Word: collaborationist
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...Since the war against Russia many German soldiers have disappeared, but they have been replaced by Frauen in Uniform. All nightclubs are open and filled with Germans and their collaborationist friends. Life is very gay, and champagne flows like water-but French people (if there are any) must leave at 11:30 or stay until the curfew ends at five in the morning...
Thus ended the last hope that the France of Henri Philippe Pétain and Jean François Darlan might be saved from Hitler's Europe. Scarcely had the Allier flowed another league than half a dozen collaborationist officials were on their way to North Africa to undo the work that Maxime Weygand had done. Marshal Pétain and Admiral Darlan packed to go to Paris-the Marshal for the first time since the armistice-to meet "a high German personage" and sign away the rest of their country's freedom of action. In Berlin seven...