enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Luxembourg question - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_question

    Germany subsequently occupied Luxembourg. [20] [21] As part of the so-called September Program, Luxembourg became one of Germany's war aims from September onwards and was to remain so until the end of the war. Luxembourg was to join the German Reich as a federal state and regain the territories lost to Belgium. [22]

  3. History of Luxembourg - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Luxembourg

    Luxembourg remained under German military occupation until August 1942, when Nazi Germany formally annexed it as part of the Gau Moselland. The German authorities declared Luxembourgers to be German citizens and called up 13,000 for military service. 2,848 Luxembourgers eventually died fighting in the German army.

  4. Luxembourg in World War II - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_in_World_War_II

    Luxembourg was placed under occupation and was annexed into Germany in 1942. During the occupation, the German authorities orchestrated a programme of "Germanisation" of the country, suppressing non-German languages and customs and conscripting Luxembourgers into the Wehrmacht , which led to extensive resistance, culminating in a general strike ...

  5. German occupation of Luxembourg during World War II

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of...

    In the 1920s, Germany once again became Luxembourg's second-biggest economic partner, far ahead of France or Britain. As Germany was a large buyer of its heavy industry products, and provided 90% of Luxembourg's coal needs, the smaller country was dependent on Germany and susceptible to its pressures or threats. [8]: 393f

  6. Partitions of Luxembourg - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Luxembourg

    The three partitions of Luxembourg reduced Luxembourg's area substantially, to the advantage of the three surrounding countries. There were three Partitions of Luxembourg between 1659 and 1839. Together, the three partitions reduced the territory of the Duchy of Luxembourg from 10,700 km 2 (4,100 sq mi) to the present-day area of 2,586 km 2 ...

  7. Luxembourg annexation plans after the Second World War

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_annexation...

    In the agreement of July 11, 1959, between the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the penitent [1] Federal Republic of Germany, [1] Luxembourg conclusively renounced its claim to the area of the Kammerwald and returned the territory to the Federal Republic of Germany, which in return paid 58.3 million DM to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

  8. Luxembourg - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg

    After Belgium became an independent country following the victorious Belgian Revolution of 1830–1831, it claimed the entire Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg as being part of Belgium, however, the Dutch King who was also Grand Duke of Luxembourg, as well as Prussia, did not want to lose their grip on the mighty fortress of Luxembourg and did not ...

  9. German Confederation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Confederation

    In 1839, as compensation for the loss of part of the province of Luxemburg to Belgium, the Duchy of Limburg was created and became a member of the German Confederation (held by the Netherlands jointly with Luxembourg) until the dissolution of 1866. In 1867 the duchy was declared to be an "integral part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands".