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I don't recall their including any Belgian collaborators-of which there were quite a few.
shareThere were many mentions of collaborators? In fact the Lifeline people were in effect collaborators who entertained the Germans and made money out of them, as a cover for their other activities. There is the Belgian politican in Hymn to Freedom who has been a Nazi sympathiser who repents. There are other characters who coem to the Candide, who also make money out of the Germans. And Madeline would also be considered a "horizontal collaborator"
shareThanks for telling me. I meant out-and-out collaborators with no Resistance connections.Madeline-in the words of French actress Arletty,My heart is French, my *beep* international.
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Do you mean that Madeline is not a collaborator because she is in love with Kessler
shareDepends on what she did apart from having an affair with him.
shareWell we dont know very much of what she did, except that she had an affair with a Belgian nobleman, who wanted to leave his wife and marry her. His family persuaded her to break up with him and paid her a small allowance which does not leave her very well off, but just enough to live on. So she seems before meeting Kessler to be leading a very quiet life, not going out because she can't afford it, and keeping very much to herself. Kessler gave her a life again, someone to care for....but the irony is that this life isolates her even more from her own people....