American WWII GIs were dangerous sex-crazed rapists who the French feared as much as the Germans, explosive book claims
- Book 'debunks myth that the GI were manly and always behaved well'
- By 1944 women in Normandy 'filed complaints about rapes by US soldiers'
- Debauchery, lawlessness and institutional racism are chronicled in book
- Penned by Mary Roberts, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin
- Veterans Affairs rep says there is 'no way' to reprimand the U.S. soldiers
- Comes just after Sexual Assault Prevention Month in the U.S., where the military is under fire for string of high-profile assault cases
- Japanese politician also just claimed that American soldiers used their women as 'sex slaves' during WWII
- Swapping stockings for kisses and teaching girls how to jive, American GIs were meant to be a welcome ray of sunshine in war-torn Europe.
But a new book has revealed the dark side of Europe’s liberation after the Second World War.
Professor Mary Louise Roberts, from the University of Wisconsin, said within months of D-Day ordinary French women came to fear their American ‘liberators’.
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