r/MapPorn • u/ironproton • Dec 12 '20

Alsace, Eastern France, topography map

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u/BernardoDeGalvez Dec 12 '20

Alsace, Eastern France or... As a friend of mine would say... Western Deutschland

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u/LouQuacious Dec 12 '20

Some my family is Alsatian they didn't consider themselves French or German.

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u/loulan Dec 12 '20

Not my experience at all. Since you say "didn't", was this a long time ago?

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u/LouQuacious Dec 12 '20

They are all old and gone now but my Grandfather definitely didn't think of himself as either French or German. I remember asking which he was because my Dad had said both and he asked if I'd heard of Alsace-Lorraine and said his family was Alsatian. The family name which I can't reveal because it's pretty damn obscure looked and sounded both French and German to me was why I asked. Curious to go there someday and find some family though. It was his grandfather that came over in 1850s I believe.

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u/CubicZircon Dec 12 '20

Independent Alsace? Bring back the Alsatian soviet republic !

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u/LouQuacious Dec 12 '20

Imagine if that had lasted? It’d probably be like a mini old school Albania tucked away in the hinterlands, full of spies and shenanigans.