Word: bavaria
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Mysteriously planted placards warned fraternizing Bavarian girls: "0 God, if it depends on us, you will pay for it!" Daily, the snowline crept a little farther down the mountains of Bavaria, hideout of SS men. A Sudeten German asked whether it was true that Americans were now fighting the Russians...
Thus last week, in Bad Tölz, did George Patton close a great if occasionally troubled combat record and a distinctly poor record as Military Governor of Bavaria. For comparing Germany's Nazi problem with U.S. Republicans v. Democrats, and otherwise flouting the orders and policies of General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower (TIME, Oct. 8), General Patton had been summarily dismissed and relegated to a particularly galling desk job (command of the almost non-existent Fifteenth Army, now writing a history of the German campaign...
...hours after investigators had returned from Bavaria (a first glance had revealed that 20 Nazi bigshots were still in office), General Patton reported in person to Eisenhower at Frankfurt...
After two and a half hours, a stern-faced "Ike" and a smiling but silent Patton emerged from Eisenhower's office. They had nothing to say. But news soon popped in Bavaria: investigations, raids, hurried dismissals. Patton accepted the resignation of Minister President Friedrich Schaeffer and installed Wilhelm Hoegner, a veteran Social Democrat with a long anti-Nazi record. These overnight reforms notably failed to include the dismissal of George S. Patton...
Latest Hitler rumor, circulating in Bavaria: he is alive and plotting another war against the western Allies-in collaboration with Generalissimo Stalin...