Marocchinate: The Darkest Event of WWII *WARNING Mature Audiences Only

Today, we are going to tell you about a horrific event – the “Marocchinate“ - or “The deeds of the Moroccans.“ Those “deeds“ were r@pe and murder on a mass scale – mostly r@pe What might be even more shocking for people is that the Moroccans were part of the Allied armies moving up the Italian Peninsula in 1944. Background In the spring of 1944, hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers were slowly advancing up the Italian peninsula toward Rome. In September 1943, the Allies crossed the Straits of Messina from recently conquered Sicily to mainland Italy. In the far south of the country, it was mostly British and British Imperial troops doing the fighting. To the north, mainly American forces landed at Salerno, some 140 miles south of Rome. The intention was to catch German troops in a trap from north and south, forcing their surrender. Another aspect of the plan was to capture Rome, one of the capital cities of the “Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis,“ an enemy the All