The attached COLLIER'S MAGAZINE editorial from 1946 lends credibility to Andrei Cherny's 2007 tome, The Candy Bombers
, in which the author states that there was no love lost between the Berliners and the occupying American army in the immediate aftermath of the Nazi surrender:
"Stories keep coming back to this country about American soldiers sticking up Berlin restaurants, or beating up German citizens, or looting German homes. How much of this stuff goes on, we don't know. We do know that some of it goes on, and that any of it is too much. Not that we believe in sobbing unduly over the German people, they let themselves be razzle-dazzled into the war by Hitler and his mobsters."
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