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

French Resistance Fighter Goes Public About Execution of German P.O.W.s Forty-seven soldiers were shot dead and secretly buried shortly after D-Day, a veteran says. The story was hidden for decades.

Archaeologists have found evidence of a mass execution of German prisoners who were forced to dig their own graves and then shot by the French Resistance a few days after D-Day, during World War Two.

The 'Safe Place for Science' program is welcoming US scholars fleeing Trump's restrictions on science and research.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

Archaeologists have found evidence of a mass execution of German prisoners who were forced to dig their own graves and then shot by the French Resistance a few days after D-Day, during World War Two.

Marthe Cohn, a Jewish spy in Nazi Germany, dies at 105. Aided by her blond hair, blue eyes and fluency in German, she crossed enemy lines to spy on Germany for the French.