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I was just talking to uncle George about Patton. He said that he came and shook hands with him and he was there with the guys....unlike Eisenhower, who my uncle has no respect for. He said that Eisenhower was doing what Roosevelt wanted him to do, and Roosevelt should have been labeled as a communist since he was doing whatever Stalin wanted him to do. He said that Patton was a loose cannon, which is why he was killed. No way you will convince my uncle that he wasn't deliberately killed. If you want to know about that war you need to buy "Operation Keelhaul", a book I had a hard time finding because it is out of print. He said Patton said, "Those c0ck s---ers are giving away everything." And after the war was over he wanted the guys to go out and get back what the administration had given away. When the Russians would take over land the people who lived there would flea to Germany. Stalin demanded that Roosevelt pick up the non-Germans in Germany because they were talking too much. Operation Keelhaul was when they picked up the people in Germany who were not citizens (Hungarian, Polish, Chec). It was the job of Patton's 90th Division to pick them up. They were forced at bayonet point into Cattle cars and shipped to Russia. He said that people in the US just didn't know what was going on over in Europe. When the book "Operation Keelhaul" was written, the Democrats tried to stop it from being printed.

Yeah it was a shame that troops who surrender or refugees from East Germany were being sent back to the Russiian occupied zone.

Roosevelt trusted Stalin way to much and gave him too much of Eastern Europe.

A young lieutenant who was involved in returning the refugees later became the DCSI (Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence) to the Berlin Brigade, '78-'81. I took several college courses from him. The stories are chilling. He knew in his heart what was happening, and arranged for several of his charges to mysteriously disappear from the trains, never to be seen again east of the Oder.