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Babies for sale. Italy, 1940 Unwanted babies for sale in France during World War II, 1940 This wasn’t this particular group’s first such outlandish claim. In late February 2019, the page shared a widely-reposted image purportedly showing wives engaged in a “Christmas tradition” of begging their husbands for general forgiveness. Earlier versions of the photograph suggested it actually showed women inviting men to a dance, bucking the tradition of the time. At least some people found it plausible that the French simply dangled their babies cruelly from burlap sacks and left them “a vendre” in war-torn France, but an initial search indicated that a different historical “fun facts” Twitter account received a response about what was presumably an identical claim back in 2014: The tweet to which the user was responding appeared to be no longer accessible. But myriad references for “a vendre” or “baby for sale” postcards were live on the internet, suggesting that the images were a meme unto t...