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French female collaborator punished by having her head shaved to publicly mark her, 1944

Throughout France, from 1943 to the beginning of 1946, about 20,000 women of all ages and all professions who were accused of having collaborated with the occupying Germans had their heads shaved. Just as the identity of those who carried this task out varied so too did the form it took.

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A Lifetime Of Regret

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I was born into a normal family. I wasn’t abused. I wasn’t dirt poor, I didn’t grow up devoid of opportunities.

Physically I am a perfectly average man, around six feet tall, normal physique. I have all my hair still, got all my teeth and everything.

You could walk past me on the street and you wouldn’t have a clue that I’m a lonely man. You wouldn’t know I’m miserable.

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky rejects asylum offers from Europe: “I will stay in my country and if I die, I will die with my soldiers.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had also turned down an offer from the United States of evacuation from the capital city Kyiv.

“The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,” Zelensky told the US.

“I am here. We are not putting down arms. We will be defending our country, because our weapon is truth, and our truth is that this is our land, our country, our children, and we will defend all of this,”

“That is it. That’s all I wanted to tell you. Glory to Ukraine,”