[centurion316]

This nonsense pops up every other year or so. Gen Patton died of injuries received in a traffic accident. Any other account is poppycock.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

sure thing almighty oracle

[Rockingham]

Some years ago, I was told quite a story by a retiree friend who was a native German speaker and had been a translator in US Army intelligence during and immediately after WW II.

One day a report came through his section that Patton had been murdered because he was digging into thefts of the Reischbank gold in which high ranking US Army officers were implicated. Patton was seen as expendable because he was in ill favor with his superiors and Soviet friendly politicians in Washington.

Notably, the theft of the Reischbank gold remains officially unsolved, but key records are said to have been destroyed, lost, or to remain classified. Yet it seems to have been an inside job, with considerable sums of foreign currency and gold going missing after entering US Army custody.