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This guy was an asshole, even for the times. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-nazis-took-belgium-tintins-creator-drew-pro-regime-propaganda-180963

• Freak_NL 2y ago
  It seems to have been more nuanced than that: https://www.tintinologist.org/articles/defence.html https://www.tintinologist.org/articles/defence.html https://freedium.cfd/bef351e1dfa8 https://freedium.cfd/bef351e1dfa8
• andrepd 2y ago
  The vast majority of people in Axis-occupied Europe, especially in the West (France, Belgium, Netherlands) collaborated with the occupiers. I think this speaks more to the spinelessness of the average human person than to this man in particular.
  • aguaviva 2y ago
    "Collaborated" is overdrawn. While a very significant portion actively collaborated, it's more accurate to say that the broader majority simply acquiesced the Occupation. This is not to diminish moral responsibility (which I think is an essentially moot topic at this juncture). But rather to bring the focus back to how these regimes actually worked. You didn't need to be an active collaborator. You just had to not actively resist, and keep your mouth shut (or at least keep your grumblings insubstantial and subdued). Rather like in corporate environments today.