And reportedly VP Henry Wallace.
I remember reading “The Battle of The Hurtgen Forest by historian Charles Whiting and in it he details how the Tribune was going on and on about how American soldiers were killing “Old German men and boys who were just trying to surrender.’’
GI’s were infuriated by this garbage. Never mind the ‘’old German men and boys’’ had been mowing down American soldiers like wheat, leave it to a liberal rag to take up the enemy's cause.
General Patton finally heard about it and declared “I don't care if that Hun bastard is an 80 year syphilitic prick with asthma or a snot nosed kid in short pants. If he's behind four feet of concrete he can pull the trigger on a machine gun and kill my men!''.