These complex collaborators

If one can talk in general, collaboration during the Second World War in France, it is more accurate to refer to the routes and behavior of employees, as there is no single path in this field, As is required the same variety of origins, pathways and modes of expression of the employees. The collaboration is a complex phenomenon and abjection to which it refers can not justify to ignore this complexity. The great merit of Pascal Ory is how to overcome the extremely simplistic representations that may apply to this fuzzy period of French history, to better understand the diversity of employees. Developed to generate some surprises: it pushed to the extreme pacifism preferring the alliance with the occupier rather than conflict, these singular fates, from the PCF and the SFIO (Doriot, Deat ...), departing the "left" values ​​to embrace fascism and Nazism, regional minorities (Corsica, Brittany, Alsace ...) that face their visceral abhorrence of France often made the choice of Nazi Germany, the ambiguous than Europe Some people saw as a destiny submitted to its neighbor France Germanic ...
Complex story than the employees to the point that the last sentence of the book is puzzling: "When, four years later, the same depths` France 'with disgust or horror punish those who had only press the step in the direction drawn, what image of herself so she sought to deny? "(P. 274).