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Sixteen U.S. soldiers have been put to death for crimes committed in France since DDay: four for murder; twelve for rape. But up to last week, not a single G.I. had been executed for cowardice, desertion in the face of the enemy, or any other military offense for which death is mandatory...
...associated with an organization which called Franco "a good Christian gentleman." In 1935, as Stanley Baldwin's Foreign Secretary, he went to Paris and made an abortive deal with slippery Pierre Laval which sabotaged all efforts to stop Mussolini's rape of Ethiopia (by dismembering the Negus' country and putting the quietus on League oil sanctions...
...meanest thing the Germans did in Holland is known at Maastricht as 'the rape of the ants.' . . . Even quisling Hollanders resented the theft of the greatest collection of ants in the world...
...officer remained to offer Germany's "unconditional surrender." But veterans popped up again in strange places, such as the Brandenburg Canoe Club and the Association of Prussian Stamp Collectors. Nazi leaders vanished. The result of the long-awaited trial of German war criminals was: five Germans convicted of rape, four of cruelty to animals, five of reckless driving in congested areas. Countries ravaged by Hitler demanded the return of their looted property. They got it promptly: Austria received 198,371 Tyrolean hats, Russia got 16 Ukrainian ikons, France 1,835 empty champagne bottles and a heap of silk stockings...
...Rape of the Rhine Maidens. Every royalty that Eisenhower collected on his last show improved the prospects for his next production-a heroic opera about the breaking of the Siegfried Line and the rape of the Rhine Maidens. The curtain was lifting-Courtney Hodges'troops were on German soil...