In the Netherlands we learned about the public shaming of “moffenmeiden” (an English translation would be “kraut girls”), Dutch women who entered relationships with German soldiers. A Dutch docu series gave a number of 140,000. The most common act of shaming was shaving them bald.
There were also calls to annex “German territory free of Germans”, but in the end only a few villages were annexed and it was all returned in 1963 save for one hill near Nijmegen.
“Tyskertøser/Feltmadrasser” (German girls/Field mattresses) was a similar phenomenon in Denmark.
What is striking is that many of the actual collaborators got off. The heads of the police under German control suffered no repurcussions, Nils Svenningsen who ran the unelected fully nazi aligned government at the end of the war stayed in government until the 60s with a brief stint as ambassador to Sweden specifically to avoid having to face members of the public he would have repressed during his rule of Denmark, his Danish wikipedia pages explicitly notes that he was motivated by “Loyalty and a sense of duty […] regardless of the popular sentiment”, turning what should be a major indictment of a major collaborator into hagiography.
In the Netherlands we learned about the public shaming of “moffenmeiden” (an English translation would be “kraut girls”), Dutch women who entered relationships with German soldiers. A Dutch docu series gave a number of 140,000. The most common act of shaming was shaving them bald.
There were also calls to annex “German territory free of Germans”, but in the end only a few villages were annexed and it was all returned in 1963 save for one hill near Nijmegen.
“Tyskertøser/Feltmadrasser” (German girls/Field mattresses) was a similar phenomenon in Denmark. What is striking is that many of the actual collaborators got off. The heads of the police under German control suffered no repurcussions, Nils Svenningsen who ran the unelected fully nazi aligned government at the end of the war stayed in government until the 60s with a brief stint as ambassador to Sweden specifically to avoid having to face members of the public he would have repressed during his rule of Denmark, his Danish wikipedia pages explicitly notes that he was motivated by “Loyalty and a sense of duty […] regardless of the popular sentiment”, turning what should be a major indictment of a major collaborator into hagiography.
this also happened in France, including the head-shaving