BELGIAN WOMEN WHO HAD COLLABORATED WITH THE GERMANS ARE SHAVED AND FORCED TO GIVE SALUTE TO THE NAZI.


However, the Allies returned, and their German beaus left in a hurry, often not surviving the journey

Belgian women who had collaborated with the Germans are shaved, tarred and feathered and forced to give a Nazi salute.
However, the Allies returned, and their German beaus left in a hurry, often not surviving the journey home and perhaps having left somebody behind there if they made it. 
Usually, the photos of collaborator girls are identified nowadays as “found on a dead German soldier.” 
Naturally, we almost certainly would not have many of these photos at all if the soldier had survived and put them in safe-keeping. 
There are likely countless others sitting long-forgotten in attics and basements across Europe.

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