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Collaboration, literally, consists of working together with one or more others. See collaborative software, consensus.1 Wartime collaboration
As a pejorative term, the word "collaboration' can describe the treason of cooperating with enemy forces occupying one's country.
During World War II, those accused of collaboration with Axis Powers included:
- Vidkun Quisling ( Norway)
- The Ustaše ( Croatia)
- The government of Vichy France
- Leopold III of Belgium (found innocent)
- Anton Mussert ( Netherlands)
- Milan Nedic ( Serbia)
- Jozef Tiso ( SlovakiaSlovakia ( Slovak: Slovensko is a landlocked republic in Central Europe. It borders the Czech Republic in the northwest, Poland in the north, Ukraine in the east, Hungary in the south, and Austria in the southwest. Slovenska Republika ( In Detail) Nationa)
- Pierre LavalVichy France Pierre Laval ( June 28, 1883 October 15, 1945) was a French politician and thrice Prime Minister of France, the final time being under the Vichy government. He was born in Chateldon and after gaining a degree, he worked as a lawyer, in Paris ( FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents.)
- P. G. WodehouseSir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse ( October 15, 1881 February 14, 1975) was a profilic English comic novelist whose writing career spanned nearly seventy years. He was most famously described as "English literature's performing flea. An acknowledged master o (only informally accused)
- companies like PhilipsCompany logo Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. Royal Philips Electronics), usually known as Philips is one of the largest consumer electronics producers in the world. In 2003, their sales were €29. 0 billion and they employed 164,000 people in more and Van Doorne's Automobiel FabriekDAF is a Dutch automobile company, with its main offices in Eindhoven. The DAF company was founded in 1932, when a machine construction company led by Hub and Wim van Doorne, changed name to Van Doorne's Aanhangwagen Fabriek (Van Doorne's Trailer Factory) (DAF) in the Netherlands continued their business with the Germans as usual.
2 See also
- Puppet governmentPuppet government or puppet regime are derogatory terms for a government which though notionally of the same culture as the governed people owes its existence (or other major debt) to being installed, supported or controlled by a more powerful entity, typ
- Resistance movements
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