The Nationalist Movement After The Liberation of France
After France was liberated, it was as collaborators, not as separatists, that the PNB members were punished, and even then it was by no means all those members that were affected. Only 15 to 16 per cent of PNB members appeared in court, and few non-member sympathisers were prosecuted. Most leading members escaped in Ireland or Germany and were not judged. There was no mass repression as claimed in post-war separatist propaganda. However the post-war nationalist movements will tend to minimise the collaboration with nazi Germany and will create the myth of the separatists repression by the French government.
Still today, some people · · · are worried by the "collective amnesia" of the current Breton autonomist movement about World War II or by their attempts to rehabilitate the nationalist collaborationnists.
On the other hand, the standpoint of the Breton nationalists consider that the representation of the Breton nationalism during World War II in the medias is a pretext to discredit the current aspirations of the autonomist movement, such as the recognition of linguistic rights.
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