The first Paris Gun was fired from Crépy on March 21, 1918. With 80 German soldiers manning the weapons, the guns fired 21 projectiles on Quai de la Seine in Paris, killing 15 people and wounding ...

The German Army, to the number of 30,000, entered Paris, as agreed, on March 1, and the accounts of the event are now before us, giving in detail what had previously been shadowed forth by the ...

One of the defining events in World War II happened 80 years ago, when German troops entered Paris on June 14. On that morning, according to History, Parisians woke to the sound of a German ...

Paris on Sunday celebrated the 80 th anniversary of its liberation from German troops in World War II with tributes, military marches and the hoisting of a flag at the Eiffel Tower.. On August 25 ...

Paris on Sunday, August 25 celebrated the 80 th anniversary of its liberation from German troops in World War II with tributes, military marches and the hoisting of a flag at the Eiffel Tower.

A new film, “Diplomacy,” tells the story of how a Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling convinced Nazi general Lt. Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz not to destroy Paris in the waning months of World War II.

The assassination that turned Paris' WW2 tide. An account of the first assassination of a member of the German occupation during WW2 in Paris which helped liberate the city to freedom.