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as if you were discussing where you bought something at a sale.
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But the next step to thinking about that is who in France
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made all those things possible?
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Who was helping the Germans do that?
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The answer is that lots of people collaborated.
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Lots of people got what they wanted on a platter
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because of the Nazi victory.
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The same people who were shrieking
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"Better Hitler than Blum!" in 1936
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got exactly what they wanted.
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Marshal Pétain, who was a rabid anti-Semite,
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his national revolution was essentially aimed to do in France