It goes without saying that the US, Brits and the French [why no mention of the French] armies which occupied your country after WW2, by all accounts, behaved well.

I wouldn't be too sure about that. Only this week in the press we've seen horrifying pictures about some British run torture facilities in post-war Germany. The truth is nearly always a lot murkier than we get told at the time.
Revealed: victims of UK's cold war torture camp