That is correct about the supplies. But Patton was functionally a lunatic when he said we should launch a war with Russia.
At that moment, the Red Army was damned tough and huge. Had we attacked them, that would have been a brutal battle with probably double the casualties we had already suffered. We would nearly certainly have seen mutinies break out
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Imagine fighting the nazi armies all the way across Europe, and when the Germans collapse, now we have to team up with those same hated krauts and attack a very tough ally.
And for extra fun, the nuclear bomb was not ready yet, and Japan was still waiting to be invaded and subdued. Patton was a genius when it came to cavalry operations and tank warfare. But he was a blithering idiot on this land war with the USSR, and on religion. He believed he was reincarnated several times and fought in Roman Legions.
I suspect anyone thinking we needed to gather up all the Germans we could and refight the eastern front after the German defeat was not a grunt.
Eventually we did ‘gather up’ Germans against the Soviets. German intel people who knew ALL the Soviet agents (inside the Brits as well, hence our shutting out any aid for their own nuke development. Klaus Fuchs caught was a major reason).
Speaking of the Gehlen network (which Commies today still harp about US taking Gen. Gehlen in, as well as the rocket scientists like Werner von Braun and his teams the ALSOS people got out of Germany).
Timing of Pattons comments were not good, but he, like Churchill was intensely aware of how poor an “ally” the Soviets were, as they were within Brit intel, and directly worked inside the FDR and Truman White House, and inside US major media of the period (Time Magazine and other print media- “journalists” covert). Churchill, post war was politically kicked out once the war was won—by labor union Communists and pals of Lord Halifax (a weasel like no other).