He saw the Communists as a serious threat. O'Reilly, who says the U. He said on-air recently that Patton and U. Though the previous three "Killing" books have been picked up by the National Geographic Channel for TV Jesus is about to film in Morocco , O'Reilly wants to sell Killing Patton to the movies because of its "big battle scenes" and larger-than-life characters.
The book covers the final months of the war in Europe, including the Battle of the Bulge and Patton's pivotal role in winning it, and takes us inside the inner sanctums of Hitler and Stalin. George C. Who should play him this time? Facebook Twitter Email. A horse with boots backwards in the stirrups joined the journey to the cemetery. Out in the rain, an honor guard fired volleys. Patton did not remain in his plot for long. Hordes of well-wishers tore up the cemetery grounds making the trek to his grave in the back corner.
To remedy the situation, cemetery workers moved his casket to a more central location, but it was hardly the cure, as people still made a path to the grave. Finally, the general was moved to the front of the entire cemetery, where, today, patio stones protect the ground and a white chain-link barrier preserves the grass around Patton. His cross faces those of the men he led, as if he were leading them again for one last battle.
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He was also alarmed by plans in Washington for the immediate partial demobilization of the U. 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.
Their the Soviet supply system is inadequate to maintain them in a serious action such as I could put to them. They have chickens in the coop and cattle on the hoof - that's their supply system. They could probably maintain themselves in the type of fighting I could give them for five days. After that it would make no difference how many million men they have, and if you wanted Moscow I could give it to you.
They lived on the land coming down. There is insufficient left for them to maintain themselves going back. Let's not give them time to build up their supplies. If we do, then.
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 he attended several meetings and social affairs with top Red Army officers, and he evaluated them carefully. He noted in his diary on May "I have never seen in any army at any time, including the German Imperial Army of , as severe discipline as exists in the Russian army.
The officers, with few exceptions, give the appearance of recently civilized Mongolian bandits. On May 18 he noted in his diary: "In my opinion, the American Army as it now exists could beat the Russians with the greatest of ease, because, while the Russians have good infantry, they are lacking in artillery, air, tanks, and in the knowledge of the use of the combined arms, whereas we excel in all three of these. If it should be necessary to fight the Russians, the sooner we do it the better.
From now on we will get weaker and they stronger. 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. 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. His diary entry for September 17, , 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.
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. 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.
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