EOY Oral Exam General Study - Questions with Main Ideas Flashcards
Quel est le contexte culturel et social de cette perspective historique ?
- Shearing was a product of the liberation during the wild purge period.
- French discovered the horrors of German things
- Wanted to purge their country of the German influence, led to wild purge where female collaborators were punished by citizens.
Quelles sont les différences et les similarités que vous avez observées dans le temps ?
Que pensez-vous de l’évolution de cette pratique culturelle/produit culturel dans le temps ?
- Punishments and other things don’t exist in France or other countries where rights of men and women are more recognised and respected.
- French people are more civil and understanding. Would’ve understood or forgived women who collaborated with Germans by love or to survive.
- Women free to love and have relationships with whoever they want, their body belongs to them.
Si vous viviez a cette epoque, est-ce que vous auriez pu collaborer avec l’ennemi?
- Difficult question, I’m an Australian adolescent and I don’t know what it was like to be a women in occupied France.
- Probably would say yes if it helped me survive, but I cannot be sure.
Pourquoi avez-vous choisi ce thème ?
- Interested by this subject bc after WW2, many Germans were punished for their crimes, but never heard about this more sad side where women in allied countries were helping Germans and they were punished.
- Wanted to know more.
Pensez- vous qu’il y a eu un impact sur la société et culture française/francophone ?
- Yes, lot of consequence for women and their children
- Scapegoats
- Psychological problems -> suicide -> never recovered
- 200000 children born from horizontal collaboration treated as parias and victims of insults
Existe-t-il d’autres formes de collaboration ?
- Classic collaboration
- Women or men helped Germans to find and execute Jews in France
- Punishment life in prison or death - justified, led to the deaths of many Jews, not the case for horizontal collaboration.
Pourquoi les appelait-on des « poules à boches » ? (maybe don’t talk about this? bit offensive)
- “Boche” pejorative term used towards German soldiers by allies
- From this title, “Poules à Boches” was the name given to women who collaborated with the soldiers
Pouvez-vous nous en dire plus sur ces relations forcées ?
- To force them, many Germans exercised psychological and physical pressures to get their way
- Blackmail, forced labour, and imprisonment
Y a-t-il eu des hommes qui ont collaboré avec les Allemands ? Pouvez-vous en donner un exemple ?
- Many men who participated in classic collaboration, helping Germans in general and find and execute Jews.
- But during wild purge women mainly punished, less important and more vunerable
- 1 example of male collaborator is Phillipe Pétain, head of Vichy France, who signed many antisemitic laws authorising deportation of Jews to concentration camps
Pourquoi les citoyens ont-ils rasé la tête des femmes ?
- At the liberation, the legal system of occupied France which had a lot of Germans was crumbling
- Thus the judicial system was slow to be restored.
- It was the citizens who took the law into their own hands and punished the collaborators
Connaissez-vous des femmes celebres qui ont participe a la guerre/ont collabore avec l’ennemi? (classic)
- Violette Morris
- French athlete who practiced many sports such as shot put, javelin throwing, and automobile racing
- She was a collaborator who managed a garage and sourced fuel for the Nazis, and she was a driver for Nazi higher-ups.
Pourquoi est-il important de le savoir ?
- In my opinion, this is important because it allows us to learn from the past in order to make better decisions in the future.
- For example, punishments and other things don’t exist in France or other countries where rights of men and women are more recognised and respected.
- Maybe if we didn’t know about this, we would still shave and humiliate them.
Comment les Français perçoivent-ils cet événement aujourd’hui ?
- It’s a very sad page in the history of France
- Many people and many experts agree that these punishments were too barbaric and not necessary at all.
- France hasn’t yet apologised to the women, whereas countries such as Norway have.
Cette pratique existe-t-elle dans d’autres pays ?
- Not exactly the same, but yes.
- In other Germany occupied countries such as Norway and Serbia there were cases of horizontal collaboration and punishments for these collaborators such as exile, but it was mainly a product of France.
La collaboratrice sur la photo – que pense-t-elle ? Que ressent-elle ?
- From face, would say she is feeling very shameful about her actions.
- Not smiling, very grim, perhaps regretting her collaboration.
