Yeah, uhuh. I think if you look at the papers, that debt was owed to a king whose head ended up in a basket. 🧺. That was, hmm, quite a few French republics ago.

Meanwhile, why don't we discuss that little Normandy caper that one time

[–] VeryInterestingTable@lemm.ee 21 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

Sure let's talk about Normandy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_liberation_of_France

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

More specifically, Lilly estimated that U.S. servicemen committed around 3,500 rapes in France between June 1944 and the end of the war.[10]

Rape per capita in 2022 France: ~116 per 100,000 men

Rape per capita in 2022 England and Wales: ~234 per 100,000 men

Number of American troops in France during WW2: ~2,300,000

Estimated American rape per capita in WW2 France: ~152 per 100,000 American soldiers

By those numbers, it would be safer to be a French woman with an American soldier in WW2, than to be a woman with an English man today.

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I just read that Wikipedia page. Someone's already changed it to 4500.

No citation and nothing in the body that supports an actual number like that.

Someone is playing games. I would not consider that page particularly reliable, at the moment.

Edit: I didn't see any edit log for the number change, so maybe the poster changed it just for his comment and the math. However, still no actual citation supporting either number.

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