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How American soldiers ended up fighting alongside German troops

In May 1945, as Nazi Germany collapsed, a bizarre battle unfolded at Castle Itter in Austria. American troops from the U.S.
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Madeleine Riffaud, who fought for Paris with French Resistance, dies at 100

In early 1941 in Nazi-occupied France, a German officer stopped a 17-year-old girl and her ailing grandfather. She explained that they were taking the train to see family in their home village near ...
The New York Times

Madeleine Riffaud, ‘the Girl Who Saved Paris,’ Dies at 100

Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, she joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train. Madeleine Riffaud ...
Case Western Reserve University

Marthe Cohn—undercover Jewish spy in Nazi Germany during World War II—to speak on campus Sept. 18

Free tickets are available to hear Cohn’s first-hand account of how she lived through one of the worst times in human history—losing family members to the Nazis and surviving by spying for the French ...
Yahoo

Marthe Cohn, French Jewish secret agent who posed as a nurse in wartime Germany

​Marthe Cohn, who has died aged 105, was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in France; she survived the Holocaust, and after the liberation of Paris in 1944 she joined the French First ...
The New York Times

A Heroine of the French Resistance Gets Her Own Portrait

In “The Art Spy,” Michelle Young shines new light on the heroic French curator Rose Valland. By Nina Siegal Nina Siegal is the author of three novels and “The Diary Keepers: World War II Written by ...