“The force of the crash caused Patton to fly up out of the passenger seat and hit his head on the ceiling.”
There are a lot of reports that he was injured at the hospital but nowhere near death at all.
there are a lot of rumors that he was murdered at the hospital because he was not receptive at all to the relationship with the Soviets that others preferred.
he also generally didn’t take the same view of the post-war Arrangements in Germany that others more liberal insisted on.
It is fair to say that Patton respected the Soviets much less than he did the Germans.
“There are a lot of reports that he was injured at the hospital but nowhere near death at all.”
Patton’s neck was broken in the accident and he was paralyzed from the neck down. He died two weeks later.