A textbook analysis of
savage American hypocrisy
German girl,
Rape Victim of WW2
April 21, 2013
Source: Darkmoon
ED Darkmoon; An estimated 2 million German women
were raped by Allied forces in the aftermath of World War II, mostly by the
Russians under their Bolshevik Jew leaders, such as rape propagandist Ilya
Ehrenberg. The French, Americans and Brits were also responsible, but to a far
lesser degree. The most violent gang rapes against German women (aged 9 to 90)
were accompanied by mutilation, dismemberment and torture. German women’s
breasts were methodically hacked off and sharpened poles and telephone
receivers thrust up their bleeding vaginas. This was done, never forget, by the
“noble victors” of WW-2 ~ the ones who went on to write the history books and
tell us how evil the Germans were.
It’s not fair to speculate on what a book doesn’t
contain, especially when it reveals the origins of two shameful aspects of
American behaviour that makes decent people everywhere shake their heads in
embarrassment over how low an effort once thought to be noble can go.
In undertaking to review Mary Louise Roberts’ What
Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France (2013, University
of Chicago Press), I had hoped against hope that it would contain some
reference to the cruelty of recent U.S. attacks on numerous countries around
the world and the deceitful explanations for undertaking them.
Of course, coming from a mainstream perspective,
the author made no attempt to make these connections. But she does provide a
timely glimpse into the genesis of these disturbing trends that have turned the
USA into a country no longer recognizable as the bastion of freedom and liberty
everybody in the world once thought it was. Then again, perhaps it never was.
Exploiting desperate victims of war
First off, this is not a book that ranks with
Archibald Maule Ramsay’s The Nameless War
or James Bacque’s Other Losses, which
reveal the still-suppressed treachery that triggered World War II in the first
place.
But what it does do is show how the U.S. ransacked a nation it was supposed to be rescuing,then blamed the mayhem on soldiers it put in a position to do harm,and then sacrificed a few black soldiers to the outrage of public opinion to cover up the sexual molestation of a whole country.
Roberts, a University of Wisconsin professor who
took a grant-funded sabbatical to research this project, explores the carnal
apocalypse of a nation already ravaged by the Germans, then subsequently
savaged by the American boys who came to rescue them.
“Thus GIs were emboldened to believe the nation was
theirs for the taking ~ at an affordable price.” she writes; “Their disregard
for French social norms meant they had public sex with prostitutes and
assaulted women on the streets. Women’s bodies became an important means by
which Franco-American relations were reordered.”
The lies American officials told about what
happened in France in 1944-45 reinforced the horrors of both racism and sexism
that were to dominate the following decades and eventually lead to the
conscienceless carnage and questionable justifications that were to putrefy
America’s subsequent overseas military adventures right up until the present
day.
Note the very Parisian beret and dangling cigarette. So tres French tramp.
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Turning gratitude into depravity
Right after D-Day, the conditions for tragedy were
perfect. The Allied bombing had killed more French than the Germans did. Most
of the young men of France were in German prisons or in hiding. The country had
fallen to the Nazis in an embarrassingly short time and suffered occupation for
four years.
Finally, in rode the American conquerors, handsome,
well-armed, and rich. One look at the beautiful French girls, with their
European openness and unrestrained gratitude at being rescued, and the GIs
thought they were in Muslim heaven. But the honeymoon didn’t last long.
France was starving. American soldiers possessed an
endless supply of food, and especially chocolate and cigarettes, which the
deprived natives craved. Almost overnight, sex turned into currency. French
women realized that providing sex was practically the only way to survive. Love
turned to business.
France’s reputation as an immoral nation was reinforced.
The Yanks regarded this ancient but defeated world
power as a giant brothel.
“The overwhelming excitement of superhuman heroes
rescuing France and destroying it at the same time” quickly turned into “an
amalgam of love, excitement and the stench of death” as scared GIs were caught
“confusing the primitive openness of the peasantry with immorality.”
Roberts outlines the stages of this tragic
relationship as beginning in romantic gratitude devolving into pragmatic
pandering, and finally winding up as unrestrained sexual assault. What Soldiers Do is really a microcosm
of what the U.S. military (or any conquering army) wreaks on countries it
conquers or rescues.
The liberators’ sexual prerogative
“French men were in prison or in hiding and French
women were ecstatic over the arrival of their handsome liberators.”
One Frenchman opined, “With the Germans, the men
had to camouflage themselves, but when the Americans arrived, we had to hide
the women.”
Roberts notes that this was an
American problem;
Canadians and British did not behave
in this way.
France had become a child unable to care for
itself. The French crisis of masculinity, demonstrated by its impotence in the
face of the enemy, caused irreparable wartime gender damage. It was exacerbated
by the public shaming of women who had collaborated with the Germans, shaving
their heads and forcing them to march down streets amid the jeers of their neighbours.
Chocolate and cigarettes and chewing gum and Coca
Cola became the currency du jour as French women eagerly traded their bodies
for them. Turning the sacred sex act into a primary commodity became the shame
of a conquered people.
These commonplace treats that cemented friendship
between the Yanks and the natives were to become tools of corruption because,
for French women, they bought survival.
Sex for a pack of chewing gum
The French came to be regarded as an immoral,
subservient people. In the summer of ’44, all the women of France became
prostitutes for the benefits the practice brought, and to stay alive.
Americanization had turned the hungry females into hookers, something that
readily shows today throughout the world in the cynically liberated manner of
styles and behaviours.
Roberts writes that France became “a culture that
turned its back on itself in the rush for the gaudy American future.”
GI sex began as a gift, free for the asking, but it
became a commodity linked to corruption and bad faith. The American soldiers
who faced death every day came to regard it as ‘get it while you can because we
might not be here tomorrow’, and their superiors regarded the phenomenon with
sarcastic indifference.
The generals looked the other way
American military authorities tried their best to
ignore both the disastrous effects on French society and the skyrocketing
incidence of venereal disease among their troops. The Army believed sex was
good for fighting men, but had little regard for the women who were providing
this illicit relief to their soldiers.
What was most important to them was
“VD was a threat to the war effort.”
About the best the Army could do was declare “the
sex act cannot be made unpopular.”
‘Going all the way’ had become permissible in the
1920s, Roberts writes. By the 1940s, the experience in France turned it into an
ugly epidemic.
It occurred to me as I was reading this part that I
wish someone would analyze the reasons countries ~ and particularly America ~
go to war with as much precision and depth as Roberts used to investigate the
debasement of French womanhood and the tacit approval of the trend by both U.S.
and French authorities.
Finding a convenient scapegoat
By the time the U.S. soldiers went home, the big
question had become “what to do with all the sick women in France”? The blame
was placed on a familiar target.
One hundred and thirty nine of the 152 American
soldiers tried for rape during and after the war were African-Americans.
Twenty-five of the 29 GIs actually hung for their alleged offenses were black.
Roberts called this “the racialization of rape” in the U.S. Army. Operating on
traditional racial stereotypes, the author writes,
“they sacrificed blacks to appease the French [. . .] Accusations of violence against black GIs gave French civilians the illusion of control.”
Robert concludes this tactic demonstrated
“how vital sex was to the maintenance of white supremacy.”“By making rape at every level a “Negro” problem rather than an “American” problem, the U.S. military engaged in racial scapegoating to deflect the impact of GI violence.”
Accusations of rape undermined the myth of
heterosexual romance grounding the myth of the American rescue. They turned the
noble warrior into a sexual predator. Unnoticed in all spin, trying to prevent
reports of this Caligulan orgy from reaching the folks back home, was the story
of one GI who was caught raping a goat. He was white.
U.S. officials tried to contain the damage by
scapegoating black GIs and proclaiming rape to be a black crime. The French,
shell shocked by all that had happened to them, readily agreed with this
policy, as both nations tried to save face by covering up the truth of a nasty
story of systemic lust and exploitation that was condoned and abetted by the
people in charge.
The delight and innocence of the liberation of
France that quickly turned to sexual anarchy and lasting resentment became the
suppressed paradigm of covered-up military gang rape that continues to plague
the world today in every country that is overrun by one army more powerful than
another.
To say that war has always been this way is only to
continue the legacy of the French kiss turned rancid, and judging by the more
recent stories from Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, has turned into grievances
far worse than what the prostituted women of France ever experienced.
Nearly 70 years have passed since American GIs
liberated much of Europe, and today the world is a different place, much less
moral than these comparatively innocent trysts in the ruined byways of France.
Seven decades and countless wars later, with authorities looking the other way
and saying ‘boys will be boys’ and ‘sex makes better soldiers’, a thoughtless
trail of needless tears falls across much of the world, and turned the insides
of those who fight into a rotting numbness.
Today, drug-fueled mercenaries plundering helpless
countries for contrived reasons dismember the bodies of their underage rape
victims in the dusty rubble of Iraq, or indiscriminately bomb wedding parties
in Afghanistan, continuing the ignored carnage that began on a day in June with
grateful girls innocently welcoming handsome and heroic American soldiers in
the once-flowering fields of France.
John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf
Coast of Florida, constantly trying to figure out why we are destroying
ourselves, and pinpointing a corrupt belief system as the engine of our demise.
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