who has seen the film "Two Women" will recall the behavior of Moroccan troops in Ciociaria in 1944, the troops of the "Corps Expeditionnaire Français" (EFC) under the command of General Alphonse Juin, who is given this speech and leaflet III before the Battle of Cassino " Soldiers, this time not only the freedom of your land I offer you if you win this battle. Behind the enemy there are women, houses, there is a wine among the best in the world, there is gold. All this will be yours if you win. You'll have to kill the Germans to the last man and go at any cost. What I have said and promised to keep. For fifty hours you will be the absolute masters of what they find beyond the enemy. No one will punish you for what you do, nobody will ask you what you take into account " Well, in those sad days, about 3,500 women, aged between 8 and 85, were brutally raped. It was sodomized about 800 men, including a priest, Don Alberto Terrill, pastor of Santa Maria di Esperia , who died two days later because of the abuse reported. Guilty of trying to save some women. Many men who attempted to protect their wives, mothers, daughters, girlfriends were impaled. There are hundreds of dead. According to una relazione degli anni '50, tra le donne oltraggiate, il 20 per cento furono affette da sifilide, il 90 per cento da blenorragia. L’81 per cento dei fabbricati fu distrutto, il 90 per cento del bestiame sottratto; gioielli, abiti e denaro totalmente rubati.
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