9/12/2023 0 Comments Forced head shave video![]() ![]() ![]() Note she is being 'painted' by a French 'artist' at the bottom of the screen. January 01, 1945.Ī teenager is brutalized by a mob incited by communist 'partisans'. January 01, 1945.Ī Frenchwoman collaborator and her baby with her mother followed by a throng of taunting townspeople in August 1944.Ī young woman has her hair cropped by French patriots who accuse her of collaborating with the Germans during the occupation. ![]() Two French patriots restrain a woman while another crops her hair after she has been accused of collaborating with the Germans during the occupation. The 'man' behind them is holding a sign that says 'collaborators', but who is the real collaborator? August 12, 1944.Ī crowd jeers as a woman’s head is shaved during the liberation of Marseilles.Ī French woman accused of sleeping with Germans is attacked and her head has been shaved by her neighbors in a village near Marseilles.īrutalized women, their heads shaved, are loaded into the back of a truck. Soldiers cutting the hair of a collaborator on Bastille Day. It appears that she is passing some women who suffered a similar fate. ![]() August 27, 1944.Ī sobbing French woman with a swastika smeared on her face is paraded through the streets with civilians and a soldier.Ī woman, with her baby whose father is German, and her mother are jeered and humiliated by crowds in Chartres after having their heads shaved as punishment for collaborating with the German troops, 1944.Ī French woman collaborator and her baby, whose father is German, tries to return to her home followed by a throng of taunting townspeople after having her head shaven following the capture of Chartres by the Allies, August 1944. Two women, partially stripped, their heads shaved and with swastikas painted on their faces, are marched barefoot down the streets of Paris, to shame and humiliate them for collaborating with the Germans during the Second World War. The only way they could feed themselves and their children was to have a liaison with a German.įrench female collaborator punished by having her head shaved to publicly mark her, 1944.Ī French woman with a bloody face is forced to look at the camera while French soldiers do nothing.Ī woman who collaborated with the Nazis has her hair cut as a sign of public disgust. Many of the collaborators were prostitutes or young mothers whose husbands were in prisoner of war camps. Members of the resistance were suppose to be doing the shaving but in fact many of them weren’t from the resistance - they were in fact collaborators themselves seeking to divert attention away from themselves. The humiliating scenes often took place in front of jeering crowds. And during the Second World war, the Nazi state issued orders that German women accused of sleeping with non-Aryans or foreign prisoners employed on farms should also be publicly punished in this way. After French troops occupied the Rhineland in 1923, German women who had relations with them later suffered the same fate. Shaving women’s heads as a mark of retribution and humiliation was reintroduced in the 20th century. During the middle ages, this mark of shame, denuding a woman of what was supposed to be her most seductive feature, was commonly a punishment for adultery. In Europe, the practice dated back to the dark ages, with the Visigoths. The punishment of shaving a woman’s head had biblical origins. Depending upon how the partisans felt, she also might have been disrobed, tarred and feathered, and perhaps beaten. To sum it up, when a woman who had engaged in collaboration horizontale - that means having sex with occupying troops - was punished, her head was forcibly shaved as the first step. These show the fate of women accused of “collaboration horizontale”. But among the cheering images there are also shocking ones. There are thousands upon thousands of joyful pictures of the liberation of France in 1944. ![]()
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