The Cruel Fate of Women who Collaborated with Germans in WWII
The images are searing and indelible: a young Frenchwoman, her head shaved bald, marked with a swastika on her forehead, clutching a newborn infant as a jeering crowd surrounds her. This was the public fate of Simone Touseau in Chartres in August 1944, a snapshot of a brutal, continent-wide reckoning that followed the liberation of … Read more