Collaboration
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| - | == Wartime collaboration == | + | '''Collaboration''' (from Latin ''com-'' "with" + ''laborare'' "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations [[working]] together to complete a task or achieve a goal. |
| - | :''[[Collaborationism]]'' | + | |
| - | Since [[World War II]] the term "collaboration" acquired a 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 Germany|Nazi German]] occupiers. Linguistically, "collaboration" implies more or less equal partners who work together—which was the meaning the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]] occupiers were suggesting for ideological reasons but was obviously not the case as one party was an army of occupation and the other were people of the occupied country living under the power of this army. Thus, the term "collaboration" acquired during [[World War II]] the additional sense of criminal deeds in the service of the occupying power, including complicity with the occupying power in murder, persecutions, pillage, and economic exploitation as well as participation in a [[puppet government]]. | + | |
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| - | The use of "collaboration" to mean "traitorous cooperation with the enemy," dates from 1940, originally in reference to the [[Vichy Regime]] in [[France]], the French civilians who sympathised with [[Nazi Germany]]'s doctrine, and voluntary troops ([[Vichy France|LVF]]) who fought against the [[Free French]] and later [[De Gaulle]]'s [[Free French|French Force]]. Since then, the words ''collaboration'' and ''collaborateur'' may have this very pejorative meaning in French (and the [[abbreviation]] ''collabo'' has only this pejorative and insulting meaning). Nonetheless, ''collaboration'' and ''collaborateur'' have kept in French their original positive acceptations –with, for example, ''collaborateur'' still commonly used in referring to co-workers. | + | |
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| - | In order to make a distinction, the more specific term [[Collaborationism]] is often used for this phenomenon of collaboration with an occupying army. However, there is no water-tight distinction; "Collaboration" and "Collaborator", as well as "Collaborationism" and "Collaborationist", are often used in this pejorative sense—and even more so, the equivalent terms in [[French language|French]] and other languages spoken in countries which experienced direct Nazi occupation. | + | |
| + | Collaboration is similar to [[cooperation]]. Most collaboration requires [[leadership]]. | ||
| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[Wartime collaboration]] | ||
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Collaboration (from Latin com- "with" + laborare "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal.
Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most collaboration requires leadership.
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