A colleague has asked me a question I'd like to pass on. Apparently
Susan Brownmiller in her book on rape makes reference to stories,
supposed to be well-known, of a pattern of Moroccan soldiers raping
Italian women during the Second World War. My colleague has found
one reference in a book on popular memory which analyzes a Sicilian
journalist's writing about this in the 1950s, except that there
weren't any Moroccans in Sicily, but the story is now regarded there
as fact, apparently. So my colleague wants to know if this is what
is behind Brownmiller's story, or if both refer to some other events
elsewhere. Any references either to the specific issue, or to
Moroccans in Italy during the war more generally, would be
appreciated. Thanks.