White House rebuffs French Parliamentarian's call to reclaim the Statue of Liberty, asserting that US intervention in WWII saved France from Nazi rule ...

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When World War II started, Africa was (save for certain exceptions) a tapestry of colonies. A third of the continent’s ...

History offers a range of precedents for what an agreement with Russia could look like—and how bad the consequences might be.

France's quick defeat in six weeks in 1940 ... press and a public sympathetic to French suffering under Nazi and Vichy rule.

As the summer of 1944 advanced, the situation across France became more confused ... the summer of 1944 act like bookends surrounding the Vichy regime and occupation, with liberty and self ...

Back to Occupied France. France had its collaborationist Vichy regime which ruled over the so-called ‘free Zone’. At the time, France was a Catholic country, steeped in Antisemitism and the hangover ...

The myth of a state ruled by pirates was so fascinating that the reality ... In November 1942, the British managed to defeat the combined forces of Vichy France and Japan. Madagascar passed to the ...

Le Pen, nicknamed the “Devil of the Republic” for his xenophobic views, and other senior party members made remarks minimizing the Holocaust, forgiving the German occupation of France and admiring ...