General George S. Patton
Assassinations
War
Inc
[2008] General George S. Patton was assassinated to silence his criticism of allied war leaders claims new book OSS head General “Wild Bill” Donovan ordered a highly decorated marksman called Douglas Bazata to silence Patton, who gloried in the nickname “Old Blood and Guts”. His book, “Target Patton”, contains interviews with Mr Bazata, who died in 1999, and extracts from his diaries, detailing how he staged the car crash by getting a troop truck to plough into Patton’s Cadillac and then shot the general with a low-velocity projectile, which broke his neck while his fellow passengers escaped without a scratch. Mr Bazata also suggested that when Patton began to recover from his injuries, US officials turned a blind eye as agents of the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB, poisoned the general.
Quotes
"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."
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
is to destroy the only semi-modern state in Europe, so that Russia can swallow
the whole." GENERAL
PATTON'S WARNING
"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." GENERAL PATTON'S WARNING
"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." GENERAL PATTON'S WARNING
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. GENERAL PATTON'S WARNING
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." GENERAL PATTON'S WARNING