Tag: World War II
the commemoration committee demands “the truth and the whole truth”
Nearly 80 years after the events, France recognized on Thursday November 28 the massacre that occurred on December 1, 1944 at the Thiaroye military camp. Hailed by Senegalese President Bassirou…
resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud died at the age of 100
Resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud died at the age of 100, her publisher Dupuis announced on Wednesday, confirming information from the daily Humanity for which she was war correspondent. 2 mins…
Childhoods in war territory, from 1914 to the present day
Historically, in Europe, children’s rights first focused on work, when the industrial revolution pushed their exploitation to a paroxysm. It expanded to education and intra-family relations at the end of…
Children of war in France, Germany and Italy (1943-1949)
With this first work from her doctoral thesis, researcher Camille Mahé, lecturer at the University of Strasbourg, paints a striking portrait of a generation of children who were between six…
In the footsteps of the African soldiers of the Provence landings
Eighty years ago, more than 250,000 fighters landed in Provence, in the south-east of France, two and a half months after D-Day in Normandy, to liberate the country occupied by…
Macron and Philippe commemorate the liberation of Le Havre without animosity
The image was expected: Emmanuel Macron and Edouard Philippe together to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Le Havre, the city of which the latter is mayor, just…
Paris liberated, with historians Jean-François Muracciole and Anthony Beevor
Ideas On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Paris, IDÉES welcomes Jean-François Muracciole. Professor of contemporary history at the Paul-Valéry University Montpellier III. Specialist in the…
Far from the Landing Beaches, the Battle of Memory
On June 6, 1944, during the largest military operation of the 20th century, Allied troops landed in Normandy to liberate France occupied by Nazi Germany. 80 years later, celebrations continue…
Provence 1944: the other landing – So far so close
80 years ago, on August 15, 1944, an event took place in the South of France that would change the course of history. A journey through the Var in the…
80th anniversary of the landing in Provence: “Recognition will never be sufficient enough”
Two months after the commemorations of the Normandy landings, Emmanuel Macron and several African leaders met in the south of France for the 80th anniversary of Operation Dragoon, its equivalent…