sentences:  A nationwide general strike, originating in Wiltz, paralysed the country and led to the occupying German authorities responding violently by sentencing 21 strikers to death.Following the German invasion of Luxembourg on May 10, 1940, Luxembourg was briefly placed under military occupation.On August 2, 1940, the military government was dissolved and replaced by a civilian government under the leadership of the German civilian administrator of the adjoining German district.