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Alphonse Daudet was describing how Alsace-Lorraine was ceded to Germany in 1871. But his story might have been re-enacted last week in dozens of villages as Anschluss experts went to work on conquered Luxembourg, Alsace and Lorraine...
...Luxembourg Unvarnished. Into tiny Luxembourg, whose Bourbon ruler Grand Duchess Charlotte was a refugee in Lisbon, goose-stepped squads of strapping, green-uniformed German police armed with heavy pistols and long daggers. On Place Guillaume (now Wilhelm-Platz) they lined up for instructions from Hitler's new Civil Commissioner, Gustav Simon, a two-fisted Nazi pressure-man who won his spurs fighting the League of Nations in the Saar and became Gauleiter of the Coblenz-Trier district...
...status of the Grand Duchy. Henceforth German would be the language of the administration, of schools, of newspapers. Mayors of towns and villages would take their orders from him or his agents. Within a few weeks, predicted Commissioner Simon, the "artificially applied exterior French varnish" will have disappeared from Luxembourg...
Lorraine. Both Luxembourg and Alsace were setups compared with the job of introducing the new order to the stubborn Frenchmen of devastated Lorraine. For this reason Hitler entrusted the task to his foremost Anschluss professional, Gauleiter Josef Bürckel who not only engineered the Anschluss of the Saar, but also originated the Nazi annexation formula so successfully employed in Austria. A hefty, beetle-browed Rhinelander dubbed the "Red Gauleiter'' because he has constantly stressed Socialism more than Nationalism, Bürckel informed sullen Lorraine peasants last week that the "Führer principle" had been introduced along...
...Mathematics for the Million, Dangerous Thoughts) who arrived in San Francisco from Norway after a 17,000-mile detour via Siberia and the Pacific; courtly, friendly Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, consort of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, with his six children (they traveled on the U. S. cruiser Trenton, left the Grand Duchess in Lisbon); Genevieve Tabouis, fleeing from the Petain Government which had ordered her arrest...