Following the Great War, a lot of people migrated to the south of the country, a region marked by a thriving metal industry.

A new exhibition at the Documentation Centre for Human Migrations (CDMH) in Dudelange, in cooperation with Luxembourg University, sheds light on the impact of WWI on migration.

Before World War I, eight out of 10 people living in Dudelange didn't hold a Luxembourg passport. Antoinette Reuter from the CDMH explained that most of them were drawn by the city's steel industry and were working for Arbed, a major Luxembourg-based steel and iron producing company.

World War I is still an under-explored time period and a lot of information still lies dormant in Luxembourg's archives, Reuter explained.

The first national exhibition on the Great War can also be visited digitally. The exhibition in Dudelange is opened until December and can be visited from Thursday to Sunday between 3pm and 6pm.