I'm sure many people do not know that such a collaboration, and hear this word for the first time.The legal interpretation is a voluntary, conscious, deliberate collaboration with the enemy in their interests to the detriment of their own country, in other words - treason.This term was first performed during the Second World War, in 1940, when Marshal Petain, the head of the Vichy regime, urged the French nation during the occupation of France to cooperate with the German authorities.
Later that such collaboration, learned in other countries.The term began to be applied to all European governments, acting under German occupation (mode Lokotskoy republic, the government of Quisling in Norway, the activity in the occupied territory of the USSR, "Melnyk" and so on. P.) And controlled by the Hitlerite bloc military organizations of citizens of occupied countries (nationalSS divisions, the Vlasov army, and so on. n.).
Collaboration during World War II
In historical science, fiction, nonfiction works are widely covered the heroism of millions of people during the war - sometimes genuine, sometimes mythical, sometimes imaginary.But there were other people - those who collaborated with the Nazis, trying by any means to survive in the conditions of the occupation regime.Who can often find statements of historians that the Soviet Union was a country of traitors allegedly hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens to stand under the banner of the Third Reich in an attempt to fight the hated Stalinist regime.Is it really?Are Russian collaboration was so massive?Try to understand.
collaboration with the Nazis
deny that collaboration in the Great Patriotic War took place, it would be pointless.It is known that tens of thousands of Russian citizens who joined the troops ROA (Russian Liberation Army), in February of 1945 with arms on the Oder tried to stop the victorious advance of our army to Berlin.And how many were traitors?By February 45th ROA was formed two divisions, comprising some forty thousand men, and one unformed, numbering ten or twelve thousand men.ROA is also nominally belonged to the Cossack Corps Helmuth von Pannwitz, consisting of forty-five thousand, and formed of a Russian emigrant corps who fought in Serbia, includes about six thousand men.Thus, only in the units of the POA numbers within one hundred and twenty thousand people.The various services kollaboratsionisticheskogo character in the entire USSR in total were deployed to eight hundred thousand soldiers (according to German data).That's all!
Types of collaboration
should say that treason is different: administrative, intellectual, military, economic, spiritual, ideological, ethnic, sexual, child.So, some people collaborated with the enemy in arms - a military collaboration.In the Soviet Union, France and other countries during World War II was another category of people who provide the service of the intelligence to the enemy: the spiritual authority of a priest, the ability of the actor, talent working.As for the children's collaboration, it seems, it was a rash.German officers picked up thousands of starving Russian children fed and then given pieces of TNT and offered to throw them to the train stations to the heaps of coal.Almost all the children are not on a mission, and those who performed, certainly did so unwittingly.
Love Germans
How manifested sexual collaboration during World War II?Europe needed people with good blood.Remember soloist Swedish group "ABBA" Anni-Frid Lyngstad?She was the product of sexual collaboration.Her father - a German soldier and his mother - Norwegian.Russian girls as racially requirements of the Third Reich did not respond.Even out the orders prohibiting German invaders cohabit with our women, to avoid damage to the Aryan blood.However, in practice things were different.Between people, staring at the front of the deep rear, and those who were in the thick of it, there were certain contradictions.For example, in Orel, General Hamann, the German commander, declared that if the woman can prove that gave birth to the child of a German soldier, it will be based on alimony from the German command.
massacre
The fact that such a collaboration, known in all European countries, however, dealt with traitors everywhere differently.For example, in Norway, a man just to cheer the German responded in kind, had to publicly repent.What can we say about the active accomplices.They were sentenced to death, jailed.It was the same in the Soviet Union.Even after the war, people who were previously in the occupied territories, should reflect this fact in the questionnaire.It was a black mark, the so-called mark of Cain, indicates that such a person should be treated with caution.
In conclusion
And what collaboration in understanding the modern man?For example, now in the Baltic countries are referred to as liberators collaborators.They proclaimed heroes and freedom fighters.Fortunately, people who defend this point of view, the minority.We should not make heroes of criminals, who fought on the side of the fascists with arms.It is unacceptable that after the tenth anniversary of the conquest of the Victory we have tried to steal it!
