Did the Allies commit war crimes too?

faisal khan

Absolutely they did.

The French colonial forces included a regiment of native Moroccan soldiers known as the “Moroccan Goumiers”. When these men joined the war effort in Italy and Germany, the Moroccan troops were an absolute menace — they traveled through Italy and Germany raping and murdering any civilian in sight.

One British soldier who witnessed the Goumiers in action had this to say:

“The French colonial troops are on the rampage again. Whenever they take a town or a village, a wholesale rape of the population takes place. Recently all females in the villages of Patricia, Pofi, Isoletta, Supino, and Morolo were violated. In Lenola, which fell to the Allies on 21 May, fifty women were raped, but – as these were not enough to go round – children and even old men were violated. It is reported to be normal for two Moroccans to assault a woman simultaneously, one having normal intercourse while the other commits sodomy. In many cases severe damage to the genitals, rectum and uterus has been caused. In Castro di Volsci doctors treated 300 victims of rape, and at Ceccano the British have been forced to build a guarded camp to protect the Italian women”.

The Goumiers were essentially a regiment of rapists. Everyone always writes about Oskar Dirlewanger, the rapist, murderer and sex pest turned SS commander. Horrible guy, and the Nazis had no shortage of absolute goons. In one instance, a local priest tried to defend a woman — so the Goumiers raped him, too. When one French soldier complained of the atrocities, he was tackled, held down and sodimized by seven burly Moroccan fellows just to prove a point.

The Moroccan Goumiers were basically a regiment of French colonial Dirlewangers. They raped whoever they encounter, men, women, children. Those women and girls who survived the assault were often left so badly damaged that they became barren or incontinent for life.

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