Démolition du monument au général Kléber

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"On September 30, 1940, the capital of Alsas Strassburg (Strasbourg), the German demolition of the monument to the Napoleonian General Kleber (Kléber, 1753-1800), a native of Straussburg. The Central Square of Strassburg, on which this monument was originally named after the Germans. “Boar Square” (“Barfüßerplatz”, due to the neighboring Franciscan monastery), then in the 17th century it became a military square (“Waffenplaz”, “WaffenPlatz”), and since 1840, in connection with the installation of the monument to Kleber, he received the name “Kléberplatz” (Kleber Square, in French: Place Kléber). In 1940, reuniting de facto Elsas with Germany, the Germans gave the area the name of Karl Ros, an interwar local politician, a fighter for the rights of the Germans of Elsas, executed by the French on February 7, 1940 as a German spy.. Since the fall of 1944, the returning French authorities again named the square in honor of Kleber, and the monument was restored.