Resistance
85 years ago, what appeared to be a routine census became one of the most memorable acts of resistance against Nazi occupation in Luxembourg
In occupied Luxembourg, the population turned the German ‘census of civil status and businesses’ of 10 October 1941 into an act of resistance. © Photo credit: LW-Archiv / Collage LW

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What seemed like a standard administrative exercise on 10 October 1941 was, in reality, a political tool used by the Nazi authorities in occupied Luxembourg. As part of the so-called census of civil status and businesses, residents were asked to state their nationality, mother tongue and ethnic origin.
