The Linge Memorial Museum is a commemorative site (classified as a historical monument since 1921) retracing the history of the battle of the Linge. Why the Linge Memorial at Orbey in Alsace? The Linge Memorial is located on the summits ofOrbey, around the Collet du Linge (at 987 meters altitude). The battle of the Linge […]

In La Wantzenau, north of Strasbourg, is one of the largest museums in Europe dedicated to the Second World War. The MM Park is even an essential stop on the tour of the Americans or the British who come to Europe in the footsteps of the conflict. The Museum is however quite unknown to the […]

The Alsace-Moselle Memorial, located in Schirmeck in the Bruche Valley, is a museum that retraces the history of Alsace and Moselle from 1870 to the post-war period, with a particular focus on the Second World War (1939-1945). Put like that, it can seem boring but the museum is really well done and interesting. It is […]

Although I grew up very far from France, visiting the Maginot Line is a childhood dream for the history buff that I am. I had no idea that I would one day be living in Alsace, the region where one of the most important works of the line is open to the public: Fort Schoenenbourg […]

The Struthof is an important place of memory in Alsace, located 15 minutes from the Alsace Moselle Memorial. It is located on the site of the former Natzweiller concentration camp, the only concentration camp in France. In addition to the visit of the former concentration camp, it is possible to visit a museum installed in […]

To the south of the Route des Crêtes, on a spur at an altitude of more than 900m, stands the Vieil-Armand (or Hartmannswillerkopf, often abbreviated to HWK). A bit of history… This mountain with multiple names (linked to the change of nationalities and therefore of languages) was the scene during the First World War (especially […]

The national necropolis of Sigolsheim is a place of memory in Alsace located in Sigolsheim, in the Kaysersberg Valley, not far from Colmar. History of the necropolis of Sigolsheim In the aftermath of the Second World War, General de Lattre de Tassigny expressed his wish to regroup the bodies of the soldiers of the First […]