World War II

Cologne court says not enough evidence to convict 89-year-old over 1944 murder of 642 men, women and children in French village.

Historian Franck Ferrand says previously unseen documents show the fashion designer worked directly for German military intelligence.

A book published in France reveals a forgotten cache of letters sent secretly to the BBC and which illustrate its role in French civil resistance.

Free French Forces fighter pilot Yves Mahé single-handedly cut short a massive Luftwaffe bombing raid over the city in April 1942.

White House warns US states not to take action that could harm talks with French rail firm SNCF which deported Jews to WW2 death camps.

Three paintings are to be returned to their rightful owners the day before the release of a film about a WWII army unit dedicated to saving artworks.

Moroccan veterans have finally been honored 70 years after they played a critical role in the liberation of the French island of Corsica.

The heads of state visited the ghost village in central France where, in June 1944, German troops slaughtered 642 people, including 207 children.

Joachim Gauck will go to Oradour-sur-Glane where 642 people were massacred by Nazi soldiers in one of worst war-time atrocities in France.

Captured French soldiers imprisoned in Austria in 1940 recorded the dire camp conditions using a camera made of parts smuggled in sausages.

The apartment was locked up and untouched for seven decades after its late owner fled to southern France to escape the German invasion of Paris.

French President Francois Hollande speaks about the continuing need for compromise between France and Germany.

Tributes pour in for François Jacob, a Free French fighter whose later work in genetics earned him a share of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Medicine.

The woman who inspired novel 'Charlotte Gray' wanted her ashes to be left in the forest where she played a key role against German occupation.

The paintings, several of which are hanging in the Louvre in Paris, were taken from their Jewish owners as they fled Nazi-occupied Europe.