The attached Collier’s editorial from 1946 lends credibility to Andrei Cherny’s 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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1946 Berlin saw US Army abuses1946 Berlin and their fear of the Allied occupationAmerican Army tormented Berliners during Post-war occupation 1946tormented Berliners accuse American Army of abusesformer Nazis accuse American Army of abuses during post-war occupation era 1946Berliners tormented beaten and robbed by US Army of occupation 1946pre-Berlin Blockade relations between US Army and German people 1946pre-berlin blockade relations between us army and german people 1946German occupation history 1945-1947post-ww2 crimes by US army occupation force 1946post-ww2 crimes by US army occupying army 1946post-ww2 abuses by US army occupation force 1946post-ww2 revenge by US army occupation force 1946 Tag Cloud Film Production
