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Originally Posted by Lancer44
In Poland women which had sexual contacts with German soldiers - not prostitutes - were punished in the same humiliating way of odd "hairstyle".
I have a feeling that circus in France with so called "horizontal" collaboration served well to turn attention from real collaborators, police, gendarmes and administration clerks.
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That may well be true though they did not all escape. These photos are all courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
Members of the Dutch resistance arrest and guard fellow countrymen accused of collaborating with the Germans during the occupation, or being members of Dutch Nazi Party on September 20, 1944 in
Nijmegen.
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Here, M
embers of the Free French Forces of the Interior (FFI) lead the Judge and Mayor of Vesoul to prison for collaborating with the Germans on September 13, 1944
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And here, m
embers of the Belgian resistance (the "FIN") arrest alleged collaborators in Couvin following the liberation of the town by Allied forces on September 4, 1944.
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Of course both the US and the Soviets protected higher level criminals that they found "useful" during the Cold War. I suspect Partisans killed many "administrative" collaborators along the way and after the war in may areas.