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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.
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The Role Of The Victors
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
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Patton Lead The Spearhead Of Most Battles
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 Siegfried 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.
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Patton Initial Beliefs
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.
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After The Fighting Stopped And Patton Had Time To Think
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.
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Roosevelt Gave Europe To The Communists
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.
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Secretary Of War Robert Patterson
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."
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Patton Saw The Soviets As The Enemy
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!"
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Patton Sees The Jewish Conspiracy
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.
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Patton Was Disgusted By The Bolshevik Generals
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."
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Fight The Russians Now
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."
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Patton Sees The Real Reason For WW-2
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.
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The Jews Reoccupy Europe
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."
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Even The Jewish Women Are Disgusting
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."
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Eisenhower Only Concern
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."
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Morgenthau Orders Germans Thrown Out Of Their Houses
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."
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Patton Saw The SS As Defeated Gallant Warriors
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 . . ."
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Zionist Media Went After Patton
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."
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Eisenhower And His Sycophants Want The Germans To Suffer
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."
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Jews Wanted Revenge
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."
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Germans Shipped To Russia And Certain Death
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."
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Patton Realized His Valued Ended With The War Over
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."
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Eisenhower's Special Orders For Jews
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."
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Patton Sees The Real Enemy - The Bolsheviks
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.
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Death Of A Race
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."
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The Road To Communism
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
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Morgentheau Orders Patton Discredited By The Media
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.
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Patton Sees The Zionists Press For What They Are
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."
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Germany Will Be The Communist gateway To America
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."
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Eisenhower Demotes Patton
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."
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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."
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Patton Revolted At Asiatic Mongrels Raping German Women
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.
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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 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. . . ."
Patton Declares His Political Ambitions
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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