Alsace under the swastika

After the victory over the French army, the German Reich de facto annexed Alsace in June 1940. The National Socialists wanted it to belong to Germany again, and everything French was to be eradicated. From August 1942, Alsatians were drafted into the Wehrmacht. This long-lasting trauma is now the subject of an exhibition: On display are new angles from an Alsatian perspective on the role of National Socialism in Alsace during the 1930s, on German occupation rule during World War 2 and on the memory of the Alsatians after 1945.
Cooperation with the Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg (BNU)