When it comes to children, there are always many beautiful words that come to mind: angel, hope, future, purity... And a beautiful long hair is also a prominent feature of women. When more than 200,000 children were cursed, more than 50,000 women were shaved off their hair and replaced with despair and ugliness.
Such a desperate thing happened in Post-World War II France, who did so many children and women provoke?
France, once Europe's first army power, claimed to have the "Maginot Line" with its brass wall, fought for more than a month, and on June 22, 1940, it bowed its head high and signed a surrender instrument to Germany.
After the surrender of France, a small number of French troops followed General de Gaulle and fled overseas to establish Free France, while the vast majority of the French army remained in France, under the leadership of the Vichy government headed by Pétain (in fact, a puppet regime), becoming the "puppet army" of Germany.
The French puppet army is not only numerous, but also well-equipped, with all three armies, a navy, an air force. After becoming puppet soldiers, their will to fight became very strong, not only for germany to fight the Allies, but also to fight de Gaulle and his gang. According to statistics, during World War II, there were more than 200,000 French puppet troops in the North African battlefield alone, which hit the Allies in the first place.
The Germans occupied France, controlled the Vichy government, and certainly did not spare the fashionable and elegant French girls.
In a book called The Erotic Age of 1940-1945, the author writes: "Paris under Nazi control was a 'great hybrid party.'" ”
In Nazi-controlled France, in addition to the men who became "puppet soldiers", there were those who resisted and were imprisoned in concentration camps, and in 1942 alone, 2 million French men were imprisoned in concentration camps. It is conceivable that the French women are panicked and frightened, and in addition to this, they have to face the torment of hunger.
Women can choose to fight or support themselves, but others choose a different path: sell their bodies to survive the economic crisis.
According to the book "1940-1945 Pornographic Years", after the fall of Paris, 1/3 of the brothels in the city were chartered by the German army, and another 100,000 Parisian women became "temporary prostitutes".
These French women who sold their bodies did not have much concept of national hatred, they just lived in the moment, exchanging their bodies and beauty for the food and resources scarce under the war, and even under the protection of the German army, their safety was correspondingly guaranteed.
Incredibly, the famous French feminist advocate and writer Simone. De Beauvoir went so far as to say that she had an "unconscious fraternity" for the invaders, and that the Germans' "worship of the body" drove her to the brink of fascination.
A woman from a rich and learned background even had a good feeling for the invaders, and it is conceivable how good the attitude of those starving women would be toward the German army.
The German army and the French girls were having fun, which brought about a social problem, and the explosion of German-French mixed-race babies actually led to a significant increase in the birth rate of french babies, and most of them were illegitimate children, of course, some of them were the crystallization of love.
When the Germans occupied France, these German and French bastards were okay, but once the Germans left France, what would be the fate of these children?
In fact, in addition to the German army leaving a large number of illegitimate children in France, the French also left many illegitimate children in Germany.
The continuous expansion of the German Nazis needed to send a large number of German men to the battlefield, resulting in a growing shortage of local labor in Germany, and in order to ensure the supply of battlefield materials, men from other countries had to be sent to German factories to work. A large number of French, Polish, Russian laborers and prisoners of war arrived in Germany. According to statistics, by the end of the war in 1945, France alone had exported about 3 million laborers and prisoners of war to Germany.
German men went to war, and German women were inevitably lonely, so some German women turned their attention to the laborers of other countries.
Prisoners of war had no freedom, but laborers had a certain freedom to wander the streets of Berlin. The laborer used a little hard-earned wage to spend in the café, and by the way, he contacted and talked with German women, and what he could talk about was love, and the crystallization of love might come.
The German government certainly did not want to see women in its own country fall into the hands of laborers in other countries, and as early as 1940, the Gestapo issued a decree that all French and Poles who had sexual relations with German women would be sentenced to death.
However, in such a war era when everyone was at risk, it was impossible to take care of today, and it was impossible to take care of tomorrow. Therefore, the French laborers were willing to take risks for love and pursue German women. And the German woman, according to the throbbing in her heart, secretly fell in love with the French laborers and had children.
However, the love crystallization of French men and German women will not be blessed by others, and children can only be labeled as illegitimate children.
After the victory of World War II, the Nazis were expelled from France, and french laborers in Germany were sent back to France. The Germans and French laborers were gone, leaving illegitimate children to French or German women.
According to statistics, there are more than 200,000 such illegitimate children of Mixed German and French descent.
Illegitimate children are not good, not to mention the children born to the enemy Germans, they are called "bastards of the Germans" by the French, and they are regarded by the French as evidence of national shame, these children are cursed, blinded, no one wants to accept them, no friends, and many times they are rejected or even abandoned by their mothers. Their childhood was filled with all kinds of misfortunes.
While the Illegitimate sons of Germany and France were cursed, their French mother was also spurned.
After World War II, French women who had intimate relationships with the Germans were punished. According to statistics, about 1 million French women were suspected and questioned, 100,000 women were punished, and 50,000 women were greatly humiliated: shaved heads, paraded in the streets.
These French women, who enjoyed themselves in wartime, never escaped the shame of being friendly with the Germans. They often vented on the "evidence" of shame, namely the illegitimate children born with the German army.
A Defa bastard named Peliox recalled in his old age that his mother beat him almost every day and let him sleep in a small enclosed storage room. His mother and stepfather even forced him to eat fleas on his body. Whenever she asked who her biological father was, her mother thundered and shouted, "It's none of your business!" ”
When the children were labeled "bastards of the Germans," they became the targets of revenge from the French, even their own mothers.
What are the kids doing wrong?
In The Cursed Child, the author Jean. Paul. Picape said: "After the war, these children became the embodiment of the German army, which was revenge for the innocent. ”
Children are victims of war, but they are treated as plague gods by their own people, cursed, rejected, and abandoned.
Even so, children will still live with hope, feeling that they are the crystallization of their parents' love, not just the product of animal desire. They have been fighting against the world with colored glasses, fighting for profit and social recognition.
In 2002, France's television station 3 produced a documentary called "Children of Shame", which told the public for the first time the story of these illegitimate children of World War II. This is actually declaring to society one thing: the bastards of World War II who were treated as a disgrace to France were innocent.
By this time, the illegitimate children of World War II who had survived the humiliation were almost 60 years old, and they were excited, and for the first time they felt that they were not unidentified bastards, and it turned out that many people, like them, had experienced those unfair treatments, and they no longer felt lonely, nor did they hide their identities, and began to stand up and tell their stories. They also cling to the hope of finding their biological father or blood relatives.
In 2005, the german soldier and the child of the French woman, Ginenen. Nevova founded the National Mutual Aid Society for War Children (ANEG) with the aim of helping illegitimate children of World War II find their roots. On its official website, it is written that the bastard son of World War II remembers and reminisces about his father, including the following sentence: "Our father who passed away, the father we sought, our German father, we love you." ”
These are civil society organizers, searching for memories that are hard to look back on, but German officials, especially France, have been covering up that shameful history.
With the shadow of the war fading away, and under the rush and exposure of a large number of civil society and historians, in 2009, the German government took the lead in announcing its willingness to give dual citizenship to the children of German soldiers living in France. Senior French officials, speaking about the issue, said the children were just innocent victims and said the government would help the children.
The illegitimate children of Germany and France, which are the products of the history of The Second World War between Germany and France, have experienced discrimination and injustice since childhood, endured humiliation and burden, and finally ushered in good news when they entered the age of ancient flowers. However, waiting for such a result is too long.
Whether it's the 200,000 German-French illegitimate children or the more than 50,000 French women with shaved hair, they are all victims of the war.
If the French army had been better at that time and desperately defended its homeland, would it have been able to avoid the tragedy of so many children and women?