Even in Nazi Germany the cows have four legs

CHAPTER X The Rhineland Campaign, 1944
Military Government In Action
An observer from the Psychological Warfare Division of SHAEF, who actually entered the occupied area, reported:

the crossing of the German frontier is something of a shock. Even in Nazi Germany the cows have four legs, the grass is green, and children in pigtails stand around the tanks.

Self-indoctrination by years of propaganda make it a shock to rediscover these trivialities. All the officers with whom we spoke reinforced this. The people left behind in this area are human beings with a will to survive. Just because we are conquerors and they know it, they are in certain ways easier to handle than the liberated Belgians or Frenchmen.

They know they must obey our orders, and if they are allowed to survive and reconstruct their lives by self-help, they do not of themselves cause any trouble. Behind the front line, for instance, every road and byway is littered with cables, telephone lines, etc.

Minor sabotage would be child's play. It has not happened because the people are not in interested in the war but looking after themselves.

On one score everyone agreed : the German civilians were not causing trouble. In the first three weeks of the occupation not a single serious act against the Allied troops was reported.