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.

We minded the deaths of the others as much as we feared our own.”Lynne Olson’s “The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück” takes as one ...

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.

An FFI team showing the typical hodge-podge of weapons, including a German Mauser 98k rifle (7.92x57 mm), a German MP40 submachine gun (9 mm) and a French MAS-36 rifle (7.5x54 mm).

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

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.