The Second World War at Home – Part One After the 1939 – 45 war it was in the interests of all those who had lived under German or Italian occupation to present themselves as having actively resisted, or at least not to have collaborated. The tongue-in-cheek comment that until 1944 in France there were forty million collaborators and after 1944 there were forty million resistance fighters is an exaggeration, but it makes the point that in most occupied countries the bulk of the population were concerned with surviving, with their own lives and with those of their families, and whatever they may have thought of the occupiers, they tended to keep their heads down and stay out of trouble.
THE SECOND WORLD WAR AT HOME - PART ONE
THE SECOND WORLD WAR AT HOME - PART ONE
THE SECOND WORLD WAR AT HOME - PART ONE
The Second World War at Home – Part One After the 1939 – 45 war it was in the interests of all those who had lived under German or Italian occupation to present themselves as having actively resisted, or at least not to have collaborated. The tongue-in-cheek comment that until 1944 in France there were forty million collaborators and after 1944 there were forty million resistance fighters is an exaggeration, but it makes the point that in most occupied countries the bulk of the population were concerned with surviving, with their own lives and with those of their families, and whatever they may have thought of the occupiers, they tended to keep their heads down and stay out of trouble.