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Alsatians decorate Strasbourg statue (LOC)

  • Kilted Cowboy said:
    poor Alsace, torn between France and Germany between 1870 and WWII. In various periods, Germans and French each oppressed the other. It declared independence for 11 days after the Armistice only to be occupied by French troops yet again and went through a period of Frankification and expulsion of Germans. Like Quebec, some regions had comfortably had signs in both French and German before WWI and people generally got along. It still has some legal differences distinct from the rest of France. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace-Lorraine#During_World_War_I
  • swanq said:
    The "Strasbourg statue" could be the statue on the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
    Statue of Strasbourg at the Place de la Concorde in Paris
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_de_la_Concorde suggests that dressing the statue in mourning crepe became a tradition.
  • Art Siegel said:
    yes, I think you've got it. Good catch. prints-4-u.com/store/images/E2681919/E2681919111.jpg (The War Illustrated, November 30, 1918.)

Abbe Wetterle (LOC)

  • Jean-Christophe Curtet said:
    Émile Wetterlé(1861-1931), prêtre, journaliste et homme politique
  • swanq said:
    According to expelledgermans.org/elsassgermans.htm "Emile Wetterle, the Catholic French politician in German-ruled Elsaß-Lothringen (Alsace-Lorraine) and the Reichstag, bitterly hated Germany and was ultimately forced to flee to France in 1914 when the war started " de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Wetterl%C3%A9 (in German)

Children, Colmar [Welcome Poincare] (LOC)

  • swanq said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colmar "With the rest of Alsace, Colmar was annexed by the newly formed German Empire in 1871 as a result of the Franco-Prussian War and incorporated into the Alsace-Lorraine province. It returned to France after World War I according to the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1940, and then reverted to French control after the battle of the "Colmar Pocket" in 1945."
  • Art Siegel said:
    From Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs (1919): "35576 . Three proud little ones dressed up for the occasion of welcoming President Poincaré. Colmar, Alsace, France. December 10, 1918;" archive.org/stream/cu31924027944598#page/n395/mode/2up