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Le Républicain Lorrain
05/10/2004 - Distroff |
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René Grosse relates the Liberation
The duty of remembrance is very strong in the Metzervisse canton. Even more so when festivities to celebrate the 60thAnniversary of the Liberation are being actively prepared. In Distroff, René Grosse gave testimony of that period to schoolchildren.
With the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Metzervisse, Yutz, Bertrange-Imeldange, Cattenom and Malling sector approaching, the Moselle River 1944 Association has launched a call for the gathering of eyewitness accounts by the schoolchildren. René Grosse was welcomed in their classroom by the Distroff grammar school students for a flashback of great precision.
Seventy-nine year-old René Grosse has kept a vivid memory of the events that took place more than half a century ago. Like for many others, these events marked his life forever. Through his narration, the children discovered the hardship of life and the horror of the war. M. Grosse, who was only fifteen when the war started, was forcibly enrolled in the German army. He became a “Malgré-Nous” (meaning “Against our Will”, self-given name of Frenchmen forced into the German armed service) and deserted. When the first signs of the American attack appeared, and before experiencing it “live”, he hid in the attic of the family house.
After recalling the evolution of the conflict, he retraced with many details the intense hours of a “Liberation that was done in two parts, one being a counter-attack by the enemy that forced a few to put away the flags they had taken out too early.” The bloodbath that was the price to pay to recover liberty, a liberty of which the inhabitants of Distroff were deprived for four long years, left a deep impression on the boys and girls. After listening to this page of painful history for more than an hour, the children wanted to ask more personal questions to M. Grosse who accepted willingly.
To the question :
“What is your feeling on war today?”
he answered :
“It is the poor soldier and the innocents who suffer.”
Testimony and interview will be available on the Distroff website (launch the website) and on that of Moselle River 1944 with more stories as soon as the schools (more than sixty classrooms were contacted at the beginning of the school year) willing to participate in this “Duty of Remembrance” have sent their accounts to the association.
Via the internet and spontaneously, a few individuals have already sent their contribution to the following e-mail addresses:
education@moselleriver1944.org and/or enclasse@moselleriver1944.org
After editing for proper form, the work of the students will be published on the association website at the following address: www.moselleriver1944.org
Published on the : 05/10/2004 (location )
in Le Républicain Lorrain |
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