1940 – The deportation of people from Alsace and Moselle
1940
The politically opposed Alsatians-Moselle were deported. They were found in all the camps of the Great Reich.
We can mention the case of the 42 Alsatian officers deported to Neuengamme for having refused to swear an oath to Hitler and of which 22 died there, the Alsatian Moselle deportees to Struthof (including those coming from the Fort of Queuleu), Ravensbrück (338 deportees from the region, 73 of whom did not return), Buchenwald (students from the University of Strasbourg, who had been deported to Clermont-Ferrand, were rounded up at the end of November 1943 and deported to Ravensbrück).
The deportation of Jews from Alsace-Moselle (Jews born in Alsace-Moselle but also German and Austrian Jews, refugees in the area since 1933) was mostly done from France.
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