The German occupation gave the black market a sort of moral sanction here.

NPR: Excerpt: 'World War II Writings'

The occupation of Afghanistan would last another eight long years, only ending when Mikhail Gorbachev eventually saw the economic, political and moral folly of the invasion and then occupation.

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Piaf is most identified with the Trauma of the 1940s, the swift defeat in May 1940, the compromise of surrender, the moral accommodation of Nazi-ism, the collaboration, the humiliation of four years of German occupation, the terrible betrayal of Vichy.

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