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Malgré-nous
The term Malgré-nous (literally “despite ourselves” or “in spite of our will”) refers to men of the Alsace-Lorraine region who were forcibly conscripted into the German regular army (Wehrmacht) or in the military branch of the SS (Waffen SS), during the Second World War. This force of Alsatians was officially created on August 25, 1942, on orders from Robert Heinrich Wagner, the regional governor of Alsace (annexed to the German Reich in June 1940).
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