In July 1987, the "Butcher of Lyon" was sentenced to life in prison by a French court. Four years earlier, the BBC reported ...

The French martyrs declared Friday died between 1944 and 1945, many after being arrested by the Nazi regime for their ...

Marthe Cohn was barely 25 on April 11, 1945, and Jewish, but, being blond and blue-eyed, she could pass for an Aryan. She was French, from northeastern Alsace, but spoke German fluently. She was a ...

He had fled France for London in June 1940, inspired by de Gaulle’s famous 18 June “Appel” – call or summons – over BBC radio, urging French resistance to the German occupation.

As head of the Gestapo in Lyon, Klaus Barbie was notorious for his cruelty. After World War II, he escaped to Bolivia, aided ...

In the popular novel The German Lesson, a character based on Nolde falls victim to Nazi policies on “degenerate art”. Recent research on the painter’s life tells a more complex story.

In honor of National Resistance Day, which commemorates those who resisted German occupation and the Vichy authorities during World War II on May 27 each year, the French government released a 27 ...

A circa 1941 photo of Germaine Tillion, French ethnologist and member of the French resistance. Staff Writer A new book aims to preserve the stories of the prisoners at an all-female Nazi ...

Having survived a devastating crash during a secret mission, Frank Griffiths finally made it home. Now his great-grandson has ...

French opposition to the roundups of its Jewish citizens during WWII offer reasons to hope Americans will oppose Trump.

Cohn moved around Germany for several weeks, executing little subterfuges and dodging close calls. She was posing as a nurse searching desperately for her fiancé, a Nazi soldier.