Ugly Carnival (France after ww2) Most of the French government was in collaboration with the Germans. And after the war, some cowardly fools showed how tough they were by taking it out on a few women.

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[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It's also crazy how the managed to sell the narrative that the French army were really heroic immediately after the war while they ran away and most of the realy dangerous stuff was done by the resistance, much of which was female. It's almost as if the French people wanted to have a fantasy version of the war which fitted old comfortable stereotypes.

There's a good book Les Parisiennes by Anne Sebba on the occupation of Paris and this.

[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

most of the realy dangerous stuff was done by the resistance, much of which was female.

The resistance accomplished little. Mostly they were violent rednecks who made things worse by provoking retaliatory killings that they knew would come. It's just that after the war, everyone said they were in the resistance and it was romanticized.