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Twenty years ago, Strasbourgers would have found it impossible to seek better-paying jobs in the neighboring German river towns of Kehl and Offenburg. Even vacation trips across the Rhine involved complicated visa forms and meticulous custom searches. The Common Market has changed all that. "A lot of young people in Europe take open borders for granted," said a French customs official at the 13-year-old Europe Bridge that connects Strasbourg and Kehl. "They seem to think it was always this...
Even in Europe-minded Strasbourg, there are limits to Europeanization. Although city planners discuss with their counterparts in Kehl such common development problems as new bridges and garbage-disposal plants, the overall city plan for the year 2000 is based purely on projected French developments. French national pride is hurt by the daily migration of Alsatian workers to better-paying jobs in German plants. Beyond that, the vast majority of Strasbourgers are either indifferent to, or ignorant of, the European Parliament that meets six times a year in their city. In their defense, it should be said that if they...
Seven times in 300 years the German river port of Kehl on the Rhine has fallen into French hands, an incidental prize in the long series of wars between Germans and French. Last week, for the seventh time, the French handed Kehl back to the Germans...
...story of transfer No. 7 dates from 1940, when the Nazis occupied Alsace-Lorraine and decided, now that both sides of the Rhine were theirs, to include traditionally German Kehl as part of Strasbourg, which is on the west side of the Rhine. When the Germans retreated, the French moved in, cheerfully accepting the Nazi consolidation. They ordered Kehl's 12,000 Germans, who had already been evacuated by the Nazis, to stay out so that Frenchmen in bombed-out Strasbourg could live in Kehl. At first the French strung barbed wire around Kehl and made...
NICHOLAS MIGLIORINO JOHN LEWIS RICHARD LAZARUS JOHN MENEZES CHRISTIAN H. KEHL Germfask, Mich...