I always thought it was about what people did after WW2 to girls who had just happened to fall in love with German soldiers. In most countries, these girls got their hair cut off "in shame", so that everyone could see who they were. Both the girls and any children they got with the foreign soldiers were harassed the rest of their lives.
But it could just as well be about nazis cutting the hair of the concentration camp prisoners. Either way, it's about what humans are able to do to other human beings.
I always thought it was about what people did after WW2 to girls who had just happened to fall in love with German soldiers. In most countries, these girls got their hair cut off "in shame", so that everyone could see who they were. Both the girls and any children they got with the foreign soldiers were harassed the rest of their lives.
But it could just as well be about nazis cutting the hair of the concentration camp prisoners. Either way, it's about what humans are able to do to other human beings.