Collaboration

Collaboration, literally, consists of working together with one or more others.

Wartime collaboration

As a pejorative term, the word "collaboration' can describe the treason of cooperating with enemy forces occupying one's country.

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The use of "collaboration" to mean "traitorous cooperation with the enemy," dates from 1940, originally in reference to the Vichy Regime in France, and other French people who helped Nazi Germany. Since then, the words collaboration and collaborateur possibly have this very pejorative meaning in French (the shortened form collabo only has this pejorative meaning).

Related Topics:
Vichy Regime - France - Nazi Germany

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During World War II, those accused of collaboration with Axis Powers included:

Related Topics:
World War II - Axis Powers

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• Vidkun Quisling (Norway)
• The Usta?e (Croatia)
• The government of Vichy France
• Léopold III of Belgium (found innocent)
• Anton Mussert (Netherlands)
• Milan Nedić (Serbia)
• Jozef Tiso (Slovakia)
• Pierre Laval (France)
• Andrei Vlasov (USSR)
• P. G. Wodehouse (only informally accused)
• companies like Philips and Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek (DAF) in the Netherlands continued their business with the Germans as usual, though the Phillips company for one tried to be as unproductive as they could get away with!