The part that begins, "after the first week" refers to the depredations of the Soviet military against the German population in the immediate aftermath of the war. This time period is covered in a book by Thomas Goodrich called "Hellstorm". From the description:
Readers will witness for themselves the fate of German women as the rampaging Red Army raped and murdered its way across Europe–all females, from “eight to eighty” feared the dreaded words, “Frau Komm.”
In the German race, there is nothing but evil. Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as your lawful booty. Kill!
A Bolshevik of the old school. It goes way downhill from there.
A documentary film was made from the book, and I listened to an interview of Goodrich and the filmmaker. I will never watch the film; the interview was more than enough. At one point the filmmaker admitted that there are parts of the film he will not watch himself.
IIRC, about 12 million ethnic Germans are estimated to have been exterminated by various means during the immediate postwar period. Surprised you've never heard this? I sure was. But then again 12 million < 6 million, is it not?
I think at the end, Patton figured out that the US should have teamed up with Germany and conducted a "special military operation" to cleanse Russia of a certain "savage" element infesting it. No wonder he had a minor car accident.
Also, there's good reason to believe the Russians would have turned on us and pushed to take all of western Europe. What stopped them was the use of Nuclear Weapons in Japan. There are people who debate the morality of using the bombs in Japan, but the fact is, they cut the war short and saved millions of lives in Japan AND Europe.
They killed him for saying stuff like this. I just saw a good documentary on the subject worth exploring/validating - Silence Patton: First Victim of the Cold War.
He was no nonsense, and couldn't wait to get back home and tell the people about the egregious f*ck ups of his "superiors".
He knew it would ruin ikes chances at the presidency, and so did ike. So he was snuffed out, and ike held a conference to tell all the top brass to "stand together" and actively hide their many mistakes or claims/aspersions to that affect.
Patton viewed the Russians as "Orientals" and not Europeans. For political reasons, the US let the Russians take Berlin. The Russians were very brutal to civilians and Rape was incredibly prolific.
The part that begins, "after the first week" refers to the depredations of the Soviet military against the German population in the immediate aftermath of the war. This time period is covered in a book by Thomas Goodrich called "Hellstorm". From the description:
I've never read the book and I'll tell you why: this book review was horrifying enough: Hellstorm: The Rape and Mass Murder of German Women after WWII. The review opens with this quote from Ilya Ehrenberg, Jewish propagandist in the Stalin regime:
A Bolshevik of the old school. It goes way downhill from there.
A documentary film was made from the book, and I listened to an interview of Goodrich and the filmmaker. I will never watch the film; the interview was more than enough. At one point the filmmaker admitted that there are parts of the film he will not watch himself.
IIRC, about 12 million ethnic Germans are estimated to have been exterminated by various means during the immediate postwar period. Surprised you've never heard this? I sure was. But then again 12 million < 6 million, is it not?
I think at the end, Patton figured out that the US should have teamed up with Germany and conducted a "special military operation" to cleanse Russia of a certain "savage" element infesting it. No wonder he had a minor car accident.
Also, there's good reason to believe the Russians would have turned on us and pushed to take all of western Europe. What stopped them was the use of Nuclear Weapons in Japan. There are people who debate the morality of using the bombs in Japan, but the fact is, they cut the war short and saved millions of lives in Japan AND Europe.
They killed him for saying stuff like this. I just saw a good documentary on the subject worth exploring/validating - Silence Patton: First Victim of the Cold War.
He was no nonsense, and couldn't wait to get back home and tell the people about the egregious f*ck ups of his "superiors".
He knew it would ruin ikes chances at the presidency, and so did ike. So he was snuffed out, and ike held a conference to tell all the top brass to "stand together" and actively hide their many mistakes or claims/aspersions to that affect.
Patton viewed the Russians as "Orientals" and not Europeans. For political reasons, the US let the Russians take Berlin. The Russians were very brutal to civilians and Rape was incredibly prolific.
Well there were a lot of mongols in Soviet service