French Resistance Fighter Goes Public About Execution of German P.O.W.s Forty-seven soldiers were shot dead and secretly buried shortly after D-Day, a veteran says. The story was hidden for decades.

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

Archaeologists have found evidence of a mass execution of German prisoners who were forced to dig their own graves and then shot by the French Resistance a few days after D-Day, during World War ...

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Simone Segouin, French Resistance fighter, dies at 97 ‘It’s true, the Germans were our enemies, it was the war, but I don’t draw any pride from it,’ she later said ...

Marthe Cohn, a French-Jewish spy who operated behind enemy lines in Nazi Germany during World War II, passed away late last month in California at the age of 105.

Ms. Riffaud was one of the last links to the celebrated ranks of French women who joined the Resistance during World War II.

Aided by her blond hair, blue eyes and fluency in German, she crossed enemy lines to spy on Germany for the French. She later received the Legion of Honor.

France 's President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to former French Resistance activist and author Geneviève Callerot, who has died aged 108.

THE masses of the French people simply did not understand what was happening to them when the German military machine rolled across the Loire and, with hardly a pause, down to Bordeaux and the ...

As part of the Resistance, Madeleine Riffaud collected guns, organized sabotage missions, recruited fighters and once shot and killed a German officer ...