51K Likes, 1,713 Comments - History In Pictures (@historyphotographed) on Instagram: "The punishment of shaving a woman’s head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the dark ages, with the Visigoths. During the middle ages, this mark of shame, denuding a woman of what was supposed to be her most seductive feature, was commonly a punishment for adultery. Shaving women’s heads as a mark of retribution and humiliation was reintroduced in the 20th century.
After French troops occupied the Rhineland in 1923, German women who had relations with them later suffered the same fate. And during World War II, the Nazi Germany issued orders that German women accused of sleeping with non-Aryans or foreign prisoners employed on farms should also be publicly punished in this way.
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