Word: luxembourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kaiser's Pour le Mérite and Order of the Iron Cross First Class; Hitler's Grand Cross of the Order of the Iron Cross; Bulgaria's Order of St. Alexander; Yugoslavia's Order of the White Eagle; Luxembourg's Order of Adolphus of Nassau; Greece's Royal Order of the Redeemer; Italy's Order of St. Maurice & St. Lazare; Hungary's Cross of Merit; Finland's Order of the White Rose; Sweden's Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword; Denmark's Order of the Dannebrog...
...Nazis, it was too easy. They dispensed with the usual excuses, and announced to the occupied Grand Duchy of Luxembourg that it was the first country to be honored with annexation to the Third Reich since the shooting started. Incidentally, they said, Luxembourg men would be drafted into the German Army...
While firing squads went to work, the furnace chimneys of southwest Luxembourg grew cold, the smoky "black country" grew bright again. Work stopped in steel mills. The strike spread countrywide...
Through the Nazi's solid wall of censorship word seeped last week to London that the strike kept on. And there were stories of sabotage. Fine sand, mixed somehow into lubricating oil, was scarring the bearings of Luxembourg's railroad engines. Railway signals misbehaved; the transport system went awry...
This week Charlotte-Aldegonde-Elise-Marie-Wilhelmine of Walram, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, said: "My heart breaks for them [the strikers] because I know hundreds will allow themselves to be shot rather than go back to work...