Occupation forced ordinary people into extraordinary compromises, and this History Hit compilation follows several who chose to work with the Nazi regime rather than resist it. One segment traces a Jewish ghetto administrator who enforced German orders on his own community, a decision that still divides historians between condemnation and grim pragmatism. Other episodes move across occupied Europe to collaborators in France, Norway, and elsewhere who signed on with the occupiers for ideology, survival, or personal gain, and pay for it after liberation with prison, exile, or execution. Historians speak directly to camera alongside archival photographs, wartime footage, and newsreel material to lay out each case in its own political context rather than flattening them into a single moral lesson. Running across multiple linked segments, the film keeps returning to the same uncomfortable question: what would compliance have looked like for anyone else in that position, and where exactly does collaboration turn into complicity.