In German-occupied Europe were all collaborators traitors and all resisters heroes Szerzõ dezs Angol érettségi tétel In German-occupied Europe were

all collaborators traitors and all resisters heroes? Firstly, in order to answer the question in the title, we have to define what do we exactly mean by the term ‘resistance’. We have to underline two main aspects of this phenomenon: resistance was in part a nationalist and patriotic effort to achieve freedom from an enemy power that had imposed its rule or influence, usually by force of arms; and in part a political and ideological opposition to a specifically German and National Socialist domination. (There was also resistance against invading Russian troops in Poland, for example, but this time we will focus on anti-German resistance.) Although there was a great variety in the forms of resistance throughout German-occupied Europe, there are some main characteristic features which they all have in common. Resistance always began as something passive, spontaneous and individual and expanded through the war in progressively more offensive, planned and corporate forms. In this process the emergence of specific resistance organizations, movements and circuits was crucial. Resistance activities can be divided into three categories: intelligence, escape and subversion, and this latter can be divided further into four subcategories: sabotage, attacks on troops, propaganda, and lastly the culmination of the others in insurrection.(1) The proportion of the aforementioned aspects determined the character of resistance in the various occupied countries, but it was always a result of the interaction between German domination and the particular social, political, economic, cultural and geographic conditions of each country. Depending on the kind of German administration the given territory was under, we can make a distinction between the occupied countries. First, there were those lands that were integrated into the Reich and therefore governed a