Two Women (1960)
The film is adapted from an Alberto Moravia novel of 1957 “La Ciocara”, based on true events of mass rapes by the Moroccan Gourmiers in the Ciocara region after the battle of Monte Cassino in World War II. Monte Cassino was captured by the Allies on 18 May 1944, and on the following night, thousands of Goumiers and other colonial troops scoured the the hills surrounding the towns and the villages of Ciociaria. Over 60,000 women, ranging in age from 11 to 86, suffered from violence, when village after village came under control of the Goumiers. Civilian men who tried to protect their wives and daughters were murdered.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054749/trivia?item=tr2267400i
Very sad and terrible.
While the rapes are indefensible, I’d imagine the Moroccans were using the same logic as Soviet rapists when Berlin fell; Italy had invaded France at the start of the war (while the Germans invaded from the north). Moroccan troops had a similar reputation in Spain’s civil war a few years earlier. They are Muslims, after all.
Actions have consequences.