female collaborator,
passionate romantic lover,
despicable and unforgivable traitor
or cringing victim of horrendous war-rape
they know not
shave her head
in a grotesque ceremony
of humiliation
they do
nevertheless
such are the ways of the human,
despicable morally
in group
as she mostly is
* * *
Right after World War II when Europe was liberated from Nazi oppression, women accused of having had sexual or romantic relations with the German enemy were publicly humiliated, often physically beaten and made absolute pariahs demonized recently; as if having made a pact with the Devil himself. A common ritual of degradation in common France at the time was to shave these women bald and then parade them through the streets in sickening debacles of ignominy and public humiliation. However, many of these women were only victims of rape by German hands; not collaborators nor lovers. Many of them were legitimately romantically or erotically engaged with them by own accord, that is true, but many, many innocent women got dragged through this heinous hell of public jury and trial. This hell―an additional mockery and suffering to the already traumatizing sexual assault they had endured...
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