According to The Atlantic Times, every day on American Army radio, GIs stationed in Germany at the end of World War II heard slogans such as: "Don't make friends!" "Be suspicious!" insidious and dangerous propaganda" was intended to fend off attacks and ostracize the criminal of the Nazi war crimes. Meanwhile the American lifestyle often wasn’t what it had seemed on the T.V screen.Some women came to communities which still did not have electricity, and with thousands of men returning from Europe, jobs were scarce and many former GIs had to survive on state money for the first year(2). War brides actually came from over fifty countries. Between 1944 and 1950, 150,000 to 200,000 continental European women married U.S. member of the armed forces, and 50,000 to 100,000 couples were married in the Far East ("Facts: American War Brides
According to The Atlantic Times, every day on American Army radio, GIs stationed in Germany at the end of World War II heard slogans such as: "Don't make friends!" "Be suspicious!" insidious and dangerous propaganda" was intended to fend off attacks and ostracize the criminal of the Nazi war crimes. Meanwhile the American lifestyle often wasn’t what it had seemed on the T.V screen.Some women came to communities which still did not have electricity, and with thousands of men returning from Europe, jobs were scarce and many former GIs had to survive on state money for the first year(2). War brides actually came from over fifty countries. Between 1944 and 1950, 150,000 to 200,000 continental European women married U.S. member of the armed forces, and 50,000 to 100,000 couples were married in the Far East ("Facts: American War Brides