Reply #10: No, he wasn't. [View All]

[Xithras]

The definition of collaborator is a person who works with an occupying power to oppress his own countrymen. Based on that, it's impossible for ANY German to be labelled a collaborator because the Nazi's weren't an occupying force.

But even beyond that, I fail to see how he collaborated. He never assisted in the arrest, execution, or opression of any other human being. He never voted for a Nazi. He never supported the Nazi's. He simply complied with the laws of his homeland under threat of death.

By your logic, the Jews in the work-camps and factories were collaborators because the equipment they made bolstered the Wehrmachts strength. The threat was the same...obey or die.