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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 , and other French people who helped Nazi Germany . Since then, the words ''collaboration'' and ''collaborateur'' possibly have this very pejorative meaning in French (the shortened form ''collabo'' only has this pejorative meaning). 21 suspected Baltic Nazi War Criminal s were Admit ted to Sweden toward the end of World War II and have been living there ever since. Among them were several persons who had played a very prominent role in the Mass Murder of Jews , people such as Oskar Angelus , who established the Estonian Security Police and served as director of internal affairs in the collaborationist Estonian administration - Eesti Omavalitsus , and Karlis Lobe , who founded the Latvian Security Police Battalion s and headed the Latvian Police in Ventspils . In Greece, general Tsolakoglou, who did not represent the Greek government in exile, signed the surrender of Greece in April 1941. Tsolakoglou was awarded for this contribution the ledership of the first Nazi-held puppet government in Athens. Tsolakoglou was followed by Logothetopoulos, who wished to create a Greek division for the Waffen-SS. Although he failed to, he helped some thousand die-hard fascists and national-socialist (some from the previous quasi-fascist regime of Ioannis Metaxas of 1936-1941), anti-communist and anti-semite Greeks to volunteer and enroll in the German Army. The third Greek collaborationist regime was headed by Ioannis Rallis . Unlike in other countries, most Greek collaborators and far-right sympathizers enjoyed prominent posts in the post-war Greek governments, while the Communist Resistance members were prosecuted under different anti-Communist laws which lasted until the late 80's. DURING WORLD WAR II , THOSE ACCUSED OF COLLABORATION WITH AXIS POWERS INCLUDED Belarus Belgium
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