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No quarter must be given (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] CptEnder 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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.