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The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II
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15
/100
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Readers
15/100Critics
16/100Scholars
Author:
Ian Buruma
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Date:
March 7, 2023
An account of three figuresâa Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler's masseurâwho may have been con artists and collaborators under Japanese and German rule, or true heroes, or something in between.
What The Reviewers Say
So much sleaze oozes out of the morally compromised subjects in Ian Buruma’s disquieting group portrait... that nearly every page leaves a stain of betrayal.
Buruma has long demonstrated an ability to depict even horrific wartime events with remove.
Meticulously, relentlessly, Buruma dissects these collaborators’ contradictory and self-serving accounts and cross-references with other sources to get closer to the truth.
This intriguing but rather disjointed book sets out to explore moral ambiguity and degrees of guilt.
