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.

To his credit, Kaiser reveals the moral ambiguity of resistance when one’s enemy is as ruthless as Nazi Germany. The resister, of course, chooses to take the risk of arrest, imprisonment ...

Jan. 9 (UPI) --German culture officials this week returned a Nazi-looted painting to the descendants of a French resistance member executed during World War II. German Culture Minister Monika ...

Paris – Gen. Alain Le Ray, a leader in the French Resistance during World War II whose escape from a notorious Nazi prison forged his image and career, has died, his family said Thursday. He was ...

On June 10, 1944 — just four days after the D-Day landings in Normandy — the company attacked Oradour-sur-Glane in reprisal for the French Resistance's kidnapping of a German soldier.

French Resistance member Pierre Georges shot dead a German naval midshipman on August 21, 1941, at Barbès-Rochechouart metro station in occupied Paris – the first deadly attack on the occupiers ...

Having been crushed militarily and psychologically by the mighty German blitzkrieg in a mere six-week campaign, it could well be said that by the end of June 1940, the French people were suffering ...

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 ...

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.