The story was hidden for decades. By Constant Méheut Reporting from Paris Shortly after D-Day during World War II, French resistance fighters took 47 captured German soldiers to a small wooded ...

Michael Portillo discovers how romantic memories of the French Resistance created a military legend which overshadowed its more important political role in post-war France. Show more Michael ...

Then the 30 or so Resistance fighters shot them – with the exception of Réveil and a couple of others who refused, he says. No one wanted to kill the woman, so the men drew lots.

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 ...

That’s how Jack Belden, a Life magazine war correspondent, came to know that armed teenage French resistance fighter after he entered Chartres, France, with the United States Third Army in ...

Anne Beaumanoir, a French resistance member who guided Jews to safety in her Nazi-occupied homeland during World War II, then became an anti-colonial activist jailed in France for backing Algerian ...

Join the Program in Judaic Studies and the Center for Collaborative History to hear Renée Poznanski discuss her book, recently published in an English translation, Propaganda and Persecution: The ...

Missak Manouchian, an Armenian genocide survivor who went on to become a French Resistance hero, will enter France’s Panthéon mausoleum of revered historical figures next year, President ...