What the records say
- When
- 27 May 1941 – 10 Jun 1941
- Kind
- Strike
- Coordinates
- 50.46° N, 3.13° E
- Description
- major labor strike in France
Placed at the middle of the 2 places Wikidata lists.
1941 Nord-Pas-de-Calais miners' strike
Major labor strike in occupied France
The 1941 Nord-Pas-de-Calais miners' strike, also known as the patriotic strike of the 100,000 miners of Nord-Pas-de-Calais or the 10-day strike, lasted from the 27th of May to the 10th of June 1941 and was the first large-scale strike under Nazi occupation. It was one of the largest and longest strike to occur in Nazi-occupied Europe.
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- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “grève des mineurs du Nord-Pas-de-Calais”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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