Collaboration

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Collaboration with the Nazis in Occupied France

We can see the extent of collaboration in the occupied territories through the case study of France.

Occupation of France

3 June 1940: The Germans bombed Paris for the first time.
- Many Parisians fled the city.
20 June 1940: Germany defeated France. General Charles Huntziger signed the Armistice.
- France was divided into the 'occupied zone' in the North and the 'free zone' in the South.

Vichy France

The southern part of France, the 'free zone', was called Vichy France.
Philippe Pétain had won the Battle of Verdun for the French Army in World War 1.
Pétain was made the leader of a 'puppet state' Vichy France, which was essentially a Nazi country.
- Pétain was 84 years old when he took over control and Vichy France essentially collaborated with the Nazi regime.

Occupied France under the Nazis

The occupied zone of France in the North was run directly by the Nazi Party.

Nazi Collaboration in Other Countries

There are a number of key examples where governments and groups in other countries actively collaborated with the Nazis to inflict more damage on their people.

Greece

After the Nazis conquered Greece in April 1941, they chose the Greek Prime Minister. The Nazis could control government policy.
Greek Prime Ministers were replaced frequently, almost annually.
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos moved back to Germany and left Greece with the German Army in 1944, suggesting that the Nazis installed Nazi sympathisers.
Greek Security Battalions were created to support the German war effort and to shut down communist sympathy groups.

Croatia

There was a far-right political party in Croatia called the Ustasa, which was founded in 1930.
The Nazis chose Ustasa to rule Croatia for them.
The Ustasa party supported anti-semitism and they built concentration camps in Danica & Pag. They killed between 25,000 and 30,000 Jews at these camps.

Yugoslavia

The Chetniks were another right-wing nationalist group in Yugoslavia.
They decided to collaborate with the Nazis, who occupied their country in 1943.

Latvia

The Latvian Auxiliary Security Police (known as the Arajs Kommando) was a right-wing militia of former Latvian army officers.
There were only 1,200 of them, but they decided to purge Jews and Communists thinking they were 'internal enemies'.
They killed half of all Latvia's Jews (around 26,000 people).

1Dictatorship

1.1Hitler & The Nazi Party in 1933

1.1.1The Origins of the Nazi Party

1.1.2Hitler & The Growth of the Party

1.1.3The 1932 Election

1.2Establishing Dictatorship, 1933-1934

1.2.1Establishing Dictatorship

1.2.2Achieving Total Power, July 1933 - August 1934

1.2.3End of Topic Test - Dictatorship

1.2.4Grade 9 - Dictatorship

2Control & Opposition

2.1The Machinery of Terror

2.1.1Police State & Legal System

2.1.2The Gestapo & SS

2.1.3Concentration Camps

2.1.4End of Topic Test - Control & Opposition

2.2Nazi Propaganda

2.2.1The Effectiveness of Nazi Propaganda

2.3Opposition to Nazi Rule

2.3.1The Left

2.3.2Church Leaders

2.3.3Youth Groups

2.3.4Support for Nazi Rule

2.3.5End of Topic Test - Propaganda & Opposition

2.3.6Grade 9 - Propaganda & Opposition

3Changing Lives, 1933-1939

3.1Work & Home

3.1.1Work

3.1.2Home

3.2The Lives of Young People

3.2.1Education

3.2.2Youth Movements

3.3Nazi Racial Policy

3.3.1Racial Policy

3.3.2Persecution of the Jews

3.3.3End of Topic Test 0 Changing Lives

3.3.4Grade 9 - Changing Lives

4Germany in War

4.1The Impact of War

4.1.1Impact of the War Economy on the People

4.1.2Impact of Total War on the People

4.2Growing Opposition from the German People

4.2.1Opposition from the People

4.2.2Opposition from the Army

4.2.3End of Topic Test - Germany in War

4.2.4Grade 9 - Germany in War

5Occupation

5.1Nazi Rule in Eastern and Western Europe

5.1.1The Start of World War 2

5.1.2Western Europe

5.1.3Eastern Europe

5.1.4End of Topic Test - Occupation

5.2The Final Solution

5.2.1Ghettos & Executions

5.2.2Death Camps

5.2.3End of Topic Test - The Final Solution

5.3Responses to Nazi Rule

5.3.1Collaboration

5.3.2Accommodation

5.3.3Resistance

5.3.4End of Topic Test - Responses to Nazi Rule

5.3.5Grade 9 - Occupation

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