WORLD WAR I (1914–18). WOMEN OF ALSACE-LORRAINE. Émile HINZE - Lot 632

WORLD WAR I (1914–18). WOMEN OF ALSACE-LORRAINE. Émile HINZELIN. Signed autograph manuscript, 5½ pages, large 8mo. “How the WOMEN OF ALSACE-LORRAINE Defend France”: “... More than anyone else, our dear and noble compatriots have helped preserve for France the souls that Germany sought to seize. A grueling task! Of the 1,700,000 inhabitants of Alsace-Lorraine, 200,000 had emigrated to escape the horror of the yoke. In place of the loyal citizens who left, nearly 400,000 Germans settled there as masters...” (Excerpt)

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