PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron waded into controversy Wednesday by praising a general who helped win World War I but became a top Nazi collaborator in World War II — comments that ...

The French government has backed down over apparent plans to pay tribute to Marshal Philippe Pétain – who collaborated with the Nazis in the deportation of Jews from France during World War II ...

for contesting crimes against humanity by saying Nazi collaborator Philippe Petain had "saved" French Jews during World War II. Zemmour, head of the far-right Reconquest party, made the comments ...

PARIS, France — French President Emmanuel Macron has waded onto controversial ground by praising a World War I general who subsequently collaborated with the Nazis in World War II. Marshal ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has sought to justify paying homage to Nazi collaborator Philippe Pétain during ... had made "disastrous choices" during WW2. Pétain was praised for the defence ...

Few home-grown 20th-century leaders prompt as much discomfort for the French as Philippe Pétain. The head of the Vichy regime, who signed the armistice with Germany on June 22nd 1940 and was ...

One of the most hushed-up episodes of the German occupation of France came in July 1942, when Marshal Henri Philippe Petain’s police rounded up more than 7,000 Jews, detaining them for five days ...

Members of a Jewish antifa group defaced a plaque on Monday in New York honoring a French leader who collaborated with the Nazis during World War II ... honored Philippe Petain, a French general ...