Most of these sections come from my book "This too shall come to pass" the World War II story of my Grandfather, Marius Meyer, drafted in the French army in 1940 and later in The German army when Alsace was annexed to the German Reich. - My book : This too shall come to pass
The story of one of the 130,000 Frenchmen drafted into the Wehrmacht - Les “Malgré-Nous”
From my book: This too will shall to pass… story of one of the 130,000 Frenchmen drafted in the Wehrmacht - Colonel John Evans in Alsace - 1945-48 The Colonel of the 12th US Armored Division who befriended my family in January 1945
Strasbourg was liberated on November 23, 1944 by General
Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division of the Free French
Forces