German occupation of Luxembourg

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The German occupation of Luxembourg was the period during World War II when Nazi Germany invaded, annexed, and controlled Luxembourg, suppressing its sovereignty and imposing Germanization policies until the country’s liberation in 1944.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf event in World War II
military occupation
administeredBy German occupation of Luxembourg self-linksurface differs
surface form: Civil administration of Luxembourg under Nazi Germany

Gauleiter Gustav Simon
appliesToJurisdiction Luxembourg
surface form: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
conflict World War II
countryOccupied Luxembourg
describedBySource Luxembourg National Archives
Luxembourg National Museum of History and Art
endedBy Liberation of Luxembourg
surface form: Allied liberation of Luxembourg

advance of U.S. forces in 1944
endTime September 1944
followedBy Liberation of Luxembourg
hasCause Battle of France
Nazi expansionism
historicalRegion Benelux Union
surface form: Benelux
location Luxembourg
occupyingPower Nazi Germany
opposedBy Allied forces
Luxembourg Resistance
surface form: Luxembourgish resistance groups
participant Luxembourg Resistance
surface form: Luxembourgish resistance

Reich Commissariats in occupied territories
surface form: Nazi civil administration

Wehrmacht
partOf World War II occupation
surface form: German occupation of Western Europe

World War II
policy Germanization
Nazification
abolition of Luxembourgish political parties
annexation into the German Reich
censorship
conscription of Luxembourgers into German armed forces
forced labor
persecution of Jews
suppression of Luxembourgish language
precededBy Invasion of the Low Countries
surface form: German invasion of Luxembourg
result deportation of Jewish population
growth of Luxembourgish resistance movement
loss of Luxembourgish sovereignty
significantEvent German occupation of Luxembourg self-linksurface differs
surface form: 1942 general strike in Luxembourg

abolition of the Luxembourgish constitution
anti-Jewish decrees
closure of Luxembourgish newspapers
introduction of compulsory military service for Luxembourgers in the Wehrmacht
proclamation of Luxembourg as part of Gau Moselland
startTime 10 May 1940
timePeriod 1940s
victim Luxembourgish Jews
Luxembourgish civilians
political opponents of Nazism in Luxembourg

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Liberation of Luxembourg follows German occupation of Luxembourg
Liberation of Luxembourg associatedWith German occupation of Luxembourg
this entity surface form: Luxembourg in World War II
German occupation of Luxembourg administeredBy German occupation of Luxembourg self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Civil administration of Luxembourg under Nazi Germany
German occupation of Luxembourg significantEvent German occupation of Luxembourg self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: 1942 general strike in Luxembourg
National Museum of the Resistance dedicatedTo German occupation of Luxembourg
this entity surface form: Nazi occupation of Luxembourg
Allied liberation of the Low Countries precededBy German occupation of Luxembourg