Since the [[Second World War]] the term "Collaboration" acquired a very [[negative]] meaning as referring to persons and groups which help a foreign occupier of their country—due to actual use by people in European countries who worked with and for the Nazi German occupiers. Linguistically, "collaboration" implies more or less [[equal]] [[partners]] who [[work]] [[together]]—which is obviously not the case when one party is an army of occupation and the other are people of the occupied country living under the power of this army. | Since the [[Second World War]] the term "Collaboration" acquired a very [[negative]] meaning as referring to persons and groups which help a foreign occupier of their country—due to actual use by people in European countries who worked with and for the Nazi German occupiers. Linguistically, "collaboration" implies more or less [[equal]] [[partners]] who [[work]] [[together]]—which is obviously not the case when one party is an army of occupation and the other are people of the occupied country living under the power of this army. |