collaborationist
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Origin of collaborationist
First recorded in 1920–25; collaboration + -ist
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Weirdly, he had persuaded Stein to translate the speeches of Philippe Pétain, the leader of the collaborationist Vichy regime.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Not since World War Two Nazi collaborationist leader Philippe Pétain was jailed for treason in 1945 has any French ex-leader gone behind bars.
From BBC • Oct. 21, 2025
Even François Mitterrand, who became French president during the 1980s, had a collaborationist past.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2024
The French resistance comprised underground organizations that fought the Nazi occupation of France and the collaborationist Vichy regime, playing a key role in the liberation of the country.
From New York Times • May 17, 2023
She became a French citizen after her marriage in 1937 to industrialist Jean Lion, a Jewish man who later suffered from anti-Semitic laws of the collaborationist Vichy regime.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2021
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