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Norway seemed to arrange quite well with the Nazi regime. Vichy France also decided to help the Nazis in the repression and extermination of Jews, without being coerced by the Nazis. During WW2 the UK murdered up to four million people through systematic starvation in what is today's Bangladesh. After WW2 France and the UK continued to commit atrocities including genocidal mass slaughters in their colonies. France genocided more than a million Algerians as Algerians demanded an end to the French settler colonial occupation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_anti-Jewish_legislation
The US also run concentration camps for Japanese Americans, albeit they only concentrated the people, but didn't seek extermination like the Germans, French and Brits did.
Nazism has never been defeated. It's ideological cousins were alive and well in many countries that are on these posters.
The lawful government-in-exile was part of the Allies and the Norwegian Resistance was widespread, with the Nazi collaborationist government being largely ineffective due to a lack of legitimacy amongst Norwegians.
Unless my eyesight is failing me, France's flag is not on either of those posters.
"through systemic starvation" is an outright lie. Between one and four million people starved because of a brutal convergence of factors, including British ineptitude and apathy, but by no means a systemic attempt to murder Bengalis.