{"id":26628,"date":"2014-07-05T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T04:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26628"},"modified":"2018-11-03T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T18:21:29","slug":"qotd-collaborators-and-their-accusers-france-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/05\/qotd-collaborators-and-their-accusers-france-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Collaborators and their accusers, France 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The task of filtering the tens of thousands of Frenchmen and women arrested for collaboration in the summer of 1944 proved overwhelming for the nascent administration of de Gaulle&#8217;s provisional government. That autumn, there were over 300,000 dossiers still outstanding. In Normandy, prisoners were brought to the camp at Sully near Bayeux by the <em>s\u00e9curit\u00e9 militaire<\/em>, the <em>gendarmerie<\/em> and sometimes by US military police. There were also large numbers of displaced foreigners, Russians, Italians and Spaniards, who were trying to survive by looting from farms.<\/p>\n<p>The range of charges against French citizens was wide and often vague. They included &#8220;supplying the enemy&#8221;, &#8220;relations with the Germans&#8221;, denunciation of members of the Resistance or Allied paratroopers, &#8220;an anti-national attitude during the Occupation&#8221;, &#8220;pro-German activity&#8221;, &#8220;providing civilian clothes to a German soldier&#8221;, &#8220;pillaging&#8221;, even just &#8220;suspicion from a national point of view&#8221;. Almost anybody who had encountered the Germans at any stage could be denounced and arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Beevor, <em>D-Day: The Battle for Normandy<\/em>, 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The task of filtering the tens of thousands of Frenchmen and women arrested for collaboration in the summer of 1944 proved overwhelming for the nascent administration of de Gaulle&#8217;s provisional government. That autumn, there were over 300,000 dossiers still outstanding. In Normandy, prisoners were brought to the camp at Sully near Bayeux by the s\u00e9curit\u00e9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1117,1118,7,5,230],"tags":[974,267,1245,862],"class_list":["post-26628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-france","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-ww2","tag-d-day","tag-justice","tag-normandy","tag-treason"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Vu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26693,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26628\/revisions\/26693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}