WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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Collaborators
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Kamikaze
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Sanctions
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Partisans
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Detailed explanation-1: -Collaborationism is cooperation with the enemy against one’s country of citizenship in wartime. The term is most often used to describe the cooperation of civilians with the occupying Axis Powers, especially Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan, during World War II.
Detailed explanation-2: -The last of the Vichy exiles were captured in the Sigmaringen enclave in April 1945. Pétain was put on trial for treason by the new Provisional Government, and sentenced to death, but this was commuted to life imprisonment by de Gaulle.
Detailed explanation-3: -Between 1944 and 1951, official courts in France sentenced 6, 763 people to death (3, 910 in absentia) for treason and other offences, and 791 executions were actually carried out. More common was “national degradation, ” a loss of face and civil rights, which was meted out to 49, 723 people.