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[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months 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.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 6 points 5 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.