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Virtual exhibition presentation: WW2.lu. The Luxemburg during the Second World War

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WW2.lu. Luxemb(o)urg during the Second World War is an online exhibition produced by collaborators of the C²DH of the University of Luxembourg on the basis of an agreement concluded with the Ministry of State in 2021. The objective of this exhibition is to present the history of Luxembourg during the Second World War by taking into account recent developments in historiography. To this end, the exhibition makes maximum use of the digital dimension. It proposes to approach the experiences of Luxembourgers from different perspectives, using varied and new documentation.


Between "Luxembourg" and "Luxemburg", the population had to cope with the Nazi regime's attempts at Germanization. The period of annexation revealed a torn society whose primary concern was to manage daily life in an exceptional situation. The online exhibition focuses on the history of all the people whose fate was linked to Luxembourg during the period 1940-1945. Experiences of persecution, opposition and resistance are present, as are those of accommodation and collaboration, or even those of resignation and arrangement. Above all, it is a question of showing what choices, often complex, individuals and communities were faced with and how these choices evolved over the four years spent under the German regime.


Thanks to the different formats offered and its multilingual character, ww2.lu is aimed at a wide audience. 33 video capsules create an overview of known or unknown places for this period of history. It includes testimonies, interviews with historians, archive films and even two cartoons.

In the catalogue, some sixty short notes describe the many faces of annexed Luxembourg. These texts were written to be accessible to all. Their authors, experts in the subjects they address, had complete freedom in their editorial choices. These texts must be read with the documents that accompany them and, often, make the link between the small story and the big story.

If they wish to delve deeper into a subject, more curious users will take on the role of a Resistance fighter from 1944 and will be able to explore the entire collection of archives gathered for this online exhibition. The bibliographical references found there will allow these discoveries to be explored further.


Finally, the comparison of several maps of Luxembourg City during the years 1940-1944 with that of today shows how an annexation can modify the appearance of a city in the short, but also in the longer term.

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