The 75th anniversary of the end of World War II will be observed on September 2. To mark this occasion, the Ernie Pyle World War II Museum in Dana, Indiana, and Scripps Howard Foundation are ...

Not published in LIFE. A young man watches liberation celebrations from atop a light pole, Paris, August 1944. Ralph Morse—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Not published in LIFE.

De Gaulle feared Paris “was in danger of suffering another Paris Commune, the two-month civil war that followed the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71,” Neiberg notes. “As many as fifty thousand ...

The liberation of Paris was both joyous and chaotic. It was faster and easier for the Allies than their protracted battle through Normandy and its gun-filled hedgerows. But the fight for the ...

The liberation of Paris, which came nearly three months after the D-Day landings began to free Europe from Nazism, started in mid-August in classic French fashion: with a five-day general strike.

[pullquote] And fight they did. Monday, August 25 marks the 70th Anniversary of the liberation of Paris, one of the greatest symbols of the world winning back its freedom from Nazi domination.

On the evening before the slight relaxation of the lockdown in Paris, which felt like a liberation, young people held a street party near my flat. Their observation of social-distancing rules was less ...

According to a book published in France this month, British and American generals insisted in early 1944 that non-white French colonial troops should be excluded from the liberation of Paris. The ...

In “The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944,” award-winning historian Michael Neiberg offers a fascinating look into how ordinary Parisians reclaimed the world’s shattered ...

PARIS — Paris celebrated the American soldiers, French Resistance fighters and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago on Sunday, unleashing an eruption ...