 1317. Eddie Slovik, the only U.S. soldier of World War II to be executed for desertion, suffered the fate by firing squad near the town on 31 January 1945. Laure Diebold…