Alan Judd

If the Nazis had occupied Britain, how many of us would have collaborated?

Ian Buruma describes three individuals who saved themselves in wartime by betraying others. But none was a ‘typical traitor’, or essentially different from the rest of us

Kawashima Yoshiko, the androgynous Manchu princess who collaborated with the Japanese in the 1930s. [Alamy]
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  • The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II

    Ian Buruma

    Atlantic Books, pp. 307, £20

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