Online - 1919 US Army intelligence report “Candid Comment on The American Soldier of 1917-1918 ..."

[DavidIsby]

https://irp.fas.org/agency/army/wwi-soldiers.pdf

 

After the war, American military intelligence officers reviewed troves of documents that detailed interrogations and intercepted diplomatic cables. They compiled the opinions of German soldiers and citizens upon meeting Americans for the first time. 

It was released in a 1919 report.

The preface of the 84-page report says it contains the unedited, “unfavorable criticism” of Germans against Americans and soldiers in the American Expeditionary Forces and that “much of the comment is favorable is, therefore, significant.”

[Interested]

Reading snippets of the Report, many Germans wanted "Justice" which they felt would come from America, and not reparations, which they could see France was pushing for.  It's as if they couldn't see what they had done, IMO.