When the Soviets last but not least claimed victory, they initiated an orgy of violence, together with the wholesale theft of everything they could lay their palms on, random executions and mass rape. French forces, together with the GIGN. French ladies in Normandy complained about rapes through the liberation of Normandy. French Moroccan troops, known as Goumiers, dedicated rapes and other war crimes just after the Battle of Monte Cassino.