Stories of World War II

 
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”


- Songs and Poems of the Wehrmacht

From my book: This too shall come to pass…
story of one of the 130,000 Frenchmen drafted in the Wehrmacht



- The liberation of Alsace - November 21-24 1944


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

          

  


Regiment de Touraine

Strasbourg was liberated on November 23, 1944 by General Leclerc's  2nd Armored Division of the Free French Forces