American Crimes And The Liberation Of Paris: Robbery, Rape And Murder By Renegade Gis 1944-1947
by Kenneth D. Alford /
2015 / English / PDF
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The Allies' triumphant march into Paris in 1944 was met with
cheering crowds of liberated Parisians. After the cheering stopped,
American deserters and their French cohorts violently exploited the
city with the ruthless efficiency of the Chicago mobs of the 1920s.
Well organized, and heavily armed, these GIs-turned-gangsters made
huge profits on the thriving black market with their unlimited
supplies of gasoline, cigarettes and other commodities. Along with
this illicit enterprise came rape, murder, robbery, prostitution
and epidemic venereal disease. American military justice worked at
controlling the crime wave, handling nearly 8,000 criminal
investigations in the year after liberation, but only the end of
the war in 1945 put a stop to it. This book identifies both French
and American offenders.
The Allies' triumphant march into Paris in 1944 was met with
cheering crowds of liberated Parisians. After the cheering stopped,
American deserters and their French cohorts violently exploited the
city with the ruthless efficiency of the Chicago mobs of the 1920s.
Well organized, and heavily armed, these GIs-turned-gangsters made
huge profits on the thriving black market with their unlimited
supplies of gasoline, cigarettes and other commodities. Along with
this illicit enterprise came rape, murder, robbery, prostitution
and epidemic venereal disease. American military justice worked at
controlling the crime wave, handling nearly 8,000 criminal
investigations in the year after liberation, but only the end of
the war in 1945 put a stop to it. This book identifies both French
and American offenders.
