Collaboration - Definition and Overview

Collaboration, literally, consists of working together with one or more others. See collaborative software, consensus.

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 Nedić (Serbia)
• Jozef Tiso (Slovakia)
• Pierre Laval (France)
• 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.

See also

• Puppet government
• Resistance movements

External links

• State Collaboration (http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/~os0tmc/occupied/collab.htm) Collaboration of Vichy France with Nazi Germany.