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>The Americans were the chief complainers when the food was bad which was always.
-Pietro D’Paris
>The American army seems to me as fine a collection of individual physical specimens as I have ever seen. But from the standpoint of military discipline it is a mob, pure and simple. The men appear slouchy, the officers to not stand out from the men in appearance and they do in any European army.
-Dr. Otto Schranzkmuller, former Prussian Municipal Official
>The citizens of Eich who were fined for having a dirty yard and premises claim that their trial was unfair, and that the fines were too heavy. One of them says that American soldiers were partly responsible for the condition of his yard.
-U.S. Army report, April 17, 1919, in Trier
>Complaints, coming especially from the smaller towns, accuse the Americans of immorality and drunkedness.
-Weekly Resume from the 3rd U.S. Army, Feb. 3 1919