“The thing about collaborators is that you don’t know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In WWII, ] the worst cases of collaboration weren’t among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.”

Pure War (2008), p. 183

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