"50 Voices Reveal Humanity's Most Notorious Traitors: Who Tops the List?"
This dude had it all, served in WW1, had everything you could ever want from a career in the military, politics and everything in-between. He was a national hero.
His name was royalty, and he threw ALL of it away to run the French State (Vichy France) during N**i occupation.
Now, you could excuse it if he was just doing it to keep his people safe, and nobody else would step up. Fair enough.
But he didn’t, he actively collaborated with the N*zis and actively sent French Jews and returned Jews fleeing Germany to their destructive fates.
He is, a traitor entirely, and a really bad one at that because there was actually no need for him to do it. France fell in 1940s, he died in 1951. He threw away his entire legacy for a m**h a****t leader in Germany and died a stain in history, imprisoned because he was too old to be shot.
>Pétain’s motives are a topic of wide conjecture. Winston Churchill had spoken to Reynaud during the impending fall of France, saying of Pétain, “… he had always been a defeatist, even in the last war [World War I].
La Malinche is synonymous with traitor in Mexico due to her coordination with the Spanish during their conquest of the Aztecs. She was a Nahuatl tribeswoman who was gifted to the Spanish alongside other slaves when they defeated a tribe during an expedition into Mexico. She would go on to be a key interpreter for the Spanish as she spoke the Aztec language and would marry Hernan Cortes post conquest.
Corfitz Ulfeldt is not well known outside of Scandinavia, but very bad.
In a quick recap he was in a top position under the Danish king in the mid 1600’s, but did a bunch a corrupt stuff (allegedly) and fled to Sweden who had been the mortal enemies of Denmark for hundreds of years.
Here he started working for the Swedish king and didn’t just tell him every Danish secret he knew, but deliberate did everything he could to enrage the swedes against the Danes, so they would declare them war.
After a few years he succeeded and he didn’t just help the Swedish tropes from the front lines (again with a bunch of important information about the Danish army and the landscape), he also let the Swedish king borrow insane amounts of money from him that he had stolen from the Danish treasury. Money that was then used to buy mercenaries for the invasion.
The swedes won and Ulfeldt got his own lands back and even a Danish island for his troubles. But it wasn’t long before the Swedish king also started being annoyed with Ulfeldt who now fled back to Denmark where he was arrested.
For some insane reason he was eventually allowed to leave the country because he said he needed to go to a spa for his health. Of course he didn’t go to a spa and fled Denmark once again. This time he went to a bunch of different kings in Europe and tried to get them in on his crazy schemes essentially. He also gave the skull of one of the biggest Danish saints to the French, another thing he had stolen.
He even tried to arrange a coup of the Danish throne, but without luck. The Danes never got him again, but his wife was famously imprisoned in a tower for 22 years, essentially in her husband’s place.
Ulfeldt was so hated in Denmark that a “statue of shame” was erected for him, that people were supposed to spit on as they walked past. It stood in Copenhagen for hundreds of years.
Ephialtes of Trachis. He allegedly showed the Persians the mountain path so that they could defeat the Spartans at Thermopylae.
Benedict Arnold betrayed his own people all because he felt he wasn’t getting the laurels he deserved (even though he already had plenty).
When the British learned there was a man on the inside, feeding them info, they thought it was a low ranked soldier. When they found out it was actually a decorated man, they were really annoyed, but kept face as they needed Arnold to play his scheme out.
It was seen as a massive dishonour that a officer with responsibility over other soldiers would betray his own men.
In the end when he defected to the British, they gave him a lower rank than they promised, paid him less than he expected and a lot of the British made it known they did not respect him for his actions.
When he eventually died in London, his funeral was completed without Military Honours.
Which is about as “*F**k you, you scummy t**t*” as it would get in Gentlemen terms at that time.
The Catholic Church.
They helped surviving N*zis flee to safe havens and helped reallocate/launder their stolen wealth. .
The banks, conglomerates and billionaires who are happily hoarding wealth and resources while nonchalantly watching society crumble around them.
Thomas Midgley Jr., the American who betrayed humanity for the sake of profit and arguably ended being responsible for more indirect deaths than any other human being on Earth.
Campbell’s at Glencoe were pretty despicable.
“The Glencoe M******e (1692) was a brutal episode in Scottish history where government soldiers many from Clan Campbell, under orders from King William III, k*lled 38 members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe. The MacDonalds had delayed swearing allegiance to the king after the Glorious Revolution, and this was used as a pretext for punishment. The most infamous part was that the Campbell soldiers had been living as guests among the MacDonalds for nearly two weeks, sharing food and shelter, before turning on them in the early morning hours. It wasn’t just a m******e—it was a betrayal, seen as a chilling example of state-sanctioned violence and clan politics. The event left a lasting scar and symbolized the deep mistrust between Highland clans and the central government.”.
