Why punish collaborators?

Asks why postwar Jewish communities sought to punish some of their members for their wartime behaviour and to purge them from their ranks. The Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) assassinated at least 13 perceived collaborators. By contrast Engel finds that the honour courts concerned themselves less with the political question of whether an individual obeyed a legitimate or illegitimate authority during the war than with the legal question of whether an individual had harmed a person with criminal intent