• Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    “Tyskertøser/Feltmadrasser” (German girls/Field mattresses) was a similar phenomenon in Denmark. What is striking is that many of the actual collaborators got off. The heads of the police under German control suffered no repurcussions, Nils Svenningsen who ran the unelected fully nazi aligned government at the end of the war stayed in government until the 60s with a brief stint as ambassador to Sweden specifically to avoid having to face members of the public he would have repressed during his rule of Denmark, his Danish wikipedia pages explicitly notes that he was motivated by “Loyalty and a sense of duty […] regardless of the popular sentiment”, turning what should be a major indictment of a major collaborator into hagiography.