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Originally Posted by Jim Oxley
Blimey! The scale of relocations is really quite surprising. Were the people allowed to return once France signed the armistice?
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..yes, wry smile here too...our European neighbours are very good at organising mass rail transit...
...can't see the occupying power laying on trains to transport eveyone home somehow - not that French 'Alsaciens' wanted to go home. Alsace was quickly 're-germanised' of course - the Mark became the official currency, French was banned, as was wearing the beret... etc etc...elsewhere many ethnic German 'Alsacien' refugees throughout France went to the new authorities to sign up as fully fledged Germans of course. The French 'administration' told them that they were 'free to stay or go home'...cf Amouroux P 552, 10 August 1940, ten buses, 3 cars and ten lorries departed Perigueux for Strasbourg...