Writer: "This Picture Tells a Tragic Story of What Happened to Women After D-Day" 

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  Malcolm Azania

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  They went after women because they figured that attacking women would be an easy way to distract themselves from their own shame. It's a common nationalist tactic. Control and hurt women so at least you have power over *someone* (as opposed to taking personal responsibility and working for collective solutions).

  If French men had shaved the heads of all the French men who'd been in bed with the Nazis, half the country would have been bald.

  Maybe that explains the berets.