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

Free French units led by Gen. Philippe Leclerc — backed by the U.S. Army 4th Infantry — pushed into central Paris. At about 3 p.m., the German commander, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz, surrendered.

Under the new German chancellor, personal relations between the leaders are warmer, but a series of intractable divisions ...

He was among the historians who challenged national myths about the compromises his country made after being occupied by Germany in World War II.

Julien Blanc, a historian of the Nazi Occupation and French Resistance, ... Germany — the site of a Nazi concentration camp — and, after the Allied landing in Normandy in 1944, ...

‘September 5’ Sweeps German Film Awards. ... a member of the left-wing anti-Nazi resistance group the Red Orchestra, ... was set up as a German-French co-production and shot in secret in Iran.

The uprising left hundreds of Resistance fighters and others dead but managed to drive Nazi forces back to garrisons around the city. By the early hours of Aug. 25, 1944, German defenses were ...