Purges of Nazi collaborators

Purges of Nazi collaborators, sometimes called national cleansing, were widespread trials of people accused of collaborating with the Nazi occupiers in many European countries after World War II. As much as 2–3 percent of the population of Europe was affected by these trials, which were often held under special laws. Most of these trials did not emphasize crimes committed against Jews during the war.{{cite book |last1=Priemel |first1=Kim Christian |author1-link=Kim Christian Priemel |title=A Companion to the Holocaust |date=2020 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-97052-2 |pages=173–189 |language=en |chapter=War Crimes Trials, the Holocaust, and Historiography, 1943–2011}}

Examples include:

• Legal purge in Norway after World War II
• Épuration légale in France{{cite journal |last1=Lewis |first1=Abigail E. |title=Collaboration in Focus: Photographic Evidence in the French Purge Trials, 1944–1949 |journal=French Politics, Culture & Society |date=2022 |volume=40 |issue=3 |pages=73–98 |doi=10.3167/fpcs.2022.400304|s2cid=255770774 }}
• August trials in Poland{{cite book |last1=Kornbluth |first1=Andrew |title=The August Trials: The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland |date=2021 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-24913-4 |language=en}}
• People's courts (Czechoslovakia) in Czechoslovakia{{cite book |last1=Frommer |first1=Benjamin|authorlink=Benjamin Frommer |title=National Cleansing: Retribution Against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia |date=2005 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-00896-9 |language=en}}
• Soviet trials of Nazi collaborators{{cite journal |last1=Penter |first1=Tanja |title=Collaboration on Trial: New Source Material on Soviet Postwar Trials against Collaborators |journal=Slavic Review |date=2005 |volume=64 |issue=4 |pages=782–790 |doi=10.2307/3649913 |jstor=3649913 |s2cid=35070744 |issn=0037-6779|doi-access=free }}