Originally Posted by
Mayhemxpc
The one scene that I did not like was the, well shall we call it pillaging, of a captured town. Stephen Ambrose wrote that all across Europe in 1945 there were large groups of heavily armed young men. Of all these groups, the local populations knew that they had nothing to fear from the Americans. This theme was repeated to me again and again by Germans I have known who lived through the conquest of Germany. Without exception, they all remarked that Americans were professional, respectful, and well disciplined -- even to the defeated. This was even true to an extent for the Russians, who officially encourage rape and pillage in their propaganda. Those who lived through the Russian conquest remarked that the first line troops were never a problem; problems came from the second and third line or support troops.