On August 25, 1944—80 years ago this week—the Free French Second Armored Division rolled into Paris, with the American Fourth Infantry Division close behind. Rapturous crowds jammed the ...

Patrick Bishop’s fascinating account of the liberation of Paris. On April 28 1944, thousands of French people gathered in the city centre to applaud Marshal Philippe Pétain, head of the ...

In an interview with AFP, where he worked for 40 years after World War II, the Buchenwald survivor ... on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. The liberation of Paris in August 1944 boosted ...

The historic Lutetia hotel in Paris, occupied by the Nazis during World War II and after liberation ... German intelligence. Upon the liberation of Paris in 1944, de Gaulle ordered the hotel ...

Follow the Allies as they land on the Normandy coast on 6 June 1944, that will forever be known as D-Day, and then track their hard fought campaign to liberate Paris.