When we think of those who stood up, spoke out, and took covert action against the Nazis, it is the French resistance, Greek partisans, and other clandestine networks in occupied Europe that usually ...

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 ...

Jonathan Freedland's latest explores why a small group of German aristocrats, army officers, diplomats and teachers resisted ...

The story of the massacre of an entire French village in WWII by the German SS. In response to French Resistance activities in the area and the D-Day landing of June 6, 1944, a German SS division ...

The Saddlebrooke WW II Roundtable will be presenting a talk by a scholar from Arizona State University, Volker Benkert. Dr Benkert is the director of ASU’s Graduate Studies Program which grants a ...

The last surviving member of the French resistance force that withstood a German advance in a key battle in the north African desert in World War II has died aged 103, authorities announced. Paul ...

Most Marines had never seen combat when Peter Ortiz joined the Corps in June 1942. However, he had already survived five years in the French Foreign Legion and fought in Africa, faced the Nazis in ...

Each May, Hollywood glitterati descend upon Cannes for its annual Film Festival, which features — along with actors, directors and models — the Hotel Martinez at the center of the opulent affair. Film ...

Truth & Treason, released in theaters Oct. 17, is just the kind of movie for a high-school or middle-school student studying World War II, Nazism and the Holocaust. Centered around a trio of German ...

The other man who came close to assassinating the Führer with a bomb, Claus von Stauffenberg, was no average person but rather a Bavarian-born aristocrat and Wehrmacht colonel. Much has been written ...