A Dutch woman accused of having a romantic relationship with a German have her head shaved

A Dutch woman accused of having a  romantic relationship with a German have her head shaved

soldier is held by members of the Dutch Resistance and is punished by having her head shaved following the liberation of the province of Overijssel. April, 1945. 

She sleeps with a German soldier to avoid starvation.

Probably countless examples. In Norway (not very harshly occupied, but still), about 10 000 "war children" were born as a result of relationships between German soldiers and Norwegian women. It is estimated that

10% of Norwegian women between the ages of 18 and 35 were engaged in these relationships. Several

thousand women married Germans and were forcibly deported as a result.

In danish historiography, it is absurdly put to 50.000 women being "tysker piger" or "german girls." (Anette Warring) While this might not sound as a high number it would mean that 1 out of 7,5 of women between 16-29 would fall in this category - in a country that was occupied by a few German divisions during most of the war and around 200.000 in the very end.

These are members of the Resistance. According to my mother who witnessed similar scene's after

the Canadians liberated her hometown in 1944 most of the people who were the first to point fingers and raise scissors were the people who were servile to the Germans.

That was two different things. The Lebensborn-program was 

an. SS-program meant both to bread and bring-up people of the Aryan race. The Lebensborn-program existed in many occupied countries and consisted of out-of-marriage pregnancies of aryan females with the off-spring given to aryan families.

The cutting of the girls' hair and such was done post-war, as some of the horrible things we (the norwegian people) did to "Tyskertøsene" (lit.

Jerry-skanks). This nickname was also given to female offspring of such relations, and both male and female

children of such offpring were seen as mentally retarted, lesser children. Many were raped, beaten by

teachers and fellow children, urinated on, left behind by their family, suggested sterilized,...). At one point, it was even suggested to send the kids off to Australia.

Some kids were sent to Germany and ended up being adopted in Sweden as children of unknown descent.

Some left the country, seeking a better life, many left for Sweden, including Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA.

One link between the two programns is that a child or mother in the Lebensborn-program would end up as an T undesirable under the later system, and in Norway the houses used by the Lebensborn-program was reused to house undesirables.

They shaved women who went with Germans in Norway.after WWIl as well. What is it about shaving the head?

What was the origin of it? Why didn't they simply brand them with the word "whore" on their foreheads or something?

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