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� GENERAL PATTON'S WARNING

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� GENERAL PATTON'S WARNING

� 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.

� Patton was regarded as the "fightingest" general in all the Allied

� forces. He was considerably more audacious and aggressive than most

� commanders, and his martial ferocity may very well have been the deciding

� factor which led to the Allied victory. He personally commanded his

� forces in many of the toughest and most decisive battles of the war: in

� Tunisia, in Sicily, in the cracking of the Siegried Line, in holding back

� the German advance during the Battle of the Bulge, in the exceptionally

� bloody fighting around Bastogne in December 1944 and January 1945.

� During the war Patton had respected the courage and the fighting

� qualities of the Germans ‑‑ especially when he compared them with those

� of some of America's allies ‑‑ but he had also swallowed whole the

� hate‑inspired wartime propaganda generated by America's alien media

� masters. He believed Germany was a menace to America's freedom and that

� Germany's National Socialist government was an especially evil

� institution. Acting on these beliefs he talked incessantly of his desire

� to kill as many Germans as possible, and he exhorted his troops to have

� the same goal. These bloodthirsty exhortations led to the nickname "Blood

� and Guts" Patton.

� 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 rive 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 right 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.

� Patton refused to take hints from the press, however, and his

� disagreement with the American occupation policy formulated in Washington

� grew. Later in May he said to his brother‑in‑law: "I think that this

� non‑fraternization is very stupid. If we are going to keep American

� soldiers in a country, they have to have some civilians to talk to.

� Furthermore, I think we could do a lot for the German civilians by

� letting our soldiers talk to their young people."

� Various of Patton's colleagues tried to make it perfectly clear what was

� expected of him. One politically ambitious officer, Brig. Gen. Philip S.

� Gage, anxious to please the powers that be, wrote to Patton: "Of course,

� I know that even your extensive powers are limited, but I do hope that

� wherever and whenever you can you will do what you can to make the German

� populace suffer. For God's sake, please don't ever go soft in regard to

� them. Nothing could ever be too bad for them."

� But Patton continued to do what he thought was right, whenever he could.

� 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, 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 quotes

� Gen. 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

� insure that 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."

� But even his change of duties did not shut Patton up. In his diary entry

� of October 1 we find the observation: "In thinking over the situation, I

� could not but be impressed with the belief that at the present moment the

� unblemished record of the American Army for non‑political activities is

� about to be lost. Everyone seems to be more interested in the effects

� which his actions will have on his political future than in carrying out

� the motto of the United States Military Academy, 'Duty, Honor, Country.'

� I hope that after the current crop of political aspirants has been

� gathered our former tradition will be restored."

� And Patton continued to express these sentiments to his friends ‑‑ and

� those he thought were his friends. 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."

� His denunciation of the politicization of the Army was scathing: "All the

� general officers in the higher brackets receive each morning from the War

� Department a set of American (newspaper) headlines, and, with the sole

� exception of myself, they guide themselves during the ensuing day by what

� they have read in the papers. . . ."

� 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 . . . ."

� Two months later, on December 23, 1945, General George S. Patton was

� silenced forever.

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��� Re: GENERAL PATTON'S WARNING

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��� GENERAL PATTON TAKEN SHORTLY BEFORE HIS UNTIMLEY DEATH.

��� Patton, however, was not ready to rest on his laurels. He requested a

��� transfer to the Pacific theatre so he could fight the Japanese. The

��� request was, of course, denied, respectfully. The mind boggles at the

��� thought of Patton serving under Macarthur! One congressman even proposed

��� that Patton be made Secretary of War, but Patton's lack of diplomacy

��� guaranteed the suggestion was never taken seriously. Back in Germany,

��� while on occupation duty after a visit to the States during which he was

��� welcomed with parades as a conquering hero, Patton's outspokenness got

��� him into trouble yet again when he tried justifying the use of ex‑Nazis

��� in important administrative positions during the occupation of Bavaria.

��� Patton had also been willing to make known his view that the United

��� States and Britain should re‑arm the Germans and fight the Russians.�

��� As a result of his ''unofficial'' remarks, he was relieved of the

��� command of his beloved 3rd Army.Though he had been showered with honours

��� when he had returned to the United States, there was obviously a great

��� deal of discussion in Washington about what to do with Patton now that

��� the war was over. Invaluable in war, Patton's temperament was somewhat

��� of a liability in peacetime. In many ways, it would have been fitting

��� for Patton the warrior to have died on the battlefield, but that was not

��� to be. Despite the fact that throughout his military career he had

��� constantly exposed himself to danger, it was a traffic accident, not a

��� bullet, which took Patton's life. In December 1945, his car was hit by a

��� truck and he was severely injured. On 21 December he died from these

��� injures and was buried in Luxembourg a country which still considers

��� George S. Patton its liberator.

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