Lost among all the celebratory histories and splendorous heroic accounts of the Second World War are dark controversial elements of a more complicated, nuanced reality known to very few members of the public. They are the stories of the traitors, collaborators, deserters, scapegoats and conscientious objectors in World War II. This listing below is not to be fully inclusive of all these accounts but merely an acknowledgement that, as Shakespeare observed in Hamlet in another context,

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

This listing is an attempt to understand the full complex ramifications and internecine consequences of WWII.

American SS Renegades – The George Washington Legion;  General Andrey Vlasov;  Forgotten History of WWII: Operation Keelhaul, 1945;  Operation Keelhaul Exposed — Jeffrey Rogers Hummel article;  The Brits Who Fought For Hitler;  Traitors’ Legion – The British Free Corps;  Nazi Collaborators 01 of 13 Chaim Rumkowski;  Nazi Collaborators 02 of 13 Pierre Laval;  Nazi Collaborators 03 of 13 The Arajs Kommando;  Nazi Collaborators 04 of 13 The Belgian Collaborators;  Nazi Collaborators 05 of 13 Croatian Collaborator;  Nazi Collaborators 06 of 13 Vidkun Quisling;  Nazi Collaborators 07 of 13 The IRA;  Nazi Collaborators 08 of 13 The Grand Mufti;  Nazi Collaborators 09 of 13 Jews Who Fought for Hitler;  Nazi Collaborators 10 of 13 The Dutch Collaborator;  Nazi Collaborators 11 of 1 3 The Greek Collaborator;  Nazi Collaborators 12 of 13 The Good Collaborators;  Nazi Collaborators 13 of 13 Hitlers KIller Police;  Tokyo Rose: Victim of Propganda;  Nazi Hunters  The Jewish Avengers;  The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II — Book by Charles Glass;  “The Good War and the Bad Peace: Conscientious Objectors in World War II” — Bonnie Keady article;  American Pravda: Our Great Purge of the 1940s — Ron Unz article;  Not Just Japanese Americans: The Untold Story of U.S. Repression During “The Good War” — Jeffrey Rogers Hummel article;  Truncating the Antecedents: How Americans Have Been Misled about World War II — Robert Higgs article;  The People As Enemy: The Leader’s Hidden Agenda In World War II — Book by John Spritzler;  Fundamental Features of the Proposal of the National Military Organization in Palestine (Irgun Zvai Leumi) Concerning the Solution of the Jewish Question in Europe and the Participation of the NMO in the War on the Side of Germany (1941); and Unpatriotic History of the Second World War — Book by James Heartfield.

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