When General de Gaulle arrived in Paris on 25 August, 1944 to mark the French capital’s liberation from Nazi occupation, his ...

PLABENNEC, France — As the world commemorated the ... "In the public imagination World War II is seen as 'the good war' — especially the Normandy invasion," says Roberts.

METZ, France — For over 30 years, officials in Metz have invited American soldiers who helped liberate the city from Nazi occupation during World War II to participate in commemorative ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron has for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army in 1944 as a massacre.

In November 1944, around 1,600 African soldiers who had fought for France and been made prisoners of war by Germany, were sent back to Dakar, according to French historian Armelle Mabon.

French President Emmanuel Macron (foreground second right) stands in respect during a memorial tour at the site of the Natzweiler-Struthof World War II concentration camp, eastern France, on Saturday ...

On New Year's Eve, 1944, a 19-year-old Columbia man died in the mountains of France, fighting for his country in World War II ...