General George S. Patton was assassinated to silence his criticism of allied war leaders claims new book

“Patton was going to resign from the Army. He wanted to go to war with the Russians. The administration thought he was nuts. “He also knew secrets of the war which would have ruined careers. I don’t think Dwight Eisenhower would ever have been elected president if Patton had lived to say the things he wanted to say.”

This does not appear to be a bizarro conspiracy theory coming out of left field.

Patton did want to beat the Russians to Berlin, and not just because he wanted to be the general to enter the gates. He didn’t trust the Russians. To put it kindly.

(From Frontline Magazine)

At the time of his death, Patton had been relegated to a desk job, overseeing the collection of Army records in Bavaria.  That he had been an outspoken critic of Stalin and a vocal proponent of liberating Berlin and the German people from certain communist aggression triggered his sudden removal from the battlefield.  In the aftermath of war, the Western powers sought to sideline the mercurial Patton and his incendiary views.

But Patton despised the politically driven circus and the media minions that carried out their dirty work.  Still, he continued to speak out against the Russians as an American witness to their brutality during and after the war.  As Stalin devoured Eastern Europe, Patton remarked, “I have no particular desire to understand them except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them… …the Russian has no regard for human life and they are all out sons-of-bitches, barbarians, and chronic drunks.”…

…Stalin had promised to liberate the capitals of Eastern Europe—Berlin, Prague, and Vienna—as well as Eastern Poland and the Baltic states. In his public broadcast dating back to November 1943 he promised, “The day is not far off when we will completely liberate the Ukraine, and the White Russia, Leningrad and Kalinin regions from the enemy; we will liberate . . . the people of the Crimea and Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldavia and Karelo-Finnish Republic.”  Instead, history proves that Stalin was responsible for the murder and/or starvation of some 40 million Russians and Ukrainians during his reign of terror.

Eisenhower’s decision to give fuel to the British general Montgomery, instead of to Patton as he was pushing to Berlin, did probably contribute to The Battle of the Bulge – Hitler’s last real stand and a battle that claimed the lives of thousands of young men (and women) on both sides. (75,000 casualties on the US side, 100,000 Germans.)*

(From ArmChairGeneral.com)

Eisenhower’s problems were not limited to Montgomery. With Third Army soon crippled by a lack of fuel and ammunition, Bradley and Patton aligned themselves against both Montgomery and Eisenhower whom they believed had sold out the U.S. Army to the British. Once, when a convoy of rations arrived, Patton raged to a sympathetic Bradley that he would “shoot the next man who brings me food. Give us gasoline; we can eat our belts.” To correspondent Cornelius Ryan, Patton declared that there were only 5,000-10,000 “Nazi bastards” blocking the advance of Third Army. “Now, if Ike stops holding Monty’s hand and gives me the supplies, I’ll go through the Siegfried Line like shit through a goose.”

Eisenhower was not unresponsive and had there been sufficient supplies forward to increase Third Army’s allocations, he would undoubtedly have turned Patton loose in Lorraine. As it was, before the fuel tap was all but shut off, Eisenhower gave Bradley and Patton fresh hope by allocating 250,000 gallons of fuel to Third Army on September 5 and an additional 1.4 million gallons over the three-day period that followed, before it ground to a halt along the Moselle River, a tantalizing seventy-odd miles from the then unmanned Siegfried Line. Like children squabbling over who gets the last piece of pie, Eisenhower could please no one. His latest generosity on behalf of Patton brought bitter criticism from Montgomery.

Still, Eisenhower’s broad-front decision sent a discernible chill through Patton and his Third Army staff and seemed confirmation of his pro-British bias. Convinced the winning of the war was being squandered on the altar of Allied cooperation, Patton frequently lamented that they were fighting two enemies, the Germans and SHAEF, writing to his wife, Bea, “God deliver us from our friends. We can handle the enemy.”

Official policy from Washington was to placate Stalin. (One must remember that FDR recognized the Soviet Union officially even while he knew that Stalin was killing 6 million people in the Ukraine by forced starvation, the Holomodor. This information was actively kept from the American people. This is the FDR many people still don’t know. FDR it should also be mentioned forced American citizens into concentration camps along the West Coast during World War 2. This is the kind of man FDR was.)

Many people also think that FDR sold Eastern Europe out to the Communists at Yalta. FDR simply did not see – or perhaps didn’t care to see – what many, including Patton saw. That Stalin and the Communists were at least as horrific as Hitler and the Nazis.

Soon after Yalta FDR was dead, as was freedom, democracy, and liberty in Eastern Europe.

Many were concerned that the brash General Patton might say something publicly about the mistakes running up to the end of of World War 2. In fact many people likely expected that Patton WOULD speak out. But instead the general died in a strange car accident.

(From The Telegraph)

The newly unearthed diaries of a colourful assassin for the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA, reveal that American spy chiefs wanted Patton dead because he was threatening to expose allied collusion with the Russians that cost American lives.

The death of General Patton in December 1945, is one of the enduring mysteries of the war era. Although he had suffered serious injuries in a car crash in Manheim, he was thought to be recovering and was on the verge of flying home.

But after a decade-long investigation, military historian Robert Wilcox claims that 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.

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