Origins
Following the German invasion of Luxembourg on May 10, 1940, Luxembourg was placed under military occupation. In August 1942, German authorities announced the formal annexation of Luxembourg by the Third Reich into Nazi Germany, or Greater German Empire, as part of the Gau Moselland. The Luxembourg population was declared to be German and was to use German as its only language; the German authorities, under the orders of the Gauleiter Gustav Simon, developed a robust policy of germanization. Furthermore, on August 30, 1942, Gustav Simon announced that all Luxembourger males born between 1920 and 1927 were to be conscripted into the Wehrmacht to fight against the Allies.
Read more about this topic: 1942 Luxembourgian General Strike
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