The Assassination of General George S. Patton

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The ASSASSINATION of GENERAL GEORGE PATTON by Dr. Peter Hammond

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The ASSASSINATION

of GENERAL GEORGE PATTON

by Dr. Peter Hammond

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General George Patton

by Dr. Peter Hammond

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George S. Patton, Junior, was born

11th November 1885.

His homeschooling concentrated

on classical literature.

Military Upbringing

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Young George Patton

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In 1903 Patton went to

Virginia Military Academy

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Military Institute Virginia

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Military Institute Virginia

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Military Institute Virginia

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Patton was later admitted to the United States

Military Academy

at West Point,

entering in 1904.

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West Point’s Cadet Chapel completed in 1910 constructed in the Gothic Revival style during an early 20th century expansion of the academy.

The great sanctuary window is inscribed with the motto of the academy: “Duty, Honor, Country.”

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United States Military Academy at West Point

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U.S. Military Academy at West Point

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West Point Barracks

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West Point Cadets

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Apart from his

athletic achievements,

he was a member

of the riding, fencing,

rifle and track teams.

In 1909, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 15th Cavalry Regiment.

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Cadet George S. Patton, Jr Class of 1909

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Patton’s Wedding Photo

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In 1912, George Patton represented the United States in Pentathlon,

in the Olympic Games, in Stockholm, Sweden.

Olympic Athlete

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Opening Day – Stockholm Olympic Games 1912

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1912 Stockholm Olympic Games

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Patton at the Olympics

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Patton (at right) fencing in the modern pentathlon of the 1912 Summer Olympics

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The Pentathlon included 5 classic military skills: horse riding, running, swimming, marksmanship and fencing. In fencing he came first, in

riding, third, and he rated overall 5th of the 43 international contestants.

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After touring Europe, he returned to the USA as a Weapons Instructor at the Cavalry School.

He designed a new sabre, which was

adopted for service.

Cavalry Officer

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In 1916, he was posted to Texas and took part in the Mexican

War as aide-de-camp to

General Pershing.

It is at this time that Patton began to wear two revolvers on

his belt.

Mexican War

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Patton Mexican war 1916

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Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa

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General John J. Pershing, Pancho Villa and others at Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1913

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Pershing was tasked with the ultimately unsuccessful task of hunting down “Pancho” Villa.

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Pancho Villa Expedition

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El Olvidado Pancho Villa

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Pershing and Patton (Patton is on the right)

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On 14th May 1916, he encountered three mounted bandits and shot two of them dead. Patton returned to HQ with their bodies draped across

the bonnet of his car.

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One of the dead bandits turned out to be General Cardenas,

Chief of Pancho Villa's bodyguard.

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In May 1917,

Patton sailed to France

in command of Perishing's Head Quarters

detachment.

Requesting a transfer to a combat post, Patton was assigned by Perishing to establish the tank corp.

The Great War

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When Patton accepted the posting, he did not join the Tank Corp,

he was the Tank Corp.

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The US did not have any tanks at this time, and it was Lieutenant Patton who obtained the first two-man Renault tanks from the French, learnt to

operate them and trained other Americans in this new martial art.

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Overcoming tremendous logistical complications,

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and now a Major, Patton managed to field 144 Renault tanks in the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, September 1918.

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American troops going forward to the battle line in the Forest of Argonne in Renault FT-17 tanks. September 26, 1918.

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He was wounded in action and hospitalised for the last days of the war.

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Patton as a temporary colonel at Camp Meade, Maryland, 1919

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Between the war years, Patton continued to

pioneer Tank Warfare in the U.S. Army.

Learning from

Rommel

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General Patton thought

so highly of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, that he kept

a copy of Rommel's book

on Infantry Tactics

near his bedside

for night time reading.

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General George S. Patton

was recognised as the

most ferocious General

on the Allied side.

Ferocious and Controversial

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Known as the man who had never lost a battle, the hero of

North Africa and Sicily,

Patton was temporarily relieved of command for slapping two uninjured privates convalescing in

military hospitals.

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After distinguishing himself in North Africa, he engaged in a contest

against his arch-rival, British General Bernard Law Montgomery.

Sicily

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In the race across Sicily to be the first to take Messina, Patton took dangerous

tactical chances and pushed his men to the limit.

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Visiting a field hospital in the crags of Sicily's central highlands,

he went from stretcher to stretcher,

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encouraging the wounded soldiers being treated.

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He then encountered

a Private Charles Kuhl,

who was sitting,

apparently, uninjured,

on a stool.

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"Why are you here?", the General demanded. "I guess I can't take it, Sir." The General was furious. "You coward!" he bellowed. "Leave this tent at once!" As Kuhl remained motionless, the General slapped him

hard across the face with his gloves.

The Slapping Incidents

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He then lifted the man off the stool by the collar of his uniform and shoved him towards the exit and kicked him in the rear.

"You hear me, you yellow bastard, you are going back to the front!"

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In his Journal, Patton wrote:

"If men shirk their duty, they should be tried for cowardice and shot."

Cowards are Not to be Tolerated

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Two days later, the General wrote a Memo to each of his commanders, ordering them not to allow men suffering from

"so-called combat fatigue" to receive medical care.

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5th August 1943 MEMORANDUM: TO : Corps, Division and Separate Brigade Commanders. It has come to my attention that a very small number of soldiers are going to the hospital on the pretext that they are nervously incapable of combat. Such men are cowards, and bring discredit on the Army and disgrace to their comrades who they heartlessly leave to endure the danger of a battle which they themselves use the hospital as a means of escaping. Your will take measures to see that such cases are not sent to the hospital, but are dealt with in their units. Those who are not willing to fight will be tried by Court Martial for cowardice in the face of the enemy. G.S. Patton, Jr Lieutenant General, U.S. Army Commanding

Patton Cowards Memo

"Such men are cowards and bring disgrace to their comrades, whom they heartlessly leave to endure the dangers of battle, while they themselves use the hospital as a means of escape.

You will see that such cases are not sent to the hospital."

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On 10th August 1943, Patton encountered a 21-year old,

Private Paul Bennett, who was shaking from convulsions and in tears, but apparently uninjured, in a field hospital.

"It's my nerves, Sir, I can't stand the shelling anymore."

Shell Shock

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Patton roared:

"Your nerves! Hell!

You are just a

God-dammed coward!"

As Bennett began sobbing the General slapped him.

"Shut-up! I won't have

these brave men here

who have been shot,

see a yellow-bastard

sitting here crying!"

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As the General hit him again, Bennett's helmet fell to the floor.

"You are a disgrace to the Army and you are going back to the front to fight. You ought to be lined up against the wall and shot.

In fact, I ought to shoot you right now."

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Patton pulled out his ivory-handled revolver from its holster, with his right hand, as he back-handed Bennett across the face. The medical staff rushed in to intervene and usher the private out of the tent for his own

safety.

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When word reached General Eisenhower, he wrote a stern rebuke to General Patton who personally apologised to both soldiers and to the

medical staff who had witnessed his actions.

Media Campaign Against Patton

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A media campaign in the U.S.A. led to such public outrage, that the American Congress called for Patton's immediate dismissal,

despite his tremendous achievements on the battlefield.

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Patton wrote in his journal:

"It is sad and shocking to think

that victory and the lives of thousands of

men are pawns to the writings of a

group of unprincipled reporters and weak-kneed congressman,

but so it is !"

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American President Franklin Delano

Roosevelt, turned to one of his classmates from Columbia Law School, Wild Bill Donovan, to establish the Office of

Strategic Services (OSS), which became the

precursor to the CIA.

Wild Bill Donovan

and the OSS

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The OSS did the dirty work of assassinations on FDR's instructions.

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Donovan ensured that Tito's Communist partisans waging guerrilla warfare in Yugoslavia received lavish quantities of American tanks,

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trucks and jeeps, hundreds of tonnes of armaments and ammunition, landmines and heavy machine guns.

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Marshal Tito during the Second World War in Yugoslavia, May 1944

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OSS agent Nick Lalich (standing, center), with OSS radio operator Arthur Jibilian (kneeling, left) and others in Pranjane, Yugoslavia, December

1944.

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This undercover battle, led by Donovan and the OSS, ensured that Eastern Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union.

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General Walter Bedell Smith,

wrote to Winston Churchill that Donovan was "Out of control"

with

"a predilection for political intrigue".

Donovan reported only to the president of the United States.

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OSS-Training

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WW2 O.S.S. Training Group

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OSS-Code-Training

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William Donovan, center, is shown here with members of the OSS Operational Groups, forerunners of the U.S. Special Operations Forces

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The O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services)

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FDR authorised Donovan to set up the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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Donovan had no moral, or ethical, qualms about dealing with communists. He channelled

millions of Dollars to the Chinese communists of Mao Tse Tung, to

fight against America's official ally, Nationalist China, under General

Chiang Kai-Shek.

Supporting Communist Subversion,

Terrorism and Revolutions

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OSS Special Operations In China

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OSS helped to train and equip Chinese guerrillas.

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Donovan operated a secret slush fund provided by congress and its War Agencies Appropriations Act 1944. Donovan spent it anyway he liked,

without any regard to oversight, or legality.

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The money was meant to cover his far-flung spy and sabotage operations throughout Europe and Asia. Under the authority of FDR,

Wild Bill ordered many political assassinations.

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General Dwight Eisenhower ordered the 4 million Allied soldiers in Germany to halt on the West bank of the Elbe River, 60 miles short of

Berlin, to enable the Red Army to seize the German capital.

The Stop Order

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General Patton was seized with fury: "Some of our leaders are just damn fools who have no idea of Russian history.

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Hell, I doubt if they even knew that Russia, just less

than 100 years ago, owned Finland, sucked the

blood out of Poland and were using Siberia as a

prison for their own people. How Stalin must

have sneered when he got through with them at

all those phony conferences."

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"Letting the Russians take Berlin is folly" declared Patton, "We should push on as far to the East as

possible. We shouldn’t stop before Moscow."

Freedom Betrayed

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The Soviets maintained a strangle-hold on Eastern Europe for 45 years. Millions of civilian refugees fleeing towards the American lines were turned back at bayonet point. Millions ended up as slave labour in

Soviet Concentration camps.

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On 17th April, Patton's single engine L5 Sentinel propeller plane was attacked head on, by a Spitfire bearing British

Royal Air Force markings.

Spitfire Attack

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Despite Patton's L5 being an unarmed American staff plane with American markings, the Spitfire fired the whole nine yards, tracers flying

past the sides of Patton's aircraft as his pilot took evasive action.

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During the manoeuvres, the British fighter plane crashed into the ground. The General was nagged by a question:

Was this Spitfire attack an accident?

Or a deliberate assassination attempt?

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Patton wrote: "Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets

sharpened and present a picture of force and strength

to the Soviets. This is the only language they

understand and respect.

If you fail to do this, then I would say to you that we

have lost the war."

The Only Language

they Understand

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Even British Field Marshall, Montgomery agreed with Patton's assessment and ordered his troops to stack the Wehrmacht rifles in such a way that they could be easily redistributed should the British

and Germans need to defend themselves against a Soviet attack.

The Soviet Threat

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Army Intelligence warned General Patton that his life was in danger from the NKVD. Marshall Stalin had ordered Patton to be assassinated.

Stalin’s Order

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General Patton opposed the official American Policy of forcing millions of former German soldiers to be sent to be slave labour in Russia. "These men should be used to rebuild their own country", Patton

insisted. The entire country had been bombed into rubble.

Against The Slave Labour Policy

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The roads, bridges and plumbing systems all needed to be rebuilt.

63 cities in Germany had been bombed into rubble

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and multiplied millions of people were without homes.

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"The Germans are the only decent people left in Europe. It is a choice between them and the Russians. I prefer the Germans", he insisted.

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General Marshall ordered that Patton's phones be tapped and requested a psychoanalyst, from the Navy's Medical Corp, to observe General Patton.

High Level Enemies

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Eisenhower wrote scathingly of Patton, regarding him as a

"loose cannon" because of how he distrusted the Soviets.

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Wild Bill Donovan, who had travelled in and out of Moscow and had direct access to Marshall Stalin, loathed Patton.

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The OSS and NKVD exchanged information, helping one another in espionage projects, including spying on General Patton.

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OSS agent, Duncan Lee, was assigned to spy on General Patton when he was military governor of the US occupation zone in Southern Germany,

providing regular reports on Patton's movements and recordings of wire-taps of his phone and office.

Double Agent

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Duncan Chaplin Lee (1913 – 1988) was Confidential Assistant to Maj. Gen. William Donovan,

founder and director of the OSS

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Duncan Lee was a double agent, also working for the Soviet's spy agency, the NKVD. Duncan Lee had provided the Soviets with advance

warning of the D-Day landings date and the exact location of the atomic bomb research in the US.

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Duncan Lee testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee

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Duncan Lee, right, former OSS employee, listens as Miss Elizabeth T. Bentley, former Red Agent, repeats before House Un-American Activities her identification of

Duncan Lee as a Soviet Agent.

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Duncan Lee's I.D. card from his stint aiding the Chinese Communists .

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Stepan Bandera

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On 16 May, 1945,

Ukrainian Nationalist Leader,

Stepan Bandera,

defected to the Americans and informed Stephen Skubik,

of the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corp,

that

"Soviet High Command has been ordered by Marshall Stalin to kill

U.S. Army

General George Patton."

The Defector

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Lenin and Bandera

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Rather than being shocked by Skubik's news,

Donovan ordered Bandera returned to the Russians, thereby silencing the man who was warning

about an attempt on General Patton's life!

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A veteran of the wartime Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) holds a portrait of UPA leader Stepan Bandera

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Stamp of Ukraine Stepan Bandera 100 years

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Ukrainian Diplomat Professor Roman Smal-Stocki said that

"The NKVD will soon attempt to kill General George Patton. Stalin wants him dead." Professor Smal-Stocki was expelled by the Americans

from Germany and betrayed back to the NKVD in Russia.

Warning from Ukraine

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Ukrainian General Pavlo Shandruk informed Special Agent Skubik, that he had vital intelligence. "Please tell General Patton to be on guard.

He is at the top of the NKVD list to be killed." The Americans also betrayed General Shandruk into the hands of the NKVD to be killed.

Top of the Hit List of the NKVD

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In Berlin, Patton learned that more than 20,000 American prisoners of war

Operation Keelhaul

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who fell into Russian hands

at the end of the war,

were being used as leverage

in negotiations with the Allies

Operation Keelhaul

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to ensure that

all 3 million Russians,

Ukrainians,

and other East Europeans

in Western Europe,

be forced across the border

into Soviet hands.

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This included women and children.

The Russians denied the Americans and British access to the Prisoner of War Camps, where their own men were being held,

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and the Allied governments suppressed the information that their

men were being held hostage by their "ally"

Marshall Stalin.

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All 3 million Russians and Ukrainians in Western Europe were betrayed into the hands of the Soviets.

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Displaced Persons Camps Map

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General Patton insulted Soviet Marshall Zhukov. Patton publically stated that the Soviets were the real enemy.

The Real Enemy

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Patton became convinced that the only way he could speak freely about these issues was to retire from the military "So that I can go home and

say what I have to say." Patton saw his battlefield as changing.

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He was still a warrior but now the podium and the pen would be his main weapons to expose the treachery of the US government and the

danger of their Soviet allies.

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With 18 divisions and more than half a million men,

the Third Army was the largest US fighting force in history.

Betrayal

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Patton was convinced that he could have freed all of Eastern Europe, if Eisenhower had not halted his supplies and fuel.

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

leader, combat General George Patton, 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.

Recognising Reality

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Alone among U.S. leaders, General George Patton warned that

America should act immediately, against the Soviet threat.

Unfortunately, his warning went unheeded, and he was quickly

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

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Patton warned that America should act

immediately,

while her supremacy

was unchallengeable,

to end that danger.

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In the terrible summer of 1945, the U.S. Army had just completed the destruction of much of Germany

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The Allies set up a government of military

occupation

amid the ruins to rule the starving Germans

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and deal out victors' justice to the vanquished.

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Military Governor

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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.

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

as military Governor

of Southern 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 dramatically.

Apprehensions for the Future

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His diary and his letters were published in 1974 by the Houghton Mifflin Company under the title The Patton Papers:

The Patton Papers

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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.

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Several months before the end of the war, General Patton had recognized the fearful danger to the West posed by the Soviet Union,

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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, Romanian,

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Hungarian, and Yugoslav territory,

which the Americans could have easily taken instead.

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Truman and Stalin - standing Byrnes and Molotov

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On 7th May 1945, just before the German capitulation, Patton had a conference in Austria with U.S. Secretary of War, Robert Patterson.

Soviet Aggression

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Patton was gravely concerned over the Soviet failure to respect the demarcation lines separating the Soviet and American occupation zones.

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He was also alarmed by plans in Washington for the immediate partial demobilization of the U.S. Army.

Demobilisation

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Patterson replied,

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

you have lost sight of the big picture."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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There is insufficient left for them to maintain themselves going back. Let's not give them time to build up their supplies.

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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!"

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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.

A Clear and Present Danger

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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.

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Later in May 1945, he attended several meetings and social affairs with top Red Army officers, and he evaluated them carefully.

Severe and Savage

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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.

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The officers, with few exceptions, give the appearance of recently civilized Mongolian bandits."

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Patton's aide, General Hobart Gay, noted in his own journal for 14th May: "Everything they (the Russians) did impressed one with the idea of virility and cruelty." Nevertheless, Patton knew that the Americans could

defeat the Soviets then - but perhaps not later.

A Cruel Enemy

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Nevertheless, Patton knew that the Americans could defeat the Reds then -- but perhaps not later.

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On 18th May, Patton noted in his diary:

"In my opinion, the American Army as it now exists could beat the Russians with the greatest of ease, because,

The Sooner the Better

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while the Russians have good infantry,

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they are lacking in artillery, air, tanks, and in the knowledge of the use of the combined arms,

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whereas we excel in all three of these. If it should be necessary to fight the Russians, the sooner we do it the better."

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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."

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Having recognized the Soviet danger, Patton 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.

Pre-emptive Strike

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Patton next came to evaluate the nature of the people

for whom World War II was fought: the Jews.

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Most of the Jews swarming over Germany immediately after the war came from Poland and Russia, and Patton found their personal habits

shockingly uncivilized.

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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.

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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."

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He described in his diary one DP camp, "where, although room existed, the Jews were crowded together to an appalling extent,

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and in practically every room there was a pile of garbage in one corner which was also used as a latrine.

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The Jews were only forced to desist from their nastiness and clean up the mess by the threat of the butt ends of rifles.

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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.

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However, it is my personal opinion that this too is

a lost tribe –

lost to all decency."

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Patton's initial impressions of the Jews were not improved when he attended a Jewish religious service at Eisenhower's insistence.

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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.

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It behoved 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.

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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 ...

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The smell was so terrible that I almost fainted and actually

about three hours later lost my lunch as the result of remembering it."

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These experiences and a great many others firmly convinced Patton that the Jews were an especially unsavoury variety of creature and hardly

deserving of all the official concern the American government

was bestowing on them.

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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.

Henry Morgenthau US Secretary of the Treasury

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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.

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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.

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Furthermore,

it is against my

Anglo-Saxon conscience to remove a person

from a house,

which is a punishment,

without due process

of law.

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"He who justifies the wicked,

and he who condemns the just,

both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord."

Proverbs 17:15

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Camp located between the American and Soviet zones, was organized for refugees, political prisoners, POWs, forced labourers, and displaced persons

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In the second place, Harrison and his ilk believe that the Displaced Person is a decent human being, which he is not, and this applies

particularly to the Jews, whose behaviour is lower than animals."

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One of the strongest factors influencing General Patton's thinking on the conquered Germans was the behaviour of America's controlled news

media toward them.

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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.

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His answer was:

"No. SS means no more in Germany than being a Democrat in America …there is no reason for trying someone who was drafted into this outfit .

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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 --

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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.

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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 --

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can be equally well attained through the destruction of their machinery, while the buildings can be used to house thousands of homeless

persons."

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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.

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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."

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German POW’s sent to Moscow

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German Refugees and Expellees After World War II

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German refugees from East Prussia flee the Red Army 1945

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German refugees flee the Red Army.

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Nearly half of the refugees died due to cold, starvation and disease

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Labour Camps, In Soviet Russia,

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There were refugees on the roads all over Europe WW2

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Refugees

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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,

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but he tried to moderate the effect, and this brought him into increasing conflict with Eisenhower and the other politically ambitious generals.

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In another letter to his wife he commented:

"I have been at Frankfurt for a civil government conference.

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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."

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And in his diary he noted:,

"Today we received orders . . . in which we were told

to give the Jews

special accommodations.

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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.

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It is amusing to recall that we fought the Revolution in defence of the rights of man and the Civil War to abolish slavery

and have now gone back on both principles."

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"It is an abomination for kings to commit

wickedness, for a throne is

established by righteousness." Proverbs 16:12

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His duties as military governor took Patton to all parts of Germany and intimately acquainted him with the German people and their condition.

We Fought the Wrong Enemy

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

the Belgians, and even the British.

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This comparison gradually forced him to the conclusion

that

World War II had been fought

against the wrong people.

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After a visit to ruined Berlin, he wrote his wife on 21st July 1945:

Soviet Savages

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"Berlin gave me the blues. We

have destroyed a good race, and we

are about to replace them with

Mongolian savages.

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And all Europe will be communist.

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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 Berlin (instead of the Soviets)

had I been allowed."

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"…Should you help the wicked

and love those who hate the Lord? Therefore the wrath

of the Lord is upon you." 2 Chronicles 19:2

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This conviction, that the politicians had used him and the U.S. Army for a criminal purpose, grew in the following weeks.

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During a dinner

with French General Alphonse Juin

in August,

Patton was surprised to find the Frenchman

in agreement

with him.

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Alphonse Pierre Juin, commander of the French Expeditionary Corps

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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.

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Therefore, the road is now open

for the advent of Russian communism."

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

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On August 31 he wrote:

"Actually, the Germans

are the only decent people left in Europe.

If it's a choice between them and the Russians.

I prefer the Germans."

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And on September 2: "What we are doing is to destroy the only modern state in Europe, so that Russia can swallow the whole."

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By this time the Morgenthauists and media monopolists had

decided that Patton was incorrigible

and must be discredited.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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."

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The New York Times headlined this quote,

and other papers all across America picked it up.

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The unmistakable hatred which had been directed

at him during this press conference finally opened

Patton's eyes fully as to what was afoot.

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In his diary that night

he wrote:

"There is a very apparent Semitic influence

in the press.

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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.

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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…"

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"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.

Germany is Our Natural Ally

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I could not give the answer to that one, because the answer is that, in my opinion and that of most non-political 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."

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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 ensure that communism takes America."

America is in Danger

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Eisenhower responded immediately to the press outcry against Patton

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

and appoint him commander of the Fifteenth Army, a non-existent

command with no forces.

Relieved of Command

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In a letter to his wife

on 29th September,

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."

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On 22nd October he wrote a long letter to Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord, who was back in the States.

Degradation and Demoralisation

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In the letter Patton bitterly condemned the

Morgenthau policy; "Eisenhower's

pusillanimous behaviour 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.

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Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury (1934–1945) and a top adviser to President Roosevelt,

formulated the notorious 'Morgenthau Plan'

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Morgenthau Jnr was the author of the infamous 1944 Morgenthau Plan to wipe out the German

people, seen in the Mass

Starvation of Germans, 1945-1950.

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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

levelled against me and practically every other commander.

An Avalanche of Lies

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"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."

A New Offensive

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In his letter to General 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…

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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…"

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Unfortunately, his warning went unheeded, and he was quickly silenced by a convenient "accident" which took his life.

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The ASSASSINATION of GENERAL GEORGE PATTON

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The collision on 9th December 1945, occurred when a two and a half tonne

GMC Army truck, which had been parked facing the Generals car,

roared into life and violently collided with the General's staff car,

Intentional Collision

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by suddenly and inexplicably careening directly into the opposite lane and into Patton's vehicle.

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The actions of the truck driver seemed designed to intentionally injure, or kill, the General. Both the driver of the

truck and his two passengers quickly vanished.

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No criminal charges were ever filed.

No accountability was ever recorded.

The official accident reports and key-witnesses went missing.

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"And you shall know the truth,

and the truth shall make you free."

John 8:32

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Despite General Patton's rank and fame as

America's

most audacious and successful combat

general, there was no formal inquest, and all

official reports

on the incident vanished.

Suspicious Cover Up

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The MP who first arrived on the scene of the car accident, Lieutenant Peter Babalas, treated the incident like a fender bender. Although

Patton's driver testified that the truck driver and his passengers were drunk, Sergeant Robert Thompson's blood levels were never tested and

he was never charged with driving under the influence.

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Thompson's illegal possession of the Signals company truck also went unquestioned, despite the fact that he was 60 miles North of his duty station, with no apparent reason for being in Mannheim. Thompson's drunkenness, negligence and apparent larceny, went unquestioned.

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Numerous investigators and authors have attempted to find the official Accident Reports, unsuccessfully. Sergeant Robert Thompson and his

two friends who were responsible for ploughing the truck into Patton's car were flown to England by Army Intelligence.

Inconsistencies

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However, just four days after the collision, Thompson mysteriously reappeared in Germany where he spoke to American journalist, Howard

Smith, claiming that he was alone in the truck when it struck Patton's vehicle. However, General Hobart Gay and PFC Horace Woodring swear

there were two other people in the truck with Thompson.

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PFC Horace Woodring,

a 19 year-old son of a dairy farmer in Kentucky,

grew up racing cars and flying stunt planes.

Patton spoke highly of him as his trusted driver.

The Testimony of Patton’s

Driver

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Woodring was driving just 20 miles per hour when Robert Thompson swerved the military truck hard to the left, driving

his vehicle directly into the path of Patton's Cadillac.

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As there was no turning on the road in the direction he was pointing the heavy army truck and as he did not signal before taking action, the

action seemed deliberate.

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Woodring testified "I was not more than 20 feet from the truck when he began to turn." Thompson made no attempt to break, instead he accelerated directly into the Cadillac.

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General Patton was flung forward from his back seat, his head slamming violently into the steel partition behind Woodring's drivers

compartment.

Paralysed

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His nose broke and he felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck and no sensation in his lower body. Instantly George Patton knew that he was paralysed. He was the only person injured

in the collision.

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General Patton was paralysed in the vehicle collision on 9th December 1945 at 11:45am. He arrived at the U.S. Army 130th station hospital at

12:43pm.

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There was no medical staff waiting at the hospital to rush Patton into surgery. No team of spinal specialists assembled to deal with this life-

threatening traumatic injury.

Inaction

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Two days later his wife, Beatrice, and a spinal cord specialist, arrived to be at his side. The doctors were confident that the General would

survive his injuries and might be able to regain some mobility.

Hope of Recovery

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They were also convinced that he would be able to travel soon.

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General Patton urged his wife to get him out of the hospital:

"They are going to kill me here!" he said to her emphatically.

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However,

he did not recover and on 21st December 1945,

General Patton's body was wheeled down to the

makeshift morgue in the hospital basement and

it was announced to the journalists that had

descended on the tiny military hospital that

General George Patton

had died.

Sudden Death

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There was no autopsy and although Beatrice wanted him buried at West Point, the Army insisted that he be buried at the American Military

cemetery in Hamm, Luxemburg.

No Autopsy

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Neither General Dwight Eisenhower, nor President Harry Truman, attended the military funeral for General George Patton, America's

most famous and successful combat General.

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General Patton’s Medals

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General Patton had made many high ranking enemies in Moscow, Berlin, London and Washington D.C.: Patton's fiery determination to speak the truth had made many powerful men squirm, not only during the war,

but afterwards.

Many Enemies

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His public statements praising the German Army

for their matchless skills

as fighting men,

while criticizing the Soviet

Union as the real enemy

of freedom

led some to see Patton

as a threat

to the New World Order.

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"While they promise them liberty,

they themselves are slaves

of corruption…." 2 Peter 2:19

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From the beginning, many did not believe that Patton's death was accidental. He had already survived several remarkable accidents,

including when his personal aircraft had almost been shot down by British Spitfire in April 1945.

Air Attack

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Patton and Bradley - Normandy L-5 Sentinel

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Sergeant Robert Thompson's military records were burned 12th July 1973, when fire swept through the National Personnel Records Centre in St. Louis, Missouri, destroying 18 million official military personnel files.

Lieutenant Babala's accident report also vanished.

Destruction of Evidence

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A 1953 request for a copy of the report received the official response noting Report of Investigation is not on file.

Mystery of the Missing Files

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Hobart Gay was with Patton when his car crashed.

Casualty branch has no papers on file regarding the accident and there is

no information on the accident in Patton's Aide,

General Hobart Gay's, personnel file.

The report organised by General Geoffrey

Keys, Commander of the 7th Army,

also went missing.

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In fact, the only report that remained in circulation was a document allegedly written in 1952 and signed by P.F.C.

Horace Woodring, Patton's driver.

Fabricated Document

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However, when asked about it, in 1979, Woodring swore that he had never made any such statement, or signed his name, to any such report.

He believed the paperwork was fabricated.

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The vehicle on display at the Patton Museum at Fort Knox, Kentucky, has been proven to not be the vehicle in which General Patton was driving

on that fateful day, and the serial number has been scratched out!

False Exhibit

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"Woe to those who call evil good,

and good evil… Who justify the wicked

for a bribe, and take away justice

from the righteous man!" Isaiah 5:20-23

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Luxembourg Memorial Grave site where General George S. Patton still looks out over his men

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In 1979, OSS Agent,

Major Douglas Bazata, asserted that he had been part of a hit team that was

tasked to assassinate

General Patton.

He had fired a low velocity projectile into the back

of the General's neck,

in order to snap it

and cause him paralysis.

Target Patton

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When Patton failed to die and was showing signs of recovery, he was murdered in the hospital by Soviet

NKVD agents. Bazata swore that Wild Bill Donavan (the head of the

Officers Secret Service - OSS)

paid him $10,000

plus another $800 in expenses,

for his role in Patton's death.

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Douglas Bazata,

who left the Army as a Major

in 1947,

had been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross,

4 Purple Hearts

and France's Croix de Guerre,

with two palms.

Prominent Assassin

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He was later hired to work for the US government as

Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy.

OSS Agent, Douglas Bazata later wrote of his meeting

at Claridges Hotel,

in London,

with Wild Bill Donovan:

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"Douglas, I do indeed have a problem,

it is the extreme disobedience of General George

Patton, and of his very serious disregard

of orders for the common cause."

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"Shall I kill him Sir?" Bazata asked.

"Yes, Douglas, you do exactly what you must."

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Later William Colby, a former OSS agent who went on to become head of the Central Intelligence Agency, praised Bazata in his 1978 book,

Honourable Men.

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Some have come to recognise General Patton as the first casualty of the Cold War. Patton's insights and convictions were considered a threat to

the New World Order.

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"Hate evil, love good;

establish justice in the gate…"

Amos 5:15

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General Patton Quotes

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Jesus Christ taught: “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” John 8.32

Truth

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It is essential that we learn the truths of history

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to recognise the lies of propaganda.

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We need to study the Word of God so that

we can be freed from deception.

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General Patton’s Medals

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The M47 Patton is an American main battle tank, the second tank to be named after General George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. Third Army

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REFORMATION SOCIETY Dr. Peter Hammond

PO Box 74

Newlands, 7725

Cape Town

South Africa

E-mail:

[email protected]

Web: www.ReformationSA.org

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