Greffier

 Francja > Grand Est > Bas-Rhin > Strasbourg

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"Alsace and Moselle have been annexed and not occupied by the third Reich and underwent a very hard Germanization policy, under the leadership of Gauleiter Robert Wagner in particular. When in July the first refugees returned to Strasbourg, the names Streets and places were changed (Karl Roos for Kléber, Hitler for Broglie…), the French monuments (Marseillaise, Kléber, Jeanne d'Arc and Kellerman) were replaced by Nazi monuments. The Strasbourg must have changed their names for Germanic names, the French language was eradicated and the associative and religious lives disappear. The synagogue was destroyed in 1941. At the same time the Nazi regime carried out propaganda for "Hitlerian youth", for the "League of young German girls" and For the Wehrmacht. From 1942, the recruitment was compulsory and the young people of Alsace and Moselle were enlisted in the German army. Despite us are sent to the Russian front and very few of them will come back. "