Terrible Revenge - French People Shave Heads of Women Nazi Collaborators - WW2 - 1944
On June 6, 1944 when the allied forces landed on 5 beaches in French Normandy, the Nazis had to face the largest naval, air and land invasion in history.
For those suffering under the Nazi occupation, Operation Overlord or “D-Day” was a long-awaited moment. However, for those who collaborated with the criminal Nazi regime, it was a very different situation.
In France, city after city was liberated.
Next to many happy images such as cheering crowds after the Liberation of Paris in August, 1944, there were also shocking ones in which the angry crowds demanded revenge and publicly shaved heads of women who were accused of horizontal collaboration; meaning having sexual relationship with the Nazis during the occupation.
Thousands of women – prostitutes or mothers without husbands who had no other means of obtaining food for themselves and their children than aside from becoming lovers of German soldiers – were brutally head-shaved, often beaten, and then marched through the streets in this humiliating acts of revenge.
While the crowd was cheering, these women were humiliated and in tears. It is estimated that 23500 women had their heads shaved as punishment for their sexual relationship with the German occupants.
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