I excluded myself from the community of the people." In March 1941, a married German woman who had an affair with a French prisoner of war had her head shaved and was marched through the town of Bramberg in Lower Franconia carrying a sign which said, "I have sullied the honour of the German woman." The policy of prohibiting sexual relations between Germans and foreign workers was pursued to the extent that a case emerged of two young German women, one (aged 16) who was raped and the other (aged 17) who was sexually assaulted, had their heads shaved and were paraded through the streets with placards around their neck stating they were "without honor". The event was met with complete disapproval but was pursued to put fear into the German public in order to avoid the Poles. From 1940 onwards, Poles were commonly hanged in public without trial for having sexual intercourse with German women. During the war, effort was made by Nazi propaganda to motivate Germans to propagate Volkstum ("racial consciousness"). Pamphlets were issued encouraging German women to prevent sexual relations with foreign workers brought to Germany and to view them as a danger to their "blood" (i.e. racial purity). Particularly with the Ostarbeiters, all sexual relations, even those that did not result in pregnancy, were severely punished. To prevent violations of German racial laws, orders explicitly provided that the workers were to be recruited in equal numbers of men and women, so brothels would not be needed. The program to import nannies from Eastern Europe, including Poland and Ukraine, would result in their working with German children, and quite possibly sexually exploitation; therefore, such women had to be suitable for Germanisation. Propaganda Inculcating acceptance of this distinction, and the need for racial hygiene, was widely spread in Nazi propaganda. Nazi speakers were enjoined that many Germans did not "recognize what is at stake", citing a newspaper title that called the decision to punish sexual relations between Germans and Jews "A Strange Decision". Even foreign propaganda urged the importance of preventing it with penalties. Der Stürmer was preoccupied with such cases, with nearly every issue alleging sexual crimes, often in graphic detail, about Jews. After the Nuremberg Laws were propagated, Streicher in four of the first eight articles in 1935 of the Der Stürmer demanded for the death penalty in cases of race defilement. It habitually referred to