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About
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“50 Faces – 50 Stories” wants to connect young people and young adults with people who experienced war and dictatorship in Luxembourg between 1940 and 1945.
50 biographies equal 50 CVs. They reflect the events and allow different perspectives on the time of war. The biographies show more than individual lives. They establish connections, reveal parallels and contradictions. This creates an overall impression of the history of the Second World War.
By dealing with different lives, the aim is to encourage people to connect the past with the present.
The learning box and the website are aimed at everyone who deals with the topic of “Second World War in Luxembourg” in historical-political education or in museum and memorial education.
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POLITICAL DECISION-MAKERS
Persons who had power. These may be political representatives of independent Luxembourg as well as agents of the National Socialist tyranny and their collaborators.
SOLDIERS
Persons involved in acts of war while in uniform. This applies to regular soldiers in both Allied and German armed forces as well as to persons recruited by force for service in German military units.
RESISTERS
Persons who actively opposed the National Socialist regime and Nazi Germany by way of both armed and unarmed forms of resistance.
CIVILIANS
Persons without political power or direct involvement in the military conflict or in active resistance against National Socialism.
10 SPECIFIC FEATURES:
NATIONAL SOCIALISTS:
staunch supporters of National Socialism
COLLABORATORS:
Luxembourgers who cooperated with the National Socialists out of conviction or who acted as their henchmen
FLIGHT / EXILE / EVACUATION:
people who fled the effects of war
DEATH / WAR VICTIMS:
persons who died as a result of
war or persecution
ENRÔLÉS DE FORCES:
Luxembourgers forced into German (para-)military units against their will (forced recruits)
FORCED LABOUR:
persons forced to work
JEWS:
members of the Jewish community, persecuted by the National Socialists
MINORITIES:
other people persecuted by the National Socialists (Blacks, Jehovah’s Witnesses, prostitutes, homosexuals, Sinti and Roma, people with disabilities)
PRISON/CONCENTRATION CAMP:
people deported and imprisoned
because of their background, political conviction, religion or sexual orientation
RESETTLEMENT:
forcible relocation of the families of opponents, resistance fighters, deserters and conscientious objectors with the aim of re-educating them along German lines
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