What a hero Gen. Patton was: After the concentration camps were liberated, the displaced persons were moved to camps, guarded by U.S. military, where Pres. Truman concluded that the Jews were treated as poorly as they were by the Germans, except that they were not exterminated. From the Washington Post: The “military guard” that Truman mentioned was Patton’s idea. He had his reasons, Patton wrote in his diary: “If they [the Jewish DPs] were not kept under guard they would not stay in the camps, would spread over the country like locusts, and would eventually have to be rounded up... At least twice in his diary, Patton referred to the Jewish DPs as “animals.” The report to Truman was written by Earl G. Harrison, Here is what Patton thought about Harrison (the dean of the University of Pennsylvania’s law school who had inspected the camps): “Harrison and his ilk believe that the Displaced Person is a human being, which he is not, and this applies particularly to Jews who are lower than animals.” Bill OReillys new book about Patton neglected to mention anything about his anti-semitism - what a historian Bill O is washingtonpost/opinions/richard-cohen-bill-oreilly-ignored-george-pattons-anti-semitism/2014/09/29/afe3e3ea-4806-11e4-b72e-d60a9229cc10_story.html
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 18:28:42 +0000
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