SC 191982 - Members of French resistance party mete out punishment to all known "Axis collaborationists" on the morning of Bastille Day
Housemaids, servants, etc., of the Germans were gathered together, shorn of all their hair, and paraded thru the streets of Cherbourg; their hairless heads the emblem of their violation of the rules of the party. 14 July, 1944. Photographer unknown.
- Date
- 1944
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- Signal Corps Archive
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
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- photograph
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