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rattovolante -> RE: Allied Garrison in SRA (9/2/2009 9:50:47 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl
On the other hand, civilians stealing from anybodies military is a fine old tradition..., and was brought to near perfection by the citizens of Naples during the Second World War (when almost 40% of the supplies the Allies landed dissappeared into the black market).
well Naples might be an interesting case. As I understand it, the activities under both German and Allied occupation were more due to starving and desperation than proper partisan or stay-behind activity.
AFAIK the primary cause of the city's insurrection against the withdrawing germans was hunger and the fact that the germans had order to destroy and/or boobytrap anything they couldn't evacuate, including buildings, port facilities, stockpiles etc.
But please note that the traditional historical explanation is more on the lines of a proper partisan uprising (for what it's worth, wikipedia embraces this explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_days_of_Naples). So take my own point of view with a grain of salt.
In any case, what's interesting for WitP mechanics is that:
- in real life, the effect of the low german garrison was actually to hinder the german demolition effort
- with the WitP model the effect of the low german garrison would be to add to the damage eventually caused by german engineers dislodged from the hex by allied troops.
of course I'm not saying that the naples case can be considered a guideline for the DEI - I know very little about the pacific theather. But IIRC in Java at least weren't the independence groups rather pro-japanese than pro-allies? Or this only changed at the end of the war, and it's better depicted as the surrendering japanese being more pro-independence groups than pro-dutch?
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