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.

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 ...

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.

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Lynne Olson documents how, within the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp, the women of the French Resistance continued to ...

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, ...

The French government then accused Martinez of selling the hotel to Skolnikoff, whom they saw as a black marketer, and collaborating with the Italian and German occupiers, leading them to seize ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...