Tag: Second World War
A first “pavement of memory” in Paris, in tribute to a woman victim of Nazism
On May 8, the anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. Report from Paris on a memorial stone. A few days ago a Stolpersteine, in other words a…
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…
France in resistance
What to do against the occupation of a foreign power? Why engage? How to unite? How far to take risks? In the name of what ideal? In 1940, faced with…
Pierre Laville, at the heart of the Comédie Française during the 2nd World War
Pierre Laville is a writer, playwright and director. His own plays and adaptations are performed by the greatest theaters (Comédie-Française, Odéon, Chaillot, Antoine Theater, Porte Saint-Martin, etc.) and have been…
France in resistance, episode 3: singing and dancing in hiding?
In France occupied by the Germans, young people defy all prohibitions to find themselves in clandestine balls. In the Vercors, Brittany or Champigny-sur-Marne, girls and boys meet in the fields,…
In the United States, a military base named after a Confederate renamed
A symbolic change for a US Army base. Fort Pickett, in Virginia, changed its name this Friday, March 24, 2023. It must be said that it bore the name of…
South Koreans protest against compensation plan for victims of Japanese occupation
The historic rapprochement between South Korea and Japan that began this week is creating waves in Korean public opinion. While Seoul announced a compensation plan for victims of forced labor…
Robert Hébras, last survivor of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, is dead
Oradour-sur-Glane has lost the one who perpetuated the memory of this martyr village of the Second World War. At 97, Robert Hébras died this Saturday, February 11. He was 18…
for the 80th anniversary of Stalingrad, a bust of Stalin inaugurated in Volgograd
This Thursday, February 2, the Russian city of Volgograd, renamed by its Soviet name of Stalingrad the time of the commemorations, as every year, celebrates the 80th anniversary of the…
Minimum old age granted to skirmishers: “They will be able to live in a decent way”
On January 4, the day the film was released Skirmishers, the French government announced that veterans of Senegalese, Malian or Mauritanian origin could now receive the full minimum old age…