Anti-Fraternization: What a Mess!!!

As class was about to end on Friday, the question was asked why does any of this matter? So what if all this stuff was going on in a post-war, post-Nazi Germnay split in in two and occupied by the victorious Allies? I think that there are two important keys to keep in mind as a direct result of the anti-fraternization movement during that crucial time in German history.
1) Humanizes this entire conflict- German men are returning home, downtrodden, disillusioned, and defeated only to find that "home" is not much better than the front lines, if at all. Millions to men are dead, leaving a surplus of single and widowed women who needed protection and true love to help get through these awful times in their destroyed
cities and villages throughout Germany, east and west. The women have become more aggressive, as a result of the war (I guess they had to become that way because they had no one to rely upon, no one to shield them from the horrors of war and the advancing enemy forces). This is all just a difficult, precarious position to be in if you were a German living after WW2. I feel compassion for what the men and women had to endure; even if they were still Nazis, they were our fellow human beings, and no one should have to live through what they had to endure.
2) This gives us a better understanding of what it was like on the ground for the Germans during this era. If you're a man, your women are hanging out and even sleeping with the "better looking" Americans or worse yet possibly being raped by the Soviet soldiers as "war prizes." That has to be extremely frustrating. Are the women who do these things traitors then? I think that little poem sums it up best when it said "He lies in a unmarked grave, she in a strange bed. He fell for the Fatherland, she for cigarettes." I do not know what i would have done if I was a returning German man... what could i do? The options look even more destitute if I was a German woman after the war. But overall I am glad I read this article because it revealed information and ideas I had not known or considered previously, and it changed my view of Germany and Germans
so that I feel compassion for them and what they had to go through. Before today I did not feel that way, and I suppose that is why this topic matters; knowledge is power, and because of this article, I feel empowered and more knowledgeable about German history as a whole.