Tag: Second World War
On the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilnius ghetto, Lithuania wants more recognition
Lithuania commemorates the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilnius ghetto on Friday September 22. During the period of Nazi occupation, from 1941 to 1944, the majority of the…
Emmanuel Favier author of “Le livre de Rose”: “I transmit a vision of the world, values”
The author Emmanuelle Favier publishes in this literary season a novel dedicated to the resistance fighter and museum curator, Rose Valland, who played a decisive role in the protection of…
a new trial ordered for Éric Zemmour
The Court of Cassation has decided to refer the former presidential candidate, Éric Zemmour, to justice for his comments on Pétain. In 2019, the former Cnews columnist said that Philippe…
Tracking down works looted from Jews by the Nazis
In France, during the Second World War, approximately 100,000 works of art were looted from Jews by the Nazis. Paintings, sculptures, works of art, sometimes musical instruments… stolen, looted, and…
the bodies of nearly 50 German soldiers will be exhumed in Corrèze
In the French department of Corrèze, research revives the painful memory of the Second World War. Following the revelations of a former maquisard, the French authorities wish to exhume the…
In search of soldiers executed in Corrèze: “This duty obliges us vis-à-vis Germany”
The French and German authorities will carry out research to exhume the bodies of German soldiers executed by resistance fighters in June 1944, after the discovery of a possible grave…
Léon Gautier, last French survivor of the Normandy landings, is dead
He was the last member of the Kieffer commando, a battalion of 177 French marines who landed on the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944. He died in Caen at…
The resistant Odette Nilès, “fiancée” of Guy Môquet, is dead
Communist resistance Odette Nilès was the last survivor of the Choisel camp. It was there that she had met Guy Môquet, her “fiancé”, shot before the kiss she had promised…
Emmanuel Macron pays tribute to Jean Moulin, thousands of demonstrators kept at a distance
After commemorating May 8, 1945 in Paris, on the almost empty Champs-Élysées, Emmanuel Macron went to Lyon on Monday afternoon. The President of the Republic paid tribute to the resistance…
Commemorations of May 8: “What is striking is these almost deserted Champs-Élysées”
Demonstrations are prohibited in France on the sidelines of the ceremonies of May 8, 1945. After the traditional Parisian ceremony, the President of the Republic went to Lyon, to pay…