Knife in the back. From the life of accomplices and traitors

The years of World War II were a time of not only the tragedies of entire peoples and heroism of those who fought against fascism, but also vile betrayal. In vast spaces from the La-Chank to the Caucasus, there were many traitors ... For decades, Europe avoided an unpleasant conversation about Ukrainian overseers, Latvian police officers, Polish peasants, French mayors and Norwegian ministers, and all of them took part in Nazi crimes. Without them, the Germans could not cope, would not have killed so many people. SS, police, Wehrmacht lacked a manpower to control all the occupied territories. In the new book, L. Mlechin talks about what moved people who, having betrayed their homeland and their people, served the Germans and therefore themselves became criminals