Did Patton really say 'We fought the wrong enemy' - #OOTF #shorts

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[WorldWarTwo]

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[birgaripadam]

In short, " we don't know if he did say it, but he would say it"

[matthewthiele]

“Opposed denazification” yeah I think we can make some guesses

[teathpaste]

I think his reputation and legacy as a leader/general would be very different today if he didn’t die so early.

[GD.]

Same man one who helped drive out WW 1 vets when they protested for their compensation.

[RichardSaurus]

No doubt that Patton would have loved for war to have broken out between the US & The Soviet Union. That’s one heck of a “what if.”

[acidurns]

people seem to forget that patton literally believed jews were subhuman. he said as much in a letter discussing the jews in the temporary resettlement camps, saying that they should give the jews bad conditions because they were ‘dirty people’ and that they preferred subhuman conditions…

[youmaboi]

He didn't necessarily like Nazis, he just shared the same ideological enemies, same bigotries, and was sympathetic to them.

[darkhobo]

You did not do much do dissuade us of the notion that Patton harbored Nazi sympathies...

[matthewhainer]

Patton sounds like he would have been more at home in the Wehrmacht.

[wr]

Easy for Patton to say that Jews like subhuman conditions, being the wealthiest general in the army he was born with a golden spoon in his mouth.

[davenewsom]

He was a good general, but he had a really foul mouth. His behavior was childish. Sry to say, but that comment was the last straw, and Eisenhower was right to relieve him of his command.

[JimBombo-ozet]

What a comically couched way to say yes.

[SamFerguson]

There are a lot of reasons I raise a skeptical, concerned eyebrow anytime I hear someone praise Patton as their “favorite” General of WW2.

[gatling]

Patton was a poster boy for “good general, bad person.” He said and did a lot of things that were unquestionably wrong, and held beliefs that most people would find abhorrent. His battlefield prowess doesn’t excuse that. But, when it came time to do the thing, he did it. If you really want to understand how he approached military theory, his system of sword fighting and writings about it are a good place to start. The whole thing boils down to one quote, that I may be slightly mangling because I don’t have the manual in front of me: “The surest parry is a disabled opponent.”

[AppleBiscuits]

George “Private Slappin” Patton at it again, he’s such a character

[BD-ylmh]

This is such a historian’s answer lol

“Well it’s very multifaceted and with a lot of ticks in the ‘probably’ column and no marks in the ‘probably not’ column, so we really can’t say”

[TrickiVicBB]

Why is everyone agreeing with Patton in the comments?! Spartacus ran an entire series about the holocaust and other crimes of humanity.

[Twirlyhead]

Churchill felt likewise about the SOVIETS but had no sympathy for the Nazis. As it happend war with the SOVIETS would have been a tragic waste of life as, following a long cold war, the Soviet Union is no more and we are at peace with a fully rehabillitated and democratic Russia. Oh ...

[pnutz_]

don't forget your seatbelt, patton