While Alsace and Lorraine immensely increased the mineral and industrial wealth of France -- Lorraine producing 5,279,000 tons of coal in 1925, 38.8 percent of the French output of cast iron and 35 ...

THE French Government at Vichy did not have the power to prevent the German Government from virtually annexing Alsace and Lorraine. Without even going through the pretense of organizing a plebiscite, ...

The Landes Zeitung, which is the official journal of the annexed provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, only now publishes the following returns of the census taken there in December, 1885.

The war did not break out over Alsace-Lorraine, but nothing is more certain than that the brutal treatment of which France was the victim, at Germany’s hands, in 1871, had had its influence on ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Economic Effect of the Loss of Alsace-Lorraine ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 120 No. 8 (February 1919), p. 188 doi:10.1038 ...