Her head shaved by angry neighbours, a tearful Corsican woman is stripped naked and taunted for consorting with German soldiers during their occupation, September, 1943

Her head shaved by angry neighbours, a tearful Corsican woman is stripped naked and taunted for consorting with German soldiers during their occupation, September, 1943.





While consorting with the enemy is indeed bad, some of these women, at least in Western Europe, were themselves victims. Some were hookers before the war who just needed to make ends meet and slept with soldiers along with other people. Some were women whose only way to survive was using a Nazi sugar daddy. Some were rape victims or girls roped into it.
When looking at these sorts of events it's important not to see everything in black and white. The Nazis were terrible, people who aided them were terrible, but not all women who slept with Nazis only to be humiliated later deserved what they got.

Growing up in a country that was occupied by Germany during WWII, talking to people from that era, I found that just about every single instance of this type of vigilantism was an odious act.

It was basically just decrepit cowards who'd bowed and scraped to the Nazis during the occupation, but then talked shit about them behind their backs. But they never DID anything. They didn't join the resistance. The complied 100% with any and all Nazi orders.

Then, when the Germans left, they suddenly became all brave and vengeful. So they wanted to show everyone how much they nated the damn Nazi, by going after their supposed supporters. Now that the dangerous Germans were all safely out of the country.

Haircutting fucking cowards. Didn't have the balls to do anything when it counted, so now you're going after defenseless women.

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