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records show that a majority of the rapes were committed by Soviet occupation troops. The wartime rapes were followed by decades of silence. According...

the more than 300,000 occupation troops. Many Japanese civilians and government officials feared that the Allied occupation troops were likely to rape Japanese...

Japanese troops committed a number of rapes during the Battle of Okinawa during the last months of the Pacific War and the subsequent Allied occupation of Japan...

led to the end of the occupation. The last troops of the Allies departed from the city on 4 October 1923, and the first troops of the Ankara government...

international feelings against the occupation. The German propaganda war included racist attacks against black French colonial troops. Following the signing of...

Austria was accorded full independence on 15 May 1955 and the last occupation troops left on 25 October that year. At the 1943 Moscow Conference, the Soviet...

stationed within the British occupation zone. The Belgians were allocated a territory which was garrisoned by their troops. The zone formed a 200 kilometres...

Union recognized the presence of those troops; hence some Polish scholars accept the usage of term 'occupation' for period 1945–1956. The Polish government-in-exile...

The Russian occupation of Sumy Oblast was a military occupation that began on 24 February 2022, when Russian forces invaded Ukraine and began capturing...

liberate the country from the German occupation. In the absence of an actual signed armistice, the Soviet troops continued to treat the Romanians as a...

violence by Allied occupation troops on the general population, and to create other leisure facilities for occupying Allied troops immediately following...

The Soviet occupation of Manchuria took place after the Red Army invaded the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in August 1945; the occupation would continue...

The occupation of Greece by the Axis Powers (Greek: Η Κατοχή, romanized: I Katochi, lit. 'the occupation') began in April 1941 after Nazi Germany invaded...

General Giovanni Magli until September 1943. The initial occupation force of 30,000 Italian troops rose to just under 85,000 men, a huge number relative...

and the subsequent withdrawal of the occupation force, consisting of about 150,000 former Soviet, now Russian, troops stationed in the Baltic states. In...

at Appomattox. Following the war, USCT regiments served among the occupation troops in former Confederate states. U.S. Army General Ulysses S. Grant praised...

garrison troops and police detachments to maintain order, but could request assistance from a corps of three divisions of poorly-equipped occupation troops. The...

later be viewed as a major missed opportunity. A few of the Japanese occupation troops also came under attack from civilians during this period as they withdrew...

operations changed from sabotages in 1943 to massive attacks against occupation troops in 1944. At its peak, the Limousine maquis is estimated to have reached...

of troops sent to Akureyri. However, the initial invasion force was ill-equipped, only partially trained  and insufficient to the task of occupation and...