Added: January 2, 2016 – Last updated: January 2, 2016
TITLE INFORMATION Author: Kenneth D. Alford Title: American Crimes and the Liberation of Paris Subtitle: Robbery, Rape and Murder by Renegade GIs, 1944-1947 Place: Jefferson, NC Publisher: McFarland Year: 2016 Pages: 240pp. ISBN-13: 9780786496808 (softcover) – Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat | ISBN-13: 9781476619439 (ebook) – Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat Language: English Keywords: Modern History: 20th Century | American History: U.S. History; European History: French History | Types: Wartime Rape / Second World War FULL TEXT Link: Google Books (Limited Preview) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Contents:
Description: »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.« (Source: McFarland) Wikipedia: History of Europe: History of France | History of the Americas: History of the United States | Types of rape: Wartime sexual violence / Rape during the liberation of France | War: World War II / United States war crimes |