That wasn't General Patton.....that was an actor named George C. Scott, dummy.
The Real Patton was kind of a prick. In addition to the incidents where he was relieved of command for abusing soldiers suffering from PTSD, he let his army get chewed up by outrunning his supply lines during operation Cobra.
The real reason he was relieved of command in Germany was because he left Nazis in key positions, including actually leaving SS Men in charge of guarding Jews in Dachau.
In Gen. George S. Patton’s handwritten journal, Patton, who oversaw the Displaced Person operations for the United States, seethed after reading Harrison’s findings, which he saw ― quite accurately ― as an attack on his own command.
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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,” Patton wrote. He told of taking his commander, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, to tour a makeshift synagogue set up to commemorate the holy day of Yom Kippur.
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We entered the synagogue, which was packed with the greatest stinking mass of humanity I have ever seen,” Patton wrote. “Of course, I have seen them since the beginning and marveled that beings alleged to be made in the form of God can look the way they do or act the way they act.”
Other evidence emerged revealing not only Patton’s disdain for the Jews in the camps, but an odd admiration for the Nazi prisoners of war under his watch.
Under Patton, Nazis prisoners were not only bunked at times with Jewish survivors, but were even allowed to hold positions of authority, despite orders from Eisenhower to “de-Nazify” the camps.
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Listen,” Patton told one of his officers of the Nazis, “if you need these men, keep them and don’t worry about anything else.”