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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Eric Marcus about the latest season of his series Making Gay History, which explores the lives of LGBTQ people during the Nazi era.

We had been learning specifically about Alsace-Lorraine then and how the land was disputed between France and Germany for its coal deposits, helpful in wartime.

ON the east side of the circle of statues to French cities that bounds the Place de la Concorde, the female figure representing Strasbourg, capital of Alsace-Lorraine, for many years sat draped in ...

Reparations: Germany was forced to pay 6.6 billion as reparations to the Allies for their losses suffered during the war. This figure was a colossal strain on Germany's struggling economy. Territorial ...

Until France regained control of the area in 1919, the French language had been banned by Germany, creating lasting resentment among loyal French speakers, like Pétri’s family.

Just as the entry of French troops in Alsace-Lorraine from 17 to 22 November 1918 was a military endeavour under the command of General Henri Gouraud. On 18 January 1919, ... One century later, France ...

The borderline between Germany and Alsace is strictly guarded, lest German minds not yet wholly converted to the new order be disturbed by the drastic methods employed in Alsace. Let us now examine in ...