<P> Having the head shaved can be a punishment prescribed in law . </P> <P> The Nazis punished persons accused of Rassenschande (racial defilement) by parading them through the streets with shaved heads and placards around their necks detailing their crime . </P> <P> During and after the end of World War II, thousands of French women had their heads shaved in front of cheering crowds as punishment for collaborating with the Nazis during the war . Also some Finnish women got their heads shaved for allegedly having relationships with Soviet POWs during World War II . </P> <P> Many Buddhists, Hajj pilgrims and Vaisnavas, especially members of the Hare Krishna movement, shave their heads . </P>

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