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>consistently vote to be part of the Germany for every referendum ever given
No, after the Franco-Prussian war they voted almost entirely for anti-German protest parties for over a decade. After Germany moved in colonists from the rest of Germany and 2 or so generations of brainwashing had passed they were gradually warming up to the German rule, but then the Germans destroyed their goodwill towards the Alsatians again with the Zabern affair and destroying their native textile industry in favor of favoring the textile industry in the rest of Germany.

Germans knew Alsatians didn't like them and still had loyalties to France, Alsatians weren't trusted on the Western Front in WW1 so Germany shipped them to the East. They greeted the French as liberators and barely enlisted in WW2 for Germany so the Germans and were subjected to hardcore repression by the Nazis.

It was just a bunch of Prussian militarist and Pan-Germanic crazies that saw people in France who spoke a Germanic language and thinking they were these lost Germans that thought they needed to be choked and punched in the face hard enough until they realized they were German and loved it. They never wanted to be part of Germany and Germans ruined whatever Pro-German sentiment there was with their behavior. Although they spoke a Germanic language, Germans also tried to culturally genocide them by outlawing their unique dialect and trying to replace it entirely with standard German in schools and public life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZtgWpfaI9A

The sad thing is this just made France double down on destroying local languages and identity like French Flemish and Occitan because they perhaps reasonably never wanted this kind of thing to happen again. This idea that Alsatians are just Germans is just cope from Paradox game players and Neo Nazis who think anyone speaking a Germanic language needs to be forcefully assimilated into Das Reich irrespective of what the people there actually want.

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