J’ai grandi tout d’abord dans le respect de la performance de la génération de mon père, si je peux me permettre cette digression, qui a connu un sort doublement terrible, parce que les Luxembourgeois nés entre 1920 et 1927 étaient enrôlés de force dans la Wehrmacht et portaient un uniforme qui n’était pas le leur, un uniforme qui servait des ambitions qui n’étaient pas les leurs.
First and foremost – if I may digress – I grew up respecting the achievements of my father’s generation, which experienced an awful two-fold fate. Firstly, because the people of Luxembourg born between 1920 and 1927 were forcibly enlisted into the German Wehrmacht, and secondly, because they wore a uniform that was not their own, and which served ambitions other than theirs.
