Our gallant French allies
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7652641/French-Jewish-grandmother-banned-from-telling-school-gendarmes-handed-her-over-to-Nazis.html
I guess the kindest thing one can say is that France was hardly alone*. Virtually every country, inlcuding the U.S., had people who supported fascism and naziism - right up to the very end of the War. There were groups in all of the occupied countries who helped out the Axis - with troops, supplies, police, intelligence services and transport. And other countries helped out actively, including militarily (I'm looking at you, Sweden...). There are far less halos than one would have hoped for and the facts continue to be hidden, stonewalled and lied about.
*I can't resist piling on, however. There's reasonably good evidence that the last SS troops guarding the fuhrer's bunker in Berlin in April of '45 were French volunteers...
I guess the kindest thing one can say is that France was hardly alone*. Virtually every country, inlcuding the U.S., had people who supported fascism and naziism - right up to the very end of the War. There were groups in all of the occupied countries who helped out the Axis - with troops, supplies, police, intelligence services and transport. And other countries helped out actively, including militarily (I'm looking at you, Sweden...). There are far less halos than one would have hoped for and the facts continue to be hidden, stonewalled and lied about.
*I can't resist piling on, however. There's reasonably good evidence that the last SS troops guarding the fuhrer's bunker in Berlin in April of '45 were French volunteers...
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