Purges of Nazi collaborators

Purges of Nazi collaborators, sometimes called national cleansing, were widespread trials of people accused of collaborating with the Nazi occupiers in many European countries after World War II. As much as 2–3 percent of the population of Europe was affected by these trials, which were often held under special laws. Most of these trials did not emphasize crimes committed against Jews during the war.

Examples include:

• Legal purge in Norway after World War II
• Épuration légale in France
• August trials in Poland
• People's courts (Czechoslovakia) in Czechoslovakia
• Soviet trials of Nazi collaborators

References

Further reading

• Deák, István; Gross, Jan T.; Judt, Tony (2000). The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-00954-4.
• Konrád, Ota; Barth, Boris; Mrňka, Jaromír (2021). Collective Identities and Post-War Violence in Europe, 1944–48: Reshaping the Nation. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-030-78386-0.

1. Pursuit of Nazi collaborators
2. Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law
3. Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy
4. Bleiburg repatriations
5. Épuration légale
6. The Holocaust
7. Legal purge in Norway after World War II
8. Gustav Schwarzenegger
9. Schutzstaffel
10. Chinilpa
11. François Mauriac
12. Vichy France
13. Comparison of Nazism and Stalinism
14. German military administration in occupied France during World War II
15. Hypothetical Axis victory in World War II
16. Abbeville massacre
17. Operation Barbarossa
18. Gas van
19. Stella Goldschlag
20. Music in Nazi Germany