One might also consider two great, warring collaborators in another field: Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal have won three National Basketball Association championships together on the Los Angeles Lakers, all the while criticizing each other for hogging the ball and hustling too little.
John Ranz, chairman of Buchenwald Survivors, in a 1996 letter to The New York Times, wrote: "Ironically, with US help, [1990s president] Franjo Tudjman was able to accomplish last year what the Nazis and their World War II collaborators could not, namely the uprooting of the entire Serbian Krajina population..
Others may puzzle.The moral dilemmas of post-war Polish collaborators are better portrayed than those of the wartime occupiers.
We could almost be back in the 1940s, between the Axis occupation and the civil war, when former collaborators whipped up hatred of the left resistance.
"Lost in Rio" finds OSS 117 tracking down a piece of microfilm, with the names of World War II French collaborators, which has made its way to Brazil in swinging 1967.
As an advisor to the group from 1987 to 1991, he was instrumental in the publication of the Report on the Entry of Nazi War Criminals and Collaborators into the UK, 1945-50 (1988), contributing his vast knowledge of the subject.
Though the United States was the principal architect of the war, its chief collaborator, Britain, is also facing ghosts on this 10th anniversary.
As more than one World War II French collaborator whom I interviewed for a book told me, he would have been viewed far differently by history had the war ended with a German victory.
After the war, as a collaborator on the Roman literary periodical La Ronda, he attempted to discredit contemporary avant-garde writers by holding up as models the Renaissance masters and such fine 19th-century writers as Giacomo Leopardi and Alessandro Manzoni.
Papon, who was promoted five times during the German occupation, insisted he knew nothing of the Holocaust at the time and escaped a post-war purge of collaborators to rise through the ranks of the French right.
