Battle of Monte Cassino
French Moroccan troops, known as Goumiers, committed rapes and other war crimes in Italy after the Battle of Monte Cassino and in Germany. In Italy, victims of the mass rape committed after the Battle of Monte Cassino by Goumiers, colonial troops of the French Expeditionary Corps, are known as "Marocchinate". According to Italian sources, more than 7,000 Italian civilians, including women and children, were raped by Goumiers.