> World War II: A French retiree searches for the graves of the "Malgre-nous" / 32H366D
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World War II: A French retiree searches for the graves of the "Malgre-nous" / 32H366D
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Claude Hérold, a retiree and amateur historian, is looking for the graves of the "Malgré-nous", Alsatians and Moselle residents who were forcibly incorporated into Nazi Germany's armed forces on 25th August 1942. The pensioner is behind a 36-metre long banner displaying the faces and names of 12,000 "Malgré-nous" in Turckheim (Haut-Rhin, north-eastern France). IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES