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To: Bull Snipe

I might be wrong but it certainly weren’t a couple isolated cases. Things like that are part of war.


129 posted on 01/18/2018 6:28:15 PM PST by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

Rape and murder of civilians was not the policy of the United States Government. Yes, isolated cases, but always the actions of individual American soldiers. The number of rapes of French women are estimated to be about 3500. This is as compared to the probable millions of rapes of German women at the hands of the Soviet Army. The rape of German women, murder of Germans and the destruction of German private property was the official policy of the Soviet Government. They encouraged their soldiers to commit these crimes and Soviet military command turned a blind eye to the actions of their soldiers. That was until a few weeks after the end of the war, Moscow realized the problems caused by this conduct was interfering with ruling the defeated Germans. Moscow sent out the word to “Knock it off” and the Soviet Army immediately re-imposed it’s normal iron discipline on the troops. The rapes and murders stopped almost immediately.


130 posted on 01/18/2018 6:53:43 PM PST by Bull Snipe
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