Following the armistice with Germany ending the First World War, the French army entered Thionville in November 1918 and the city was returned to France by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
During the Second World War, the Lorraine was placed under a German civilian administration
and was thus once again unofficially part of the German Reich. In 1944
US troops entered Thionville, which has belonged to France since then.
In the winter of 1944-45 the Displaced Persons Camp No. 8 was
established here. In the following years it was home to the thousands of
former concentration camp prisoners and POWs.
After experiencing, along with all of France, an economic upswing during the postwar decades (trente glorieuses),
the heavy industry of Thionville suffered setbacks beginning in the
1970s. The city and the entire region have faced hardships and
structural unemployment since then.
Jean-Marie Demange, who had served as the town's mayor for thirteen
years, committed suicide in 2008 after killing his mistress with two
gunshots in the head.
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