| 81. "The French troops in Germany had the women terrorized." The French army, as any other, had to cope with disorderly conduct, looting, rape, and other acts of violence by their soldiers against enemy populations. If you think French. troops misbehaved in Germany, you might ask how German troops behaved in Poland, Russia, Greece, Holland. If you were a French soldier, whose land had been invaded, whose wife or sister or mother had been taken into a German concentration camp and raped or killed, you might have found it difficult to control your emotions. Lastly, a good many French women have been in terror of American troops, especially in Paris. Our MP records testify to a deplorable amount of drunkenness, molesting of women and street fights -- by Americans. |
