The main rapists of the end of World War II May 9th, 2016
Moroccan mountain corps of the French Expeditionary Force at Monte Cassino
In a previous post, I told you . An attempt to discredit the Soviet soldiers and turn them into a wild horde did not appear out of nowhere. Soviet soldiers fought bravely, carried the burden of the war for four years, and it was they who turned the neck of fascism by taking Berlin.
At the same time, there were those who did not show themselves in anything but atrocities against the civilian population.
France held out against Nazi Germany in World War II for just over one month. The collaborationist Vichy regime went over to the side of the Germans, but not everyone followed his example, the battle for the colonies began, during which the "Humiers" - Moroccan soldiers, ended up on the side of the anti-Hitler coalition.
As warriors, the gummers proved to be mediocre.
Gumier sharpens his bayonet.
But they perfectly compensated for this by "bravery" in atrocities against the civilian population. For the first time, the gumiers showed themselves after the battle for Monte Cassino.
Gumiers on the march in their traditional Berber dress.
On the night after the end of the battle for Monte Cassino, the Moroccan division of 12,000 Gumiers withdrew from their camp and descended on a group of surrounding mountain villages.
They raped everyone they could find in them. The number of raped women between the ages of 11 and 86 is estimated at 3,000. The Moroccans killed about 800 men who tried to stop them. Several hundred raped women were killed.
Most beautiful girls Gumiers raped in droves. For example, two sisters, aged 15 and 18, were raped by over 200 Moroccans. One of them died immediately from these rapes. The other went insane and spent the rest of her life in a psychiatric clinic.
The crimes of the Gumiers in Italy received a special name: "morocchinat" and are reflected in the film Chochara.
The next place where the Gumiers became famous was Stuttgart, which the French soldiers took without a fight on April 21, 1945.
In one day of the stay of the Gumiers in Stuttgart, 1198 cases of rape of German women were registered! For comparison, from April 22 to May 5, the prosecutor of the 1st Belorussian Front registered 72 of them. Native soldiers broke into the underground tram parking that served as a bomb shelter and robbed and raped them for 5 days.
The Gumier crime received a wide response after it was announced in the US Senate on July 17, 1945 by Senator James Eastland, who returned from a trip to post-war Europe. The French side immediately declared Eastland's lies, but numerous testimonies and experience of Monte Cassino were on the side of the senator.
The wild cruelty of African soldiers cannot be attributed to revenge for the atrocities of the Nazis. They simply acted as their animal instincts told them and command allowed. After 70 years in tolerant Europe, they are trying not to remember this, it’s a painfully dark page of the war, and not in trend, it’s easier to blame everything on the “Russian barbarians”.
And the Germans burned children in barns, and we buy cars from them ...
The atrocities in the TSa post are certainly not good, but they are far from Khatyn.
Let me remind you to compare the young, otherwise they will think that the raped Italians are the worst thing that happened then and believe in "would drink Bavarian beer" from our "thinking" freaks:
This happened on March 22, 1943. The brutalized fascists broke into the village of Khatyn and surrounded it. The villagers did not know anything about the fact that in the morning, 6 km from Khatyn, partisans fired on a Nazi convoy and killed a German officer as a result of the attack. But the fascists have already passed a death sentence on innocent people. The entire population of Khatyn, young and old - the elderly, women, children were driven out of their homes and driven to the collective farm barn. The butts of machine guns were lifted from the bed of the sick, the elderly, did not spare women with small and infant children. The families of Joseph and Anna Baranovsky with 9 children, Alexander and Alexandra Novitsky with 7 children were brought here; the same number of children were in the family of Kazimir and Elena Iotko, the youngest was only one year old. Vera Yaskevich was brought into the barn with her seven-week-old son Tolik. Lenochka Yaskevich first hid in the yard, and then decided to take refuge in the forest. The bullets of the Nazis could not catch up with the running girl. Then one of the Nazis rushed after her, catching up, shot her in front of her father, distraught with grief. Together with the residents of Khatyn, Anton Kunkevich, a resident of the Yurkovichi village, and Kristina Slonskaya, a resident of the Kameno village, were driven into the barn, who at that time ended up in the village of Khatyn.
Not a single adult could go unnoticed. Only three children - Volodya Yaskevich, his sister Sonya Yaskevich and Sasha Zhelobkovich - managed to escape from the Nazis. When the entire population of the village was in the shed, the Nazis locked the doors of the shed, lined it with straw, doused it with gasoline and set it on fire. The wooden shed immediately caught fire. Children were choking and crying in the smoke. The adults tried to save the children. Under the pressure of dozens of human bodies, they could not stand it and the doors collapsed. In burning clothes, terrified, people rushed to run, but those who escaped from the flames, the Nazis cold-bloodedly shot from machine guns and machine guns. 149 people died, including 75 children under 16 years of age. The village was looted and burned to the ground.
Two girls from the Klimovich and Fedorovich families - Maria Fedorovich and Yulia Klimovich - miraculously managed to get out of the burning barn and crawl to the forest. Burnt, barely alive, they were picked up by the inhabitants of the village of Khvorosteni of the Kamensky village council. But this village was soon burned by the Nazis and both girls died.
Only two children from those who were in the barn survived - seven-year-old Viktor Zhelobkovich and twelve-year-old Anton Baranovsky. When, in burning clothes, terrified people ran out of the burning barn, Anna Zhelobkovich ran out together with other villagers. She firmly held the hand of her seven-year-old son Vitya. A mortally wounded woman, falling, covered her son with herself. The child, wounded in the hand, lay under the corpse of his mother until the Nazis left the village. Anton Baranovsky was wounded in the leg by an explosive bullet. The Nazis mistook him for dead.
Burnt, wounded children were picked up and left by residents of neighboring villages. After the war, the children were brought up in orphanage g.p. Pleschenitsy.
The only adult witness to the Khatyn tragedy, 56-year-old village blacksmith Iosif Kaminsky, burned and wounded, regained consciousness late at night, when the Nazis were no longer in the village. He had to endure another heavy blow: among the corpses of his fellow villagers, he found his wounded son. The boy was mortally wounded in the stomach and received severe burns. He died in his father's arms.
This tragic moment in the life of Joseph Kaminsky is the basis for the creation of a single sculpture memorial complex"Khatyn" - "Unconquered Man".
When it comes to the horrors and atrocities of the Second World War, as a rule, the acts of the Nazis are meant. Torture of prisoners, concentration camps, genocide, extermination of the civilian population - the list of atrocities of the Nazis is inexhaustible.
However, one of the most terrible pages in the history of the Second World War is inscribed in it by units of the Allied troops who liberated Europe from the Nazis. The French, and in fact the Moroccan expeditionary force, received the title of the main scumbags of this war.
Moroccans in the ranks of the allies
As part of the French Expeditionary Force, several regiments of Moroccan Gumiers fought. Berbers were recruited into these units - representatives of the native tribes of Morocco. The French Army used the Gumiers in Libya during World War II, where they fought Italian troops in 1940. Moroccan gumiers also took part in the battles in Tunisia, which took place in 1942-1943.
In 1943, Allied troops landed in Sicily. The Moroccan Gumiers, by order of the allied command, were placed at the disposal of the 1st American Infantry Division. Some of them participated in the battles for the liberation of the island of Corsica from the Nazis. By November 1943, the Moroccan soldiers were redeployed to the Italian mainland, where in May 1944 they crossed the Avrunk mountains. Subsequently, regiments of Moroccan Gumiers participated in the liberation of France, and at the end of March 1945 they were the first to break into Germany from the side of the Siegfried Line.
Why Moroccans went to fight in Europe
Gumiers rarely went into battle for reasons of patriotism - Morocco was under the protectorate of France, but they did not consider it their homeland. main reason there was a decent prospect by the standards of the country wages, increasing military prestige, showing loyalty to the heads of their clans, who sent soldiers to fight.
The poorest inhabitants of the Maghreb, the highlanders, were often recruited into the regiments of the Gumiers. Most of them were illiterate. The French officers were supposed to play the role of wise advisers with them, replacing the authority of the tribal leaders.
How the Moroccan Gumiers fought
At least 22,000 Moroccan subjects participated in the battles of World War II. The permanent strength of the Moroccan regiments reached 12,000, with 1,625 soldiers killed in action and 7,500 wounded.
According to some historians, Moroccan warriors have proven themselves in mountain battles, finding themselves in familiar surroundings. The birthplace of the Berber tribes is the Moroccan Atlas Mountains, so the Gumiers perfectly tolerated transitions to the highlands.
Other researchers are categorical: the Moroccans were average warriors, but they managed to surpass even the Nazis in the brutal murders of prisoners. The Gumiers could not and did not want to give up the ancient practice of cutting off the ears and noses of the corpses of enemies. But the main horror settlements which included Moroccan soldiers, there were mass rapes of civilians.
Liberators became rapists
The first news about the rape of Italian women by Moroccan soldiers was recorded on December 11, 1943, on the day the Gumiers landed in Italy. It was about four soldiers. The French officers were unable to control the actions of the Gumiers. Historians note that "these were the first echoes of a behavior that would later be long associated with the Moroccans."
Already in March 1944, during de Gaulle's first visit to the Italian front, local residents turned to him with an ardent request to return the Gumiers to Morocco. De Gaulle promised to involve them only as carabinieri to protect public order.
On May 17, 1944, American soldiers in one of the villages heard the desperate cries of raped women. According to their testimonies, the Gumiers repeated what the Italians did in Africa. However, the allies were really shocked: the British report speaks of the rape of women, little girls, adolescents of both sexes, as well as prisoners in prisons, right on the streets.
Moroccan horror near Monte Cassino
One of the most terrible deeds of the Moroccan Gumiers in Europe is the story of the liberation of Monte Cassino from the Nazis. The Allies succeeded in capturing this ancient abbey in central Italy on May 14, 1944. After their final victory at Cassino, the command announced "fifty hours of freedom" - the south of Italy was given to the Moroccans for three days.
Historians testify that after the battle, the Moroccan Gumiers committed brutal pogroms in the surrounding villages. All girls and women were raped, and teenage boys were not saved. Reports from the German 71st Division record 600 rapes of women in the small town of Spigno in just three days.
Over 800 men were killed while trying to save their relatives, girlfriends or neighbors. The pastor of the town of Esperia tried in vain to save three women from the violence of the Moroccan soldiers - the gumiers tied the priest and raped him all night, after which he soon died. The Moroccans also plundered and carried away everything that had at least some value.
Moroccans chose the most beautiful girls for gang rapes. Queues of gummers lined up for each of them, wanting to have some fun, while other soldiers kept the unfortunate. So, two young sisters 18 and 15 years old were raped by more than 200 Gumiers each. Younger sister died from injuries and ruptures, the eldest went crazy and was kept in a psychiatric hospital for 53 years until her death.
War with women
In the historical literature about the Apennine Peninsula, the time from the end of 1943 to May 1945 is called guerra al femminile - "war with women." French military courts during this period initiated 160 criminal proceedings against 360 individuals. Death sentences and heavy punishments were handed down. In addition, many rapists who were taken by surprise were shot at the scene of the crime.
In Sicily, the Gumiera raped everyone they could capture. The partisans of some regions of Italy stopped fighting the Germans and began to save the surrounding villages and villages from the Moroccans. A huge number of forced abortions and infections with venereal diseases had terrible consequences for many small villages and villages in the regions of Lazio and Tuscany.
The Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in 1957 his most famous novel, Ciociara, based on what he saw in 1943, when he and his wife were hiding in Ciociaria (a locality in the Lazio region). On the basis of the novel, in 1960, the film "Chochara" (in the English box office - "Two Women") was filmed with Sophia Loren in the title role. On their way to liberated Rome, the heroine and her young daughter stop to rest in a church in a small town. There, they are attacked by several Moroccan Gumiers, who rape both of them.
Testimony of victims
On April 7, 1952, the testimonies of numerous victims were heard in the lower house of the Italian Parliament. So, the mother of 17-year-old Malinari Velha spoke about the events of May 27, 1944 in Valecors: “We were walking along Monte Lupino Street and saw Moroccans. The soldier was clearly attracted to the young Malinari. We begged not to touch us, but they did not listen. Two held me, the rest raped Malinari in turn. When the latter finished, one of the soldiers took out a gun and shot my daughter.”
Elisabetta Rossi, 55, from the Farneta area, recalled: “I tried to protect my daughters, aged 18 and 17, but I was stabbed in the stomach. Bleeding, I watched as they were raped. A five-year-old boy, not understanding what was happening, rushed to us. They fired several bullets into his stomach and threw him into a ravine. The next day the child died.
Morocco
The atrocities that the Moroccan Gumiers committed in Italy for several months received the name marocchinate from Italian historians, derived from the name of the native country of the rapists.
On October 15, 2011, Emiliano Ciotti, president of the National Association of Marocchinate Victims, gave an assessment of the extent of what happened: “From the numerous documents collected today, it is known that at least 20,000 recorded cases of violence have been committed. This number still does not reflect the truth - medical reports of those years report that two-thirds of the raped women, out of shame or modesty, chose not to report anything to the authorities. Based on a comprehensive assessment, we can say with certainty that at least 60,000 women were raped. On average, North African soldiers raped them in groups of two or three, but we also have testimonies of women raped by 100, 200 and even 300 soldiers,” Ciotti said.
Effects
After the end of the Second World War, the Moroccan gummers were urgently returned by the French authorities to Morocco. On August 1, 1947, the Italian authorities sent an official protest to the French government. The answer was formal replies. The problem was raised again by the Italian leadership in 1951 and in 1993. The question still remains open.
When it comes to the horrors and atrocities of the Second World War, as a rule, the acts of the Nazis are meant. Torture of prisoners, concentration camps, genocide, extermination of the civilian population - the list of atrocities of the Nazis is inexhaustible.
However, one of the most terrible pages in the history of the Second World War is inscribed in it by units of the Allied troops who liberated Europe from the Nazis. The French, and in fact the Moroccan expeditionary force, received the title of the main scumbags of this war.
Moroccans in the ranks of the allies
As part of the French Expeditionary Force, several regiments of Moroccan Gumiers fought. Berbers were recruited into these units - representatives of the native tribes of Morocco. The French Army used the Gumiers in Libya during World War II, where they fought Italian troops in 1940. Moroccan gumiers also took part in the battles in Tunisia, which took place in 1942-1943.
In 1943, Allied troops landed in Sicily. The Moroccan Gumiers, by order of the allied command, were placed at the disposal of the 1st American Infantry Division. Some of them participated in the battles for the liberation of the island of Corsica from the Nazis. By November 1943, the Moroccan soldiers were redeployed to the Italian mainland, where in May 1944 they crossed the Avrunk mountains. Subsequently, regiments of Moroccan Gumiers participated in the liberation of France, and at the end of March 1945 they were the first to break into Germany from the side of the Siegfried Line.
Why Moroccans went to fight in Europe
Gumiers rarely went into battle for reasons of patriotism - Morocco was under the protectorate of France, but they did not consider it their homeland. The main reason was the prospect of decent wages by the standards of the country, an increase in military prestige, and a manifestation of loyalty to the heads of their clans who sent soldiers to fight.
The poorest inhabitants of the Maghreb, the highlanders, were often recruited into the regiments of the Gumiers. Most of them were illiterate. The French officers were supposed to play the role of wise advisers with them, replacing the authority of the tribal leaders.
How the Moroccan Gumiers fought
At least 22,000 Moroccan subjects participated in the battles of World War II. The permanent strength of the Moroccan regiments reached 12,000, with 1,625 soldiers killed in action and 7,500 wounded.
According to some historians, Moroccan warriors have proven themselves in mountain battles, finding themselves in familiar surroundings. The birthplace of the Berber tribes is the Moroccan Atlas Mountains, so the Gumiers perfectly tolerated transitions to the highlands.
Other researchers are categorical: the Moroccans were average warriors, but they managed to surpass even the Nazis in the brutal murders of prisoners. The Gumiers could not and did not want to give up the ancient practice of cutting off the ears and noses of the corpses of enemies. But the main horror of the settlements, which included Moroccan soldiers, was the mass rape of civilians.
Liberators became rapists
The first news about the rape of Italian women by Moroccan soldiers was recorded on December 11, 1943, on the day the Gumiers landed in Italy. It was about four soldiers. The French officers were unable to control the actions of the Gumiers. Historians note that "these were the first echoes of a behavior that would later be long associated with the Moroccans."
Already in March 1944, during de Gaulle's first visit to the Italian front, local residents turned to him with an ardent request to return the Gumiers to Morocco. De Gaulle promised to involve them only as carabinieri to protect public order.
On May 17, 1944, American soldiers in one of the villages heard the desperate cries of raped women. According to their testimonies, the Gumiers repeated what the Italians did in Africa. However, the allies were really shocked: the British report speaks of the rape of women, little girls, adolescents of both sexes, as well as prisoners in prisons, right on the streets.
Moroccan horror near Monte Cassino
One of the most terrible deeds of the Moroccan Gumiers in Europe is the story of the liberation of Monte Cassino from the Nazis. The Allies succeeded in capturing this ancient abbey in central Italy on May 14, 1944. After their final victory at Cassino, the command announced "fifty hours of freedom" - the south of Italy was given to the Moroccans for three days.
Historians testify that after the battle, the Moroccan Gumiers committed brutal pogroms in the surrounding villages. All girls and women were raped, and teenage boys were not saved. Reports from the German 71st Division record 600 rapes of women in the small town of Spigno in just three days.
Over 800 men were killed while trying to save their relatives, girlfriends or neighbors. The pastor of the town of Esperia tried in vain to save three women from the violence of the Moroccan soldiers - the gumiers tied the priest and raped him all night, after which he soon died. The Moroccans also plundered and carried away everything that had at least some value.
Moroccans chose the most beautiful girls for gang rapes. Queues of gummers lined up for each of them, wanting to have some fun, while other soldiers kept the unfortunate. So, two young sisters 18 and 15 years old were raped by more than 200 Gumiers each. The younger sister died from injuries and ruptures, the older one went crazy and was kept in a psychiatric hospital for 53 years until her death.
War with women
In the historical literature about the Apennine Peninsula, the time from the end of 1943 to May 1945 is called guerra al femminile - "war with women." French military courts during this period initiated 160 criminal proceedings against 360 individuals. Death sentences and heavy punishments were handed down. In addition, many rapists who were taken by surprise were shot at the scene of the crime.
In Sicily, the Gumiera raped everyone they could capture. The partisans of some regions of Italy stopped fighting the Germans and began to save the surrounding villages and villages from the Moroccans. A huge number of forced abortions and infections with venereal diseases had terrible consequences for many small villages and villages in the regions of Lazio and Tuscany.
The Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in 1957 his most famous novel, Ciociara, based on what he saw in 1943, when he and his wife were hiding in Ciociaria (a locality in the Lazio region). On the basis of the novel, in 1960, the film "Chochara" (in the English box office - "Two Women") was filmed with Sophia Loren in the title role. On their way to liberated Rome, the heroine and her young daughter stop to rest in a church in a small town. There, they are attacked by several Moroccan Gumiers, who rape both of them.
Testimony of victims
On April 7, 1952, the testimonies of numerous victims were heard in the lower house of the Italian Parliament. So, the mother of 17-year-old Malinari Velha spoke about the events of May 27, 1944 in Valecors: “We were walking along Monte Lupino Street and saw Moroccans. The soldier was clearly attracted to the young Malinari. We begged not to touch us, but they did not listen. Two held me, the rest raped Malinari in turn. When the latter finished, one of the soldiers took out a gun and shot my daughter.”
Elisabetta Rossi, 55, from the Farneta area, recalled: “I tried to protect my daughters, aged 18 and 17, but I was stabbed in the stomach. Bleeding, I watched as they were raped. A five-year-old boy, not understanding what was happening, rushed to us. They fired several bullets into his stomach and threw him into a ravine. The next day the child died.
Morocco
The atrocities that the Moroccan Gumiers committed in Italy for several months received the name marocchinate from Italian historians, derived from the name of the native country of the rapists.
On October 15, 2011, Emiliano Ciotti, president of the National Association of Marocchinate Victims, gave an assessment of the extent of what happened: “From the numerous documents collected today, it is known that at least 20,000 recorded cases of violence have been committed. This number still does not reflect the truth - medical reports of those years report that two-thirds of the raped women, out of shame or modesty, chose not to report anything to the authorities. Based on a comprehensive assessment, we can say with certainty that at least 60,000 women were raped. On average, North African soldiers raped them in groups of two or three, but we also have testimonies of women raped by 100, 200 and even 300 soldiers,” Ciotti said.
Effects
After the end of the Second World War, the Moroccan gummers were urgently returned by the French authorities to Morocco. On August 1, 1947, the Italian authorities sent an official protest to the French government. The answer was formal replies. The problem was raised again by the Italian leadership in 1951 and in 1993. The question still remains open.
Moroccan mountain corps of the French Expeditionary Force at Monte Cassino
France held out against Nazi Germany in World War II for just over one month. The collaborationist Vichy regime went over to the side of the Germans, but not everyone followed his example, the battle for the colonies began, during which the "Humiers" - Moroccan soldiers, ended up on the side of the anti-Hitler coalition.
At the beginning of 1944, the allied forces in Italy reached the Gustav line, a complex of German fortifications completely covering the Apennine Peninsula along its entire width.
In just a few months, the coalition forces lost half their personnel, not to mention non-combat losses, air superiority could not change the situation much. For 4 months, the allies were marking time, the morale of the soldiers was falling day by day ...
Among the many motley units of the allies, the French expeditionary corps stood apart, more than 2/3 of which consisted of local African units, immigrants from Morocco and Algeria.
Moroccan arrows or gumiers, like others colonial formations, earned themselves the fame of excellent hardy and competent fighters in the mountains. The units were formed mainly on a tribal basis under the command of French officers. The form retained the key elements of the traditional costume - gumieras were instantly recognizable by their turbans and gray striped or brown "djellaba" (cloak with a hood). National sabers and daggers were also left in service, it was the curved Moroccan dagger with the letters GMM that became the symbol of the Moroccan Gumier units.
The fighters have proven themselves in the Rif War and Libya.
But no one could imagine how they would manifest themselves later ...
French General Alphonse Juin, who since 1942 commanded the Fighting France expeditionary force in North Africa, decided to stimulate his soldiers and delivered a speech to them: “Soldiers! You are not fighting for the freedom of your land. This time I tell you: if you win battle, then you will have the best houses in the world, women and wine. But not a single German should be left alive! I say this and keep my promise. Fifty hours after the victory you will be absolutely free in your actions. No one will punish you later, whatever you do!!!"
The African units, inspired by the call of the commander who had served with them since the formation of the units, went into battle shouting for the glory of the Prophet...
On May 14, with faith in Allah, the promised hours of "rest", one way or another, but the Moroccans were able to break through, ensure victory for the allies.
Already on May 15, soldiers of the French Expeditionary Corps began to roam the adjacent hills, robbing and robbing the local villages.
According to some German and American reports, the French commanders could not control the Africans. And did you want to?
The civilized, cultured French had no illusions about the manners and customs of their North African warriors. Not all North Africans have the habits of animals, but those who were sent to Europe in 1943-44 are even described in their own literature as, for example, the Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Gellain did: “They were savages who recognized strength, liked to dominate.
The French were well aware of their habits, principles and traditions. We can say that "cultural" weapons were deliberately used against the civilian population.
Back in March 1944, de Gaulle, on his first visit to the Italian front, spoke for the first time about the return of the Gumiers to Morocco. However, they limited the matter to the fact that they tried to increase the number of prostitutes in the quarters of the African troops, by the way, unsuccessfully.
It is not difficult to imagine what began in the territory occupied by Africans. In the cities of Checcano, Supino, Sgorgola and neighboring cities: as of June 2, there were 5,418 recorded rapes of women and children, 29 murders, 517 robberies. Many women and girls were raped repeatedly. Naturally, husbands and parents stood up for women, often they were partisans. Men were killed with particular cruelty, tortured, often castrated and raped ...
The violence began with the victory at Monte Cassino in Italy. and continued until the beginning of 1945 already in Germany, after which the Africans were returned to Morocco and Algeria .. But let's dwell on Italy in detail ...
Testimony of female victims from the official record of testimony in the lower house of the Italian Parliament. Meeting of April 7, 1952:
“Malinari Velha, at the time of the events she was 17 years old. The testimony is given by her mother, Events of May 27, 1944, Valekorsa.
They were walking down Monte Lupino Street when they saw the "Moroccans". The warriors approached the women. They were clearly interested in the young Malinari. The women began to beg not to do anything, but the soldiers did not understand them. While two held the girl's mother, the others took turns raping her. When the last one finished, one of the "Moroccans" took out a pistol and shot Malinari.
Elisabetta Rossi, 55, Farneta district, tells how, stabbed in the stomach, she watched her two daughters, aged 17 and 18, being raped. She got hurt when she tried to protect them. A group of "Moroccans" left her nearby. The next victim was a five-year-old boy who rushed towards them, not understanding what was happening. The child was thrown into a ravine with five bullets in the stomach, where he suffered for a day, after which he died.
Emanuella Valente, May 25, 1944, Santa Lucia, 70 years old.
An elderly woman calmly walked down the street, sincerely thinking that her age would protect her from rape. But he turned out to be rather her opponent. When a group of young "Moroccans" spotted her, Emanuella tried to run away from them. They caught up with her, knocked her down, broke her wrists. After that, she was subjected to group abuse. She was infected with syphilis. It was embarrassing and difficult for her to tell the doctors exactly what had happened to her. The wrist remained damaged for the rest of his life. She perceives her illness as martyrdom.
Ada Andreini Age 24, June 29, 1944
“June 29, around midnight, seven Moroccan soldiers kicked down the door to the house, killed men and raped a girl in the presence of their 81-year-old grandmother and 5-year-old son.”
Yolanda Paccioni is 18 years old.
“On May 23, a group of Moroccans grabbed me with other girls. We tried to resist but realized that it would only get worse. The soldiers were surprised by the appearance of humility and put down their weapons, I managed to throw off the Moroccan and run. Shots rang out and hit me in the neck. The rest of the girls were much worse ... "
Anthony Collici, 12 years old: “… when I entered the house, they held a knife to the throats of men, looking for women… then they raped two sisters who were abused by two hundred “Moroccans”. As a result, one of the sisters died a few days later, the other ended up in a lunatic asylum.”
Archbishop of Toscabelli:
“In a hospital in the city of Siena: 24 girls aged 12 to 14 were raped with severe internal bleeding; in the city of Esperia, 700 women were raped, representing 99% of the female population.”
Notable among the killings in Esperia is that of Don Alberto Terrilli, a priest of the local church of Santa Maria di Esperia, who died after being beaten and raped for hours while tied to a tree. On May 17, he tried to hide local women and nuns in the monastery, who were also raped in front of the pastor.
Also shocking is the murder of Anastasio Gigli 11 years old, the city of Leppini Rocacorga. The boy's parents died earlier. The boy was the first to catch the eye of the Gumiers entering the city, who demanded to show them where the well was. The child was frightened and tried to run away from them... Later, the boy was found with his stomach open in a ditch near the well...
One report says: “20 percent of women are infected with syphilis, 90 percent of gonorrhea; 40 percent of men are infected with wives, 81 percent of buildings are destroyed, 90 percent of cattle are destroyed…”
The final figures of violence by the French Gumiers in Italy were called the "war on women." or moroccan. The number of victims varies, set exact figure it is not possible: only registered statements of victims are about 80,000. Many women were simply embarrassed to report the facts of rape, many committed suicide, went crazy ... In total, researchers talk about 180,000 victims ...
This begs the question: what about the allies?
But nothing ... The command turned a blind eye to what was happening somewhere, paid off somewhere, and when it was not possible to hush up the case, the perpetrators had to be tried, although in 1945 only 360 people were sentenced to death, and even a certain number of Gumiers shot in units, but these the data has not been made public. Only 15 cases of soldiers being shot by officers on June 26, 1944 are known. Most were sentenced to forced labor and fines.
The British report says "... women, girls, teenagers and children were raped in the street, men were castrated... American soldiers entered the city just at that time and tried to intervene, but the officers stopped them, saying that they were not there, and that the Moroccans made this victory for us."
US Army Sergeant McCormick, who went through the African campaign, recalled: "We asked our lieutenant Bazik what to do, to which he replied:" I think they are doing what the Italians did with their women in Africa. "We wanted to add that Italian troops did not enter Morocco, but we were ordered not to interfere.
In June 1944, the head of the Vatican, Pope Pius XII, sent a protest against the wave of violence that swept through Italy to General de Gaulle, in which he set out a request to take action and send only Christian troops to Rome. In response, he received assurances of heartfelt sympathy ...
On August 1, 1947, the Italian leadership submitted a protest to the French government. In response - bureaucratic delays, chicanery ... and sending to the "weak morality of Italian women provoking Muslim Moroccans ..."
As a result, France generously acknowledged a number of cases of violence and agreed to pay compensation to the victims from 30 to 150 thousand lire, for total amount payments were reduced by war reparations from Italy.
The reflection of the past events in art is most clearly shown in Vittorio de Sica's film "Chochara", and John Huston's film "White Book".
Ordinary Italians have not forgotten what the Moroccans did in the cities. The French, especially those of African descent, are not liked in Italy. and to this day. It is significant that in the town of Pontecorvo, when a monument to the fallen Gumiers was erected, the next day it was broken. The French embassy restored the stele, but immediately a cut-off appeared on it. pig head(I will not talk about the pig in Islam). In another Italian town, only the intervention of the Carabinieri saved a busload of French veterans from tipping over into an abyss when local residents became aware of the trip to the battlefield.
The issue of marroquinate was repeatedly tried to be brought to the international court in 1951, 1993 and 2011, but to this day it remains open ...
materials are taken from Italian sites, including the site of the National Association of Gumière Victims. (A.N.V.M.)
