Немного запоздалая статья в [Guardian] ко Дню Победы, An ethical blank cheque. Лучше поздно, чем никогда, однако.

We know from Anthony Beevor about the sexual violence unleashed by the Red Army, but we prefer not to know about mass rape committed by American and British troops. Lilly suggests a minimum of 10,000 American rapes. Contemporaries described a much wider scale of unpunished sex crime. Time Magazine reported in September 1945: "Our own army and the British army along with ours have done their share of looting and raping ... we too are considered an army of rapists."

Цифру 10,000 нужно поставить в соответствие с размерами экспедиционного корпуса ... Так же стоит прикинуть, сколько "добровольной" лыубви было куплено шоколадом и тушенкой ...

American imperialism in Latin America gave explicit precedents for Germany's and Japan's claims of supremacy in their neighbouring regions. The British and Americans were key theorists of eugenics and had made racial segregation respectable. The concentration camp was a British invention, and in Iraq and Afghanistan the British were the first to use air power to repress partisan resistance. The Luftwaffe - in its assault on Guernica, and later London and Coventry - paid homage to Bomber Harris's terror bombing of the Kurds in the 1920s.

Ну и так далее ... там надо все подряд читать ...

And, directly related, Good War Myth: 60 Years is Enough by Mickey Z., where, among other things, he quotes A.J. Muste said in 1941, "The problem after war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?" ...  ¶ 11:45 AM