content: I suspect part of the reason France sent their African/Algerian troops was to inflict punishment on Germany and the Germans. In other words, the rapes weren't an incidental by-product of the French occupation that went unpunished, but rather they were another means of getting revenge on the hated Germans. I don't know this for sure, but it follows the same line of thinking that the Soviets used when raping the women and girls of Berlin in the dying days of WWII.