ion make-up as a result of the war was such that US troops entered Germany expecting to encounter fanatical Nazi storm troopers and Hitler youth, but instead found the elderly, women and children with little food and poor shelter.
             Goedde discusses what "fraternization' was supposed to mean and what it came represent. Originally it was supposed to mean any informal interaction between Germans and Americans. However, it grew to represent sexual relations between GI's and German women. She presents several subtopics of evidence to illustrate the growing challenge of preventing fraternization in post-war Germany, including correspondences between General Eisenhower and General Marshall, newspaper and magazine articles investigating the problem, and statistics relat
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