In July 1987, the "Butcher of Lyon" was sentenced to life in prison by a French court. Four years earlier, the BBC reported on how France felt about this reckoning with its dark past.

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 uprising left hundreds of Resistance fighters and others dead but managed to drive Nazi forces back to garrisons around the city. By the early hours of Aug. 25, 1944, German defenses were ...

Madeleine Riffaud, who has died aged 100, was a heroine of the French Resistance and one of the last surviving links with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Foreign News: German Resistance. 1 minute read. TIME. March 3, 1923 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... The scenes of violence have all occurred in Bochum, where the French fired upon a crowd.

The French government has been forced to reduce a video celebrating National Resistance Day due to A.I. errors.

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 ...

Renee Guette, 98, laughed as she looked at her computer screen in Texas. On the other end of the video call was 97-year-old Andree Dupont, living in France.

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 ...

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 ...