Complex sentence: Smaller numbers recruited as Axis troops and armed irregulars actively collaborated and committed atrocities against the local Greek populace and overall the Muslim Chams were sympathetic to Axis forces during the war and benefited from the Axis occupation.
Split into simpler sentences: Smaller numbers recruited as Axis troops and armed irregulars actively collaborated and committed atrocities against the local Greek populace. Overall, the Muslim Chams were sympathetic to Axis forces during the war and benefited from the Axis occupation.