The Battle Of The Alps Italy attacked France on June 10, 1940, and two weeks of fighting in the French Alps ensued. These French mountain troopers are equipped with the Berthier Carbine Mle 1892 M16.

The lamentable story of Nazi Germany's occupation of France in World War II is well-known and has been the subject of countless books examining every aspect of it from how it happened so ...

LONDON -- Adolf Hitler sent Axis troops racing across the demarcation line into unoccupied France and French Corsica in an Armistice Day coup today and it was revealed that Nazi air troop ...

France. Thirty German soldiers were killed, ... Guerrillas drove Axis occupation troops from several villages in the Olympus area. A punitive expedition of Germans and Italians was repulsed.

Firsthand accounts of the wartime Nazi occupation of France stress the messy, haphazard nature of the resistance. The groups that emerged in the chaotic circumstances following the French defeat ...

About 3,000 resisters, many under the age of 25, were tried in German military courts in France, found guilty of clandestine “terrorist” activity, sentenced to death, then executed.

Holocaust survivor Albert Garih recounted his family's experience after the Nazi invasion of France in 1940. When he was about four-years- old, his father was deported to a forced labor camp in ...

Nothing can be more degrading for a nation than to be occupied. In the case of France, the German Occupation even extended to the ancient practice of hauling people off to be slaves -- in this ...