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Jake Stern

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4. Hard time finding pity, especially after talking to people who lived around these collaborators

Reply to WhiskeyGrinder (Original post)

Thu Jun 6, 2019, 06:57 PM

Jun 2019

during the German occupation.

What this story fails to mention is how these 'horizontal collaborators' gave away identities of resistance members, outed Jews in hiding, used their German paramours to help settle old scores and so much more.

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This Picture Tells a Tragic Story of What Happened to Women After D-Day [View all] WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2019 OP

These women were completely exposed and had no protection. RelativelyJones Jun 2019 #1

Conservatives get off on this type of revenge/punishment. Thomas Hurt Jun 2019 #2

K&R smirkymonkey Jun 2019 #3

Hard time finding pity, especially after talking to people who lived around these collaborators Jake Stern Jun 2019 #4

I doubt that that was the case for every one of the women who was punished. As in most things WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2019 #5

Some did; others were raped and coerced. yardwork Jun 2019 #6

True. n/t Delphinus Jun 2019 #7

Many got their due, especially those in the Vichy Gov. demosincebirth Jun 2019 #8

It's hard to distinguish them from Nazi soldiers morally. On the other hand SeaDoo Jun 2019 #9

Getting their hair cut is nothing compared to what the Russians were doing Baclava Jun 2019 #10