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Patton On Communism

And The  Jews

 

General Patton's Warning

 

Edited by Raquel Baranow

 

 

At the end of World War II, one of America's top military leaders

accurately assessed the shift in the balance of world power which that war

had produced and foresaw the enormous danger of communist aggression

against the West. Alone among U.S. leaders he warned that America

should act immediately, while her supremacy was unchallengeable, to end

that danger. Unfortunately, his warning went unheeded, and he was

quickly silenced by a convenient "accident" which took his life.

 

Thirty-two years ago, in the terrible summer of 1945, the U.S. Army had

just completed the destruction of Europe and had set up a government of

military occupation amid the ruins to rule the starving Germans and deal

out victors' justice to the vanquished. General George S. Patton,

commander of the U.S. Third Army, became military governor of the

greater portion of the American occupation zone of Germany.

 

It was only in the final days of the war and during his tenure as military

governor of Germany -- after he had gotten to know both the Germans

and America's "gallant Soviet allies" -- that Patton's understanding of the

true situation grew and his opinions changed. In his diary and in many

letters to his family, friends, various military colleagues, and government

officials, he expressed his new understanding and his apprehensions for

the future. His diary and his letters were published in 1974 by the

Houghton Mifflin Company under the title The Patton Papers.

 

Several months before the end of the war, General Patton had recognized

the fearful danger to the West posed by the Soviet Union, and he had

disagreed bitterly with the orders which he had been given 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.

 

On May 7, 1945, just before the German capitulation, Patton had a

conference in Austria with U.S. Secretary of War Robert Patterson. Patton

was gravely concerned over the Soviet failure to respect the demarcation

lines separating the Soviet and American occupation zones. He was also

alarmed by plans in Washington for the immediate partial demobilization

of the U.S. Army.

 

Patton said to Patterson: "Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets

sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army.

This is the only language they understand and respect."

Patterson replied, "Oh, George, you have been so close to this thing so

long, you have lost sight of the big picture."

 

Patton rejoined:

 

"I understand the situation. Their (the Soviet) supply system is inadequate

to maintain them in a serious action such as I could put to them. They

have chickens in the coop and cattle on the hoof -- that's their supply

system. They could probably maintain themselves in the type of fighting I

could give them for five days. After that it would make no difference how

many million men they have, and if you wanted Moscow I could give it to

you. They lived on the land coming down. There is insufficient left for

them to maintain themselves going back. Let's not give them time to build

up their supplies. If we do, then . . . we have had a victory over the

Germans and disarmed them, but we have failed in the liberation of

Europe; we have lost the war!"

 

Patton's urgent and prophetic advice went unheeded by Patterson and the

other politicians and only served to give warning about Patton's feelings

to the alien conspirators behind the scenes in New York, Washington, and

Moscow.

 

The more he saw of the Soviets, the stronger Patton's conviction grew

that the proper course of action would be to stifle communism then and

there, while the chance existed. Later in May 1945 he attended several

meetings and social affairs with top Red Army officers, and he evaluated

them carefully.

 

He noted in his diary on May 14:

 

"I have never seen in any army at any time, including the German

Imperial Army of 1912, as severe discipline as exists in the Russian army.

The officers, with few exceptions, give the appearance of recently

civilized Mongolian bandits."

 

And Patton's aide, General Hobart Gay, noted in his own journal for May 14:

 

"Everything they (the Russians) did impressed one with the idea of

virility and cruelty."

 

Nevertheless, Patton knew that the Americans could whip the Reds then

-- but perhaps not later.

 

On May 18 he noted in his diary:

 

"In my opinion, the American Army as it now exists could beat the

Russians with the greatest of ease, because, while the Russians have good

infantry, they are lacking in artillery, air, tanks, and in the knowledge of

the use of the combined arms, whereas we excel in all three of these. If it

should be necessary to fight the Russians, the sooner we do it the better."

 

Two days later he repeated his concern when he wrote his wife:

 

"If we have to fight them, now is the time. From now on we will get weaker and

they stronger."

 

Having immediately recognized the Soviet danger and urged a course of

action which would have freed all of eastern Europe from the communist

yoke with the expenditure of far less American blood than was spilled in

Korea and Vietnam and would have obviated both those later wars not to

mention World War III -- Patton next came to appreciate the true nature of

the people for whom World War II was fought: the Jews.

 

Most of the Jews swarming over Germany immediately after the war

came from Poland and Russia, and Patton found their personal habits

shockingly uncivilized.

 

He was disgusted by their behavior in the camps for Displaced Persons

(DP's) which the Americans built for them and even more disgusted by

the way they behaved when they were housed in German hospitals and

private homes. He observed with horror that "these people do not

understand toilets and refuse to use them except as repositories for tin

cans, garbage, and refuse . . . They decline, where practicable, to use

latrines, preferring to relieve themselves on the floor."

 

He described in his diary one DP camp,

 

"where, although room existed, the Jews were crowded together to an

appalling extent, and in practically every room there was a pile of garbage

in one corner which was also used as a latrine. The Jews were only forced

to desist from their nastiness and clean up the mess by the threat of the

butt ends of rifles. Of course, I know the expression 'lost tribes of Israel'

applied to the tribes which disappeared -- not to the tribe of Judah from

which the current sons of bitches are descended. However, it is my

personal opinion that this too is a lost tribe -- lost to all decency."

 

Patton's initial impressions of the Jews were not improved when he

attended a Jewish religious service at Eisenhower's insistence. His diary

entry for September 17, 1945, reads in part:

 

"This happened to be the feast of Yom Kippur, so they were all collected

in a large, wooden building, which they called a synagogue. It behooved

General Eisenhower to make a speech to them. We entered the

synagogue, which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of

humanity I have ever seen. When we got about halfway up, the head

rabbi, who was dressed in a fur hat similar to that worn by Henry VIII of

England and in a surplice heavily embroidered and very filthy, came 

down and met the General . . . The smell was so terrible that I almost

fainted and actually about three hours later lost my lunch as the result of

remembering it."

 

These experiences and a great many others firmly convinced Patton that

the Jews were an especially unsavory variety of creature and hardly

deserving of all the official concern the American government was

bestowing on them.

 

Another September diary entry, following a demand from Washington

that more German housing be turned over to Jews, summed up his

feelings:

 

"Evidently the virus started by Morgenthau and Baruch of a Semitic

revenge against all Germans is still working. Harrison (a U.S. State

Department official) and his associates indicate that they feel German

civilians should be removed from houses for the purpose of housing

Displaced Persons. There are two errors in this assumption. First, when

we remove an individual German we punish an individual German, while

the punishment is -- not intended for the individual but for the race.

Furthermore, it is against my Anglo-Saxon conscience to remove a person

from a house, which is a punishment, without due process of law. In the

second place, Harrison and his ilk believe that the Displaced Person is a

human being, which he is not, and this applies particularly to the Jews,

who are lower than animals."

 

One of the strongest factors in straightening out General Patton's thinking

on the conquered Germans was the behavior of America's controlled news

media toward them. At a press conference in Regensburg, Germany, on

May 8, 1945, immediately after Germany's surrender, Patton was asked

whether he planned to treat captured SS troops differently from other

German POW's. His answer was:

 

"No. SS means no more in Germany than being a Democrat in America --

that is not to be quoted. I mean by that that initially the SS people were

special sons of bitches, but as the war progressed they ran out of sons of

bitches and then they put anybody in there. Some of the top SS men will

be treated as criminals, but there is no reason for trying someone who was

drafted into this outfit . . ."

 

Despite Patton's request that his remark not be quoted, the press eagerly

seized on it, and Jews and their front men in America screamed in outrage

over Patton's comparison of the SS and the Democratic Party as well as 

over his announced intention of treating most SS prisoners humanely.

 

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 Jewish DP's -- part of the famous "six

million" who had supposedly been gassed -- but he balked when ordered

to begin blowing up German factories, in accord with the infamous

Morgenthau Plan to destroy Germany's economic basis forever.

 

In his diary he wrote:

 

"I doubted the expediency of blowing up factories, because the ends for

which the factories are being blown up -- that is, preventing Germany

from preparing for war -- can be equally well attained through the

destruction of their machinery, while the buildings can be used to house

thousands of homeless persons."

 

Similarly, he expressed his doubts to his military colleagues about the

overwhelming emphasis being placed on the persecution of every German

who had formerly been a member of the National Socialist party.

 

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."

 

Despite his disagreement with official policy, Patton followed the rules

laid down by Morgenthau and others back in Washington as closely as his

conscience would allow, but he tried to moderate the effect, and this

brought him into increasing conflict with Eisenhower and the other

politically ambitious generals.

 

In another letter to his wife he commented:

 

"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."

 

And 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."

 

His duties as military governor took Patton to all parts of Germany and 

intimately acquainted him with the German people and their condition.

He could not help but compare them with the French, the Italians, the

Belgians, and even the British. This comparison gradually forced him to

the conclusion that World War II had been fought against the wrong

people.

 

After a visit to ruined Berlin, 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."

 

This conviction, that the politicians had used him and the U.S. Army for a

criminal purpose, grew in the following weeks. During a dinner with

French General Alphonse Juin in August, Patton was surprised to find the

Frenchman in agreement with him.

 

His diary entry for August 18 quotesGen. Juin:

 

"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."

 

Later diary entries and letters to his wife reiterate this same conclusion.

On August 31 he wrote:

 

"Actually, the Germans are the only decent

people left in Europe. it's a choice between them and the Russians. I

prefer the Germans."

 

And on September 2: "What we are doing is to

destroy the only semi-modern state in Europe, so that Russia can swallow

the whole."

 

 

By this time the 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, a la Watergate, accusing him of being "soft

on Nazis" and continually recalling an incident in which he had slapped a

shirker two years previously, during the Sicily campaign. A New York

newspaper printed the completely false claim that when Patton had

slapped the soldier who was Jewish, he had called him a "yellow-bellied

Jew."

 

Then, in a press conference on September 22, reporters hatched a scheme

to needle Patton into losing his temper and making statements which

could be used against him. The scheme worked. The press interpreted one

of Patton's answers to their insistent questions as to why he was not

pressing the Nazi-hunt hard enough as:

 

"The Nazi thing is just like a Democrat-Republican fight."

 

The New York Times headlined this quote,

and other papers all across America picked it up.

The unmistakable hatred which had been directed at him during this press

conference finally opened Patton's eyes fully as to what was afoot.

 

In his diary that night lie wrote:

 

"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."

 

"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" . . .

 

"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, 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."

 

And in a letter of the same date to his wife:

 

"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 insurethat communism takes America."

 

Eisenhower responded immediately to the press outcry against Patton and

made the decision to relieve him of his duties as military governor and

"kick him upstairs" as the commander of the Fifteenth Army.

 

In a letter to his wife on September 29, Patton indicated that he was, in a way, not

unhappy with his new assignment, because "I would like it much better

than being a sort of executioner to the best race in Europe."

 

On October 22 he wrote a long letter to Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord,

who was back in the States. In the letter Patton 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 demoralization of the U.S.

Army which these things were causing.

 

He saw the demoralization of the Army as a deliberate goal of America's enemies:

 

"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."

 

In his letter to Harbord, Patton also revealed his own plans to fight those

who were destroying the morale and integrity of the Army and

endangering America's future by not opposing the growing Soviet might:

 

"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 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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