Women who consorted with the Germans are driven through Cherbourg by the French resistance. Their heads were shaved in order to humiliate them. The perks of sleeping with SS men were extra rations or quality food access to forbidden luxury goods such as perfume and stockings and freedom from certain restrictions. The downside as seen by their contemporaries who later shot or ostracized and humiliated them was complicity in – or perhaps even knowledge of concentration camps.
French Resistance In Vintage Pictures
July 17, 2018
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