French collaborators to be outed!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7861604/List-of-French-who-collaborated-with-Nazis-to-be-published-online.html
On the one hand, this has the potential to be a treasure trove for scholars studying the occupation and particularly the effectiveness of the gestapo, (I also hope it will provide further information about Interpol and drag it further down as little more than a pro-nazi instrument).
But, it's also going to be quite a bombshell for French history and society. I suspect virtually every family whose politics was right of center will be implicated, (much of the Resistance in France was socialist or communist, not plucky pro-Britishers as portrayed in our old war movies). This is going to be bloody...
On the one hand, this has the potential to be a treasure trove for scholars studying the occupation and particularly the effectiveness of the gestapo, (I also hope it will provide further information about Interpol and drag it further down as little more than a pro-nazi instrument).
But, it's also going to be quite a bombshell for French history and society. I suspect virtually every family whose politics was right of center will be implicated, (much of the Resistance in France was socialist or communist, not plucky pro-Britishers as portrayed in our old war movies). This is going to be bloody...
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