Marcel Ophuls, Oscar-winning filmmaker who forced France to face its WWII past, dies at 97Marcel Ophuls, who became an American citizen and later served as a U.S. Army GI in occupied Japan, directed the 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” that shattered the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the Nazis during World War II
Marthe Cohn, a Jewish spy in Nazi Germany, dies at 105After joining the French resistance in 1944, Marthe Cohn spent a month in Germany, passing as a German nurse while making small talk with SS officers and Nazi soldiers, gathering information about troop movements. Her spying is credited with saving the lives of Allied troops pressing in on the Reich.