GHOSTS OF OCCUPATIONS PAST: Another interesting story from the 1946 New York Times:

U.S. PRESTIGE DROPS AFTER GI PROTESTS
By DREW MIDDLETON By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

The recent protests in Frankfort on the Main, Berlin, and elsewhere in Germany in which United States troops clamored to be returned home, have done more than anything else to lower the prestige of the United States in the eyes of the German population and weaken the authority of the military government, according to a high-ranking United States officer here.

Read the whole thing. Observation: “In our idealization of the past, we sometimes forget how bad and messy things got on the ground.”