The ideology, policy, or practice of collaborating with an enemy or occupying power, especially the cooperation of some French and other European citizens with Nazi Germany during WWII.
Formed from 'collaboration' + '-ism' (suffix forming ideologies or systems), developed during WWII to describe systematic cooperation with Nazi occupation forces.
Collaborationism represents one of history's most morally complex phenomena—people often collaborated to protect family, feed themselves, or navigate impossible power imbalances, making simple moral judgments very difficult.
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