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  • Jean-Pierre Melville
    Jean-Pierre Melville
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    Double Exposure: Jean-Pierre Melville

    The ambiguities and darkness of Nazi-occupied France propelled him to flee his country, take a new name, fight in the Resistance, and then invent film noir. But the past continued to haunt him.

    byAdrien Bosc
  • Group portrait of a unit of the French resistance, 1940 - 1944, France, photographer unknown.
    Group portrait of a unit of the French resistance, 1940 - 1944, France, photographer unknown.
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    Was the French Resistance Jewish?

    Jews led—and purposefully did not lead—some of the many specialized groups that fought Vichy France and its Nazi occupiers

    byRenée Poznanski
  • Remains of the children's school in Oradour-sur Glane, photographed in 2002. (Dennis Nilsson/Wikimedia)
    Remains of the children's school in Oradour-sur Glane, photographed in 2002. (Dennis Nilsson/Wikimedia)
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    Former Nazi Soldier Charged in 1944 Massacre

    Allegedly involved in attack on French village of Oradour-sur-Glane

    byStephanie Butnick
  • Younes (Tahar Rahim) in Free Men.(Film Movement)
    Younes (Tahar Rahim) in Free Men.(Film Movement)
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    Sanctuary

    Free Men, a film about Muslim members of the French Resistance in World War II, evokes recent surveillance activity by the New York Police Department

    byJacob Silverman
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