Frenchwoman accused of sleeping with German soldiers has her head shaved and shamed by her neighbors in a village near Marseilles
Frenchwoman accused of sleeping with German soldiers has her head shaved and shamed by her neighbors in a village near Marseilles
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Ukraine is getting a lot of hate for putting accused collaborators under house arrest while awaiting trial. However the last time we in Western Europe were invaded we didn’t treat accused collaborators any better.
This is why trials by popular justice should not be a thing
Reminds me of the movie Malena. Must see! Great movie with a great Monica Bellucci.
After WW2 the anti-German sentiment was so high there were some cases of German tourists getting beaten up by locals (for the simple reason of being Germans) as far as in the 60s
And people think ‘being cancelled’ is a new thing..
You have not seen Malena yet.
Lol there were not so tough against the Germans.
Meanwhile a lot of actual collaborators managed to avoid punishment and had successful careers after the war.
There were an estimated 100,000 members of the French Resistance at 6th of June 1944. That makes 0.25% of the French population at the time. Chances are, many of the men who (bravely!) humiliated the woman were passive collaborators themselves.
But of course, it is far easier to harass a civilian than to actually risk your life fighting against occupation.
So many alive, fighting age men in the picture, but curiously all with their hair intact…
The mob rule is blind and certainly doesn’t punish the strong and most guilty.
Everyone was all the sudden part of the resistance when the Germans got defeated…
We learn in school in Norway about this happening here as well.
Very Cersei in Game of Thrones.
Has anybody in that picture thiught that if she rejected these german soldiers, she should have been dead by then?
Wasn’t Marseille in the Vichy region? So no Nazi occupation but collaborating goverment? Correct me if wrong.
Oh, what a PERFECT target for vengeance.
A young lonely woman, with nobody to defend her.
If you are a successful business man who worked with Germans – you will be fine.
If you were a local official that worked with Germans – same.
A policeman that even helped to catch Jews? – nothing special, move along.
But a young woman who slept with German? What a disgrace!!!
The guy with the rifle on the right:
“Well, she turned me into a newt!”
Its always a good thing when tribe mentality kicks in 😒
Horrible photo. We have no idea what the woman in the picture did wrong. And yet all the guys looking so smug.
“Savage Continent”. A good book on post WWII Europe. Author talks about it.
Believe me, French women were the lucky ones…
Reminds me of the time Tintin creator Hergé got thrown in prison because they suspected he collaborated with the Nazis.
In reality Nazis were big fans of his work and didn’t asked him to change his comics in only way,only that they published his work along nazis-related propaganda.
People saw that and thought he was a collaborator.
He got free after an resistance leader vouched for him.
Could just have been a malicious rumor by one of her enemies, or a spurned lover or ex-bf. We don’t know. The fact that they leapt at the chance to do this to her without any evidence just dehumanises them more.
When my grandma was 100 years old she suddenly one day told me about how that stuff had also happened in our little town.
She even told me about the route they took with the women on a wagon and how everyone threw stuff at them and spat on them.
She said everything in a very detached way, like she only observed in, but I doubt that’s the truth.
I wasn’t super surprised, but I was surprised she told me. Guess she felt it didn’t matter since she was leaving soon anyway.
No phones in sight – just being in the moment!
Sure, she definitely slept with German soldiers out of pleasure, not because that was her only fucking choice to survive
Ohhhh NOOOOWWW the French want to fight… after the Germans leave… and there’s only women left to bully. Sweep that Vichy government under the carpet while you’re at it boys!