Thread by @GoingMedieval

No, I am sorry. I don't care if you are a "history buff" you do not, under any circumstances get to make pronouncements about Nazi collaborators based off of a wikipedia article and girlboss vibes.
Here are some excerpts from Kelly Ricciardi Colvin's Gender and French Identity:

Gender and French Identity after the Second World War, 1944-1954:
"At first she [Violette] had been part of a reconnaissance cell, one which would track down Resistance members and turn them in and she also concerned herself with economic requisitioning for Germans.

She denounced members of the French Resistance and participated in deadly raids, and she was at least party responsible for the deaths of dozens of resistors. As the war went on, she transitioned to physical violence, becoming, according to one historian, one of two

"chief woman interrogators" for the Gestapo.
One young woman remembered her interrogation at the hands of Violette as sexually humiliating and excruciatingly painful. ... When the young woman, Odile S., continued to refuse to speak, Violette "throws her to the ground and beats

her black and blue on the back, the thoights, the face on which the whip prints some reddish stripes." Odile remembered that she passed out, and when she awoke she was laying on a sofa, and looked over at Violette... Her reputation was such that she was known in the

Resistance as "la terrible Violette Morris" and the most "obsessed" of all the torturers. One Resistance member, Suzanne Leverrier, remembered questioning by Violette as horrific. She was detained and taken to the rue de Saussaies for questioning, and heard awful screams as she

was led upstairs:
"The first thing I saw, it was a woman entirely nude suspended by her wrists to a big hook set in the ceiling. Her head fell forward on her side like that of Christ on the cross, and her hair masked her face. Her body was covered with red and blue marks [and]

criss-crossed with trickles of blood ... Violette Morris headed over to the woman and, seizing her by her hair, threw her haid back. "You recognize her?" [she asked Suzanne]"
Suzanne denied knowing the woman and thus provoked Moris's anger toward the suspended woman.

Suzanne remembered watching the scene: "I was petrified, terrorized, I was shaken by a nervous trembling ... La Morris was enraged, she alternated bursts of blows with burnings and a lighter. " p. 130

I use Colvin here because this is where I first learned about Violette. I would add that this is all fully footnoted and impeccably researched, unlike, and I cannot stress this enough WIKIPEDIA.

I have no idea why some non-historians are so desperate to rehabilitate a Nazi collaborator, but it is unhelpful, pathetic, and honestly you are showing your ass here. You need to sit down and read some honest to god books as opposed to trying to tumblr uplift this woman.

If you are such a history person you will learn to read books and research things before you try to rehabilitate people because you conflate someone's sexuality with a theoretical inherent goodness. That's some modern liberal nonsense and you need to interrogate yourself about it

More to the point, it is for this reason that what that Women's History account did was wrong. Oh they didn't mean to celebrate her? Well this entire hellsite is writing threads recusing her of her collaboration with the Nazis now, so where are you with that? Doing anything?

TFW you are definitely working to undo the damage you have done instead of expecting other public historians to pick up the pieces.

Really begging people who I follow/who follow me to stop sharing that "history nerd"'s ahistorical twitter thread of nonsense.

I don't want to pile on him because he has made a (very serious) mistake here, and it's just some little account, but come on.