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all this for sleeping with the enemy?

Occupation is clearly not in the American consciousness. Well, BEING occupied, anyway.

shaving, tarring and photographing ! hard times.

All aspects of war are ugly.

Most people can't understand what these people felt, most of these girls had their hair cut by people they knew, their neighbours. People who had seen how these girls behaved during 5 years occupation, how these girls often had nice clothes, full bellies and fun while their neighbours died of hunger, suffered under the occupation and lived in terror. Imagine such a girl walking by, arm in arm with a enemy soldier, shes wearing silk stockings, a fur coat and is laughing. She looks healthy and perhaps is carrying a bag full of food and a bottle of wine. As you look at her your children are crying in their beds, they are hungry, their feet are bleeding because they have no shoes, their bellies are swollen because lack of food. Your husband has been in hiding for months, trying to avoid forced labour, you don't know where he is. You yourself are wearing rags, broken wooden shoes and have just returned from a 4 day trip trough the snow on a bicycle with wooden tires, trying to find food in the country. You traded your wedding ring for three potatoes. Can you imagine the anger you feel for the girl who is dating the enemy? Walking around, flirting and laughing with a man wearing the uniform that not so long ago was shooting at your male family members during the invasion, the uniform that took your jewish neighbours away, the uniform that executed that crying boy for looting. Can you now perhaps understand the anger of those that cut the hair of these girls? Of course some of these girls were guilty of nothing more then falling in love with the enemy, but some were nothing more then cheap prostitutes, not caring about anything but their own pleasure. Try to understand both sides, don't just automatically assume, as the modern PC society sometimes tries to make us do, that all these girls were poor innocent victims of love. The people who cut their hair in many cases knew what they were doing, knew who they were cutting their hair and don't regret it one single moment. They weren't all innocent, the perpetrators weren't all evil and blind. History isn't black and white, it isn't grey, it is all of the above. This is how a few people have explained to me why they personally were involved in the punishing of these 'kraut girls'. They also often tell me they knew a few girls who dated Germans but who didn't take advantage of this, who tried to fight it, who felt guilty, who didn't walk around during the hunger winter behaving like a cheap tart. Girls who everyone knew about and who nobody touched when payback day came.

very good.

Nice

grappig. hij heeft een p37 jasje aan, en een mk3 turtle helm. niet echt een standaard combinatie, omdat p37 inmiddels al vervangen was voor p40 (pattern 40). de mk3 helm werd voor het eerst gebruikt in 1944 tijdens D-Day, wat deze combinatie nog gekker maakt.

Kingjayko Ook Canadese foeriers moesten wel eens wat opmaken: er vaak heel apart uitgedeeld. Niet anders dan hier . Mijn vader zal enkele jaren later rond 1950 in Nederlandse militaire dienst en ik heb foto's van hem waar hij precies zo'n zelfde type mk3 helm op heeft als deze Canadees. Hij was wel de enige van zijn eenheid, wat zijn maten steeds deed opmerken: wat hem jij een gekke helm.

Nicolaas Verhoeven dat klopt, zo'n beetje alles werd doorgebruikt. sterker nog, tijdens de oorlog werd er brits materieel en kleding gebruikt door de prinses Erine-brigade en de stoottroepen. na de oorlog werd de nieuwe uitrusting zo ontwikkeld, dat hij in combinatie kon gebruikt worden met de oude Britse webbing.

Montgomery? Niet Hitler?

Dit hoofd lijkt toch niet op Montgomery?

Dit is zeker NIET Montgomery. Het is Hitler, flink toegetakeld ook nog.

@ juffrouwjo en arendje2008 dank voor jullie reactie. het is inderdaad niet de kop van montgomery maar waarschijnlijk van hitler. de omschrijving is aangepast.