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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 '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, ... Germany — the site of a Nazi concentration camp — and, after the Allied landing in Normandy in 1944, ...

Seven of the nine were in the French Resistance and two were in the Dutch Resistance. They were all arrested in France and deported to Ravensbrück, Hitler’s concentration camp for women .

The uprising left hundreds of Resistance fighters and others dead but drove Nazi forces back to garrisons around the city. By the early hours of August 25, 1944, German defences were crumbling.

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 ...