De Gaule was highly instrumental in stopping post war reprisals in France post WW2 eventually and indeed nobody knows how many traitors/collaborators and those alleged to have beeen were killed, I have seen a minimum figure of 10,000, almost all of whom would have been men and possibly over 200,000. I think he ultimately took the view that when the war is over, it's over!
A good friend of mine from Belguim, whoose father was 17 at the end of the war told him that the most digusting thing he witnessed were the reprisals after the war. in general it was very often just a land grab by in many cases AHs who had nothing to do with the resistance there! Many people suffered because they had dealt with the Nazis casually at a time when they had absolutely no choice!
That said if The Nazis ever came to my country, Ireland there would be any amount of collaborators there to prop them up and I would have no issues with those particular Sleeveens ( an Irish language word meaning a sly you know what ) being severely dealt with, hell if I had been around I would have participated in dealing with them and depending on the severity of their crimes in an ultimate fashion!
A good friend of mine from Belguim, whoose father was 17 at the end of the war told him that the most digusting thing he witnessed were the reprisals after the war. in general it was very often just a land grab by in many cases AHs who had nothing to do with the resistance there! Many people suffered because they had dealt with the Nazis casually at a time when they had absolutely no choice!
That said if The Nazis ever came to my country, Ireland there would be any amount of collaborators there to prop them up and I would have no issues with those particular Sleeveens ( an Irish language word meaning a sly you know what ) being severely dealt with, hell if I had been around I would have participated in dealing with them and depending on the severity of their crimes in an ultimate fashion!