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Photos Of Normandy After D-Day (June 1944) grande guillotte, 23 year-old-french girl collaborated with the germans in normandy. when her town was liberated by allied troops, french patriots dragged her from her house and cut off all her hair. a french patriot cuts off grande guillotte’s hair while another holds her in france on july 7, 1944 They called it the épuration sauvage, the wild purge, because it was spontaneous and unofficial. But, yes, it was savage, too. In the weeks and months following the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944, Allied troops and the resistance swept across France liberating towns and villages, and unleashing a flood of collective euphoria, relief and hope. And then the punishments began. The victims were among the most vulnerable members of the community: Women. Accused of “horizontal collaboration” — sleeping with the enemy — they were targeted by vigilantes and publicly humiliated.  Their heads were shaved, they were stripped half-naked, smeared with tar, p...