Retarded. Only someone who wasn’t a grunt in 1945 would have supported refighting the eastern front. And Pattons idea of arming Germans was damn near treasonous.
Imagine being a grunt, fighting your way across Europe, knowing about the murders the Germans committed at Malmedy, seeing the concentration camps... and then him asking you to accept those nazis as your brother in arms.
In some ways Patton was brilliant. In others, he was an absolute moron, this includes his un-christian reincarnation belief, and his desire to re-fight the eastern front battles.
We had no problem bringing them in NATO in 1955.
We had no problems bringing over select Nazis to help in our rocket/missile programs.
Heck, even the Israeli's had some former Germans show them tank tactics.
The Germans would have been put in Divisions of their own and given a separate sector.
Remember, Patton was going to make it look like the Soviets started the war. We would have no choice but to fight.
I honestly cannot believe how many historically tone-deaf people here actually think this could have worked.
Most of these guys are just inventing armies, supplies, and nukes out of thin air and moving them across the planet faster than light-speed.
Not to mention they are clueless about the vastness of the USSR.