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5 unusual facts about Collaborationism


Carl Viggo Meincke

When the occupation ended, Meincke was punished for his collaboration, and was expelled from all possible organizations.

Controversies surrounding the Indian National Army

Other political forces, including the communist party and its members viewed the INA as fascist-collaborators, and was instrumental in helping the British Indian police and security forces track down INA agents landed in India by submarine or Parachute during the war.

House of Kinsky

sued the Czech Republic for return of the properties confiscated in 1945 under the Beneš decrees only because, he maintained, that the confiscation implicitly labeled his family as historical traitors against Czechoslovakia and as willful collaborators during the Nazi occupation.

Montoire-sur-le-Loir

Montoire-sur-le-Loir is known as the location where, on 24 October 1940, the famous handshake between Adolf Hitler and Maréchal Pétain took place signifying the start of organised French collaboration with the Nazi regime.

Philip Toosey

Both the book and film outraged former prisoners because Toosey did not collaborate with the enemy, unlike the fictional Colonel Nicholson.


Felix Timmermans

Because of this, and because of the Rembrandt prize he received in 1942 from the University of Hamburg, he was wrongly seen as a collaborator, which may have caused health problems and premature death.

Gertrude Hiscox

Gertrude Blount Hiscox (1910 Hendon, Middlesex - 1966 Ipswich) was a British collaborator with Nazi Germany in World War II.

Krsta Cicvarić

However, after the Belgrade Offensive of 1944 in World War II, the Yugoslav communists accused him of being the co-editor of the collaborationist newspaper Balkan.

Tripartisme

It also enacted some nationalizations in strategic or/and Collaborationist-controlled economic sectors (including the 1946 founding of Électricité de France electricity company, the 1945 nationalization of the AGF insurance firm, the nationalization of the Crédit Lyonnais bank in 1945 and the Société Générale bank in 1946, as well as the nationalization of the car maker Renault, which had been accused of Collaborationism).


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