Did you Know,

That during the second world war, American "Liberators" had a terrible reputation as child rapists and looters?

“We are devastation,” a U.S. Army Sergeant named Raymond Gantter wrote home as the occupation advanced. “Where we have passed, little remains—no cameras, no pistols, no watches, very little jewelry, and damn few virgins. We leave behind us a spoor of broken dishes, emptied fruit jars, and plundered, dirty houses.”

The Americans, believing themselves "superior", and the french "inferior", felt they had the right to rape and plunder as they saw fit.

"The U.S. high command fretted about the plunder. General Dwight D. Eisenhower had received numerous bitter complaints about looting from allies in France, Belgium and other liberated Nazi territories. The anger “threatened political relationships,” Givens notes, “as civilians had just endured German occupation and expected liberation to be better.”

The perception of French women as hypersexualized was widespread among American troops, fueled by propaganda and media portrayals, including Life magazine's description of France as "a tremendous brothel inhabited by 40 million hedonists who spent all their time eating, drinking, making love, and, in general, having a hell of a good time".

This view contributed to the expectation of easy sexual access, which some soldiers acted upon.

French citizens expressed outrage, with one Le Havre coffeehouse owner stating that the liberators brought "incomprehension, arrogance, incredibly bad manners and the swagger of conquerors".

A local saying in Normandy reflected the fear: "With the Germans, the men had to camouflage themselves—but with the Americans, we had to hide the women".

Historian Mary Louise Roberts notes that while the number of rapes is well documented, the actual number may be higher, with hundreds or even thousands of cases going unreported.

Other than the continuous rape, perpetrated by the Americans, they had a practice of shitting in the beds of the gracious hosts who put them up, they would piss in the drawers, steal everything of value, and smash up everything else.

Both the bed shitting, and the looting were portrayed in the series Band of Brothers, but they make it seem it only happened in Germany, but it was everywhere the Americans went.

In the episode "Why We Fight," Captain Dick Winters and Lieutenant Ronald "Ron" Nixon are seen discussing the upcoming mission across the river in Haguenau, France.

After the mission, Captain Richard Speirs is shown taking a tray full of silver candlesticks, which he had looted, to Lieutenant Vest, asking him to box and ship the items.

This scene highlights Speirs' actions following the mission, where he collects and prepares the looted goods for transport.

The issue of child rape by the American troops actually resulted in the commander of the Free French Forces, storming into Eisenhower's office, and demanding they stop it at once, or the FFF would turn their guns onto the American Liberators.

Eisenhower, being incompetent, and not being able to publicly admit the American atrocities in France due to the upcoming US election, didn't know what to do.

So he took the worst offending units and put them where there were no houses to loot, and no women and children to rape, the Ardennes.

Always remember that one little fact when you Americans gloat about winning the "Battle of the Bulge", that the American forces there were kid fuckers.