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The German Army "look" in WWII somewhat puzzles me. While they did not have electric clippers in the field, and having long hair on top is at least good for some insulation in the winter time and it was their style, It would seem to me the presence of lice, would lend toward shorter American style "crewcuts". It is what I would have had. I got my first Army cut in 1985 and I still have it. Long hair ( touching your ears or just long on top) is simply "itchy" to me , and this does not even consider the serious lice and typhus problems the German Wehrmacht had in WWII.
Wish old HaEn was still around, I would like to know what consideration they had of the lice/typhus issue at times in respect to haircuts.
FWIIW, I am not a blond Nazi,though I am part German, I am a blond Viking , somewhat higher on the "blond list" .

Late answer (sorry).

Nothing puzzling about it, it's an extremely efficient haircut.
From dozens of interviews of German vets, the same line is repeated: This haircut was necessary to have a PERFECT fit for the German steel helmet. A shaved head resulted in an extremely uncomfortable fit, in fact it did not fit at all and moved all the time. Long top (German: "Deckhaar") and aggressively short sides meant the helmet fit perfectly on top (did not move) and then the leather straps would fit perfectly on the sides and secure the helmet.

The haircut also had other practical uses:
- It fit German military regulations (no hair can appear about 2-3 fingers above ears).
- It also fit the German style beliefs of the time. I read a German veteran say that shaved heads was believed to be the look of "criminals and prison inmates". German officers even would forbid shaved heads (and in fact this would continue in many armies for years. I know for a fact in the French Army, for a long time, it was forbidden to "Bic your head", at least in the Legion. The reason was still helmet fit).

And generally speaking, the rough look of many of these haircuts was because they were done in the field with manual clippers. There was little fading/blending.

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Hi George,

interesting photos, even in my very early school years in the 1960s, it was not uncommon for entire school classes to be shaved bald.

Head lice were a massive problem, many refugee families had no bathroom, no shower, nothing.
Classmates were shaved or taken to a cleaning.
Hard to imagine nowadays, but that's how it was.

The refugees lived in abject poverty, there was no money in these families for personal hygiene, many of these families came from the Baltic countries, it was still bad times, 20 years after the war.

Good German citizens grew out of these DP persons, all of which took decades, but head lice are still present here in Germany, unfortunately.

Edit: Much was never written down, it's the passage of time, the little memories fade, the roaring and loud will survive, but also fade one day, in the near future.

When I see the gold teeth of the Ukrainians, ripped out by Russian soldiers, I feel sick.
These people have learned nothing from history, nothing at all!


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