Luxembourgish Patriot League

The LPL was founded on 4 September 1940 at the Lycée of Echternach in Echternach by Raymond Petit (born in 16 January 1920, killed himself on 21 April 1942 while he tried to escape from the Gestapo; he had no other choice except to use his last bullet to kill himself in order to avoid capture by the Gestapo).

At the beginning, the LPL secretly spread flyers and pictures, not only about resistance, but also news about the allied troops.

They reproduced food ration cards and made/falsified ID-cards of any kind in order to help people in Luxembourg to survive.

[5] Besides of the LPL-Petit there was another group, founded in northern Luxembourg by Alphonse Rodesch with the same name (LPL).

They also published from 18 December 1941 an investigative, critic and satiric newspaper (printed in Belgium, Brussel) called De freie Lötzeburger ("The free Luxembourger"), renamed in September 1942 to De freie Letzeburger (Ons Hémecht).

The LPL added in the disclaimer of this newspaper – forbidden by German occupants – “Déngens Dömmy” as publisher, with domicile in the Prison “am Grond”, and printed in 57, boulevard de la Pétrusse, Luxembourg (Villa Pauly, at that time the local headquarter of the Gestapo in Luxembourg).

– Lëtzebuerger Patriote Liga in order to regroup and find all the members of the LPL, create a union between the remaining family-members, defend the rights of their members and keep in memory the LPL and their achievements in World War II.