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Title: A tsunami of lust: America's liberation of France was not innocent
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URL Source: http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/a ... review-france-second-world-war
Published: Mar 30, 2016
Author: McAuley
Post Date: 2016-03-30 22:47:33 by NeoconsNailed
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Views: 135
Comments: 16
(For those contesting such exposés, you won't find a more suave, watered- down one than this. Those wanting the full shocking story, google AUSTIN APP ALLIED RAPE. NN) ............The GIs, in Life’s rendition, are pillars of heroism and decency, knights in shining armour whose mission in France was to rescue damsels in distress. In that sense, the famous Ralph Morse photograph of a soldier and a French woman kissing atop a jeep (as seen on the cover of the book) is the perfect complement to that narrative: the virile but gentle soldier is welcomed into the embrace of a paragon of French femininity and rewarded with a sexual favor, his just desert. Should that transaction raise any eyebrows, the photograph’s caption provides all the necessary reassurance: “US soldiers,” it concludes, “seldom have any more than a fleeting acquaintance with French girls. Reason: units move too fast or towns are declared off limits.” By 1944, Life was one of the laboratories where American public opinion was sculpted, shaped and sold. And so it was from this and other reports that the myth of the noble and entirely innocent American liberation of France was created, a myth that has endured in most popular histories and representations of the period. Stephen Ambrose’s D-Day Museum in New Orleans is a monument to this interpretation, and Stephen Spielberg’s Oscar-winning Saving Private Ryan (1999) and the popular television series Band of Brothers (2001)—based on Ambrose’s book of the same title—are very much its film translations. In her perceptive and thorough new book, What Soldiers Do, the historian Mary Louise Roberts of the University of Wisconsin has confronted that myth head-on, offering an alternate view of the Liberation as arresting as it is necessary. Far too often, accounts of this traumatic period in the recent French past focus on the abstractions of military strategy and its macrohistorical consequences; readers are trapped on the battlefield, locked in the mind of General Eisenhower or in the barracks of the men he commanded. Roberts’s book, however, demonstrates that “postwar transnational relations, far from being confined to diplomatic or political circles, were shaped at every level of society, and often emerged through specific cultures of gender and sexuality.” Roberts is not the first historian to apply “the personal is political” to the sphere of American foreign policy. Academics such as Maria Höhn and Petra Goedde have written on the ways in which sexual relations between G.I.s and German women subordinated a defeated Germany to the United States; John Dower and Naoko Shibusawa (among many others) have done the same in the case of Japan. France, however, has never been explored on these grounds. What Soldiers Do is thus an long overdue account of what Roberts calls the “tsunami of male lust” that crashed on the beaches of Normandy in June 1944 and its role in fostering French subservience to American power, personally and politically. The story Roberts tells is harrowing. The book begins with what she calls “gender damage,” the GIs’ attempt to humiliate French men already suffering from an impotent self-image after France fell quickly to the Germans in June 1940. “As a corollary to this failure,” she writes, “one that sprang from its shame, French men also feared they had lost sexual possession over their women.” Alongside this was the problem of prostitution, a convenient omission from Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers. By paying for sex, Roberts writes, “a GI was taught not only to use a French woman for his own ends, but also to exert control over French civilians in general… The shame of [a prostitute’s] commerce became the shame of the nation.” If the US military was happy to turn a blind eye to such behaviour, the same could not be said for rape accusations against American GIs by French women, which did much to “undermine the myth of the American mission embodied in the manly GI.” These accusations, Roberts notes, were taken surprisingly seriously, as they “suggested what could be seen as the brutal reality of US dominance.” However, the military’s response only exposed the brutal reality of American life. Among the most valuable statistics What Soldiers Do contains is that between 1944 and 1945, 29 public executions by hanging were performed as a result of rape convictions. Of those hanged, 25 were African-American soldiers. French women, Roberts insists, were just as culpable as the US military: scapegoating African-Americans was a means of ensuring that someone would be punished for their rapes, if not the exact culprit. “In this way,” she points out, “the French and the Americans became deadly allies in racism.” The central thesis of this slim but significant account—that “women’s bodies became an important means by which Franco-American relations were reordered”—adds a welcome new perspective to the vast historiography of the period. At a time when the US military faces an internal sexual assault crisis, What Soldiers Do is also a reminder that it has long been too willing to ignore these institutional problems. 
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#1. To: NeoconsNailed (#0)
As traumatic and repulsive as rape by foreign invaders is, the introduction of "new" genes into static communities actually improves physical/cognitive characteristics of succeeding generations. In static communities defective DNA tends to accumulate and is increasingly more difficult to correct for. In previous millenia Jews lived in closed-to-foreigners societies; their self-imposed failure to broaden their gene pool led to a progeny we see today of puny mental and physical runts who, like parasites, must rely on the labor and ingenuity of others to survive.
When I lived in Chicago, I knew an old guy that was a cannoneer for Patton. He never missed a fire mission. He told me he captured a German Major and the Company Commander took credit for it. He also told me he would walk into a French bar room with a pistol and say. "Ilene ye voux" or "Line up." And he would rob them all. Then I knew a guy that traveled in Europe and he told me France was the only place they tried to cheat him. I wonder why. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
I doubt if this is included in this nonsense... """G.I. RAPIST HANGED The first Allied soldier to be hanged after D-Day was Private Clarence Whitfield, a black US soldier of the 494th Port Battalion. He was convicted of the brutal rape of Aniela Skrzyniarz, a Polish farm girl working on a farm at Vierville Sur Mer, just behind Omaha Beach, on June 14, 1944. On August 14, Private Whitfield was hanged on a gallows that was erected in the garden of the Chateau at Canisy, five kilometres south of Saint Lo.""" This person was a truck driver behind the lines.
Useful, B -- very useful. 3 more items for the evidence file. Thanks!
And why did he rape her? Because of his own depravity, yes, but also because of Jues. The Jues that ran the slave trade, the Jues convinced everybody thatblax are equal to whites and killed 600,000 white Americans to "free" them, the Jues who dragged us into two World Wars, the Jues who gave him a persecution/revenge mentality, the Jues (notably Eleanor) who insisted on desegregation, the Juesmedia that glorified WW2 and are still doing so....... If these are God's chosen, exactly what god are we talking about? :-o
France is not a static population. The Jues and the French Revolution followed by the Napoleonic wars killed 10% or more of the male population. They were replaced by immigrants.Many of whom were Jues. WW I was an enormous blood letting. Afterwards, the French people learned they died for the Jues and not for France. That is why they surrendered so quickly in WW II. People in the UK are learning that they fought WW II so the Jues could destroy their nation.
The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie
Useful info, Horse! You may be explaining why the French look so -- French - - and why they're so damnably liberal. It's fine with me if they gave up early ptly because they liked the Nazis and Pétain (a gross oversimplification, yeah) and deeply disturbing they they're called cowards for trying to be practical either then or in the Boosh era.
The Vichy government during the war included Francois Mitterand in their ranks. He was Jewish. He later became President of France. I have met Jews who lived the whole war in France. One woman from Austria spent the war as a student in Paris. I met a woman whose family spent the war in Vichy France. The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie
Say, you're right. Let's hear it for mass rape by interracial liberators :-)
What did they have to say about Vichy France? If Miterrand was Jue, crucial knowledge. We must identify all present and former heads of state. No doubt there are more in the list at bottom here en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_France besides the obvious -- Sarkoma and Blum. 35% chance the Napoleons are implicated. Any Frenchman named Jacques (Jacob) is chosenite, e.g. Chirac -- he was caught in corruption, given a suspended sentence, his father's 1st name was Abel. Am I crazy or wasn't there a French president named Robert Straus? Can't find mention of him anywhere. (wikid: he's serving a death sentence PLUS 25 years :-] and 'He is sometimes labeled the "Dating Game Killer" because of his 1978 appearance on the television show The Dating Game in the midst of his murder spree.')
PS I beg of you all, LISTEN TO THE RED ICE PODCASTS ON EINSTEIN. We cannot understand what's really going on without naming, studying and charting the Jue. Merely the first half of the first hour of it is a KILLER, including on the JEW-S-S-R:
"""G.I. RAPIST HANGED The first Allied soldier to be hanged after D-Day was Private Clarence Whitfield, a black US soldier of the 494th Port Battalion. He was convicted of the brutal rape of Aniela Skrzyniarz, a Polish farm girl working on a farm at Vierville Sur Mer, just behind Omaha Beach, on June 14, 1944. On August 14, Private Whitfield was hanged on a gallows that was erected in the garden of the Chateau at Canisy, five kilometres south of Saint Lo.""" This person was a truck driver behind the lines. I doubt it is included either. Good work, Cyni. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
There were others that were hanged. In Pacific, we had two blacks that raped and murdered a nurse. They were hung there and shipped home in boxes. Anyone that thinks rape was an every day affair sanctioned by the hated military, was never there.
I never was there, so I really have no opinion on it. But Audie Murphy lost his cherry to an Italian sweetie. I saw that in the movie, "To Hell and Back". LOL "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
How horrible.
That was the invading Soviet hordes during WW II as they approached Berlin. Any fräuleins were fair game for relieving their inner tensions. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
rape accusations against American GIs by French women
#2. To: NeoconsNailed (#0)
The GIs, in Life’s rendition, are pillars of heroism and decency, knights in shining armour whose mission in France was to rescue damsels in distress.
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#4. To: BTP Holdings (#2)
#5. To: All (#3)
#6. To: Tatarewicz, NeoconsNailed (#1)
#7. To: Horse (#6)
#8. To: NeoconsNailed (#7)
#9. To: Tatarewicz (#1)
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As traumatic and repulsive as rape by foreign invaders is, the introduction of "new" genes into static communities actually improves physical/cognitive characteristics of succeeding generations.
#10. To: Horse (#8)
#11. To: All (#10)
#12. To: Cynicom (#3)
I doubt if this is included in this nonsense...
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#14. To: Cynicom (#13)
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Anyone that thinks rape was an every day affair sanctioned by the hated military, was never there.
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#16. To: NeoconsNailed (#9)
Let's hear it for mass rape by interracial liberators
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