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Jan 30, 2012 · The first mention of Patton in German documents appears in a mid-May 1943 report by the Detachment Foreign Armies West, which simply noted that Patton had taken command of II Corps. By then, Patton had already left the corps to prepare for the invasion of Sicily.
It began with the crossing of the River Rhine in March 1945, with forces fanning out and overrunning all of Western Germany until their final surrender on May 8, 1945. Patton knew his entrance into German-occupied territory was of monumental historical importance.
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Harry Yeide. Fighting Patton: George S. Patton Jr. Through the Eyes of His Enemies. Zenith Press. $30.00
Of the allied world War II generals, George Patton may be considered the most German. He had carefully studied the early Blitzkrieg campaigns against Poland and France and shared the conviction of the Wehrmacht commanders that that a war of movement short, sharp, and furious was the way to avoid a repetition of the endless slaughter of World War ...
Patton was also a keen student of translated German military literature, such as the World War I memoirs of Hans von Seeckt, the chief of staff of the German 11th Army, and Adolf von Schells Battle Leadership. According to military historian Harry Yeide, Pattons style of commanding comes close to the German concept of Auftragstaktik, or mission-typ...
The advantage of this way of operating is that it makes for speed, initiative, and flexibility, allowing the officer on the spot to adjust to the rapidly changing situation of the battlefield and to exploit sudden opportunities. But like Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, Germanys most skillful World War II commander, Patton would also carefully mon...
From the movie Patton and from the biography on which it is partly based, Ladislas Faragos Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, one is left with the impression that the German High Command spent most of its waking hours fretting about Patton and his whereabouts. According to Farago, after his campaign in Sicily, Patton was the Allied general the Germans reg...
Thus when Patton was under a cloud for having slapped two shell-shocked soldiers in Sicily, the army sent him on the a well-publicized tour around the Mediterranean to Corsica, Malta, and Cairo: The idea was to mask the fact that the Seventh Army was being transferred from Sicily to England, but there are no indications that German intelligence att...
The same applies to Pattons role as commander of the fictional U.S. 1st Army Group in Kent, designed to create the impression that the invasion would occur at Calais rather than Normandy. In Yeides view, Faragos assertion that the Germans concentrated on Patton as the general likely to command American forces in the invasion of France is mainly bas...
What is significant, however, he notes, is that the German High Command did not identify Patton as the commander of this fake U.S. 1st Army Group until well after they had fallen for the Calais ploy. So Pattons presence in Kent was not the decisive factor in the German miscalculation. The Germans did not track Pattons movements as the key to allied...
But according to Yeides figures, while the U.S. possessed only one armored commander above division level and only a handful of first class armor generals at division level, the Germans produced them by the bushel: Out of 266 officers with armor experience, he says, 55stayed with the panzers throughout the war, most achieving the rank of General de...
Pattons adversaries, on the other hand, had plenty of experience in this art form from Russia, where the Wehrmachts early victories had turned into a nightmare struggle against the cold and against a Russian enemy that seemed to have an inexhaustible supply of manpower and replacement tanks. Thus many of the commanders Patton was to meet in France ...
According to Yeide, even Pattons logistical feats before running out of gas and his boast that as of 14 August [1944] the Third Army has advanced further and faster than any army in history, totaling some 300 miles altogether, still put him well behind General Georg-Hans Reinhardt, who at start of Operation Barbarossa covered more than 500 miles to...
The book clearly takes its place in the school of the Allies won the war, but the Germans had the better army, a school that includes the Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld, and the Brits Max Hastings, John Keegan, and John Ellis. This view was most starkly presented by John Ellis in Brute Force, a comprehensive assessment of the Allied ...
And a bit further on, Just as Patton strode onto the stage of the European theatre, the other fellow in Normandy was reeling backward and out of Pattons way; off balance, running out of men and equipment, and looking for a way to extricate himself from an alreadylosing fight (italics mine). As an indication of the mood in the German high command, Y...
But as participants, the Germans could hardly be expected to be unbiased observers of their own defeat. At this stage of the war, Hitler was busy promoting committed Nazi officers in the belief that they would put up a more stubborn defense. Such people would surely have found it easier to blame their defeat on an enemy relying on raw industrial mi...
Nov 5, 2009 · September | 22. Choose another date. 1945. General Patton questions necessity of Germany’s “denazification” On September 22, 1945, Gen. George S. Patton tells reporters that he does not see...
Aug 9, 2018 · Patton had been methodically accumulating evidence since early November 1944 that raised suspicions in his mind that the Germans were up to something to the north, opposite the U.S. First Army. In the wake of a failed attack by the First Army on November 8 against the town of Schmidt in the Hürtgen Forest , the Germans had remained strangely ...
- David T. Zabecki
US forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in April 1945. Here, US soldiers escort German civilians from the nearby town of Weimar through the Buchenwald camp. The American liberating troops had a policy of forcing German civilians to view the atrocities committed in the camps.
Apr 6, 2022 · In front of Patton : a World War II documentary originally written in 1945 after the surrender of German troops during occupation of Germany by Bergeron, Denis E
