DD350 ‘Victims of the Purge’ Mother & Child’

Among the most unfortunate victims of the whole scale retribution after Liberation were women who had formed relationships with the German occupiers and, in some cases, had illegitimate children with them.

These women would be dragged from their homes, paraded through the streets and then taken to a town centre or village square where the heads would be shorn of hair in front of all the local people, many of them neighbours, they would be then expelled from their town and village and forced to find shelter and safety elsewhere.