Color war 211/22/2023 ![]() It appears that she is passing some women who suffered a similar fate. Some probably wanted them shot out of hand.Ī French woman collaborator and her baby, whose father is German, returns 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. Parading them around like this may seem a bit much to today’s audience, but at the time, this image would have evoked feelings of victory and just retribution. Going strictly by their attire and their, shall we say, defiant postures, these may have been working girls. The downside as seen by their contemporaries who later shot or ostracized and humiliated them was complicity in - or perhaps even knowledge of - the hell and slaughter of the concentration camps. The perks of sleeping with SS men were extra rations or quality food, access to forbidden luxury goods such as perfume and stockings and freedom from certain restrictions. Their head were shaved in order to humiliate them. Women who consorted with the Germans during the occupation are driven through the streets of Cherbourg by members of the French resistance. Some of the onlookers appear quite amused. These show the fate of women accused of “collaboration horizontale”.īelgian women who had collaborated with the Germans are shaved, tarred and feathered and forced to give a Nazi salute.Ī Nazi “collaborator” - a French woman having her head shaved following liberation, as punishment for an on-going sexual relationship with a Nazi soldier during the occupation of France.įemale French collaborator having her head shaved during Liberation of Marseilles. 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. The rest (the women) received long prison sentences. Ten defendants, all men, were found guilty and shot. Lola worked under the orders of the SS/SD several hundred Norwegians were tortured, and it is believed that Lola killed more than 80 people. Spirits seem to be high - indicating the level of callousness of these hardened war criminals. Members of the Norwegian collaborationist Special Squad Lola (Sonderabteilung Lola) whose mission was to infiltrate the Norwegian resistance, are being tried after the war. This Frenchwoman does not look like she is suffering, nor the ones in the background.Ī French woman cavorting with members of Hitler’s SS in bars and cabarets. She undoubtedly was safer in there with him than on the streets, subject to abuse by the partisans. Off-duty Wehrmacht soldier spending a day at the pool with his girlfriend.įrench girl engaged to German soldier follows him into prison compound after his capture near Orleans by U.S. Women could not join SS units except as auxiliaries, and certainly did not wear SS officer uniforms. It shows a young lady in an officer’s (Untersturmführer) uniform. Nobody seems to know where this photo came from. Those uniforms really fit those Frenchwomen pretty well!Īnother collaborator, somewhere in France. German soldiers exchanging their clothes with their girlfriends. 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. And, as always in times of military occupation, there were women to be found. They were there, and, like soldiers of every army of every period of history, as soon as they got comfortable they started scouting around for women. Greater Germany had been enlarged at the expense of its neighbors. In 1942, Germany dominated most of Europe.
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