George Patton, America 's greatest general!

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  • Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
  • Fine young Americans, as a European, I am concerned about the role your great nation is playing in the world today. But I have an enormous respect for the American Army in World War II, for the GI 's that fought and died to liberate Europe. I think I have read every book that deals with the American Army during Word War II.
    I saw the movie 'The last days of Patton', about the famous American General George S. Patton (1885-1945) in World War II. It 's about the last months of his life before he was killed in a car accident in december 1945.
    This is a crucial scene, in which Patton is relieved of his command by his boss (and former friend) Eisenhower. I think the two characters are very well casted. They resemble very well the pictures of the real Eisenhower and Patton I know.
    Also the difference in personality between the two great men: Eisenhower, the diplomat and politician (he later became President of the United States), and Patton, the pompous, brutal and arrogant mouth.
    There are some very nice statements in it. Although a brilliant strategist, Patton was notorious for his arrogant big mouth, which put him always in serious troubles with Dwight 'Ike' Eisenhower, Supreme Alied Commander. The word he most often used was 'suns-of-bitches'.
    His worst offence was the slapping in the face of two wounded American soldiers who suffered from shell-shock. He accused them of being cowards. This incident, in Sicily 1943, provoked furious reactions of both the American press and his military superiors Eisenhower and Bradley.
    The American press compared Patton with Hitler, and they portayed him in a cartoon with a swastica underneath of his boot, while kicking the two soldiers in the butt.
    As a result, Patton was relieved from his command, only to play a military role again after the landings in Normandy in juli-august 1944. Then he broke through the German defensive lines with the Sherman-tanks of his 3rd Army, dashing to liberate Paris. He is also best known for the relieving of the encircled American forces in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes (december 1944).
    Anyway, the movie I saw yesterday is not about his military achievements, but about the very complex human character that Patton was. He was brilliant, arrogant and completely undiplomatic, but he also wrote beautiful love poems for his eternally beloved wife Bea.
    He had a fenomenal knowledge about human history. He foresaw the clashing between the Americans and the Soviet Russians. In a quote of which I don 't remember the exact words he says:
    "The war with Germany is over, they say. They think we killed the last dictator in history. They 're wrong. Every generation gives birth to a new dictator."
    We now all know these were prophetic words. Think of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Saddam Hoessein, Bush (?).
    While discussing the anti-fraternising policy of Eisenhower that forbade American soldiers to flirt with German girls and women, he said:
    "You can 't control sex. All that moralistic garbage! When morals go down, morale goes up."
    In this movie there are also beautiful statements and words of other characters:
    Patton and General Harper, his Chief-of-Staff, are driving in a car. They notice that Willy, Patton 's beloved dog, is scratching itself. Then Harper says:
    "They say a resonable number of fleas is good for a dog. Keeps him from brooding...over being a dog."
    I interpret this as follows: people need all these little problems and frustrations to complain about. These they need, in order not to think about the human existential situation, such as the eternal human lack, the passing away of things and people, and the inevitable death...

КОМЕНТАРІ • 479

  • @Chrisiamtheluciddream
    @Chrisiamtheluciddream 5 років тому +107

    Patton knew.... he knew how things would end up 50 years later.

    • @ericstapleton9577
      @ericstapleton9577 4 роки тому +1

      75

    • @willmerwin2226
      @willmerwin2226 4 роки тому +1

      how did things end up?

    • @GrayFoxROU
      @GrayFoxROU 4 роки тому +2

      @@willmerwin2226 Just enter the real world and take a look.

    • @Willaev
      @Willaev 4 роки тому +7

      @will merwin 45 years of cold and hot wars with communist nations, and 75 years of communist infiltration as evidenced by the present rioting.

    • @jamesholcombe435
      @jamesholcombe435 3 роки тому +3

      Thats why ike killed him

  • @MobiusInfinity117
    @MobiusInfinity117 15 років тому +109

    even if iam not american.
    i'll follow patton into battle any day.

    • @someguy9293
      @someguy9293 4 роки тому +3

      I think we all would. American, and non-American alike.

    • @ownSystem
      @ownSystem 3 роки тому

      You can't your a Russian bot. 🤣🥱

    • @someguy9293
      @someguy9293 3 роки тому +3

      @@ownSystem If Eisenhower allowed Patton to continue, the Soviet Union (AKA: Russia) would be a footnote in History.

    • @AJxxxxxxxx
      @AJxxxxxxxx 3 роки тому +5

      He is not the greatest general ever and I’m saying that as a Marine, his own men and officers couldn’t stand him and questioned his tactics, his peer generals were annoyed by him and said he acted like a child, the only reason he was considered likable among the civilians in America is because he was in front of reporters and the news papers the most, only civilians think he’s the greatest general ever, everyone in military including the supreme commander of the allied forces seen him as a nuisance

    • @aug-pahunters51
      @aug-pahunters51 3 роки тому

      @@AJxxxxxxxx agreed, but his spirit helped the moral of others away from him. He was 100% correct on the Soviets.

  • @techracer2003
    @techracer2003 8 років тому +65

    George Patton was just a rare breed of generals. Not only a military genius that was adept in new combined arms tactics/strategies at the time, but possessed the ability to motivate/inspire the troops and organizational skills in forward observations/troop movements/supplies, but he stayed true to his near black and white truthfulness in matters (something that politicians and their policies on the other grey spectrum of thing just simply cannot handle or tolerate in the long run.) and honor as a soldier and a leader on the battlefield as well as off the battlefield (as seen in his treatment of POWs even if it goes against direct orders).

    • @jayanshmaheshwari9752
      @jayanshmaheshwari9752 7 років тому

      I wаааtсhеd Раttоn full mооovie hеееre twitter.com/6b8e8d95fc95ade99/status/796185822508658688 Gеоrgе Pаttооon Аmеriсa s grеatеst gеnerаl

    • @genemichna9558
      @genemichna9558 4 роки тому

      Please show the scene after a battle, when Patton made the comment that man overcame nature, so man go overcome whatever man built.

    • @rustyrussell2537
      @rustyrussell2537 4 роки тому +3

      @@genemichna9558 "Sir, what of the fortifications at Metz and Verdun?"
      "Emplaced fortifications are monuments of the stupidity of man. If oceans and mountain ranges can be overcome anything built by man can be overcome."

    • @bigsur175
      @bigsur175 4 роки тому +1

      My dad was in patton's third army presidential unit citation, bronze star and distinguished service cross

    • @someguy9293
      @someguy9293 4 роки тому +3

      Patton would make a terrible politician, but a fantastic Soldier.
      Because, he spoke this mind, and wasn't afraid of the political back lash.
      A very rare bread of General.
      In other words, he was no Montgomery, or Eisenhower. He did his job, and he did it well. To bad, that the Politician's didn't have his hindsight.

  • @someguy9293
    @someguy9293 4 роки тому +5

    Patton was America's Greatest General.
    Eisenhower is one of America's greatest President.
    It's a shame what happened to General Patton, and it's a shame that Eisenhower didn't listen to General Patton.
    Rest in Peace General!

  • @hurricanehubbs9459
    @hurricanehubbs9459 3 роки тому +20

    What’s so funny is how blunt he is 😂 everything he says is so on point, I lost it when he talked about Eisenhower wanting the presidency

  • @BrasilianZombie
    @BrasilianZombie 3 роки тому +11

    One of the very few allied generals that did earn a good reputation even among his enemys.

  • @xtntxex
    @xtntxex 9 років тому +171

    One of the best military leaders in history. It's ironic but during the war his enemies had far more respect for him then his own superiors. Even Stalin himself recognized and admired his abilities. His greatest enemy by far was political correctness. He was one of the few willing to point out the big pink elephant sitting in the room and call it out for what it was.

    • @humanforfreedom9583
      @humanforfreedom9583 4 роки тому +5

      Yeah thats sad but true. Hitler Rommel Goebbels are all on record as basically saying they respected and admired Patton. He also always followed the Geneva conventions with captured German prisoners and treated them humanely unlike Eisenhower who murdered in cold blood several hundred thousand Germans as demonstrated in the book “other losses”. They were only several hundred feet from the Rhine river but Eisenhower allowed no water to be given to them and they dehydrated and starved to death. This is what the leftist and Zionist media wanted and so when Patton treated his prisoners humanely the media attached him and Patton wrote in a letter to his wife that the attacks on him in the media were “Semitic in origin” lol

    • @mikemike8623
      @mikemike8623 4 роки тому +12

      The Germans barely knew who Patton was you watch too many movies

    • @christopherhand4836
      @christopherhand4836 4 роки тому

      D so who cares

    • @christopherhand4836
      @christopherhand4836 4 роки тому +6

      Mike Mike you don’t know what you’re talking about

    • @Arbeedubya
      @Arbeedubya 4 роки тому +3

      @@christopherhand4836 No shit. The Germans knew exactly who Patton was.

  • @Useaname
    @Useaname 4 роки тому +16

    That rendition of Auld Lang Syne always brings a tear to my eyes. The band played it so beautifully, slower, and with a New Orleans funeral jazz touch.
    I challenge anyone not to be moved, watching Patton drive off for the final time, sent home for nothing more than speaking the truth, his faithful dog by his side, and this music echoing over the air.
    It was very fitting for this scene.
    Just my opinion.

  • @BenAliGtor
    @BenAliGtor 16 років тому +34

    In many respects "The Last Days of Patton" was a far more historically accurate and in depth view of the man than the original movie.

  • @Soldierjonnyboy
    @Soldierjonnyboy 13 років тому +20

    I love this film,,,George C Scott has always been my favorite actor. Gen Patton was the best general in all wars....RIP to bouth of them.

  • @Mr2ndAmendment
    @Mr2ndAmendment 15 років тому +18

    Patton did get screwed over. He respected the concept of "the soldier," and cared more about how he performed his duty rather than the color of his uniform. I like how Patton predicted the fact that the US and the Soviets would not be allies after the war, and I love it how he said we should have destroyed Berlin and just kept going. Ike had political aspirations, and doing the politically-correct thing instead of the right thing was on the agenda. I wish Patton had stayed at my school
    VMI 2011

  • @BenAliGtor
    @BenAliGtor 16 років тому +56

    The scenes are from "The Last Days of Patton", a made for TV feature. They're not from the 1970 movie "Patton", although they got George C. Scott to revive his famous role. It dealt more with the "postwar Patton", and included flashbacks of his early life as well as events leading up to his death.

    • @humanforfreedom9583
      @humanforfreedom9583 4 роки тому +3

      Oh so that’s why this scene wasn’t in the movie I bought the other day called “Patton” when I was expecting to see it! Thanks for that, I was so confused at the time and rewound the whole thing to check I hadn’t missed it or something lol

    • @paulritchie5868
      @paulritchie5868 4 роки тому +5

      Patton was right,the commies were the real enemy,we spent the next 50 years fighting communism and still do.

    • @ethanramos4441
      @ethanramos4441 3 роки тому +1

      Tom Selleck did a great job as Ike than Richard Dysart in Ike countdown to D Day

  • @gregford2103
    @gregford2103 7 років тому +63

    Patton was insubordinate. However, from a pragmatic point of view he was right to use the local officials, because they knew how to get things done.

    • @darbyheavey406
      @darbyheavey406 6 років тому +8

      Disbanding the Iraqi army was a huge mistake in our own time.

    • @markharrison2544
      @markharrison2544 5 років тому +8

      Invading Iraq was the real mistake.

    • @robertkresko6338
      @robertkresko6338 5 років тому +5

      Mark Harrison amen. A huge mistake.

    • @johnperdue7541
      @johnperdue7541 5 років тому

      @@markharrison2544
      Why is that?

    • @johnperdue7541
      @johnperdue7541 5 років тому +1

      @@robertkresko6338
      Let's hear your opinion as well......

  • @menendezgilbert
    @menendezgilbert 11 років тому +14

    we were so lucky to have him

  • @robertmorris8997
    @robertmorris8997 4 роки тому +7

    I love Patton even more now. I have never seen this. Very well done.

    • @rustyrussell2537
      @rustyrussell2537 4 роки тому

      This is from The Last Days of Patton. It's free here on UA-cam, I haven't finished it yet but I think it's great so far.

  • @kyokogodai-ir6hy
    @kyokogodai-ir6hy 6 років тому +50

    Beatrice Patton was right to never visit the White House, when asked by Eisenhower. Eisenhower asked her many times to visit, and she turned him down each and every time. God bless that woman!!

    • @mannixflinn6227
      @mannixflinn6227 6 років тому +7

      kyokogodai exactly. This movie made me want to visit Patton's grave. I'm going there next year.

    • @dandales9003
      @dandales9003 5 років тому +3

      Later on Eisenhower betrayed General marshal when McCarthy and other Republicans slandered him as a Communist after the war.

    • @rangergxi
      @rangergxi 5 років тому +1

      The Eisenhower regime was extremely corrupt, so corrupt that they helped United Fruit become the government of the country simply because the CEO donated to Eisenhower's campaign.

    • @bosnmatecaddie
      @bosnmatecaddie 4 роки тому

      @@mannixflinn6227, Did U get to see Patton's Grave?

    • @fredwright5954
      @fredwright5954 3 роки тому

      Truman thought poorly of ike as well

  • @rossjones5741
    @rossjones5741 4 роки тому +11

    The most obvious of Patton's character is this: when his superiors as well as his peers argued with him, he was always proven RIGHT. However, he did it in such a way that they were furious at him, starting with Ike. Not everyone disliked him, he was just someone everyone loved to hate. That about sums him up.

  • @TheSteffen1223
    @TheSteffen1223 15 років тому +122

    Eisenhower should have listened to patton.

    • @peace-now
      @peace-now 4 роки тому +3

      No he shouldn't have. Patton was a balloon. Eisenhower wanted peace and understood people. Patton was just a bully who loved war.

    • @peace-now
      @peace-now 4 роки тому

      @Tassel How do you figure that? To me he was a hero.

    • @Tommuli_Haudankaivaja
      @Tommuli_Haudankaivaja 4 роки тому +5

      @Black Metal Bitch You poorly educated fool. America has very low amount of socialism. Bernie is far from a Commie. Finnish government's most capitalist politicians are more socialistic than Bernie and Finland has been ranking well on the happiness levels.

    • @Tommuli_Haudankaivaja
      @Tommuli_Haudankaivaja 3 роки тому

      @Tassel 5% Swedes but ok.

    • @Tommuli_Haudankaivaja
      @Tommuli_Haudankaivaja 3 роки тому

      @Tassel Also I dislike 40% of the people here, for being fasist mainly.

  • @egz1944
    @egz1944 10 років тому +66

    How right PATTON was,

  • @lordsjaak
    @lordsjaak 10 років тому +19

    he still my number 1 in mine personal top 5 best generals in WW2

    • @lordsjaak
      @lordsjaak 10 років тому +3

      i never stir up hornet nest, i just read books about the generals and i found patton as mine oppion better than other generals. because he used stuff what other officers never shall do or believe impossible to do like he goes to bastogne. in that time i found really impossible to make possible for him.
      and in mine country if montgomery to liberate it. but he make more mistakes where he getting credits come on operation market garden is faillure operation every one say it because lack of information they getting and only used that for operation to go.
      and if russian people found offensive i don't mention of there generals well because where i lived there was no russian armies to liberated mine country.
      so i decide to nothing ill talking or postive about there generals. maybe they did brilliant tactics there but i never studied that in mine school because russians did not much giving information to our schools about there WW2 generals and there army tactics
      i hope i have enough answering your comment?

    • @lordsjaak
      @lordsjaak 10 років тому +2

      true but i know little what russian did on there fighting so i am not gonna judge them it is not fair... i just only like patton about there big mouth and his way of fighting style...
      in fact i know only soviets tanks more than the generals...but it is mine only oppion what i found of mine top 5 generals. and patton is wel first but mine second is rommel not because he is nazi more because it stratigue stuff.. (sorry for mine spelling)

  • @kdmigloo
    @kdmigloo 4 роки тому +20

    100% right on the russians..........

  • @FeNite8
    @FeNite8 3 роки тому +7

    Patton was right about the Soviets. McArthur was right about China.

  • @garywheeler60
    @garywheeler60 4 роки тому +11

    Patton : The greatest general with the most foresight in WW2 admired and respected more by his enemies than his own peers.IKE was 100% wrong .

  • @Jurassic0Al
    @Jurassic0Al 14 років тому +2

    "You *can't* disagree with me! It's not a matter of- of- opinion. It's a matter of policy." General Eisenhower got that one right. But the irony to Patton's speaking out against that overboard emphasis on denazification and the USSR turned out to be rather accurate. The Russians were not our allies anymore, and many shots had yet to be fired. We are still waiting for Ike's words- "No one has to fire any more shots, George!" to come true, over fifty years later.

  • @jessetellez3924
    @jessetellez3924 3 роки тому +5

    We fought the wrong enemy.- Patton.

    • @bulldogsbob
      @bulldogsbob 3 роки тому +1

      Americans were done with war.

    • @xchen3079
      @xchen3079 3 роки тому +1

      Right enemy but only half way.

  • @Jurassic0Al
    @Jurassic0Al 11 років тому +7

    I think Patton transferred to West Point in the hopes of setting them straight. Before he ever got around to showing the Germans how to fight a war, Patton was showing West Point how to run a military college.

  • @rnrailproductions5049
    @rnrailproductions5049 5 років тому +13

    He and MacArthur were the best generals the U.S. ever had, and people like Eisenhower were always jealous of them.

  • @nickbeats1195
    @nickbeats1195 4 роки тому +11

    They sure don't make General's like they used to. SMH

    • @randywestfall1679
      @randywestfall1679 4 роки тому +1

      The politically correct Libs would make such a fuss it would be impossible to allow them to do their job. Can you imagine the public outcry if a general slapped a young troop with PTSD. I don't even want to think about it.

    • @bosnmatecaddie
      @bosnmatecaddie 4 роки тому +2

      What about Stormen Norman? Kick the Shit out of the Iraqi Army in 100 hours when the ground war started!!

    • @bosnmatecaddie
      @bosnmatecaddie 4 роки тому

      @@randywestfall1679, two things about that, first in this apology speech to the whole 3rd Army, the general want to make that solider reclaim his dignity as a man and as a fighting soldier, second, we were at war, Patton could have put that soldier to death if he chose to, instead, he slapped him! One more thing, Patton slapped a second soldier but nothing came from that incident, to my knowledge!

    • @nickbeats1195
      @nickbeats1195 4 роки тому +1

      @@bosnmatecaddie ya he was a great General i agree but he ran the show from his headquarters. Old blood and guts was right there on the front lines. That's special. Napoleon used to do that as well.

    • @rwboa22
      @rwboa22 3 роки тому

      @@bosnmatecaddie with Schwartzkopf, he was a product of the Cold War and the hard-learned lessons from Vietnam. He, like Patton, was a proven battlefield commander, and like Patton, he was anticipating Saddam Hussein to be the thorn in the Middle East's side, and not the Soviet Union as he saw the cracks in the Eastern Bloc grow wider and wider with relations between the US (under Reagan) and the USSR (under Gorbachev) starting to warm up, plus the events of Chernobyl, as well as the USSR "writing off" Afghanistan. While Schwartzkopf secretly wanted to take out Baghdad, and later admitted it after it was done in 2003, he did what he was told, and just liberate Kuwait, keeping Saddam in power so that he could be a counter-threat to both Iran, as well as the Shiites in Iraq's borders, and al-Queda (where ISIS/ISIL spawned from) elsewhere.

  • @egz1944
    @egz1944 10 років тому +53

    Eisenhower listened too much to Montgomery and the battle of Arnheim was a disaster

    • @humanforfreedom9583
      @humanforfreedom9583 4 роки тому +2

      Yes and many who were disturbed at Arnhem we’re taking as prisoner to of all places Dresden because Germans thought it was safest place to house them and they were later murdered by their own bombers that destroyed Dresden. A British survivor Victor gregg tells the story here on UA-cam if you search his name.. Nearly all his fellow prisoners and German guards were burned alive.

    • @davidrendall7195
      @davidrendall7195 4 роки тому +2

      Eisenhower and Montgomery had a blazing row on the eve of Arnhem, Eisenhower wanted to sack him. Market Garden secured the approaches to the Schedule estuary which was a vital Allied war aim. It was Monty's desire for a narrow front over the Rhine at Arnhem that was arguable a mistake. Eisenhower gave Monty the rope and he hung himself on it.

    • @terrysmith9362
      @terrysmith9362 3 роки тому

      Patton's performance at Metz was a much greater disaster as per official US military history but that does nit go down well with the Hollywood historians

  • @1KevinsFamousChili1
    @1KevinsFamousChili1 9 років тому +17

    George C Scott sounds way more badass than the real Patton did

    • @kyokogodai-ir6hy
      @kyokogodai-ir6hy 5 років тому +5

      Bet if the real Patton were right in front of you (alive and well), after a few minutes of "conversation" you might think differently.....as many others had.

    • @jamesbaggett7223
      @jamesbaggett7223 4 роки тому +3

      The real Patton had a high pitched voice but still sported cast iron balls

    • @ownSystem
      @ownSystem 3 роки тому +1

      Scott was great. Always will love his patton which was more patton then patton.

  • @bronco1523
    @bronco1523 15 років тому +4

    George Smith Patton Jr. is the Best of the Best.

  • @windwhipped5
    @windwhipped5 3 роки тому +2

    I still think Mattel shouldve created an action figure in his honor..Im sure i woulda got one for Christmas when i was 7..

  • @kentamitchell
    @kentamitchell 15 років тому +5

    He was fencing. Patton was an Olympic caliber swordsman.

  • @Hibernicus1968
    @Hibernicus1968 3 роки тому +1

    Sadly, Ike and Patton did indeed have a falling out at the end of the war. They had been good friends up until then, but the friendship was broken by the time the war ended. The remark that Ike makes at about 4:35, to the effect that if Patton wanted to spend the night he was welcome, but Ike imagined he'd want to get home as soon as possible was a facade of politeness. Patton correctly translated it in his head as "time for you to leave now George."
    It was great to see Scott play Patton again. His performance here is great as always, though of course it doesn't top his Oscar-winning performance in the 1970 movie. And of course, this TV movie doesn't come anywhere near the greatness of the film, but it's still a good film. Interestingly, this time around, Scott was much closer to Patton's actual age. He'd been in his '40s when he played the 60-ish general in 1970, and they had had to dye Scott's hair white and shave the front portion of his head to match Patton's receding hairline. Unfortunately Scott had gained a bit of weight by the time this TV movie was made, and was noticeably thicker in the mid-section than he had been in 1970, or than the real Patton had been in 1945.

  • @Jurassic0Al
    @Jurassic0Al 13 років тому +6

    @Jizzraeli- The third war? I don't know what you mean by that.
    Patton isn't being a "bitch". He's showing Eisenhower, his superior officer, the respect that Eisenhower's rank and status calls for. Patton is mostly known for being a hard-driving SOB, but he was quite respectful when speaking to those who outranked him. If he'd been a "hardass" towards his bosses his Army career would have ended much sooner than it did,

    • @jeffnaslund
      @jeffnaslund 4 роки тому

      Jurassic0Al, Ike was the only one who DID outrank him

  • @benjamincarlyle6126
    @benjamincarlyle6126 9 років тому +70

    It's too bad they fired me. Communism was just as big a threat back then as it is now.

    • @dylanlloyd7301
      @dylanlloyd7301 3 роки тому +4

      @Central Intelligence Agency Wow, it is surprising to see the CIA failing at your jobs... Have you idiots forgot about China and their spying on us?

    • @someguy9293
      @someguy9293 3 роки тому +1

      @@dylanlloyd7301 Yep. Possibly, a troll, or some assh*le who named his account as the CIA

    • @LOLERXP
      @LOLERXP 3 роки тому

      @@someguy9293 Nono, it's the real CIA.

  • @zack9912000
    @zack9912000 16 років тому +8

    We need more people like him, our country has become soft and weak. Its show how much political correctness has destroyed this country.

  • @birch5757
    @birch5757 3 роки тому

    Patton and Ike were great men, but in different ways. It is possible for two people to have completely valid views at the same time that are in total opposition. Reading about the two men is a really fascinating exercise in mental gymnastics.

    • @xchen3079
      @xchen3079 3 роки тому

      Patton was a great man while ike wasn't.
      Patton bad points were outside good points were inside. Ike was the opposite.

  • @bronco1523
    @bronco1523 15 років тому +2

    The General George Patton Jr. is the Best of the Best. The german soldier says Unser Patton Unser Freund

  • @paulmiller6647
    @paulmiller6647 3 роки тому

    Patton and Eisenhower are tied as our greatest Generals. Smiles you don't mess with Eisenhower.

  • @alabamamothman2986
    @alabamamothman2986 4 роки тому +1

    Most of the German troops on the western front were reservist. The SS and Wehrmacht were mostly on the Russian front. Hitler was stupid to open up a second front when he knew the allies would be invading.

  • @Jurassic0Al
    @Jurassic0Al 14 років тому +2

    As much of a pain as Patton was- he never could control that mouth of his- he turned out to be right about the Russians. We'd have saved everybody a lot of trouble if Patton and MacArthur had been allowed to go all-out against the Reds in Europe and the Pacific respectively. And sadly, everybody *did* have to fire a LOT more shots. If only Ike had been right...or if only folks had listened to Patton earlier. What's especially sad about this is that Patton and Ike were once good friends.

  • @pigurine
    @pigurine 5 років тому +17

    Politics rules everything
    Believe me it’s true.

    • @jessetellez3924
      @jessetellez3924 3 роки тому +1

      Speak your mind at work see if politics don't silence you.

  • @lancechamplain
    @lancechamplain 14 років тому +1

    General William J.(Wild Bill) Donovan, head of the OSS,personaly went to the balkans and used American prestiege(which there was a lot of back than) and agitated some of the leaders of the balkan states into defying hitler and hitler invaded the balkans which thru off operation Barbarossa by six weeks. The germans did'nt invade the soviets until july which was way too late to get to moscow by winter. Donovan won the medal of honor inWWI. And was a hero of the secret war in WWII.

  • @_Patton_Was_Right
    @_Patton_Was_Right 5 років тому +12

    WE DEFEATED THE WRONG ENEMY

    • @Hibernicus1968
      @Hibernicus1968 3 роки тому +1

      Everybody says that in these comment threads about Patton. No, we really didn't. The Nazis _were_ worse than the Soviets. Considerably worse. Yes, yes, I know that Stalin Killed more millions than Hitler, and Mao lots more than that. That's merely because Hitler and his regime were crushed after a relatively short few years, and Stalin and Mao lived to old age, and died in their beds after decades in power. The communists never set up anything like the Nazi extermination camps and all the transportation and administration infrastructure around the Final Solution, which industrialized mass murder in a way never seen before or since.
      And there was simply no way to bring a war-weary United States and a war-weary, exhausted, and near bankrupt Britain into a war with the Soviets in 1945. It was never going to happen. In the end we beat the Soviets anyway, and without the millions more deaths that would have resulted from an extension of the war in 1945 to try and drive the Russians out of eastern Europe.

    • @LOLERXP
      @LOLERXP 3 роки тому

      @@Hibernicus1968 Wow, somebody with sense...

  • @jenniferlarson6426
    @jenniferlarson6426 3 роки тому

    This scene was hilarious. It was his "mouth", if they could have just sewn it shut. LOL! I love this movie. Only got to see it once...still looking for it on DVD everywhere I go.

  • @paulmiller6647
    @paulmiller6647 3 роки тому

    Smiles you don't mess with Eisenhower.

  • @VandalStork
    @VandalStork 15 років тому +6

    Washington? He was an important General, a master of the careful retreat and a good man in a suprise attack, but his greatest gift was inspiring loyalty. He was hardly our best General. One of the best Presidents, but not Generals. Grant, Lee, Jackson (both Andrew and Stonwall), Sherman, Sheridan and Patton all made better military commanders when attack was called for.

  • @lancerhettlindeman4926
    @lancerhettlindeman4926 4 роки тому +1

    The visual picture résolution i-s blurry.. But most of this clip, had more 'suspenseful' dialogue...than visual action [ my 3rd repeat watch].

  • @allanfoster6965
    @allanfoster6965 3 роки тому +1

    Filmed just half a mile from my front door at the time. Harlaxton Manor.

  • @adecadeofpoetry4831
    @adecadeofpoetry4831 4 роки тому +13

    Patton was right! We fought the wrong enemy!

    • @bulldogsbob
      @bulldogsbob 3 роки тому

      Americans were tired of war.

  • @vladimir2366fa
    @vladimir2366fa 15 років тому +3

    the movie is excellent.
    thanks you.

  • @inbredagogo
    @inbredagogo 11 років тому +8

    That would never have worked with Douglas MacArthur there, they would have clashed. It would have been a battle of egos.

    • @rh3309
      @rh3309 3 роки тому +1

      Sure it would of, just have them land on different sides of the island and give them the same objective and sit back and watch them beat the ever loving dog crap out of the enemy to get there first

  • @tonemerc2
    @tonemerc2 4 роки тому +1

    Ike should have sent Patton home. That way he would have been ready for hot conflicts during the Cold war.

    • @rh3309
      @rh3309 3 роки тому

      They had him killed, we were already beaten by the commies before ww2 even started

  • @12yearssober
    @12yearssober 3 роки тому

    My uncle fought under Patton. He said that they would have marched into hell soaked in gasoline if he ordered them to. His men respected him that much.

  • @davidmaxie8388
    @davidmaxie8388 4 роки тому +1

    My father was an officer under General Patten!!!!!

  • @rc59191
    @rc59191 2 роки тому

    There's a lot I disagree with Patton on but he did a great job as administrator of Bavaria.

  • @angloaust1575
    @angloaust1575 3 роки тому +2

    Although Patton slapped a few
    He never had eddie Slovak executed

  • @shelleyharris2850
    @shelleyharris2850 3 роки тому

    Peace and Blessings. 3 words.

  • @bosnmatecaddie
    @bosnmatecaddie 4 роки тому +2

    Patton excepted the fact that he was inviting an A$$ Chewing by his superiors every time he made a controversial statement. Guess he followed the old adage" it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission". Continue to rest in peace, U Beautiful SOB!!! A. M. F!!!

  • @bradprovstgaard8587
    @bradprovstgaard8587 3 роки тому

    I wonder where the USA would be IF we had more military men like Patton. I'll bet we would have more respect in the world unlike now

  • @andrebreems8458
    @andrebreems8458 3 роки тому

    Mijn favoriete generaal die voor zijn manschappen stond.

  • @erikdb8917
    @erikdb8917 4 роки тому +3

    The best american commander of all time 👍

  • @Xradris
    @Xradris 10 років тому +2

    And in 2014, the war isnt over...

  • @cliffright1142
    @cliffright1142 4 роки тому +1

    It was never a secret that Ike, like so many others, was jealous of Patton’s ability to see the big picture and act accordingly. Ike got his way and today we have communists in our own government at every level. So who was the fool in this scenario? My Dad served under Patton as a medic so he was infinitely familiar with Blood and Guts but, he said he was the greatest General ever and was proud to have served with Patton.

  • @bigdog49036
    @bigdog49036 11 років тому +1

    To the fine young European poster of this video: I am an old American and I like you worry about the role America is playing in the world these days. Being American does not mean we are all that and a bag a chips and others in the world have rights too. I hope we can get more in line with that idea. Carry on fine young European. :)

  • @oz4500
    @oz4500 3 роки тому +1

    We fought the wrong enemy - General Patton

  • @Tonetwisters
    @Tonetwisters 3 роки тому +1

    He was no George Armstrong Custer, that's for sure.

  • @stevenwiederholt7000
    @stevenwiederholt7000 3 роки тому +2

    George Patton, America 's greatest general?
    Sure you want to go with that?

  • @Lucildor
    @Lucildor 14 років тому

    Dudes before me, relax and just watch the video. The youtube community knows that you two know a lot about WW2, no need to argue. And also, I'd like to say that Patton's dog is really cool.

  • @Henry_L
    @Henry_L 3 роки тому

    Who wrote these subtitles? I'll never watch a foreign film again without thinking how much is lost in translation if translators give so little to their job as demonstrated here.

    • @LOLERXP
      @LOLERXP 3 роки тому

      It's very hard to fit verbatum translations into the timeslots and space of subtitles. Reading is much slower than speaking/listening, and you don't want half the screen to be text, or the letters to be so small people have to squint their eyes for the whole movie, and can barely watch the picture because they're busy reading the script. Often, accurately translating phrases from different languages also requires convoluted paraphrasing. Subtitles are always condensed to the core. It's a practical necessity, not the translators' fault.

    • @Henry_L
      @Henry_L 2 роки тому

      @@LOLERXP Not true! A subtitler's job is very demanding and goes far beyond creating the most economical translation reasonable. It is true that they are constrained to two lines of text and the number of frames of the scene/speed of dialogue, in other words that it is not equal to the constrains of literary translation; however, those limitations do not excuse shoddy work and all I am doing is calling it out! It is even less excusable here because the languages are so closely related.
      Translations are always being redone for a variety of reasons, but sometimes it is simply because the previous work was not good enough. In my opinion, this translation falls short. It concerns me that some people think cinema should not be treated with as great a care as literature. If the demands are high then rise to meet them. And if failure occurs, expect criticism. C'est la vie.

  • @karljohanlea5564
    @karljohanlea5564 5 років тому +8

    The irony in this scene. Ike yells at Patton for his treatment of SS POWs then when President allows West Germany to rearm.

    • @Page-Hendryx
      @Page-Hendryx 4 роки тому +1

      Not sure what your point is.

    • @robertpolityka8464
      @robertpolityka8464 3 роки тому +1

      Patton was right in 1945.
      However, when Ike relieved Patton of 3rd Army, he was in a situation where he couldn't support Patton over the objections of his superiors (General Marshall, Secretary of War Stimson, President Truman). Ike was "next-in-line" for the Chief of Staff position and if he wanted the job, he had to "toe the line".
      When Eisenhower became President in 1953, he was in THE position where he could help rearm the West Germans against the USSR.

  • @thomasreed8259
    @thomasreed8259 4 роки тому +3

    Ike was a part of the swamp even then

    •  3 роки тому

      Interstate highway system yes terrible......idiot....(you)

  • @genevieveestelle8243
    @genevieveestelle8243 3 роки тому

    If Patton and Doolittle had teamed up in Normandy it would have been “Operation I’m Going To Rip Your Head Off And Sh&t Down Your Throat.”

  • @Beer-can_full_of_toes
    @Beer-can_full_of_toes 2 роки тому

    The mishandling of George S. Parton is a crime of the highest order.

  • @mannixflinn6227
    @mannixflinn6227 6 років тому +12

    Eisenhower was pretty hopeless.
    As much use as a chocolate teapot.

    • @x1borzi405
      @x1borzi405 5 років тому

      But he was very "brave" in killing hundreds of thousands of German POWs, most of whom were only teenage boys forced by the Nazis before to take up arms and fight the war. Eisenhover banned Red Cross and their tons of food from POW's camps. Prisoners perished through famine and diseases in the meadows of the Rhine. They could not get out from their prisoners' camps, because the camps were surrounded by barbed wire. But they weren't given any wood or other material to make shelters or tents for themselves. They died in the mud, and were bulldozed into the mud, although some of them were still alive. Eisenhower was an evil coward.

    • @ictpilot
      @ictpilot 4 роки тому

      @@x1borzi405 Please state your source, sounds like BS to me!

    • @x1borzi405
      @x1borzi405 4 роки тому

      @@ictpilot Search for the deadly meadows of the Rhine.

    • @ictpilot
      @ictpilot 4 роки тому

      @@x1borzi405 I did, and haven't seen anything from a credible source.

    • @x1borzi405
      @x1borzi405 4 роки тому

      @@ictpilot Onlythousands or hundreds of thousands? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinwiesenlager

  • @bobbycraig6168
    @bobbycraig6168 5 років тому +3

    What if Patton had actually Lived on and beyond December of 1945 and let’s say that had he never died from succumbing to his Physical and Severely Life Threatening from that Car Accident he was in weeks later (Had that never Happened in both Speculation and Theory) and had Decided to have ran for President Of The United States and had won the Presidential and General Election In let’s say either in 1948 or 1952 one of those Two Election years to be exact and how and what exactly would a Patton Presidency have been like for either four to eight years I wonder and which would be interesting find out and think about wouldn’t it and how Would a President Patton have handled such issues such as both the Korean War with the Soviet Union and even the Cold War and Space Race Itself ?
    🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 ?

  • @Beach510
    @Beach510 3 роки тому

    God Bless General Patton.

  • @RobTheNotary
    @RobTheNotary 3 роки тому

    This is certainly shown the political naivety of Ike, Who later admitted he should’ve listened more to Winston Churchill and shook hands with the Russians as far east as possible.

  • @frombigisland5229
    @frombigisland5229 2 роки тому

    Love George 1-10 Museum@ I love GeorgeC. SCOTT....
    USCG COMMANDER WARNER
    OUT!!

  • @paulmiller6647
    @paulmiller6647 3 роки тому

    Amen to Eisenhower.

  • @bmphil3400
    @bmphil3400 3 роки тому +1

    They didn't mind using Nazis in the space program.

  • @farmall51
    @farmall51 15 років тому

    Does anybody know what movie this was from. all I can find is clips from movie "Patton" made in 1970.

  • @djangoapple8230
    @djangoapple8230 2 роки тому

    The war just started. Whether or not reincarnation is real, Patton's belief in it gave him an intuitive foresight. His belief in God gave him discernment. His frustrations were aggravated by people who couldn't or wouldn't embrace his certainty and clear evidence he presented before and after the war.

  • @rusoviettovarich9221
    @rusoviettovarich9221 3 роки тому +1

    Eisenhower never saw a day of combat neither did the other demi-god Marshall...But Marshall made sure the reds conquered China

    • @ethanramos4441
      @ethanramos4441 3 роки тому

      But he was great strategist and logistics General

    • @rusoviettovarich9221
      @rusoviettovarich9221 3 роки тому

      @@ethanramos4441 Hmm reminds one of Frederich Paulus

  • @HeartlessGorre
    @HeartlessGorre 14 років тому +1

    @broncosfan160720 Him, Washington, Mac Arthur, and Bradley were the best generals we ever had, for sure.

  • @QMPhilosophe
    @QMPhilosophe 11 років тому +2

    And King Leopold of Belgium killed more than any of them.

  • @fordgtguy
    @fordgtguy 14 років тому

    @Jizzraeli
    He was his superior and Patton knew that Ike had the power to take him out of the fight if he wanted. That is the last thing Patton would want so he decided to back off and lay low.

  • @johnerwin9024
    @johnerwin9024 4 роки тому

    Man, the guy playing 'lke' was good-

  • @bobbycraig6168
    @bobbycraig6168 5 років тому

    So Now What Would Patton Have Thought Of Eisenhower As The President Of The United States If He Had Actually Lived Beyond December Of 1945 Had He Never Died From His Injuries And Exactly What Would He Have Thought Or Have Said About Eisenhower’s Handling Of The Cold War And The Korean Wars End Through Armistice In 1953 And The Soviet Launch Of Sputnik In 1957 And Then The Eventual U2 Incident In 1960 Where With The Capture Of U2 Pilot Gary Powers And Also What Would Patton Have Thought Of Kennedy Becoming President In 1961 And His Handling Of The Failed Invasion Of The Bay Of Pigs And Then The Eventual Cuban Missile Crisis And The Launch Of Soviet Cosmonaut Of Yuri Gagarin As The Very First Man In Space And The US Lagging Behind The Soviets In The Space Race To The Moon ????
    🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 ????

  • @gustavonader2680
    @gustavonader2680 4 роки тому

    I am a descendant of General Patton period No lie. My name is Eric Patton and General Patton was my grandfather's cousin. The fight is in our blood.

    • @MK-rw1on
      @MK-rw1on 4 роки тому

      then why is your name "Gustavo Nader"?

    • @gustavonader2680
      @gustavonader2680 4 роки тому

      @@MK-rw1on that's just a silly alias 🥴

  • @bobbycraig6168
    @bobbycraig6168 5 років тому

    What If Patton Had Lived Beyond December Of 1945 Had That Car Accident That He Was In Had Never Happened To Begin With And Exactly What Would He Have Thought About Eisenhower Becoming President Of The United States Beginning In The Year Of 1953 And Also Exactly What Would Patton Have Thought And Said About Eisenhower’s Handling Of The Korean War’s End And With The Cold War Itself And Even The Eventual Soviet Launch Of Sputnik In October Of 1957 And Then Even Including The U2 Incident Where With Pilot Gary Powers Getting Shot Down And Captured Over The Soviet Union In May Of 1960 I Wonder And Also To Speculate On What Patton Would Have Also Thought Of Eisenhower’s Farewell Speech During Those Very Last Few Days Of His Presidency In January Of 1961 And Also To Strongly Wonder Exactly What Patton Would Have Also Thought Of Kennedy When Getting Handed The Presidency During That Same Exact Month And Also What Would Patton Have Thought Of Kennedy’s Handling Of The Bay Of Pigs Failure And Then The Eventual Cuban Missile Crisis In October Of 1962 ????
    🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 ????

  • @vomit49894
    @vomit49894 15 років тому +12

    Patton rules. Ike was a weenie!

    • @rwboa22
      @rwboa22 3 роки тому

      The minute they pinned that fifth star onto Ike he virtually had to put soldiering to the side and become the politician that he later became. Patton, on the other hand, was a true (albeit flamboyant) battlefield commander, always anticipating his enemy's next moves. Even Erwin Rommel, who held the same rank as Ike and Montgomery, admired the lower-ranking Patton for his skills on the battlefield.

  • @jjgutierrez2481
    @jjgutierrez2481 10 років тому +22

    How difeent may have been the outcome of Korea, if Patton would have live...think about it. He may have pushed the korean al the way back to the north and maybe, maybe forseing the chinese invation.
    Yes Esinhower was a diplomat but he was far from been a general Without Patton he was nathing

    • @lgmmrm
      @lgmmrm 8 років тому +4

      +jj gutierrez Patton would've agreed with MacArthur and we would've had two generals removed for wanting to carpet bomb china with nukes.

    • @vburd62
      @vburd62 6 років тому +3

      im still trying to figure out what exactly patton did beside talk tough and look pretty in his uniform...he was only good at executing the plans of superior strategists, not his own.

    • @2ndarmoredhellonwheels106
      @2ndarmoredhellonwheels106 5 років тому

      If patron had done that in Korea Truman would have had a hissy fit and fired him too.but patton wouldn't have went to Korea. Mcarthur didn't like competition

    • @rossjones5741
      @rossjones5741 4 роки тому +2

      First of all, Gen. MacArthur didn't want Patton in Asia, During the Korean" Police action", MacArthur wanted to invade China and play politics, Pres. Truman wouldn't put up with that and fired him. A 5 star out of a job. History has it's twists and turns you know.

  • @stevesanderson8360
    @stevesanderson8360 3 роки тому

    Is this a deleted scene? I don't remember it in the movie

  • @billcarlton2312
    @billcarlton2312 3 роки тому

    I cant remember- did Patron die from a carwreck?

  • @mikeatwood6232
    @mikeatwood6232 3 роки тому

    The greatest General ever !!!!

  • @JB-uv4hm
    @JB-uv4hm 3 роки тому

    Washington was America’s greatest general. No commander did more with less and had a greater strategic vision.

  • @angloaust1575
    @angloaust1575 3 роки тому +1

    Sad end to have been injured in a auto accident
    Maybe he should have had his own
    Armoured tank and driven it himself

    • @rh3309
      @rh3309 3 роки тому

      That was no accident, everyone knows that

  • @shelleyharris2850
    @shelleyharris2850 3 роки тому

    No words🙌🏅🛡🙏😎😎✌⌛