In World War II, many individuals, organizations, and client and puppet states engaged in wartime collaboration with the Axis powers, "out of conviction, desperation, or under coercion". Nationalists
A Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond (VNV) meeting in Ghent in 1941
Members of Free Corps Denmark leaving for the Eastern Front from Copenhagen's Hellerup station
HQ of the SS-Schalburgkorps in Copenhagen in 1943
Leader (Chef) of Vichy France Marshal Philippe Pétain meeting Hitler at Montoire, 24 October 1940. (Hitler's interpreter, Dr Paul Schmidt, stands between them, while Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German foreign minister, stands to the right.)
Philippe Pétain
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Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain, better known as Marshal Pétain, was a French military officer who commanded the French Army in World War I and later became the head of the Axis-collaboration
Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy
…June 1940, the French Third Republic collapsed and was replaced by the authoritarian French State (État Français), led by First World War hero Marshal Philippe Pétain. The new government was based in Vichy (a spa resort in central France) rather than Paris. Prime Minister Paul Reynaud had resigned rather than sign…
Pétain in 1941
Pétain in the 1880s
Pétain in 1915. Autochrome portrait by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont
Pétain, Haig, Foch and Pershing in 1918