English Literature A-Level
Collaboration versus resistance
What Collaboration versus resistance means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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The ambiguous interactions between invading German soldiers and local women, and the complexities of collaboration, survival and passive resistance during a military invasion.
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