How can a book be so absorbing and yet so disappointing? Ian Buruma is a good narrative biographer who does not seem to know what to do with what he narrates. The book focuses on three World War II ...

Associate Professor in Modern European History and Jewish History, UNSW Sydney Who is a collaborator? What leads people to collaborate with the enemy in times of war? How do they justify their actions ...

So much sleaze oozes out of the morally compromised subjects in Ian Buruma’s disquieting group portrait, “The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II,” that nearly every ...

Collaborators is the story of three individuals who participated—in wildly disparate fashions—in World War II and the Holocaust. Not one of them is likely to be familiar to American readers, though ...

A massive trove of documents about suspected Nazi collaborators in the Netherlands is now open to the public for the first time. For the past seven decades, only researchers and relatives of those ...