Shadows over Alsace

A secret war was being fought in Alsace long before World War II officially began.
After the First World War, Alsace-Lorraine returns to France—but the region remains divided by language, memory and national identity.
Separatist movements emerge. German money and propaganda cross the Rhine. Spies and informers operate on both sides of the border. Behind demands for autonomy, a far more dangerous political game begins to take shape.
Then Hitler rises.
As some Alsatian separatists move closer to Nazi Germany, members of the Jewish community recognize the threat. Doctors, students and activists warn, organize and resist. What begins with political confrontation and self-defense will eventually lead some of them into clandestine rescue networks and the Resistance.
Based on true events, Viviane Janouin-Benanti’s Shadows over Alsace brings this turbulent period vividly to life through the real men and women who shaped it.
Espionage. Propaganda. Betrayal. Courage.
This is the hidden story of what happened before the invasion—when Europe was officially at peace, but the next war had already begun.