When we think of those who stood up, spoke out, and took covert action against the Nazis, it is the French resistance, Greek ...

The French defense against the German Blitzkrieg usually gets told one way. However there were pockets of resistance where ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS (AP) — Marcel Ophuls, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose landmark 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” shattered the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the Nazis ...

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 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 ...

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 had ...

Germany on Tuesday returned a painting looted by the Nazis to the heirs of French Jewish politician and resistance leader Georges Mandel. "Portrait of a seated woman" by artist Thomas Couture, was ...

We are familiar with the myths and realities of French resistance and German occupation, but less so with the story of Belgian resistance. It was highly creditable, spanning both world wars, and has ...

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 ...