In the bitter winter of 1941, British military prisoners in Nazi-occupied Germany huddled around a Monopoly set, dazzled by ...

He was among the historians who challenged national myths about the compromises his country made after being occupied by ...

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

Madeleine Riffaud, who fought for Paris with French Resistance, dies at 100 Ms. Riffaud was one of the last links to the celebrated ranks of French women who joined the Resistance during World War II.

Shortly before Christmas 1943, 15-year-old Huguette Müller slipped and broke her leg in the tiny, remote Alpine village of Val d’Isère, France. A young doctor named Frédéric Pétri was ...

France 's President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to former French Resistance activist and author Geneviève Callerot, who has died aged 108.

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 ...

" 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.

When she was asked to spy for the French army, Marthe Cohn recalled decades later, she didn’t hesitate before saying yes.

Ms. Riffaud was one of the last links to the celebrated ranks of French women who joined the Resistance during World War II.

As part of the Resistance, Madeleine Riffaud collected guns, organized sabotage missions, recruited fighters and once shot and killed a German officer ...