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Old 29-03-11, 09:36
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Haute Alsace, Basse Alsace and Lorraine, de facto annexed by the Third Reich in 1940, were returned to France in 1945.

I was gobsmacked that around 130,000 men were drafted into the Wehrmacht (Heer, Luftwaffe and Kreigsmarine) and SS.
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