A sharp and lurid picture of wartime Paris—a city dancing with false gaiety on a rumbling volcano—reached the U.S. last week. It came from the New York Times’ former Paris fashion correspondent, ...

“Paris must not fall into the hands of the enemy,” Adolf Hitler told his top general in Paris, “or if it does, he must find there nothing but a field of ruins.” Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The ...

As the Germans descended on Paris in June 1940, Jean Texcier, who worked for France’s Ministry of Trade, printed some advice for Parisians on how to behave toward the occupiers. He put the handbills ...

Agence France-Presse was created in the tumult of World War II by a band of journalists who stormed a pro-Nazi newsroom and took over as Paris was in revolt. It was August 20, 1944, the day after ...

It was 60 years ago today, in Paris. I had been waiting a long time for this moment, when I would finally see the enemy in defeat. Allow me now on this anniversary to be one voice for those who ...

Editor’s Note: JEAN-PAUL SARTRE is a French dramatist and poet who distinguished himself as one of the military leaders of the FFI through the long years of German domination. His eloquent statement ...

Patrick Bishop’s new Paris 1944 is by far the best-written study in English of the controversial topic of France under German rule. A journalist and popular historian, Bishop brings alive for the ...

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World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews ...