My Mother said Allied troops invaded Palermo and raped all the women the next year all the babies were born. I don’t know if I believe this?????????
US soldiers and their allies were not angels, unfortunately, but subject to human temptation like all other soldiers in wartime.
See the Sophia Loren movie “Two Women” for an Italian perspective on the aftermath of Allied occupation on some Italian women. Her daughter in the movie is raped by “Morroccan Gouriers...a division of the Allied forces.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Women