“They killed him because he wanted to fight the Russians after World War II, after the collapse of the Third Reich,” O’Reilly stated. “He believed that Stalin and the Russian hierarchy were going to try to take over the world. They were not going to give up the occupied lands, and he was very vocal about it. And Stalin, weakened after the brutal fight with the Reich, didn’t want that to get out. So the Russians went after Patton and they got him.” – Bill O’Reilly
Patton was correct in that we should have gone on and destroyed the Russians after the fall of the Reich and the surrender of Japan.
Would that we had military leaders like Patton today.
Patton's Bull Terrier Willie mourns the death of his master.
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
This is another ghost written book for a moron with a 3rd graders intelligence. First off, his Lincoln book was so full of blatant historical errors that historical sites refused to even put it on its shelves. Secondly, Brad Meltzer did a thorough investigation of this theory from all angles and came up with the logical conclusion that Patton died because he was old and couldn't take the accident and the so called assassin theory was full of shit.
Interesting article, Rev. I first ran across the claim Patton was murdered years ago while reading the works of Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society; though he did not ascribe to the idea Patton was murdered by Stalin, but rather by the cabal he referred to as "The Insiders". Patton, according to him, and this concurs with the article, was too outspoken and would never have accepted the deal we made at Yalta with the Soviets which gave them Eastern Europe.
Mr Welch also pointed this out, "But his ambition to get to Berlin before Soviet forces was thwarted by supreme allied commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, who gave Patton's petrol supplies to the more cautious British General Bernard Montgomery.", a peculiarity which was one of the evidences he used to indict Eisenhower as a "mere stooge or...a Communist assigned the specific job of being a political front man." in his much maligned work, "The Politician." It was also in that book I first learned of the despicable betrayal after WWII by Eisenhower and other Western leaders of anti-Communist refugees in Operation Keelhaul.
It ought also be pointed out that the article specifically names Wild Bill Donovan, head of the OSS (precursor to our CIA), as one of the major players in the plot to eliminate Patton. I have a deep on-going fascination with Soviet espionage during the period 1930s-1950s and I can assure you the OSS was deeply penetrated by Soviet agents. Maybe Donovan himself wasn't among them but many of his organization's personnel were.
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Quote: Rev wrote in post #2Patton was correct in that we should have gone on and destroyed the Russians after the fall of the Reich and the surrender of Japan.
Would that we had military leaders like Patton today.
Patton's Bull Terrier Willie mourns the death of his master.
Patton was relieved of command of Third Army ostensibly because he kept local Nazis in the government [to run it], in Bavaria [he was the military governor], and because of his celebrated "Nazis are like Republicans or Democrats who lose an election" remark. But, the chief cause was a conversation he had with Ike's C/S, Beedell Smith in the summer or early fall of 1945. Seems George had a German Panzer Division under arms, fueled and fed, even though they were POWs. And the Russians knew it. During that phone call, Patton told Smith war with the Russians was inevitable, and should be fought before the U.S Army demobilized. He offered to get the ball rolling with provocations, and to take his German POWs with him. He was then transferred to the historical section, the Fifteenth Army, working on a history of the war in Europe.
Patton specified to his wife before his death that: [a] he wanted to be buried with his troops in Europe [he was, in Luxembourg], and that both Eisenhower and Smith were to be barred from his funeral [they were].