When German tanks rolled into Paris, 2 million Parisians had already fled, with good reason. In short order, the German Gestapo went to work: arrests, interrogations and spying were the order of ...

The fall of Paris was announced over the radio and in special editions of the afternoon newspapers which carried huge headlines saying: "March into Paris." German troops were believed to have ...

The German high command announced today that German troops are marching into abandoned Paris. It also said France's vital sea port of Le Havre had fallen and that Montmedy, northern anchor of ...

This map, published in October 1940, was used by German troops on leave in occupied Paris. The city, under German control since June of that year, served as a relatively calm location for soldiers ...