“For his work, his teaching and his courage, we decide that Marc Bloch will enter the Pantheon”declared Emmanuel Macron on Saturday November 23, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Strasbourg on November 23, 1944. The resistance fighter and historian, “the man of Enlightenment in the army of shadows” as described by the head of state, was assassinated by the Gestapo in 1944 near Lyon. Marc Bloch spent part of his career at the University of Strasbourg.
The head of state also called for “recognize” and teach “the tragedy of “in spite of ourselves”, these Alsatians and Mosellans forcibly incorporated into the Nazi army. “These children from Alsace and Moselle were captured, dressed in a uniform that they hated, in the service of a cause which made them slaves, instruments of a crime which also killed them, threatened with reprisals if they attempted to flee »he declared in a speech at the university palace in Strasbourg.
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