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Surely you have seen "The Nasty Girl" (I can't recall its original German title), by Michael Verhoeven, based on a true story. I was shocked to realize how much collaboration needed to be covered up just in one town. Of course, it is not only in Germany. Remember when it was brought out that Mitterand had been in the Vichy government, and may have joined the Resistance in the waning days of the war through sheer opportunism? Or the Barbie case, which tore France apart, as it revealed the extent of Vichy collaboration in rounding up Jews. Or the Paul de Man case, where it was revealed that a "progressive" professor at Yale, of Belgian origin, had been a collaborationist journalist during the War, and his friends, notably Derrida, went through various "deconstructionist" contortions to absolve him... |
