So who
really were the good guys?
Oddments of history
that make one wonder...
...and the bad guys?
> on
4/28/02 1:59 PM, KGamma4@aol.com wrote:
>
> > I understand also
that upon the surrender of Paris, the city
> > fathers, fearing that
the tracks would damage the pavement,
> > asked the Germans to not
include any tracked vehicles in
> > their victory parade. The
Germans respected this wish.
> > You can see this for yourself in the
famous newsreels.
> >
> > Contrast this with the American
"Liberators" in 1944.
> > Not only did they ride into town with their
tanks, causing
> > untold damage to the city streets. I am told
[but cannot
> > yet confirm this] that in the first two weeks
following
> > "Liberation" there were more rapes by the Americans
than
> > during 4 years of "Occupation" by those terrible
Germans.
> >
> > Incidentally, while rare occurences of rape
and looting
> > were punished most severely [and quickly] by the German
Army,
> > I cannot find a single case of an American "Liberator"
being
> > punished for rape.
> >
> > 88
> >
> > AdG
> >
>