Du sacrifice à l’oubli : les soldats juifs de l’Alsace et de la Moselle allemandes (1914-1918)

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From Sacrifice to Obscurity : Jewish Soldiers from German Alsace and Moselle (1914-1918)After the allied victory, the attitudes of the Reischland Jews from Alsace-Lorraine during World War I were an unsettling chapter for French Jews as much as for their coreligionaries in Alsace and Moselle, who had, yet again, become French. After the conflict, French Jews claimed Reischland Jews had remained loyal to France. The reality is more complex, since forty years of Germanization could not be erased without a trace, especially among the youth. Furthermore, pro-German sentiments were stoked by the French alliance with pogrom-ridden Russia and the liberating role of the Reich for the Eastern European Jewish masses. At the same time, the memory of French emancipation and antisemitism dominant in the Reich’s army pulled opinions in the other direction. This article will attempt to analyze the attitudes and behavior of Jews from Alsace and Moselle who were mobilized from 1914-1918.