Everything about Collaborationism totally explained
Collaborationism, in general describes the act of two or more individuals, groups or organisations up to and including national governments doing something together to gain mutual benefit through making use of the concept of
economies of scale. Another term often used to represent this is alliance, an agreement between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests. A secondary definiton of the word
Collaboration is "Traitorous cooperation with the enemy"., and carries a pejorative connotations.
Etymology
The term collaborate dates from 1871, and is a back-formation from collaborator (1802), from the French
collaborateur as used during the
Napoleonic Wars against smugglers trading with England and assisting escape of monarchists, and is itself derived from the Latin
collaboratus, pp. of
collaborare "work with", from
com- "with" +
labore "to work." Collaboration as "traitorous cooperation with the enemy" dates from 1940, originally in reference to the Vichy Government of France and those who cooperated with or helped the
Nazi Germany following the
Battle of France defeat.
Application
The term is widely applied in many meanings and environments, including the
arts,
cinematography,
scientific research,
commerce,
international relations, and as a legal term to denote multiple participants in a
criminal offence. Ironically the term is also used to describe interaction of policing organisations with their local communities in combating crime.
In the application of the term by
military law it can describe the act of
treason that includes [cooperation|cooperating]] with enemy
armed forces regardless of their
occupation of one's
country or not. As such it implies
criminal activity in the service of the
enemy, including giving support to enemy combat and combat support operations, intending to, or participating in combat against one's own
state or country of birth, and
complicity with the occupying administration in perpetrating
murder,
persecutions,
pillage, and
economic exploitation as well as participation in a
puppet government administration.
History of criminal collaboration
In France, a distinction emerged between the
collaborateur and 'collaborationists'. The latter expression is mainly used to describe individuals enrolled in pseudo-Nazi parties, often based in Paris, who had an overwhelming belief in fascist ideology.
Collaborateur, on the other hand, could engage in collaboration for a number of more pragmatic reasons, such as preventing infrastructure damage for use by the occupation forces or personal ambition, and were not necessarily believers in fascism per se. Arch-collaborators like
Pierre Laval or
René Bousquet are thus distinct from collaborationists.
Alleged collaborators
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