When this discussion began, what first occurred to me were the
accounts I had read years ago concerning atrocities by Moroccan
soldiers fighting for Franco in Spain during the Civil War. After
the further posts of today, I turned to Ronald Fraser's *Blood of
Spain*, an oral history of the Civil War. There I find a numnber of
individual accounts of Moroccan (or Moorish) atrocities, including
one specific account of rape (p. 157).
Does this have anything to do with later accounts, in Italy, during
WWII? I am keenly aware, as Martin Klein cautions, that I have no
evidence it does. But in the propaganda cauldron which was WWII and
its antecedents, I cannot help but feel there could be some
connection.