Did France post-WWII treat Vichy leaders properly?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I say they did, though they didn't go far enough trying only the national leadership. They let people on the lower levels off too easily (local police leaders responsible for hunting Jews for example.)

[Хahar 🤔]

No. Pétain had gone senile well before the war, and he wasn't really responsible for what went on. He shouldn't have been imprisoned. Laval shouldn't have been killed.

It's interesting to speculate on what would have happened to Darlan had he survived.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Petain was just a figurehead yes, but he was a fascist, so I don't care one iota what happened to the worthless fuck. Laval should not have been executed, but only because no one should. He should've gotten life imprisonment.

The same applies to all police leaders and any individual police responsible for killing even a single Resistance fighter or Jew. Life in prison for all of them.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

The slightest that I can say is that the "small ones", the small collaborators, have significantly been badly treated by the population. Especially by the "résistants de la dernière heure" "last time resistants", the guys who went resistants and harsh against nazis when they felt the wind was turning. These ones were the most harsh and nasty against the small collaborators, and their lynching or kinda of them has been shameful.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

How is it shameful?

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

How is it shameful?

It's you to see whether or not you consider lynching and all stuffs like that shameful. I do. Still more when you awake at the last hour, when you feel the wind turning.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

That's nowhere near as shameful as collaborationists.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

That's nowhere near as shameful as collaborationists.

Here's one more point that intervene in my opinion, if ever we have some choices (what I'm not convinced at all), I don' think we have a lot, so i can't blame people for their choice, especially when it is about a time I didn't live in, and a so harsh one. I think all judgments on periods we didn't live is null.

That being said, I also don't think that because someone as been nasty, that we have to be as stupid and nasty as he has been, otherwise, we can't pretend being better than him, and thus we can't pretend punishing him.