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A French women and her mother was forced to shave their hairs as punishment for she had a baby with a German, 18-Aug-1944 French women who befriended the Nazis, through coerced, forced, or voluntary relationships, were singled out for shameful retribution following the liberation of France. The woman photographed here, believed to have been a prostitute who serviced German occupiers, is having her head shaved by French civilians to publicly mark her. The French called it horizontal collaboration, which is pretty dark as is, making mutual love an act of treason or at the very least disowning women of their body. Some actually were in love, for others it was just a way to get by, since the French essentially carried the Wehrmacht in terms of food. It's also not entirely rational, considering that what these women essentially did was harming the war effort, by funneling rations away from the Germans, but yes, in many cases it was just a big spiel to distract from their own guild or in