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

Even without foreknowledge of the German disaster in Russia, however, the French had meaningful means to resist Germany, and to continue to put pressure on the Nazi regime. France surrendered to ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The eventual course of World War II put an especially bad light on the decision of the French military and political hierarchy to cease resistance against Germany ...

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 site where the Germans were killed, near the town of Meymac Archaeologists have found evidence of a mass execution of German prisoners who were forced to dig their own graves and then shot by ...

Germaine Tillion, 100, a celebrated anthropologist and French Resistance fighter during World War II, who wrote about her experiences in a Nazi camp, died April 19 at her home near Paris.

MEYMAC, France (AFP) — A search began in France on Tuesday for the remains of dozens of German soldiers said to have been executed by French Resistance fighters during World War II.

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 ...

The women, who supported the French resistance against Nazi occupation, had a moving reunion in April -- it was the first time they had seen each other since being freed from a German ...

French and German experts have begun exhuming the remains of a group of Nazi soldiers who were executed by French Resistance fighters during World War II. They were buried in a mass grave that lay ...