Collaborator.

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Horizontal Collaboration.

Here are some photos taken in the aftermath of the liberation of France in 1944.

Photos of Frenchwomen who were deemed guilty of "horizontal collaboration".

Frenchwomen having their heads shaved. A shaving that done to inflict the maximum of humiliation. Done in front of large crowds of gleeful, cheering, laughing spectators. A carnival atmosphere reigned.

According to the famous American photographer Carl Mydans:

"a French woman whose head is being shaved. She had given herself to the hated Germans during those months of occupation. And now the Germans have been driven out, and in the first hours of liberation she has been caught - - that's the word - - as she tried to flee from the villagers who chased her like a rabbit. Now, in shame, she is being shaved as a public symbol of her disgrace. But note also those leering , jeering, laughing faces behind her. What is more shameful than human beings enjoying the pain of others?"




Here is a whole truckload of "horizontal collaborators". Notice the tears.



Contempt is on the face of that one man holding the chin up, is it not??

Frenchwomen who for a variety of reasons, and not necessarily just prostitution, gave sexual favors to German troops occupying their country.

"It hurt to see businessmen, shopkeepers and farmers grow rich from the war economy, popular entertainers enjoy the good life and perform for the Germans and, most of all, Frenchwomen consort with the Nazis - relations termed "horizontal collaboration."

This is not something the French like to talk about.

That their own women, some of them, gave themselves so freely to the conqueror and occupier. A brutal conqueror and occupier.

The entire subject of collaboration in French during World War Two [WW2] was a subject that for a long time was NOT discussed.

"the French intelligentsia, have been reluctant to examine the issues of the Resistance and Franco-German collaboration during the Second World War."

Marcel Ophuls, the French film director, first touched upon the subject in his documentary, "The Sorrow and the Pity". An outstanding documentary. Some of these collaborationist women were interviewed, as well as the offspring [war-bastards] from the romantic liaisons of French women and German soldiers.

The women in the aftermath of the war obviously became outcasts. The shaving of the head was sign to all of what they had done.

The children too became outcasts in post-war France, not really considered to be French or German.

"As a boy Daniel Rouxel slept locked in a chicken coop because his grandmother was so ashamed of his origins -- the love affair of her French daughter with a German army officer in occupied France during World War II.

Like Rouxel, tens of thousands [200,000 total??] of these half-German children in post-war France were bullied and humiliated by their families, neighbors and teachers. Their mothers faced public abuse as punishment for sleeping with the enemy.

Natural bullies, the French took out their frustrations on children after the war."

ONLY RECENTLY HAVE THEY, THE CHILDREN, NOW OF COURSE IN THEIR SIXTIES, COME FORTH AND PETITIONED THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT TO CATEGORIZE THEM AS A DISADVANTAGED GROUP!!

One can only wonder what is afoot here? What can be gained at this point in time?

We all wish this sort of thing did not happen. NO ONE EVER WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THIS SORT OF "STUFF".

coolbert.