Malgré-nous (lit. 'we despite ourselves', or more figuratively 'we who are forced against our will') is a term that refers to men from Alsace–Lorraine...
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inducted into the German armed forces. Sometimes they were known as the malgré-nous, which could be translated into English as "against our will". A small...
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conscripts, one volunteer). A third of the malgré-nous perished on the Eastern front. In July 1944, 1500 malgré-nous were released from Soviet captivity and...
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one) on February 4, 1939. During and after World War II, most of the Malgré-nous prisoners of war (Frenchmen from annexed Alsace and Moselle who were...
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option no longer possible in Germany, including French German soldiers of Malgré-nous. It would have been considered problematic if the men from Alsace-Lorraine...
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Such forced conscripts from Alsace and Lorraine called themselves the malgré-nous, meaning "against our will". On 11 February, 19 of the 20 defendants...
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Legion Indian Legion Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism Malgré-nous Poles in the Wehrmacht Russian Corps Walloon Legion British Free Corps...
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were sent to the Eastern Front, those young men and women were called Malgré-nous. Many tried to escape from the incorporation, join the French Resistance...
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further 38,000 lost while serving with the German Army (including 32,000 "malgré-nous"). France had lots of armed forces in World War II, in part due to the...
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were conscripted into the German army, allegedly against their will (malgré-nous), and in some cases volunteered for the Waffen SS. Some of the latter...
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