Every Army under the sun has done so since the Begging of Time and later hated to admit it.
However, to say it was a sanction top down effort (unlike OTHERS) isn't something that happened either.
The Largest Human Migration in History was the Flight from East Prussia and they wouldn't be doing that if they Feared the Americans more than the Soviets.
The Americans Would Disarm the Germans.
The British Might Shoot them.
The Russians would ship them off to Siberia, or Worse.
***Every Army under the sun has done so ...***
“There fore let no man hasten to depart home till each have lain by some Trojan’s wife and paid back his strivings and groanings for Helen’s sake.”-Nestor of Gerenia’s speech to the Greeks before the walls of TROY from HOMER’s THE ILLIAD.
The Soviets raped gazillions. 100,000 Berlin women committed suicide after being raped. Did the Western allies rape over 200,000? That figure seems way too high.
“The Largest Human Migration in History was the Flight from East Prussia and they wouldn’t be doing that if they Feared the Americans more than the Soviets.”
They weren’t afraid of American soldiers, but they sure were afraid of the American Air Force. “Better a Russian on your belly than an American on your head,” they used to say.