Nazi collaborators

Traitors aiding fascists

Nazi collaborators were individuals or groups who cooperated with Nazi Germany during World War II, whether by choice, coercion, or opportunism.

The term covers a range of activities: informing on neighbors, joining auxiliary police units, administering occupied territories, or profiting from confiscated Jewish property.

Postwar tribunals prosecuted Nazi collaborators across Europe.

The label carries permanent moral condemnation, though historians debate degrees of complicity versus survival.

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