![The thing about collaborators is that you don't know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In WWII, ] the worst cases of collaboration weren't among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy. (Paul Virilio)](https://cdn.quotesdtb.com/img/quotes_images_webp/29/paul-virilio-apathy-collaboration-182929.webp)
The thing about collaborators is that you don't know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In WWII, ] the worst cases of collaboration weren't among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.
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