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In France, Ms. Roberts also found a desperate letter from the mayor of Le Havre in August 1945 urging American commanders to set up brothels outside the city, to halt the “scenes contrary to decency” that overran the streets, day and night. They refused, partly, Ms. Roberts argues, out of concern that condoning prostitution would look bad to “American mothers and sweethearts,” as one soldier put it.
米軍のレイプが多発する街の市長が、司令官に「売春宿を設置してくれ」と懇願した手紙が見つかった、と。
こういう発想は70年前のフランスにもあったらしい。むしろこの時代だと主流といえるのかもしれない。
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/opinion/gis-in-world-war-ii.html?ref=global
No doubt there were atrocities by Americans in this war, as there were in every war in history. However, there were millions of decent men and women in the Army, and barely a few bad ones. Ms. Roberts’s book is unfair to the millions who served this nation well, most giving up years of their lives, many risking their lives and others losing their lives on Normandy beaches and in the frozen snow of Bastogne.
歴史上のどの戦争でもあったように、アメリカにも残虐行為があった、と。
まともな数百万人とごく僅かな悪者がいただけなのに、この本はまともな数百万人にとってアンフェアだと。
ええ、どこの国の兵士もまともな数百万人とごく僅かな悪者がいただけですとも。
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