"This girl pays the penalty for having had personal relations with the Germans. Here, in the Montelimar area, France, French civilians shave her head as punishment." Smith, August 29, 1944.
Description and pic forom NARA
As for shaving those woman’s head, it was later on seen as a bit controversial and overly humiliating, but considering what the Gestapo did to the French resistance and in this regard women that resisted the invaders (cutting off their breast etc), one could argue that hairs grow back…
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