German soldiers and officers saw Charles de Gaulle less as a battlefield commander and more as a powerful symbol of French resistance. After France’s rapid defeat in 1940, de Gaulle’s broadcasts from ...

PARIS — The search for the unknown photographer began in the summer of 2020, with the discovery of an old photo album at a flea market in the town of Barjac, in the south of France. Documentary ...

​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 ...

Aided by her blond hair, blue eyes and fluency in German, she crossed enemy lines to spy on Germany for the French. She later received the Legion of Honor. When she was asked to spy for the French ...

Whereas most serious historians dismiss the potential effects of Nazi wonder weapons in the course of World War 2, there is no doubting the contribution of Allied special forces and local resistance ...

The video may have lasted less than 30 seconds, but it was long enough to provoke anger from historians and members of the French public. In honor of National Resistance Day, which commemorates those ...

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 ...

“Paris must not fall into the hands of the enemy,” Adolf Hitler told his top general in Paris, “or if it does, he must find there nothing but a field of ruins.” Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday declared 174 new martyrs, including 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and more than 100 Spanish priests killed during the Spanish ...