PARIS -- Paris celebrated the American soldiers, French Resistance fighters and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago on Sunday. Firefighters on Sunday ...
As the bodies of the dead are laid to rest on earth and their spirits ascend to be welcomed by their Maker in heaven, the City of Light is being liberated from terrorists in November 2015 as it was ...
The Germans had not yet been driven out of France [TIME told its readers]. Dunkirk had not yet fallen. The Gaullist government had not yet been recognized. But an old Parisian institution (and big ...
Many Americans share a common impression of what happened to Paris during World War II, after Hitler’s troops crushed France’s defenses in 1940 and seized the City of Light. In their minds, the Nazis ...
It was “the news that made the whole free world catch its breath”: as the summer of 1944 approached a close, the Nazi-occupied city of Paris was liberated by Allied forces. The first American reporter ...
As the Germans descended on Paris in June 1940, Jean Texcier, who worked for France’s Ministry of Trade, printed some advice for Parisians on how to behave toward the occupiers. He put the handbills ...
On the morning of 19 August 1944, a 28-year-old Frenchman called Georges Loiseleur hurried down to the street from his flat on the Quai des Grands-Augustins. Paris was abuzz. A short distance away, he ...
Professor of History and co-director of the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi, Prof. Neiberg is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, ...
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