A forgotten part of a well-known story.

He also helped preserve the memory of his fellow fighters.

The plan was to surprise the Germans. But they were prepared.

The Paper Brigade.

Heroic women who risked their lives.

And the French Resistance’s own ambivalence.

Rewriting history.

In 1942, Allied forces invading Algeria, then under the control of Vichy France, cooperated with a group of mostly Jewish local resistance fighters. The story. . .

Even as it may overstate the contribution of Jews to Hitler’s defeat, a new book offers a useful corrective to prevailing views of Jewish impotence.