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Resistance fighter honoured as part of 80-year Paris Liberation events

An avenue is being renamed in honour of Hubert Germain, while many other commemoration events are being held from August 20-25, ahead of the Paralympics

D-Day 80 years: France to send a ‘Liberty flame’ to UK and USA

The flame has already been welcomed at a memorial ceremony in France, and will be received at similar events in the UK and USA to remember the pivotal 1944 landings

Excavations begin at suspected site of WWII executions in France

A former resistance fighter recently told how around 50 German soldiers were executed and buried at the location

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Dozens of executed WW2 German soldiers possibly found in France

Excavations at the site in Corrèze are set to begin next month

Varian Fry: The American who was a ‘Schindler in France’

The journalist, whose story is to be dramatised by Netflix, helped save the lives of some 2,500 people at risk from the Nazis by smuggling them out of France to safer countries including the US

Free talks about life of the American dubbed ‘a Schindler in France’

Events associated with Varian Fry, whose actions helped to save around 2,500 lives of Jews, artists and British soldiers during World War Two, are being held in Marseille

Black US D-Day veteran awarded France’s highest honour aged 100

Osceola Fletcher, who was given a similar award in America last year, has spoken about how racism denied him from being recognised sooner for his efforts during the war

Family of US soldier who left Normandy church message in 1944 found

Locals are hoping to send the soldier’s family a casting of the inscription

New critical version of Mein Kampf to be sold in France from June 2

Proceeds of the new edition – which is two-thirds criticism – will go to concentration camp memorial charity the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation. It will be available via direct bookshop order only

Pantheon lights up for France's 'ordinary' war heroes

Tests have taken place for art installation scheduled to take place in September

Hubert Faure, French hero of D-Day landings dies, aged 106

Soldier was a member of Kieffer Commandos who stormed Sword Beach on June 6, 1944

France to return Klimt art taken by Nazis to owners' heirs

The Austrian Jewish owner of Rosebushes under the Trees died in a concentration camp in 1942, four years after she was forced to sell the piece

New walking trail hope to commemorate secret WW2 mission

Retired Dutch naval officer Ronald Knoth wants to raise money for signs along the 20km route of 'Operation Percy Pink' from Cadouin to Château de Bétou

Wartime French airmen made Christmas gifts for York children

The mechanics set up a makeshift workshop in a tin shed on the airbase and spent their spare time working in sub-zero temperatures to make gifts from spare bits of metal left over from their work

French honour for teen who wired D-Day's radio control

A model ship led to youngster's wartime recruitment to MI6

Village fighters captured 1,000 Nazi soldiers

A monument outside Anduze in the Languedoc commemorates an incredible story of wartime bravery. Readers Liz Cowley and Donough O’Brien tell the story of how a group of 40 French Resistance fighters and Spanish guerrillas forced a 1,000-strong column of German soldiers to surrender

Macron marks France's 'second D-Day' in Provence

Southern invasion of France started in the evening of August 14, 1944, two months after the Normandy landings

‘Banksy’ war art is actually by French brasserie owner

A piece of street art found near the D-Day beaches in Normandy - which had been rumoured to be a Banksy - has been revealed as the work of a local brasserie owner.

Wartime lovers who met before D-Day reunited in France

A French woman and an American World War Two veteran who first fell in love in France in 1944 have been reunited 75 years after they last met.

France marks 75 years since Oradour-sur-Glane tragedy

Today (Monday June 10) marks the 75th anniversary of the massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane (Haute-Vienne), in which 642 civilians were slaughtered by the Nazis in 1944.

Letter shows D-Day training plans of Nazis in Normandy

Firing exercises were planned on the Normandy coast on the day of the Allies' invasion of Europe

US artist's wartime works on display in France

Norman Rockwell's famous Four Freedoms quartet among the works in exhibition in Normandy

Vital role of 177 French commandos on D-Day

Most Free French forces did not land in Normandy until after June 6 - but one commando unit performed heroically from day one

Trump to visit France for D-Day 75th anniversary

US President Donald Trump is to visit Normandy in June this year for the 75th anniversary commemorations of D-Day, he has said.

Ceremony honours WWII 'secret army'

Princess Anne among the dignitaries at an event to commemorate bravery of SOE agents during World War Two

Mysterious remembrance tale of wartime tragedy

At this time of year when we remember the sacrifices servicepeople made in the past, a British museum director has contacted Connexion with an interesting (and mysterious) Franco-British story linked to a wartime tragedy.

Pétain will not be honoured at Les Invalides ceremony

Elysée Palace and government move to cool controversy over President's comments

Cornflower bleuets for French Remembrance

Volunteers across France are raising funds for wounded military personnel, widows and war orphans by selling blue flowers ahead of November 11 commemorations

Strategic importance of France’s favourite village

A small northern village topped a recent popularity poll. Jane Hanks looks at the long, fascinating history of Cassel

Renoir work stolen by Nazis returned to French owner

The French grandchild of a Jewish art collector has had a Renoir painting returned to her family by an American museum, after the piece was stolen by the Nazis in 1941.

France honours its war heroes with cornflower blue

A bloom of a different hue honours the memory of the French nation's war dead

André Malraux: a French cultural phenomenon

André Malraux did not pass his bac, yet went on to become one of the most important cultural figures in French history, writes Samantha David

Wartime history resonates more powerfully in France

Dr Tim Blakemore, a former senior law lecturer at the University of Northampton, examines why France places such emphasis on remembering the two World Wars

TV duo restores Citroën DS belonging to Resistance man

A TV show that specialises in restoring old cars has worked its magic on a vintage vehicle belonging to the last still-living member of the French Second World War Resistance in the Nord.

Museums convey complexities of France’s wartime role

France is no longer uncomfortable discussing its role in the Second World War. Samantha David meets the director of Lyon’s museum dedicated to the history of resistance and deportation

Roads closed overnight for WWII bomb disposal

Cache of shells discovered by workers at a site about 1km from Nice Côte d'Azur airport

Pétain plaque to be removed from New York street

A plaque honouring France’s notorious wartime collaborator Maréchal Philippe Pétain is set to be removed from a street in New York.

Two men claim to be little boy in mystery 1940s photo

Two men have stepped forward to say they are the boy in a 1940s photo, which shows American soldier Fred Tilden smiling with an unknown happy blond child.

'Super-tide' reveals Dunkirk wrecks

At very low tides, shipwrecks still appear on the beaches of Dunkirk, ghostly reminders of one of the most famous episodes of the Second World War.