In early 1941 in Nazi-occupied France, a German officer stopped a 17-year-old girl and her ailing grandfather. She explained that they were taking the train to see family in their home village near ...

PARIS (AP) — France is honoring four people who resisted the Nazis during World War II by inducting them into Paris’ Pantheon mausoleum, in a rare and highly symbolic ceremony aimed at uniting the ...

Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, she joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train. Madeleine Riffaud ...

Socialist Party Member of Parliament and left-wing Paris mayoral candidate Emmanuel Gregoire (centre) with outgoing Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. Photo / Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt, AFP France’s two top ...

French World War II Resistance member Odette Niles photographed in Drancy near Paris on January 24 this year - Copyright AFP ALAIN JOCARD French World War II ...

On February 21, 1944, at Mont-Valérien prison near Paris, Nazi troops shot communist immigrant worker Missak Manouchian and 23 other members of his Sharpshooters and Partisans-Immigrant Work Force ...