powers occupied France from 1940 to 1945; personnel and equipment of the University of Strasbourg largely migrated to Clermont-Ferrand in 1939. Nazi Germany re-annexed Alsace in June 1940 and founded the short-lived German Reichsuniversität Straßburg in November 1941. From 1945 the French university resumed activity in Strasbourg.

In 1971, the French Ministry of National Education