‘Seidler’s List’: On One Overly Broad Concept of Collaboration during the Second World War
Journal: Dzieje Najnowsze
Year: 2025

This article is based on a long-standing critique of the disproportionate magnifying of the term collaboration in the context of the Second World War (Hans Lemberg, Werner Röhr). In this text, I will critically analyse one such swelling and disproportionately widening scope of understanding of the concept of collaboration: how the German historian Franz Wilhelm Seidler worked with it in his publication Die Kollaboration: 1939–1945. Although this book was first published in 1995, the nature of th