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Originally Posted by Platapus
If the only historical inaccuracy in this movie is the dog's name, I will be greatly surprised.
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So will I.
But I can't see very well where the
real problem is actually. And I'm not for changing the dog's name. Changing it would do no more than making the united states of America's
black population think that segregation and racism never existed in the united states army's ranks, which is wrong of course.
The thing is that, during the presence of this army in Europe,
Eisenhower himself got to hear about more, and more, and more, and
MORE local women complaining of rape by your soldiers, and he decided to put an end to this behaviour from his OWN ARMY by court-martialing GIs responsible for that.
Let's not take murders in consideration here, only the rapes.
Following the 17.000 or 18.000 rapes perpetrated by American soldiers on
English,
French, and
German women (the high majority of them of course), 84% of all American soldiers who got the death sentence were black. Black soldiers represented only 10% of all soldiers enlisted in the American army at the time. Numbers speak well, don't they ?
I'm sure that leaves no doubt how your army made fun while in Europe, nor why some appear not to like you a lot to this day. But feel free to keep up appearances shouting from the rooftops that white American soldiers and ******s have always been equal to each other of course.
God, your fathers must be turning in their grave like a ventilator fan.