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...other U.S. general has got himself in so much hot water or made so many legends in this war as flamboyant George S. Patton Jr. Last week, as he was banished to the command of a phantom Fifteenth Army (see FOREIGN NEWS), he landed in the middle of another. The background...
...March 1945 the 4th Armored Division of Patton's Third Army rested, out of breath, on a bridgehead along the Main. Some 50 miles northeast, near the town of Hammelburg, was a stalag filled with Allied prisoners of war. Hammelburg was in the path of General Alexander Patch's Seventh Army, which eventually would overrun it. But slashing Georgie Patton, at the pinnacle of his career, decided to take matters into his own hands. He ordered a task force of the 4th Division to deliver the prisoners...
...assignment was tall, quiet Captain (now Major) Abraham Baum. His task force: 301 men, 53 armored vehicles. They took off, thundering out obliquely from the main course of Patton's spectacular drive...
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...
...easy for the local Military Government Officer to dismiss the only waterworks engineer in his city because he was an active Nazi. The decision must be made, however. . . ." The hard fact was that many U.S. officers in Germany refused to make the decision. Many believed, with George Patton, that there was no point in trying to make...