My goodness. If all of the members of every country in which people collaborated with the Nazis were shot for treason or imprisoned for life, that would mean that everyone in the US would have been shot or imprisoned for life. An imagination that can come up with that kind of interpretation of my words is a spongy one indeed.

As has been speculated, I was referring only to the specific individuals who did the collaborating. So in the case of Sweden, that would be the Swedish industrialists who provided materials to the Nazis that I would have been talking about had I been talking about any country other than the US. As it happens, however, I was only thinking about people in the US when I said what I did.