Enrôlés de Force was a Luxembourg

Luxembourg

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ian single-issue

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 political party and pressure group. It sought to represent the interests of the 12,000 people that had been conscripted

Conscription

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 into the Wehrmacht

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 during the German occupation of Luxembourg

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 during the Second World War

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The party tried to claim compensation for those conscripted from the government of West Germany

West Germany

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 as victims of Nazi Germany

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. Enrôlés de Force won a single seat in the Chamber of Deputies

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 at the 1979 legislative election

Luxembourgian legislative election, 1979

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, having won 4.4% of the vote. In office, they lobbied for official recognition from Luxembourg's government that conscripts were victims of Nazi Germany, which was achieved on 12 June 1981: ending a thirty-year national debate. The party dissolved after achieving this success, and its sole deputy

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 joined the Christian Social People's Party

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Enrôlés de Force was the second party to represent this interest, after the Popular Independent Movement

Popular Independent Movement

The Popular Independent Movement , abbreviated to MIP, was a Luxembourgian single-issue political party in the 1960s. It sought to represent the interests of the 12,000 people that had been conscripted into the Wehrmacht during the German occupation of Luxembourg during the Second World War.The...

, which had won two seats in the 1964 election

Luxembourgian legislative election, 1964

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