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The hosts we stayed with told us that his father had been conscripted into the Wehrmacht, no choice in the matter, you are now German, you live in Germany, get on with it, they also said that a lot of these conscripts did their training then took everything they learned away with them by going AWOL and joining the resistance.This was startling to me on the weekend: also that some murals on the farmhouses had text in a German dialect.
I also visited a tiny Commonwealth/French war cemetery and was struck by how many soldiers who, as the plaque stated: "Died for their love of France" had German names.
It was pretty nice there though. I just rode a short distance over the border to Neuf-Brisach, which was fantastic but I'd advise you to go earlier in the morning, before the tourists turn up. I'd also recommend going to its twin of Breisach, about 5 km away on the German side of the river:
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Very beautiful but less famous so has fewer tourists.
There are a lot of murals on old buildings with the script in the old German style, written in German, yes the locals surnames are German too.