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[Above: General George P

[Above: General George Patton]

 

George Smith Patton, Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was one of the most famous Generals in American history. He commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European Theaters of World War II, he was most well-known for his command of the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany in June of 1944 following the Allied invasion of Normandy. His enthusiasm for battle earned the valued General the nickname 'Old Blood and Guts'.

After the war, when Germany came under Allied occupation, General Patton became the military governor of Bavaria. He didn't like what he saw. The Allies were not treating the Germans properly. He became outspoken about the wrongs he was witnessing and being forced to commit against them.

 

But this wasn't the first inkling that Patton felt that something sordid was happening. His bloodied army of veterans were denied securing both Prague and Berlin. Instead the glory of occupying these two capitals was given to Stalin. He and his men felt betrayed.

 

After Patton visited Berlin and saw the devastation and ruins, he wrote his wife on July 21, 1945:

'Berlin gave me the blues. We have destroyed what could have been a good race, and we are about to replace them with Mongolian savages. And all Europe will be communist. It's said that for the first week after they took it (Berlin), all women who ran were shot and those who did not were raped. I could have taken it (instead of the Soviets) had I been allowed.'

On August 18th Patton quotes Gen. Juin in his diary entry:

'It is indeed unfortunate, mon General, that the English and the Americans have destroyed in Europe the only sound country -- and I do not mean France. Therefore, the road is now open for the advent of Russian communism.'

On August 31, 1945, Patton wrote to his wife:

'The stuff in the papers about fraternization is all wet. All that sort of writing is done by Jews to get revenge. Actually, the Germans are the only decent people left in Europe. It's a choice between them and the Russians. I prefer the Germans.'

Patton noted this in his diary on August 31, 1946:

'I also wrote a letter to the Secretary of War, Mr. Stimson on the questions of pro-Jewish influence in the Military Government of Germany.'

On September 2nd he wrote:

'What we are doing is to destroy the only semi-modern state in Europe, so that Russia can swallow the whole.'

In a letter to his wife of September 14, 1945, he said:

'I am frankly opposed to this war criminal stuff. It is not cricket and is Semitic. I am also opposed to sending POW's to work as slaves in foreign lands (i.e., the Soviet Union's Gulags), where many will be starved to death.'

On September 22, 1945 Patton told reporters that he did not see the need for 'this denazification thing'.

On Sept. 29, 1945, Patton wrote to his wife:

'The noise against me is only the means by which the Jews and Communists are attempting and with good success to implement a further dismemberment of Germany.'

In another letter Patton wrote to his wife, he said

'I have been at Frankfurt for a civil government conference. If what we are doing (to the Germans) is "Liberty, then give me death" I can't see how Americans can sink so low. It is Semitic, and I am sure of it.'

In his diary he noted:

'Today we received orders . . . in which we were told to give the Jews special accommodations. If for Jews, why not Catholics, Mormons, etc? . . . We are also turning over to the French several hundred thousand prisoners of war to be used as slave labor in France. It is amusing to recall that we fought the Revolution in defense of the rights of man and the Civil War to abolish slavery and have now gone back on both principles.'

[Above: General George Patton]

Later diary entries and letters to his wife showed the distress Patton felt about what his country was responsible for:

'They have utterly lost the Anglo-Saxon conception of justice and feel that a man can be kicked out because somebody else says he is a Nazi. They were evidently quite shocked when I told them I would kick nobody out without the successful proof of guilt before a court of law.'

In a letter to his wife he wrote:

'I will probably be in the headlines before you get this, as the press is trying to quote me as being more interested in restoring order in Germany than in catching Nazis. I can't tell them the truth that unless we restore Germany we will insure that communism takes America.'

'There is a very apparent Semitic influence in the press. They are trying to do two things: first, implement communism, and second, see that all businessmen of German ancestry and non-Jewish antecedents are thrown out of their jobs.'

'Another point which the press harped on was the fact that we were doing too much for the Germans to the detriment of the DP's [displaced persons], most of whom are Jews. I could not give the answer to that one, because the answer is that, in my opinion and that of most nonpolitical officers, it is vitally necessary for us to build Germany up now as a buffer state against Russia. In fact, I am afraid we have waited too long.'

Eisenhower was quick to punish Patton for stating his beliefs and relieved him as military governor of Bavaria and assigned him as the commander of the Fifteenth Army.

In a letter to his wife on September 29, Patton said that he was, in a way, not upset about his new assignment, saying:

'I would like it much better than being a sort of executioner to the best race in Europe.'

In his October 22, 1945 letter to Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord, Patton revealed his plans for the future. This extraordinary man planned on throwing his superb career to the wind and fighting the tyrants that destroyed Adolf Hitler's Germany:

'I have been just as furious as you at the compilation of lies which the communist and Semitic elements of our government have leveled against me and practically every other commander. In my opinion it is a deliberate attempt to alienate the soldier vote from the commanders, because the communists know that soldiers are not communistic, and they fear what eleven million votes (of veterans) would do.'

'It is my present thought... that when I finish this job, which will be around the first of the year, I shall resign, not retire, because if I retire I will still have a gag in my mouth... I should not start a limited counterattack, which would be contrary to my military theories, but should wait until I can start an all-out offensive...'

[Above: General George Patton]

George Smith Patton, Jr. died in a car 'accident' on December 21, 1945 in Heidelberg, Germany. The official story is that the car he was riding in was involved in a low speed collision with a truck. All three of the other people in the accident were only slightly injured while Patton struck his head and was paralyzed from the neck down. He spent 12 days in a coma before passing away from pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure.

The official story is questioned by many historians. Patton was questioning what the Allies were doing in Germany and he had considerable influence. He could have caused a lot of trouble for them. The possibility that Patton was assassinated by his own government is very plausible. There are many questions involving his death. As the historian Veronica Clark said in a 2014 interview we did with her:

'Wilcox [the author of 'Target: Patton: The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton'] asks these questions, among others:

What happened to the five accident reports? They disappeared.

Why wasn’t an autopsy performed on a four-star general?

Why did Thompson, the truck driver, mysteriously disappear from Germany?

What happened to Patton’s Cadillac?

Why was Patton, one of three crash victims, the only one injured?

Patton was nearly killed in a number of strange incidents. He was warned that he was on a “hit list” and even told his family that he didn’t “expect to leave Europe alive.”'

A year after Patton's death his wife Beatrice died one week after announcing she would release hundreds of Patton's personal papers regarding the war. She died in a freak horse riding accident, breaking her neck. Quite a coincidence eh?

[Above: The green grave of a hero]

By Russ Winter

Before his death in 1999, an OSS special agent openly talked about his role in incapacitating Gen. George S. Patton (1885-1945) via a staged automobile fender bender on Dec. 9, 1945. Using the pandemonium of the traffic collision as a distraction, agent Douglas DeWitt Bazata sniped Patton in the neck with a specially made gun firing a non-piercing bolt. Patton survived the incident with a dislocation of a vertebrae and never knew what hit him.

Major Gen. William J. Donovan, head of the OSS

The government assassin first publicly confessed his guilt in the plot decades ago in front of a journalist at an OSS reunion dinner in D.C. Later, Bazata also confessed his role to author Robert K. Wilcox, who wrote the book “Target Patton.” Wilcox’s cousin and researcher Tim Wilcox discusses the circumstances in the video below. Bazata was an active special agent and assassin during and after WWII.

The assassin recounted that OSS Chief William Donovan had personally ordered the killing on the grounds that Patton had “gone crazy” and was becoming a major threat to American national interests.

A newspaper that also carried an interview claimed that it had “a professional analyst subject Bazata’s interview to the rigors of a content analysis using a Psychological Stress Evaluator (P.S.E.) His report: Bazata gives no evidence of lying.” More details can be gleaned in this article.

On Dec. 9, 1945, a truck swerved in front of Patton’s limo. It was driven by a corporal who then disappeared. Patton survived with a dislocation of vertebrae from Bazata’s weapon and was taken to a hospital in more distant Heidelberg rather than in nearby Mannheim.

As Patton was recovering, he held a press conference and declared he was going home. Then, he was injected or poisoned in the hospital and died suddenly on Dec. 21, 1945. There is a backstory that NKVD agents got to him, but that wouldn’t have been necessary.

Bazata claimed that he knows who killed him, and that Patton was killed by a dose of cyanide in the hospital. No autopsy was done, which is highly suspicious. Bazata went on to say that he met an unidentified man whom he knew only as a “Pole” (Polish extraction), who was also ordered to kill Patton.

Several official reports were produced regarding the exact circumstances of the very strange traffic accident said to be responsible for his death, but all of these reports have completely disappeared from U.S. government files. The medical reports disappeared, and archival records are strangely scrubbed.

Weak link in story? Patton stopped en route at a Roman ruin located on a hill along the roadside. Bazata put a jam into the window of Patton’s auto that would leave a four inch gap for a shot to the target. There are very few images of the limo online and now no accident reports either. However this one is of interest. It shows a white colored tag sticking out of the window, door area where Patton was seated. The window itself is blurry, but you can see some interior detail. Was this window indeed partially open – thus confirming Bazata’s claim?

Plenty of Motive for Assassination: George Patton’s Interpretive Framework

Patton had planned to write his memoirs, illustrating that eastern Europe was tossed to the Soviet Union. The reason for the hit on Patton were his views put forth on Oct. 22, 1945, in a long letter to Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord. Once the powers that be realized Patton would retire and be outspoken, the plan was put into place. This “car accident” took place shortly before his scheduled departure home, and he had narrowly escaped death twice before under very strange circumstances.

In the letter, Patton had bitterly condemned the Morgenthau policy; Eisenhower’s pusillanimous behavior in the face of Jewish demands; the strong pro-Soviet bias in the press; and the politicization, corruption, degradation and the demoralization of the U.S. Army, from this bad policy. He saw this as a deliberate goal of America’s enemies.

In his letter to Harbord, Patton also revealed his own plans to fight an “all-out offensive” against those who were destroying the morale and integrity of the Army and endangering America’s future by not opposing the growing Soviet might.

Several months before the end of the war, Patton recognized the fearful danger to the West posed by the Soviet Union, and he had disagreed bitterly with the orders given to him in April and May, 1945 to hold back his army and wait for the Red Army to occupy vast stretches of German, Czech, Rumanian, Hungarian and Yugoslav territory, which the Americans could have easily taken instead.

The most notorious incident allegedly happened toward the end of May, when an English-speaking Russian brigadier general arrived at Patton’s headquarters to demand that some river boats on the Danube that had contained Germans who had surrendered to the Third Army be returned to the Russians. Patton opened a drawer, pulled out a pistol, slammed it down on his desk and raged, “Goddamnit! Get this son-of-a-bitch out of here! Who in hell let him in? Don’t let any more Russian bastards into this headquarters.”

On July 21, he wrote to Beatrice, “We have destroyed what could have been a good race and we [are] about to replace them with Mongolian savages. Now the horrors of peace, pacifism and unions will have unlimited sway. I wish I were young enough to fight in the next one [war]. It would be real fun killing Mongols …. It is hell to be old and passé and know it.”

Then, he was highly critical of the post-war occupation policy in Germany.

Other notable quotes illustrate his frame mind.

There were also running conflicts about the treatment of Axis POWs. Patton was countering abuses. Additionally Patton was furious that Americans from POW facilities in Soviet hands had not been immediately returned per agreement.

With great reluctance and only after repeated promptings from Eisenhower, he had thrown German families out of their homes to make room for more than a million DPs, but he balked when ordered to begin blowing up German factories in accord with the infamous Morgenthau Plan to destroy Germany’s economic base forever.

In his diary he wrote:

In a letter to his wife of September 14, 1945, he wrote:

On July 21, 1945:

On August 31 he wrote:

And on September 2:

Morgenthauists and media monopolists had decided that Patton was incorrigible and must be discredited. So they began a non-stop hounding of him in the press, accusing him of being “soft on Nazis”, Patton’s response:

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