Belarus’s events marking 80 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany were a show of state power—but also reflected real popular ...

He was best known for “The Sorrow and the Pity,” a landmark film that debunked ideas of vast French resistance to the Nazi ...

In 1980, while living in Belgium, the historian Lynn H. Nicholas read an obituary in The International Herald Tribune of the ...

Lynne Olson’s book ‘The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück’ reveals the unsung stories of female French resistance fighters.

Europe is marking one of its most joyous days in history. The 80th anniversary of the end of World War II on the continent ...

Marcel Ophuls, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose landmark documentary "The Sorrow and the Pity" debunked the myth of ...

When she was asked to spy for the French army, Marthe Cohn recalled decades later, she didn’t hesitate before saying yes.

Marcel Ophuls, the Academy Award-winning German-born filmmaker whose landmark 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” ...

The Resistance dreamed of establishing a new democratic regime in France. Partisan tensions disrupted the project's ...

The Academy Award-winning filmmaker's landmark 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” shattered the comforting myth that ...

President Donald Trump mocked France for its celebrations marking 80 years since the Allied victory in Europe in World War II, and said the U.S. should do more to acknowledge its own leading role in ...

During her time as a spy, she was able to provide the French military with information on German positions, contributing to ...