Les Alsaciens-Lorrains prisonniers en Russie pendant la Grande Guerre (1914-1922)

The article focuses on the fate of German soldiers originating from the Alsace and Lorraine regions, taken prisonners by the Russian army during the first World War. As the French Republic, Russia's main ally against Germany, considered that most of them had been enroled into the German army against their will, they were taken care off and repatriated to France. This process supposed to sign an agreement with the Russian authorities and to sort the prisonners, in order to identify among them the Germans who wanted to escape the battlefields by pretending to come from France's lost provinces. After dealing with these two aspects of the question, the article adresses such issues as the social reinsertion of these POWs after their repatriation and the impact of the October revolution on the repatriation process itself.Grandhomme Jean-Noël. Les Alsaciens-Lorrains prisonniers en Russie pendant la Grande Guerre (1914-1922). In: Revue Russe n°35, 2011. L’Alsace et la Russie. pp. 101-114