Posted on 04/10/2014 2:19:58 PM PDT by kingattax
The new documentary Silence Patton: First Victim of the Cold War claims that General George Patton was murdered, possibly by the KGB, because he was vociferous in his desire to oppose the former Soviet Union.
Writer-director Robert Orlando said his goal was to “prove to the viewer that he was silenced because his views didn’t go along with the status quo.”
Patton died Dec. 21, 1945, as a result of injuries he suffered when he was traveling as a passenger in a car that was crushed by a two-ton truck. The rest of the people involved in the crash only sustained minor injuries.
Patton hated Josef Stalin, the Soviet leader, and his hatred made him enemies in the U.S. and Great Britain as well as the Soviet Union.
He is supposed to have said, "Tin politicians in Washington have allowed us to kick the hell out of one bastard (Adolf Hitler) and at the same time forced us to help establish a second one (Stalin) as evil or more evil than the first.
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One big problem with the assassination theory is that the General was the only one in the vehicle that died and the survivors lived long lives.
The number of bombs that the US had at the time that Oppenheimer left Los Alamos at the end of September 1945 is pretty well established as either 4 or 5. The KGB archives verified this number was known to the Russians as well.
Yep. The only way we could have done it, would have been to nuc them till they glowed.
There seems to be some disagreement on this issue. But in the summer of 1945, 6 or 7 bombs used on Germany would have probably brought the Nazi empire crashing down, whether the Red Army was closing on Berlin or not.
It is also arguable that the unconditional surrender demand of the Allies extended the war unnecessarily. I understand why it was made, after the unfortunate precedent of the Versailles Treaty. But the Allies could perhaps have published some preconditions about a German government they’d be willing to talk to.
I was under the impression it was oss working with the russians. I will eagerly see the film.
I have heard that Churchill thought that way too. It would have been interesting to see how the Russians would have done without the weapons we gave them. They did, after all, have weapons factories of their own too.
In Hoover's book, Freedom Betrayed he cites numerous sources, civilian and military, who were dismayed by the stiffening effect produced by both unconditional surrender and The Morgenthau Plan. How much practical difference either made in the field will always be debated, but clearly publicizing these were unsound strategically.
As for the number of bombs, once the implosion process was engineered and successfully tested, Plutonium bombs could be produced relatively quickly, even with 1945 technology. I don't believe there's any reason to doubt the claim.
Patton , as a result of the accident, had a broken or dislocated vertebrae in his neck. He was totally paralyzed from the neck down. He died from complications of that severe injury. Remember this was 1945 and even with present day medical care actor Christopher Reeves(SP?) died from a similar injury. An motor vehicle crash used as an attempt to assassinate a person is an unlikely method for use as a means to bring about a man’s death.
Best film about the topic, IMO.
TOTALLY CHILLING.
I agree with your comments, I’ve read a lot of books about Patton and the circumstances of his death are well detailed.
It wasn’t 1949 either and we had the bomb in 45.The Russians would have been dead meat.
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They were smart enough to infiltrate damn near every level of our gubmint were they not? Never underestimate the bear, never.
Very interesting book. Reach your own conclusion, but there is some very interesting and obscure history in it.
Rommel was a student of history and would not have become embroiled in a two front war. Germanys glaring mistake in WW1.
If he said it he was foolish. The US and the Brits would have had a very very tough time dealing with the Reds. Their armies were far more numerous, had a greater %age of combat troops who did what they were told and were not understandably adding up their points so they could go home, had a large air force skilled at ground support, did not have a populace that wanted to return to normal and that had the political power to demand that of its leaders. Patton understood war and he no doubt understood the impossibility of a successful was against the Soviets short of using the A Bomb.So while he completely and justifiably mistrusted the Reds I really doubt he believed in continuing the war by attacking them.
Yes among other things Hitler did :(
He died when I was 14, I wished I had asked more questions about how he came to these conclusions but I didn't know what to ask.
My Grandfather said a number of things about FDR when I was a kid that judging from what I have read were spot on, but he died the year before my dad.
Knowing what I know now I wish I was older at the time.
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