• prettybunnys
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    6 months ago

    Quartering was a common practice generally, troops were housed with the locals to guard (police) the locals.

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      6 months ago

      Pretty common for Allied soldiers to house in WWII. But people in occupied France, etc generally were pretty cool to have liberators crash in their pad for a little while.

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        6 months ago

        Well yeah, I’d rather have someone trying to rid the fascist fucks from my country stay with me than have a fascist fuck as a forced houseguest.