Question 26059 — veterans and victims of war

Summary

Mr. Jean-Luc Lagleize draws the attention of the Secretary of State, to the Minister of the Armed Forces, to the possible interest for France in presenting its official apologies to the women who were shorn after the Second World War. At the end of the Second World War, 20,000 women accused, not always with proof, of “horizontal collaboration” with the enemy were shorn in public. Accused of having fraternized with the enemy, they were victims of expiatory and humiliating ceremonies. Parmi ces 20 000 tondues, les femmes ayant réellement collaboré avec le régime nazi côtoient les femmes amoureuses, les femmes ayant refusé de quitter leur mari allemand, les prostituées ou encore les femmes livrées à elles-mêmes ayant dû entrer au service de l'occupant. Moreover, according to different sources, this figure of 20,000 shorn women is only an estimate. Some of these women were victims of the purge, hanged without any form of trial, as was the case in Monterfil in Brittany. Presumed guilty, not tried due to a legal loophole and treated with disgrace, these women were not protected by the rule of law. In similar circumstances, Norway recently apologized to these “shorn women”. Thus, he questions her about France's intentions towards these "women shorn”, collateral victims of the conflict of the Second World War.

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