An Hour of Glory: The Strike at the Luxembourg Post Office, 1
September 1942. |Home Page > History > Key Aspects > The Strike
at the Luxembourg Post Office| "Let us show these hated
Prussians what we think of this whole affair" TO PRINT THIS
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free download here George Kieffer was born in 1950, the son of
Michel Kieffer, a technician of the Telephone Department of the
Luxembourg Post Office, who was active with his wife in the
Resistance during the Second World War. Following the death of
his father, George, who now lives in England, transferred the
former's collection of papers, documents and medals to the
Second World War Experience Centre. From some of these papers he
has drawn the story of the short-lived General Strike at the
Luxembourg Post Office on 1 September 1942. Amid the turmoil and
confusion of the night of 9 - 10 M