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DARK SECRETS: Klaus barbie - The Real Truth

This Week in History: From a Gestapo chief on trial to a tragic aviation mystery

Explore how major events between 18 and 24 May were captured on The Independent’s front pages

The Independent UK

Moulin review – László Nemes’s resistance hero drama is chilling, stirring and surprisingly conventional

Cannes film festival: The Son of Saul director’s dramatisation of Jean Moulin’s torture by Klaus Barbie both benefits and suffers from its mainstream approach

The Guardian - UK

“History Cool Kids” Shared 58 Interesting Photos That Might Make You See The Past Differently

History has a way of feeling distant until a single photograph suddenly makes it seem surprisingly close. The Instagram page History Cool Kids, whose content has previously been featured on Bored Panda, brings together rare and lesser-known images that reveal the past through small, striking, and often unexpected moments. Some…

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Marcel Ophuls obituary

Documentary film-maker best known for The Sorrow and the Pity and Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

The Guardian - UK

Marcel Ophuls, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who forced France to face its WWII past, is dead at 97

Marcel Ophuls, the Academy Award-winning German-born filmmaker whose landmark 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” shattered the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the Nazis during World War II — has died at 97

The Independent UK

Marcel Ophuls, Oscar-winning director of 'The Sorrow and the Pity', dies aged 97

His most famous work, The Sorrow and the Pity (1969), was a groundbreaking four-hour documentary that shattered France’s myths about resistance during World War II.

Euronews

Nazi War Criminal Who Escaped To South America Worked With Pablo Escobar: Report

Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie helped set up a top cartel in South America and worked with drug lord Pablo Escobar, according to a new report

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'Rails of memory' Holocaust memorial opens in French city of Lyon

A Holocaust memorial was inaugurated in Lyon on Sunday, marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Over 6,000 Jews from the French city were killed between 1941-1945.

Radio France Internationale

80 Years On, Macron Leads Tribute To Victims Of Nazi Raid On Jewish Orphanage

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday marked 80 years since Nazi forces raided a Jewish orphanage in the southeast of France and sent almost all its occupants to extermination camps.

International Business Times

France's Macron launches season of WWII commemorative events

French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute on Sunday to 44 Jewish children deported from an orphanage in the southeast of France by the Nazis, and to members of the French Resistance, in the first of a string of events he is leading this year to mark 80 years since D-Day…

Radio France Internationale

France mourns Robert Badinter, lawyer who fought to ban death penalty

Emmanuel Macron says Badinter was nation’s ‘moral conscience’ as thousands sign condolences book

The Guardian - UK

Macron to pay tribute to French Resistance hero during 8 May ceremonies

French president Emmanuel Macron will attend a ceremony at Montluc prison in Lyon on Monday afternoon to pay tribute to the French Resistance and to Jean Moulin, one of its most celebrated leaders during services to commemorate the end of the second world war in Europe.

Radio France Internationale

Young talents paint a bright future for vibrant comic book business

Getting youth involved is a key aim of the Angoulême international comics festival. Each year, students and young people enter the festival's numerous competitions or are called upon to act as jury members. Proof that the future of the art form is in good hands, both in terms of creativity…

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