Your people were innocent? It's always the same shit with you people.

en.wikipedia.org . . .

Annexed to the newly-established German Empire, as part of the Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen, in 1871 following the Franco-Prussian War (Treaty of Frankfurt), the city was restored to France after World War I, in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles without a plebiscite, the outcome of which might not have been too convincing from the French point of view, since Strasbourg was almost exclusively German-speaking. It was again effectively a part of Germany during World War II, from 1940 to 1945.