Victors as Rapists (I)

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Jennifer Schuessler, The Dark Side of Liberation; Documenting abuse by GI's in France during World War II. May 21, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/2 ... -war-ii-france.html
(book review on Mary Louise Roberts, What Soldiers Do; Sex and the American GI in World War II France. University of Chicago Press, 2013)

Excerpt in the window of print: Finding less-than-heroic behavior among the 'greatest generation.'

Note:
(a) Le Havre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Havre
(a city; Population  179,751 (2007); on the right bank of the mouth of the river Seine; centuries ago named Le Havre-de-Grâce ("Harbour of Grace") after an existing chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce ("our Lady of Grace"))
(b) "gender historians began taking a closer look at “fraternization” by American soldiers, with particular attention to what women thought they were getting out of the bargain. * * * the Americans were the fraternizers"

fraternize (vi):
"to associate on close terms with members of a hostile group especially when contrary to military orders"
(c) Palgrave Macmillan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palgrave_Macmillan
(d) “Don’t forget the Krauts were fooling around France a long time before we got here.”

kraut (n; German, cabbage, from Old High German krūt):
"SAUERKRAUT"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kraut
(e) The print but not online shows a photo of transcript whose typing said, "In the regions occupied by the Americans, women no longer dare go to milk the cows without being accompanied by a man. Even the presence of a man does not protect them. In the Kanche [spelling uncertain] a priest has been killed trying to protect two young girls attacked by American soldiers. These young girls were raped."

(i) The caption of the photo states, "A World War II general reported crimes by American soldiers in France and related fears among women."
(ii) The credit of the photo is United States "National Archives and Record Administration."