In July 1987, the "Butcher of Lyon" was sentenced to life in prison by a French court. Four years earlier, the BBC reported ...

French Resistance Fighter Goes Public About Execution of German P.O.W.s Forty-seven soldiers were shot dead and secretly buried shortly after D-Day, a veteran says. The story was hidden for decades.

Archaeologists have found evidence of a mass execution of German prisoners who were forced to dig their own graves and then shot by the French Resistance a few days after D-Day, during World War Two.

Four Frenchwomen who were sent by the Nazis to a labor camp for female prisoners found support in one another—during and ...

Free French units led by Gen. Philippe Leclerc — backed by the U.S. Army 4th Infantry — pushed into central Paris. At about 3 p.m., the German commander, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz, surrendered.

When she was asked to spy for the French army, Marthe Cohn recalled decades later, she didn’t hesitate before saying yes. It was late 1944, months before the end of World War II in Europe. She ...

THE masses of the French people simply did not understand what was happening to them when the German military machine rolled across the Loire and, with hardly a pause, down to Bordeaux and the ...

The 'Safe Place for Science' program is welcoming US scholars fleeing Trump's restrictions on science and research.

Julien Blanc, a historian of the Nazi Occupation and French Resistance, says the photographs are different from the propaganda shots taken by Nazi-authorized photographers. "These photos let us ...

France’s president has paid homage to former French Resistance activist and author Geneviève Callerot, who has died aged 108 Via AP news wire Saturday 18 January 2025 22:03 GMT ...

The French government then accused Martinez of selling the hotel to Skolnikoff, whom they saw as a black marketer, and collaborating with the Italian and German occupiers, leading them to seize ...

The Resistance staged commando-style attacks, and Allied forces took prisoners and overran German lines. Free French units led by Gen. Philippe Leclerc - backed by the U.S. Army 4th Infantry ...