“Because of his work, his teaching and his courage, we decided that Marc Bloch enters the Pantheon”declared Emmanuel Macron on Saturday, November 23, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Strasbourg on November 23, 1944. The resistance fighter and historian, “the man of the Enlightenment in the army of shadows” As described by the head of state, he was murdered by the Gestapo in 1944 near Lyon. Marc Bloch developed part of his career at the University of Strasbourg.
The head of state also asked “recognize” and teach “the tragedy of”despite ourselves”, these Alsatians and Mosellans forcibly incorporated into the Nazi army. “These children from Alsace and Moselle were captured, dressed in a uniform they hated, serving a cause that turned them into slaves, instruments of a crime that also killed them, threatened with reprisals if they tried to flee. »he declared in a speech at the university palace in Strasbourg.
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