General Patton's Death - Accident or Murder?

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  • Was General George S. Patton, America's most famous WWII general, murdered in December 1945? And why? We examine the circumstances and the theories.
    Dr. Mark Felton is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can be found at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fe...
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  • @dustyroads5753
    @dustyroads5753 3 роки тому +5555

    A local man who recently died of old age once stopped Patton's car at a checkpoint at gunpoint. The car wasn't marked and he had no idea the General was inside. Patton defended the then young 17 year old private to his superiors saying "I wish I had another hundred boys just like him. He's a damn fine soldier who was doing his job." Patton recommended his promotion to corporal, which he recieved, written recommendation I read for myself from the man's scrapbook.

    • @daviddigital6887
      @daviddigital6887 3 роки тому +68

      You watched the last days of Patton movie

    • @AbtinX
      @AbtinX 3 роки тому +47

      That's an awful story lol. Now this child is a corporal in the us army.

    • @dustyroads5753
      @dustyroads5753 3 роки тому +176

      @RogerwilcoFoxtrot his name was "Pepper" Martin. His father served as a private in the confederate army under General Sterling Price, and later as our circuit court judge

    • @dustyroads5753
      @dustyroads5753 3 роки тому +138

      @@daviddigital6887 no I didn't know about that movie. This man was my neighbor. His name was "Pepper" Martin.

    • @dustyroads5753
      @dustyroads5753 3 роки тому +62

      @RogerwilcoFoxtrot yes ol "Pep" said that they had orders to not allow anybody through, and that Pattons car was unmarked for some reason (I've forgot why, or if I ever heard why tbh)

  • @richardlecomte6839
    @richardlecomte6839 2 роки тому +2527

    They didn't want Patton coming home and getting into politics.

    • @jumpkickman8524
      @jumpkickman8524 Рік тому +105

      ((They))

    • @hondaxl250k0
      @hondaxl250k0 Рік тому +468

      Don’t forget right before his “ accident “. He publicly stated we fought for the wrong side..

    • @masamune2984
      @masamune2984 Рік тому +50

      No one did. Thank god.

    • @miguelpalomares3441
      @miguelpalomares3441 Рік тому +154

      @@jackandblaze5956 yeah cause trump was infamously known for being tough and aggressive on american enemies

    • @casebarreoltt5990
      @casebarreoltt5990 Рік тому +3

      @@jumpkickman8524 Thoy

  • @kaymuldoon3575
    @kaymuldoon3575 6 місяців тому +254

    My uncle served under Patton and was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge. He was only given about 5 years to live after his injury. He died in 2008.

    • @HomerSaints-lo7zf
      @HomerSaints-lo7zf 2 місяці тому

      Cool story now delete it and move on no one wants to see your cringe lies

    • @Magicpickle5
      @Magicpickle5 2 місяці тому +6

      Precious

    • @seankelly1366
      @seankelly1366 2 місяці тому +6

      My Uncle as well served with the 101st Airborne @ Bastogne...

    • @mikechevreaux7607
      @mikechevreaux7607 13 днів тому

      @kaymuldoon3575 -
      Same as my WW2 Combat Vet Dad, Wounded In The Battle of the Bulge.

  • @charmyzard
    @charmyzard 3 місяці тому +393

    "We defeated the wrong enemy."
    Those words sealed his fate.

    • @dann5480
      @dann5480 2 місяці тому +40

      Imagine speaking in favour of Nazi Germany 😂😂

    • @yvngxnightmare
      @yvngxnightmare 2 місяці тому +128

      ⁠@@dann5480he meant the Soviets were worse. He never said anything in favor of the Nazis

    • @Yourmothershouse34
      @Yourmothershouse34 2 місяці тому

      ​@@dann5480 Nazi Germany wasn't trying to conquer the world and kill everyone fool

    • @E_Clampus_Vitus
      @E_Clampus_Vitus 2 місяці тому +69

      @@dann5480Imagine being a tool who believes all the lies he’s been told.

    • @cx2900
      @cx2900 2 місяці тому

      @@dann5480 imagine reflexively calling someone a nazi sympathizer in 2024. the point is obviously that our actions essentially meant the communists won the war

  • @truthofthematter2892
    @truthofthematter2892 Рік тому +1412

    I find it odd that a drunk soldier joyriding in a military vehicle was not charged for killing one of the most famous generals in US history.

    • @jharback
      @jharback Рік тому +191

      There is a huge difference in public attitude about driving drunk then and driving drunk now. The first drunk driving laws were not even implemented in this county until 35 years earlier in the State of New York. Drinking and driving was very common right up through the 1950's and pretty much acceptable by the public. I can remember being a little kid and driving home with my dad drunk as hell. Happened all the time among "The Greatest Generation."

    • @joshmcdonald7472
      @joshmcdonald7472 Рік тому +190

      @@jharback still ignoring the part where he killed the general. Even if he wouldn’t be arrested for drunk driving, he killed a general.
      Edit: General not his commanding officer

    • @charliekrips6533
      @charliekrips6533 Рік тому +244

      Maybe it got swept under the rug because Patton spoke out that we fought the wrong enemy.

    • @joshmcdonald7472
      @joshmcdonald7472 Рік тому +30

      @@charliekrips6533 I think he just thought we should’ve invaded both not an either or

    • @markoverfelt805
      @markoverfelt805 Рік тому

      @Charlie Krips They should of listened to Patten. They should of allowed Patten run them out of Europe back to atleast Russia. Patten was right. They took over half of Europe. But more aptly put. The Communists enslaved half of Europe. Communism is nothing more than a Satanic form of government.

  • @kickingmustang
    @kickingmustang 3 роки тому +2812

    There is a fine line between genius and madness that is often precariously walked by the most powerful characters in history.

    • @burnstick1380
      @burnstick1380 3 роки тому +82

      Genius or not he was still a POS towards a) his soldiers b) other soldiers (e.g. italian POW)

    • @THE-ge9wi
      @THE-ge9wi 3 роки тому +51

      Yeah but the line between sane and deranged is very clear.

    • @bengtbaron2574
      @bengtbaron2574 3 роки тому +50

      @kickingmustang good on you for repeating fake MSM cliches.

    • @MrWolfstar8
      @MrWolfstar8 3 роки тому +46

      @@burnstick1380 Patton would have fit in the pacific war. Unofficial American policy was never to take Japanese prisoners alive due to Japans abuse snd murder of American POWs.

    • @burnstick1380
      @burnstick1380 3 роки тому +12

      @@MrWolfstar8 do you have a source on this? But still doesn't excuse his behaviour

  • @Gl6619
    @Gl6619 8 місяців тому +261

    I can never get over how Patton actually sounded..especially after having George C Scott’s portrayal embedded in my mind.

    • @AlphaFlight
      @AlphaFlight 7 місяців тому +16

      Omg I know. He had that old new York tang lol

    • @craigthescott5074
      @craigthescott5074 6 місяців тому +44

      George C Scott was a better Patton than Patton was.

    • @Frip36
      @Frip36 6 місяців тому +10

      You could not possibly get more hard nosed Yankee than Patton. @@AlphaFlight

    • @CJArnold-hq3ey
      @CJArnold-hq3ey 5 місяців тому +2

      @@craigthescott5074 ease up son hahahaha

    • @Matt_History
      @Matt_History 4 місяці тому +3

      ​@@Frip36he was literally an ethnic and cultural southerner. His accent sounds nothing like a New Yorker or a Californian from the era despite growing up in California

  • @geeky12ful
    @geeky12ful 7 місяців тому +54

    My uncle served under Patton in Africa; he had the utmost respect for him & said he was the greatest general.

  • @deadlycuber4974
    @deadlycuber4974 3 роки тому +2438

    Mark Felton: Was it an accident or murder?
    History Channel: Def Aliens

    • @miguelpereira7934
      @miguelpereira7934 3 роки тому +14

      ahaha yep....

    • @Autechltd
      @Autechltd 3 роки тому +20

      YFW his death prevented the initiation of the XCOM project

    • @stenbak88
      @stenbak88 3 роки тому +4

      Hahaha seriously

    • @mikemontgomery2654
      @mikemontgomery2654 3 роки тому +8

      Aliens, tryin to survive in the mountains.

    • @mauriceetal1426
      @mauriceetal1426 3 роки тому +7

      Ancient Aliens were never reported as NOT doing do, so what makes you think the modern ones WILL? (Off screen: "what am I talking about again?")

  • @meaders2002
    @meaders2002 3 роки тому +1278

    *[**1:40**] "Patton...was not slow in stating his opinions..."*
    This is British understatement working overtime.

    • @cwf081166
      @cwf081166 3 роки тому +15

      @bartley butsford The English have always great manners.
      That is what makes "Our American Cousin still funny to this day.

    • @QuantumMechanic_88
      @QuantumMechanic_88 3 роки тому +33

      patton had what was called his "Wagon Train" . Train cars , busses and large trucks where movie stars and celebrities could visit for photo ops . Far , far behind enemy lines and the action . My dad and uncle were 101st Airborne at the time and knew all about "Ole Blood and Guts " - "His guts and our blood" . Don't believe the movies and BS .

    • @scrappydoo7887
      @scrappydoo7887 3 роки тому +3

      Agreed

    • @scrappydoo7887
      @scrappydoo7887 3 роки тому +5

      @@QuantumMechanic_88 spot on 👍

    • @joshuagibson2520
      @joshuagibson2520 3 роки тому +7

      His #1 trait, in my opinion, was the fact that he wasn't a pu$$y.

  • @playerzero2236
    @playerzero2236 9 місяців тому +72

    What they don't mention is he had the same driver the entire war until this

    • @robertcottam8824
      @robertcottam8824 2 місяці тому +1

      Who are ‘they’, poppet? And why would that be important anyway?

    • @nonono9194
      @nonono9194 2 місяці тому

      ​@@robertcottam8824the jews

    • @jacobblanton5179
      @jacobblanton5179 Місяць тому +18

      ​@@robertcottam8824Driver suddenly changes = inmediate "accident" in which driver lives and powerful individual does not = immediately suspicious
      Also, why are you so butthurt over the usage of "they"? "They" at this point after the fact could mean anyone and everyone, from historians to the CIA to contemporary political pundits.... but YOU seem pretty agitated over it's frankly innocuous throwaway usage here... why?

    • @WilliamSirman
      @WilliamSirman 26 днів тому +4

      It is quite odd that a Private First Class would have been detailed to drive a Four Star General!

  • @welshwarrior5263
    @welshwarrior5263 6 місяців тому +125

    Tell the full story. There was more than one so-called accident. They tried and failed to kill him before.

    • @aamir.vision
      @aamir.vision 5 місяців тому +12

      Can you explain more please, I would like to look into this

    • @benpoke
      @benpoke 4 місяці тому

      Did you find out? I'm curious too​@@aamir.vision

    • @leanderrowe2800
      @leanderrowe2800 4 місяці тому

      Oh wow

    • @undermygarage
      @undermygarage 3 місяці тому +1

      Where is this listed?

    • @andymckane7271
      @andymckane7271 3 місяці тому

      Whose the "they"? Andy McKane, 10 February 2024, Maunaloa, Hawaii.

  • @stephenketcham4179
    @stephenketcham4179 3 роки тому +264

    My initial reaction to hearing Gen. Patton speak...”He doesn’t sound anything like George C. Scott.”.

    • @fish.161
      @fish.161 3 роки тому +24

      bruh i thought he sounded like trump for some reason

    • @mkvv5687
      @mkvv5687 3 роки тому +7

      Yeah. I read a while back that he had a higher pitched (his enemies would say "pipsqueak") voice, so I was prepared.

    • @stevenm6922
      @stevenm6922 3 роки тому +5

      His son, also a genera,l had the same reaction when he first saw the movie. That in reality, his real voice was kind of high pitched, not like GeorgeC.Scott.

    • @jimdavis8391
      @jimdavis8391 3 роки тому +3

      George C Scott was the real Patton, the other one was a phoney.

    • @cliveedwards2958
      @cliveedwards2958 3 роки тому

      George C Scott had more panache! :)

  • @deano6912
    @deano6912 Рік тому +707

    The fact that he wished to be buried amongst his men rather than Arlington deserves credit.

    • @africanlipplateandbonenose3223
      @africanlipplateandbonenose3223 Рік тому

      Assassinated because he did not want to fight the Germans + had a dislike for jews

    • @JoeCitizen-gp3gf
      @JoeCitizen-gp3gf 11 місяців тому +13

      Hum well Arlington wasn't what is today especially before JFK.

    • @JoeCitizen-gp3gf
      @JoeCitizen-gp3gf 11 місяців тому +11

      Arlington was originally done so Lee had live results of his actions.

    • @jacktattis
      @jacktattis 8 місяців тому +5

      Yes it does and in that he was great.

    • @patrickcork9358
      @patrickcork9358 7 місяців тому

      Yes

  • @MojoWrangler
    @MojoWrangler 4 місяці тому +19

    This was a common talking point for my Grandmother. Her husband was a pilot associated with Gen Clark and the European, North African, and Italian campaigns under him fly reconnaissance missions. They both met and were friendly with Patton although I am not aware that he had actually ever served with them directly. I cannot recall who he was flying for (command) for the invasion of Germany proper. She was absolutely convinced that his accident was actually murder and would argue a case for it till just before she died.

  • @Regal99
    @Regal99 3 місяці тому +12

    I love how one program ultimately destroyed one guy's theory that he had over a decade "researching".
    And many fail to remember that Patton had a previous neck injury, one that had nearly killed him.

  • @ethanmaldonado7327
    @ethanmaldonado7327 Рік тому +958

    My great grandfather (on my moms side) was a tank commander for Patton. When Patton got mad at him, he would rip his patches off, then would apologize and give them back. A crazy story is that my grandfather was having a lunch break sitting outside his tank when he noticed that there was an allied plane being attacked by an axis plane. My grandpa told his men to shoot down the enemy plane, and when they did that, the allied plane saw my grandfather and waved. Later my grandfather found out that he was my grandmother’s brother who he saved.

    • @jerrysanders9101
      @jerrysanders9101 Рік тому +47

      Wow.

    • @DaveSCameron
      @DaveSCameron Рік тому +17

      Sounds very erratic for a 3 star General! *

    • @dorian4373
      @dorian4373 Рік тому

      Patton was in Washington 1932 killing war veterans from world War 1 how does that sound karma is a beautiful thing

    • @arnoldgood1
      @arnoldgood1 10 місяців тому +10

      an amazing story.

    • @LarsCarlsen-or6ky
      @LarsCarlsen-or6ky 10 місяців тому

      Sounds like a nut job.

  • @Kristoffceyssens
    @Kristoffceyssens 3 роки тому +1013

    When you drive into a 4 star general killing him, and no futher charges are made. You know whats up.

    • @Shepard_AU
      @Shepard_AU 3 роки тому +68

      Imagine this exact scenario but on the German’s side. Wouldn’t end well for the person who caused it.

    • @steveh156
      @steveh156 3 роки тому +63

      Patton told the MP's not to charge the driver.

    • @cwg9238
      @cwg9238 3 роки тому +38

      this is what happens when you dont wear seat belts (or when they dont even exist yet)

    • @trooperdgb9722
      @trooperdgb9722 3 роки тому +109

      There were a staggering number of deaths and injuries from vehicle accidents in WW2... as already mentioned... no seatbelts... fatigued drivers ... little lighting at night etc. Sometimes accidents just happen.

    • @mattmopar440
      @mattmopar440 3 роки тому +36

      @@trooperdgb9722 Thank You some sense in the comment section

  • @cday131
    @cday131 8 місяців тому +68

    Of course the press wouldn't like someone who isn't afraid of telling truths.

    • @robertcottam8824
      @robertcottam8824 2 місяці тому +3

      Eh? What? The press don’t like idiots who don’t know when to shut up? Are you serious? Why d’ya think they followed General Numb-nuts around?
      Hahahahahah! It was the press and that movie that made ‘Ole Poltroon’ a hero - Patton certainly didn’t!

    • @ZaoMedong-
      @ZaoMedong- Місяць тому

      SO being pro Nazi is "truth" now? Follow your leader.

    • @egay86292
      @egay86292 Місяць тому

      ...and is a asshool.

  • @pedenmk
    @pedenmk 4 місяці тому +11

    We the public will never know. It would not surprise me the least if this man was murdered. After all look at all the suspicious deaths since. Thanks for sharing.

  • @oceanexploration
    @oceanexploration 3 роки тому +943

    My wife's grandfather (Emil Bongiovanni) was a medic with the 117th. Normandy through the end, including Bastogne. He says that Patton saved his life. Emil's best friend was the first attending medic to Patton's "accident". The anti-Soviet rhetoric was well-known. Emil said that Patton said, "We are here, we are mobilized, we are strong. They will be the next problem. Let's take care of them now while they are weak". Emil is still alive as of this comment. He is 98.
    Update: Emil passed away at 99 years old, about a year after this comment, just short of 100. To his deathbed he maintained that Patton saved his life and the Russians had Patton killed, which the first responding medic also was certain of in his own words. My wife's late grandmother Gloria also knew this medic well. Sergeant L. Ogden I believe. They were all close friends and good folks.

    • @irvingnerdbaum7256
      @irvingnerdbaum7256 3 роки тому +54

      God bless your wife's grandfather!

    • @haraldhimmel5687
      @haraldhimmel5687 3 роки тому +49

      Not that they were weak. The Soviets had the biggest standing army in the European theatre by far, about 500 rifle divisions and roughly a tenth of that tank divisions. It was a good thing to call it a day.

    • @WarInHD
      @WarInHD 3 роки тому +102

      @@haraldhimmel5687 they’re leadership was broken and they just lost 8.6 million men. We supplied them a lot and we were technologically way ahead of them. Our military was at 16 million compared to their 11 million, so uh we could’ve easily taken them if we wanted

    • @WarInHD
      @WarInHD 3 роки тому +18

      @rian marky nah, they would’ve had B-29’s take off from Japan and drop Atomic bombs on Moscow

    • @qtig9490
      @qtig9490 3 роки тому +92

      @@WarInHD and we had nukes on the way which they didnt. That the US left some lands such as in Czechoslovakia that later fell under Stalin is horrible. Imagine that suffering going from being under the Nazis to then being under the Soviets.

  • @aldofitla6657
    @aldofitla6657 3 роки тому +1166

    " I prefer a German Division in front of me ,
    than a French Division behind me."
    General Patton

    • @koen8185
      @koen8185 3 роки тому +18

      Not to speak about a whole Greek division behind him , the horror....

    • @naj289
      @naj289 3 роки тому +89

      " I say quotes he never said to receive internet points "
      Cumbrain Aldo Fitla

    • @SCHMALLZZZ
      @SCHMALLZZZ 3 роки тому +80

      "Meme untill they cry, then make memes about them crying"
      -Heinz Guderian

    • @dutch148
      @dutch148 3 роки тому +52

      "The NKVD send their regards"
      -Drunk American truck driver

    • @roberthoward9500
      @roberthoward9500 3 роки тому +22

      Which is such a dick thing to say since I think the French taught Patton how to fight in WW1.

  • @TheRealSteveMay
    @TheRealSteveMay 6 місяців тому +142

    Patton began to see what is not allowed to be seen. He was going to be vocal about it too, and given his status as a respected general, people would have listened to him. Once you understand this, its easy to conclude that he was relieved of his vital functions by a certain group who are too powerful to be spoken of openly in any way that is not rooted in praise and support.

    • @hamboneusmc9971
      @hamboneusmc9971 6 місяців тому +12

      Big brain comment

    • @lupaswolfshead9971
      @lupaswolfshead9971 6 місяців тому +40

      yeah he hated the bolshevik small hats

    • @bubdubs5294
      @bubdubs5294 5 місяців тому +31

      @@lupaswolfshead9971as should everyone.

    • @jr2904
      @jr2904 5 місяців тому

      ​@@bubdubs5294 yeah, but that's not all of that group. Everyone should hate the elites that manipulate the world

    • @eduardoescurra5086
      @eduardoescurra5086 5 місяців тому +13

      Amen brother in christ ✡️

  • @chuckabutty888
    @chuckabutty888 9 місяців тому +9

    Assassination by 20mph traffic collision? Who the hell would think that up?

    • @joedoe-sedoe7977
      @joedoe-sedoe7977 28 днів тому

      Oh say the same one that had a mafia night club owner walk into a police station and shoot a self proclaimed “patsy” for running his mouth too much.

    • @blaine4754
      @blaine4754 16 годин тому

      Who the hell would suspect it!

  • @surburbanzen
    @surburbanzen 3 роки тому +368

    I love how in a span of a few years Patton's views on the Russians went from being an embarrassment to being the norm

    • @arealfpsdiehard
      @arealfpsdiehard 3 роки тому +73

      People were pissed about communism but they tried to be diplomatic about it. Patton was just too straight to the point.

    • @afkorey2151
      @afkorey2151 3 роки тому +102

      The Bolsheviks created what we know as the Soviet Union, very few if anyone knows it wasn't 'Russians' who overthrown the Russian Empire in 1917 and even created the 'Red Army', I wonder why that is? Maybe it's due to that 'influence' in the media that Patton spoke about, which is still very much alive today.

    • @warrenmilford1329
      @warrenmilford1329 3 роки тому +15

      Most people in the west, including the politicians and top brass from the western allied countries, always knew exactly what the soviets were like, but they had too be diplomatic about the delicate situation they were now faced with. Patton definitely wasn't.

    • @paixducoeur
      @paixducoeur 3 роки тому +37

      @@afkorey2151 And who created the Bolsheviks? who financed them and so on. you have to dig deeper and you realise thats still going on today.

    • @thechekist2044
      @thechekist2044 3 роки тому +5

      @@afkorey2151 The Russian Empire that kept the country of Russia was overthrown by Russians and not only the Bolsheviks had the vast majority of Russians supported the Bolsheviks the Bolsheviks themselves were majority Russian indeed, however they were ethnically diverse.

  • @strelok5581
    @strelok5581 3 роки тому +754

    So he was literally getting better, then dies with no autopsy. Big think.

    • @Gargatul0th
      @Gargatul0th 3 роки тому +76

      Once people start suspecting an assassination conspiracy an intelligence agent comes out with a story so ridiculous that it couldn't be true. Then the press, that never coordinates with intelligence agencies, elevates the obviously false story, thus disproving the entire theory of an assassination conspiracy. Brilliant analysis!

    • @HW-sw5gb
      @HW-sw5gb 3 роки тому +21

      This happens all the time even today though. It was especially common back with 1945 medicine.

    • @cyberdemic
      @cyberdemic 3 роки тому +35

      @@Gargatul0th It's just a coincidence, everyone knows that the good side won the war, look at the world now, everything is okay *-*

    • @seanehz
      @seanehz 3 роки тому +7

      @@Gargatul0th Indeed. Look into Gareth Williams of GCHQ.. died in suspicious circumstances to say the least and then the media publishes a story about his activities based on likely falsified information provided by his previous employer.

    • @aldofitla6657
      @aldofitla6657 3 роки тому +2

      @Derek Jackson Why Orwell's death is shaddy?
      I found nothing on Google.

  • @salahuddinmuhammad3251
    @salahuddinmuhammad3251 7 місяців тому +10

    He excelled at War and didn't enjoy everyday life. He was made to be on a Battlefield

  • @jspaceemperor420
    @jspaceemperor420 4 місяці тому +6

    I hate UA-camrs who refuse to think critically, Not all conspiracy theories are wrong, and not everyone who believes in them is a bad untrustworthy person
    And this channel is one of them.

  • @jaremaw2368
    @jaremaw2368 3 роки тому +788

    _"I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind."_

    • @michaelhourigan2599
      @michaelhourigan2599 3 роки тому +35

      Brilliant

    • @davesaldana7263
      @davesaldana7263 3 роки тому +14

      So true

    • @knightowl3577
      @knightowl3577 3 роки тому +41

      Plenty of British troops said that but replaced French with American.

    • @camdenduffy8744
      @camdenduffy8744 3 роки тому +1

      Daaaaaamn!

    • @waynehanley72
      @waynehanley72 3 роки тому +80

      @@knightowl3577 That the British got off the beaches at Dunkerque was due in large part to the extraordinary bravery and sacrifice of the French who held the line against overwhelming odds. Read the German accounts of French soldiers (not the generals).

  • @Radhaugo108
    @Radhaugo108 3 роки тому +1935

    The United States has a peculiar track record of “unlucky” undesirable leaders who pass under “totally normal” circumstances.

    • @simonjohnston9488
      @simonjohnston9488 3 роки тому +49

      Nonsense.

    • @KcarlMarXs
      @KcarlMarXs 3 роки тому +42

      I think you've misplaced this: Allende, Sankara, Castro (survived) etc. The US assassinates any popular movement not serving capital & racism

    • @gourmetwaters6916
      @gourmetwaters6916 3 роки тому +161

      @@KcarlMarXs Yeah, racism and money are the answer to everything.
      That's totally why the US spent all that money fighting Germans and Russians.

    • @joedoe-sedoe7977
      @joedoe-sedoe7977 3 роки тому +92

      Don’t you find it telling that we have the derogatory term “conspiracy theorists “ but no “coincidence theorists”?

    • @leezaslofsky4438
      @leezaslofsky4438 3 роки тому +16

      @@gourmetwaters6916 When did the US fight Russians? Never, that's when.

  • @Barnes-ml9wg
    @Barnes-ml9wg 6 місяців тому +10

    He was killed because he realized we fought on the wrong side and he spoke out. You cant say bad things about "them"

  • @thomastuthill5276
    @thomastuthill5276 6 місяців тому +7

    My dad worshipped Patton. Accidents happen to important people too. Especially when they're drunk and driving around.

  • @jeremyparsons9152
    @jeremyparsons9152 3 роки тому +778

    A drunk AWOL soldier kills a 4 star general and no charges filed!? Hmmm

    • @leezaslofsky4438
      @leezaslofsky4438 3 роки тому +31

      He didn't kill the general. The general was injured and was taken to a hospital. Such minor accidents were common in the Army. If they filed charges every time some soldier bumped his truck into another vehicle, they would still be holding trials today.

    • @clivebaxter6354
      @clivebaxter6354 2 роки тому +139

      @@leezaslofsky4438 But he was drunk (no test) in a truck he should not have been in and rammed a 4 star generals car, who then dies, not an ordinary minor accident

    • @SciFiGrinch
      @SciFiGrinch 2 роки тому +43

      @@clivebaxter6354 And did you see the picture of the damage to the car? That was not a bump. It likely was an accident but no charges? The driver of the truck was lucky Patton was injured and passed out cause he likely would have shot him right there in the street.

    • @leezaslofsky4438
      @leezaslofsky4438 2 роки тому +12

      @@rodbenson5879 You are upset because the young impaired driver had caused a non lethal road accident (Patton was injured; he died later in hospital) was not thoroughly investigated?
      You are upset because no one thought there was any kind of conspiracy behind the accident? You would have ordered a thorough investigation?
      This is what conspiracy thinking leads to: endless suspicion, endless calls for investigation, endless complaints that "they're hiding something". And in the end, nothing is clarified, nothing is revealed, it was all a big waste of time. (Think: Benghazi or Whitewater).
      In those days, they had better things to do than sit around "investigating" a road accident to see if someone was "behind" it.

    • @dx1450
      @dx1450 2 роки тому +3

      I highly doubt there was anything sinister about the accident. I mean, sure the driver of the truck screwed up and turned right in front of the car, but that's no guarantee that Patton would be killed in the crash. There are certainly better ways to assassinate someone. Poison their food and then claim they died of a heart attack, for example.

  • @mahadragon
    @mahadragon 3 роки тому +199

    On the day Patton died, he had been improving and he was due to be transferred. His nurse checked on him and he was in good spirits. She went to run some errands. When she returned, Patton was dead, having died from pulmonary edema. Very strange indeed.

    • @LTPottenger
      @LTPottenger 3 роки тому +45

      And you would not be in good spirits with pulmonary edema and it doesn't just suddenly come on. It is a slow debilitating death.

    • @wmpetroff2307
      @wmpetroff2307 2 роки тому +42

      Similar to Princess Diana. EMS at first say she was gonna survive then at the hospital some strange people came by....and then she died.

    • @leezaslofsky4438
      @leezaslofsky4438 2 роки тому +13

      This kind of thing happens all the time. Patient seems to improve, people become hopeful, but the improvement was temporary.

    • @oregrug2201
      @oregrug2201 2 роки тому +9

      @Womb Raider He's here to spread left-wing rhetoric the same way I'm here to spread right-wing rhetoric. He's just too much of a sperg to pull it off. Nobody cares about your lengthy youtube essays, Lee. All of us here know the US Govt is guilty as sin.

    • @ek8710
      @ek8710 2 роки тому +1

      @@oregrug2201 well said

  • @jrmckim
    @jrmckim 8 місяців тому +62

    My grandfather fought under him in Sicily and also believed he was assassinated because of his hatred for the Soviet Union.
    He was a no bs guy but his love for his country and freedom was unmatched. He was right about the Soviets too.
    Rip George, thank you for taking care of my grandpa and warning everyone about the Soviet Union.

    • @jacktattis
      @jacktattis 8 місяців тому +2

      I think Pattons' love of self was stronger than his love of country Otherwise he would not have behaved as he did

    • @beagledog2001
      @beagledog2001 8 місяців тому +1

      My uncle (1920-2002) fought under him, too. He said he was difficult, but he liked him very much.

  • @everything_mania
    @everything_mania 7 місяців тому +15

    There are people that have speculated that Patton may have been suffering from some sort of illness or even brain damage toward the end of WWII. Patton had famously suffered numerous concussions in his life having been thrown from his horse a number of times. Brigadier General Oscar Koch, Patton's intelligence officer supposedly stated that Patton seemed confused at times after the war. It's all speculation but it would explain a lot of his erratic behavior.

  • @johann428
    @johann428 3 роки тому +393

    My grandfather met him and shook his hand in Stockholm one month before he died.

    • @ajmpatriot4899
      @ajmpatriot4899 3 роки тому +17

      Your grandfather killed Patton?
      Lol

    • @ken_caminiti
      @ken_caminiti 3 роки тому +19

      Does your grandfather celebrate hannukah?

    • @JonatasAdoM
      @JonatasAdoM 3 роки тому +6

      Hope he didn't carry an umbrella with him

    • @kantenklaus9753
      @kantenklaus9753 3 роки тому +3

      My grandfather married A. Hitler and Eva Braun in the Berlin bunker.

    • @davidmullan2217
      @davidmullan2217 3 роки тому +4

      @@kantenklaus9753 calling bs

  • @smc9108
    @smc9108 3 роки тому +108

    My grandfather who served in WWII went to his grave insisting Patton was terminated. By whom was one of his favorite topics to discuss

    • @canadianmmaguy7511
      @canadianmmaguy7511 3 роки тому +15

      Gods chosen people?

    • @jorgemoll5994
      @jorgemoll5994 3 роки тому

      Ben Gurion...

    • @Hasdac
      @Hasdac 3 роки тому +1

      @curtis allen Zionism is the Problem UA-cam The king David's hotel bombing and The Sergeant's Affair...

    • @canadianmmaguy7511
      @canadianmmaguy7511 3 роки тому +1

      @curtis allen with all due respect, hasn't britain been a vassel of the rothschilds since the bank of london? So gods chosen people

    • @canadianmmaguy7511
      @canadianmmaguy7511 3 роки тому

      @Robert Freisler sabbatai zevi sir?

  • @parabola8933
    @parabola8933 7 місяців тому +7

    His home was around the corner from my childhood home in San Marino CA. We got to tour it when I was a kid. My grandfather fought under him at the end of the war in The Rhineland Campaign. It seems to me that he was possibly assassinated because he understood the workings of the Kazarian Mafia.

  • @paulthomson2288
    @paulthomson2288 8 місяців тому +15

    When your general behaves and speaks the type of language of the enemy with whom you are at war and begins to act on own motives outside supreme command, there is one hell of a serious problem.

  • @jeremiahkivi4256
    @jeremiahkivi4256 3 роки тому +427

    You don't just end up 50 miles from where you are supposed to be when you are on duty. I think allegations of foul play are at minimum warranted.

    • @chinggiskhuree5748
      @chinggiskhuree5748 3 роки тому +3

      Absolutely! BTW if you're related to Heidi & Andrea, I went to grade school with them! 💝

    • @LesSharp
      @LesSharp 3 роки тому +4

      I don't know. I thought quite a bit of malarkey was tolerated, with the war just being won and all.

    • @brentfarvors192
      @brentfarvors192 3 роки тому +29

      More than that, car accidents typically don't cause pulmonary edema, or heart failure...Especially when it was not even present at the time of the crash; Immediately diagnosed with only a Stethoscope...Literally the FIRST LESSON in medical school! MURDER! What DOES cause pulmonary edema/heart failure; POISONING!

    • @brentfarvors192
      @brentfarvors192 3 роки тому +21

      @@LesSharp Not "that" kind of malarkey; He realized the TRUTH; Banksters, and crooks start wars to send OTHER PEOPLES KID'S to DIE for a PROFIT! That's why the "fools" comment...Mothers get their children back in boxes( If they are lucky), and a few very rich men, get even RICHER off of their blood! Name a SINGLE modern POLITICIAN that carried a rifle in the war that they started? NONE!

    • @chinggiskhuree5748
      @chinggiskhuree5748 3 роки тому +10

      @@brentfarvors192 You've nailed it squarely, Brent. I always said "The CFR only plan wars; they never fight in them." I'm guessing you are familiar with the Council on Foreign Relations, hmm? 😭😒🐍

  • @brazilian22cmDick
    @brazilian22cmDick 3 роки тому +645

    “we fought the wrong enemy”.
    This is the reason

    • @dragosstanciu9866
      @dragosstanciu9866 3 роки тому +19

      But the Nazis hated the USA.

    • @brothertom5909
      @brothertom5909 3 роки тому +180

      A bankers war

    • @IRM2
      @IRM2 3 роки тому +99

      @@dragosstanciu9866 Not its people, just the politics.

    • @pedropedro58er
      @pedropedro58er 3 роки тому +84

      He knew who the real enemy was just as captain Archibald Ramsey did.

    • @pedropedro58er
      @pedropedro58er 3 роки тому +40

      @@dragosstanciu9866 no just who was running the USA, 😉

  • @BillMcSwain
    @BillMcSwain 3 місяці тому +76

    20 miles an hour, a broken neck, and a huge laceration on his head? Sounds a little fishy to me.

    • @dikferrari1396
      @dikferrari1396 3 місяці тому +13

      Have you ever hit your head while going at 20 mph? 😅 I guess not.

    • @peaceonearth351
      @peaceonearth351 3 місяці тому +4

      Patton ordered the medical staff to pull the plug on the ventilator that was keeping him alive. In 1945 they did not know how to fix a broken spine and with Patton being a General, he knew the injury was untreatable. Shortly after a Doctor figured out a way to fuse the spine of someone with a SCI (Spinal Cord Injury). That's why there are paraplegics and quadriplegics today.

    • @cutterpatterson6368
      @cutterpatterson6368 3 місяці тому +15

      Remember this was before the days of seat belts and air bags. A minor car accident today was no laughing matter back then. Also, coming to a sudden stop even at 20 mph can launch people.

    • @BillMcSwain
      @BillMcSwain 3 місяці тому

      @@dikferrari1396 yes

    • @happilyham6769
      @happilyham6769 3 місяці тому +8

      What's fishy is that no one was charged and the accident was considered a fender bender.
      In reality a drunk driver destroyed a car carrying a 4 star general. Eventually resulting in his death.

  • @Teresa-ih4sn
    @Teresa-ih4sn 8 місяців тому +8

    I always like to hit like for comments made but, Dr. Mark this is an all day job with your videos. Hope you realize how enjoyed they are!!

  • @davidhemsworth4098
    @davidhemsworth4098 3 роки тому +116

    The motor accident seems neither here nor there, but the sudden deterioration in hospital could stand dilating on

    • @NoNo-fy3kr
      @NoNo-fy3kr 3 роки тому +5

      Indeed.. And yet.. Mark here seems to dismiss the possibility out of hand.

    • @djpy6574
      @djpy6574 3 роки тому +5

      I believe you are right. The accident was caused by drunkeness and misfortune but why were the soldiers driving drunk not punished? He was recovering in the hospital AND PLANNED TO WRITE A BOOK DENOUNCING THE USA GIVING UP EASTERN EUROPE TO THE RUSSIAN SOVIET BOLSHEVIKS!
      Warmonger U.S. Pres. Truman who used A bombs on behalf of Joe Stalin against Japan twice and hoped to get the U.K. to do it again would have been hurt by Gen. Patton's allegations against his administration and the USSR wanted him dead! Poison to do him in in the hospital is a reasonable suspicion!

    • @fluffy1931
      @fluffy1931 3 роки тому +2

      @@djpy6574 keep sniffing wood glue, sparky.

    • @leezaslofsky4438
      @leezaslofsky4438 3 роки тому +1

      @@djpy6574 Patton's book would have been one of many produced by the right wingers in America, along with many articles and broadcasts. His opinion was not unusual. He was part of a loud but not very numerous faction who regretted the alliance with the USSR and would probably have been happier fighting alongside Hitler.
      But Hitler declared war on the US, so he outsmarted himself and made it impossible for the right wing to argue against fighting him. Another bold gamble by Hitler than went badly wrong.

    • @gyderian9435
      @gyderian9435 2 місяці тому

      The guy is a historian, he makes videos about things he can verify actually happened. If he starts giving light to conspiracy theories he would lose his credibility

  • @FFEMTB08
    @FFEMTB08 3 роки тому +428

    Patton wasn’t wrong about the Soviets... look how out of control they were at the end of and after WW2.

    • @lawsonj39
      @lawsonj39 3 роки тому +24

      They were also traumatized by Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union, and America's heavy involvement in Europe after the war aroused a lot of very understandable paranoia on the part of the Russians.

    • @patrickmorrissey3084
      @patrickmorrissey3084 3 роки тому +7

      @@Diabetic_Chicken69 Had it not already been agreed upon that Greece would fall under the American and British spheres of influence?

    • @lavillablanca
      @lavillablanca 3 роки тому +39

      Winston Churchill tried, to no avail, to make FDR see the threat of the Russian Commies. After an all day meeting with Stalin, Churchill asked him about starving the Ukrainians and Stalin shrugged it off. See Churchill: A Life by Martin S. Gilbert.

    • @white-dragon4424
      @white-dragon4424 3 роки тому +80

      @@lawsonj39 Stalin and his Commies were WORSE than the Nazis. They murdered many more millions in the gulags than the Nazis did in the death camps. Stalin was also more unhinged than Hitler was. The only difference were their victims.

    • @Safelanding2
      @Safelanding2 3 роки тому +14

      @@white-dragon4424 yeah and if Hitler got his holding in Soviet territory like he wanted the genocides there would be far worse than that is I would say the nazis were worse by a lot except for Stalin we was quite close for the atrocities

  • @marcotelli1601
    @marcotelli1601 5 місяців тому +6

    One thing for sure is hes the only person that died from an accident in back seat of a Cadillac at 20 mph.

  • @f4ust85
    @f4ust85 Рік тому +947

    Here in the Czech republic he is a legendary and respected figure to this day for his anti-soviet stance and attempt to push eastwards and liberate the country before Soviets do. Of course his role and the fact that he got all the way to Pilsen, refuting the idea that Central Europe was liberated entirely by Russians, was covered up and virtually illegal to say for 45 years. During the communist era, there was even a widely known underground rock song that goes "I insist that Pilsen was liberated by Patton".

    • @r.menzel8020
      @r.menzel8020 10 місяців тому +50

      My father ended WWII in Pilsen. I'm guessing he must have been with Patton after reading your comment. He was a 2nd lieutenant. He had an indian head insignia patch on his shoulder.

    • @petergorman361
      @petergorman361 8 місяців тому

      @@sambankman-Zelensky

    • @iwanttosleep5053
      @iwanttosleep5053 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@sambankman-Zelensky🤦🏽‍♀️...

    • @franceyneireland1633
      @franceyneireland1633 8 місяців тому +15

      @f4ust85 You might want to consider looking up Operational Unthinkable which wasn't released till 1998. Winston pushed for this in about June 1945 ( a square deal for Poland) likely to enforce at the time the recently signed Yalta Agreement. There was Polish and Czech fighter pilots who helped defend Britain in the Battle of Britain who had escaped their own countries when they had fallen to Germany. In June 1941 Hitler ordered Operation Barbarossa to invaded the Soviets, Stalin turned to the allies for help, Stalin agreed to release the Polish military Stalin had in prisons since Stalin invaded Poland to fight under British against the Germans, Stalin agreed then there would be an independent Poland. Only when Germany surrendered when the Polish men who returned to Poland were persecuted, jailed and killed by the Soviets. The Soviets couldn't be trusted then, the same for the Russians today.

    • @f4ust85
      @f4ust85 8 місяців тому +7

      @@franceyneireland1633 I am of course well aware of that and find it equally bizarre and hilarious. The sheer idea that he (Churchill) could have any kind of military success against the Red Army machine in mid-1945 when he had one third of the forces on the continent was absurd. Moreover, the Poles that Stalin still mentioned in political talks were long burried in Katyn or dying in forced-labour farms in Kazakhstan, he simply didnt want to admit that he wiped them off, read Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder for details.
      But the idea that "hot" conflict is inevitable and approaching has been actively promoted in Central Europe until mid-1950s by Western media such as Radio Liberty/Free Europe/Voice of America and even led to various unfortunate excesses and local uprisings that of course in turn recieved zero western support and were destined to fail. People in early 1950s really expected its a matter of months. A good example are the Mašín brothers who set up an underground network and literally blasted their way into West Germany with guns in their hands and joined US special forces, wanting to soon return on an American tank - only to be bitterly disappointed that no such plans or eventuality ever existed and it was all just propaganda and empty posturing. They havent returned to this day.

  • @keiththomas3141
    @keiththomas3141 2 роки тому +185

    Why do records always go missing? If there wasn't something to hide then the records would still be there.

    • @leezaslofsky4438
      @leezaslofsky4438 2 роки тому +4

      Nothing to hide. Missing paperwork is common in all bureaucracies.

    • @mizzouranger134
      @mizzouranger134 2 роки тому +4

      That’s just simply not true… it was the middle of a war records are not the top priority by a long shot. Also damage time and human error always account for the vast majority of lost records.

    • @leezaslofsky4438
      @leezaslofsky4438 2 роки тому

      @@mizzouranger134 There were plenty of witnesses who saw the accident, who cared for Patton in hospital.
      If someone deliberately got rid of any records to cover up a serious crime, that person could have been severely punished if found. Why would anyone risk that?

    • @oregrug2201
      @oregrug2201 2 роки тому +10

      @@leezaslofsky4438 You definitely have some sort of emotional attachment to this. I've seen so many paragraphs (including a massive essay of yours on an above comment) about all of this. "If someone deliberately got rid of any records to cover up a serious crime, that person could have been severely punished if found. Why would anyone risk that?" Why do people commit any crimes at all? Money. OR like in your case... ideology, the same reason you're obsessed with this comment section. Because human beings have a Will to Power and will exercise their agendas no matter what.

    • @cl570
      @cl570 2 роки тому +4

      Let me remind you that during WW2 we almost killed the president on board a battleship because the crew accidentally loaded live torpedoes. On top of this, Kennedy's brain is still missing. So is it really not that hard to say that these things just.. happen?

  • @donaldrice5281
    @donaldrice5281 2 місяці тому +10

    General Patton was murdered is without question. His history of saying what he thought with little regard for the consequences is what brought about his demise.

  • @arthurmorgan3180
    @arthurmorgan3180 4 місяці тому +8

    Ok but can we appreciate that cool ass helmet he’s always wearing, just seems very iconic to me

  • @tomek9966
    @tomek9966 3 роки тому +348

    As a Pole I have to agree with Patton - we have lost the war...

    • @istoppedcaring6209
      @istoppedcaring6209 3 роки тому +29

      The way the Poles were done in was unacceptable and the way we put remembrance over history has to end

    • @japeking1
      @japeking1 3 роки тому +20

      If the Germans had won, you wouldn't be a Pole. You wouldn't be. And nor would I.

    • @paulcoleman5512
      @paulcoleman5512 3 роки тому +32

      @@japeking1 Hear me out on this but perhaps the op was referring to Patton's statements as being defensive of Western (European) civilization and vehemently anti communist. Look at the state of the US as well as Western Europe, especially with the mass migration and changing demographics. These people are no longer hiding their hatred towards us.

    • @japeking1
      @japeking1 3 роки тому +16

      @@paulcoleman5512 "These people are no longer hiding their hatred towards us." Which people? And who are "us"?
      Throughout history all societies have grown, flowered, then faded. Demise always feels sad but is in fact just a stage in an ongoing process which we can do little to direct. And so far the attempts to direct society have been disastrous ( Sparta being a prime example, but Fascism, Communism, Xianity, and Nazism being other more recent glaring failures.)

    • @paulcoleman5512
      @paulcoleman5512 3 роки тому +35

      @@japeking1 Which people? I'm pretty sure you know what their ethnicity and religion is. I'll give you a hint 'Bergs, Steins' etc. Every anti white article I've read, as well as NGO's whom promote and actually bring migrants from the third world are of that tribe. Also the West is currently being murdered shall we say. Diversity isn't a strength by any means, it has completely destroyed any and all cohesion that once used to exist. In order to get a better picture of what's coming and the future these 'elites' want try and watch a UA-cam channel titled "Way of the World".

  • @Dan-gg8fk
    @Dan-gg8fk 9 місяців тому +188

    My late uncle Adrien Gagnon from New Hampshire is buried in the same small American Cemetery in Hamm Luxembourg that Gen. Patton is buried in. I visited the cemetery in 1975 as an American US Army soldier. My uncle died in action on January 1, 1945 during the Battle of the Bulge. May God grant peace to the fine soldiers buried there.

    • @Ellecram
      @Ellecram 4 місяці тому +10

      I went there this year. Very calm, beautiful place.

    • @Dan-gg8fk
      @Dan-gg8fk 4 місяці тому +9

      It is a nice resting place for those brave men. Local families 'adopted' gravesites and placed flowers on them regularly as thanks to those who died liberating their country from occupation.@@Ellecram

    • @Ellecram
      @Ellecram 4 місяці тому +6

      @@Dan-gg8fk Very interesting to know. Thank you for your reply.

  • @robertladue7647
    @robertladue7647 7 місяців тому +3

    It must be kept in mind, there is no one that is invulnerable, everyone is replaceable.

  • @MadrasArsenal
    @MadrasArsenal 3 місяці тому +8

    Just imagine how differently things would have been had he lived.

    • @igiveyoublue5108
      @igiveyoublue5108 3 місяці тому +3

      @@EuropathelastbattleDOTnet- Nice website/documentary 👍

    • @leonconnelly5303
      @leonconnelly5303 2 місяці тому

      Nothing would have changed

  • @beth6252
    @beth6252 3 роки тому +462

    I was surprised to find his snow covered grave in an American cemetery in Europe. Luxembourg, I think. Beautiful place.

    • @SeemsFutileNow
      @SeemsFutileNow 3 роки тому +13

      Glad you visited his Grave.

    • @bogusmogus9551
      @bogusmogus9551 3 роки тому +26

      Yes, did you happen to notice the German cemetery opposite?
      At least he is buried next to his friends and foe. Like he wished, and not in Arlington.

    • @FormerGovernmentHuman
      @FormerGovernmentHuman 3 роки тому +4

      Samu Crow
      It seems Patton himself may have agreed if that quote tumbling around the internet is authentic.

    • @ProfShibe
      @ProfShibe 3 роки тому +4

      @@samucrow7564 They killed our people first and declared war on us first. We obviously were supporting the communists, but they shot first when they shouldn't have.
      Shame.

    • @LeatherCladVegan
      @LeatherCladVegan 3 роки тому +2

      You'd think one would remember such a discovery, in such a 'beautiful' place, with a little more precision than 'Luxemburg, I think'.

  • @matthewjay660
    @matthewjay660 3 роки тому +191

    Dr. Mark, I have never heard Patton’s voice before. Thank-you for this! I’ve only ever had to image his voice like George C. Scott’s portrayal.

    • @BadWebDiver
      @BadWebDiver 3 роки тому +7

      Yeah, his real voice is quite a revelation. A little more high pitched and nasally than what I imagined.

    • @lallen4999
      @lallen4999 3 роки тому +2

      His voice sounds effeminate

    • @briankistner4331
      @briankistner4331 3 роки тому +4

      @@BadWebDiver George.... HE IS Patton!! (sorry!!) I find the real one a bit of a disappointment. His voice and his stature just don't measure up to George C. Scott.

    • @stevearno100
      @stevearno100 3 роки тому +11

      sounds a bit like Donald Trump - even has the same lip movements

    • @andygossard4293
      @andygossard4293 3 роки тому +1

      It was reminiscent of cartoonist Mel blanc and absolutely nothing like gcs

  • @paulmoore120
    @paulmoore120 6 місяців тому +2

    These presentations are just wonderful.

  • @abominationdesolation8322
    @abominationdesolation8322 3 місяці тому +18

    Murder. He talked about the wrong people, places, and things. Got shut up for good. Wasn't useful anymore. Was in fact dangerous.

  • @tedtimothy9074
    @tedtimothy9074 2 роки тому +547

    My Dad was in the Army during WW2. He was in North Africa. One day he was sitting on the ground with his back against a tree. General Patton approached. My Dad started to get up. Patton said, don't. By the way, my Dad was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action. He very rarely talked about it, but I read the citation. He was a hero. This was before cell phones.They communicated by wire. My Dad laid the wire. From the Citation, his unit was under heavy fire. The enemy kept shooting out the communication line. His unit was , in effect, isolated. They were in a forward position, under heavy fire with no outside communication. My Dad found a way around the shooting.. He laid the wire and was able to restore contact with the main unit

    • @kubaAk47
      @kubaAk47 2 роки тому +6

      Im a hero too

    • @Hosidius
      @Hosidius 2 роки тому +41

      @@kubaAk47 your generation is cut from a different cloth... is it because you came out of the closet? So heroic

    • @kubaAk47
      @kubaAk47 2 роки тому +7

      @@Hosidius Everybody who is wearing uniform in this country is automaticly a hero. Dont you know that? Dont you wach fox news?

    • @soundinsight1076
      @soundinsight1076 2 роки тому +1

      I was in ww2 as well full stop.

    • @williamweir2744
      @williamweir2744 2 роки тому +3

      @@kubaAk47 say who

  • @vladpavlo
    @vladpavlo 3 роки тому +697

    " We've defeated the wrong enemy "
    -- General George S. Patton Jr

    • @anasevi9456
      @anasevi9456 3 роки тому +36

      he was an ideologue, he would have fought in the white army had he been born 20 years prior.

    • @joaobordini3903
      @joaobordini3903 3 роки тому +104

      @@anasevi9456 He would? Now I like him even more

    • @davidpowell6098
      @davidpowell6098 3 роки тому +171

      He admitted ,once the German surrendered, he wanted to re arm them, join the allied forces to them , and defeat the Russians .I wonder what this world be like if that
      would have happened. I will always believe he was murdered.

    • @TheGravitywerks
      @TheGravitywerks 3 роки тому +82

      @@davidpowell6098 he was aware of Stalins purge of millions, prior to WW2

    • @ruffkuntry2574
      @ruffkuntry2574 3 роки тому +52

      @@davidpowell6098 America could have gotten the Japanese on board against the communist as well invading Russia from the east.

  • @dirtyharrydefeatsislamblmt6900
    @dirtyharrydefeatsislamblmt6900 7 місяців тому +4

    No negative reprimands , demotions , fines , penalties for drunk Sargeant who drove into his Patrons staff car😡😡😡

  • @robertgrim1761
    @robertgrim1761 5 місяців тому +2

    Great work, I love the reporting and view.

  • @DeltaV3
    @DeltaV3 3 роки тому +370

    If ever a man deserved to have over 1 mil subscribers it is Felton. A living legend.

    • @billyc9707
      @billyc9707 3 роки тому +6

      I always refer him whenever I watch any war documentaries. Nobody complained or said a bad word yet. I'm so glad I discovered this channel. Made quarantine easier for sure

    • @tashahatzidakis5680
      @tashahatzidakis5680 3 роки тому +2

      I’ll be back

    • @JiveDadson
      @JiveDadson 3 роки тому +1

      So it's not Pewdiepie. Interesting.

    • @mohammadfarooqi6255
      @mohammadfarooqi6255 3 роки тому +1

      Nazi lover he is loving Himmler and Goering etc.

    • @mohammadfarooqi6255
      @mohammadfarooqi6255 3 роки тому +1

      He loves Nazis Felton

  • @deborahkelly1489
    @deborahkelly1489 3 роки тому +192

    My dad was a pilot and served in three wars . WW2, Korean and Vietnam. He served 33 years and loss many of his friends. He was on the corner of the street when General Patton funeral procession passed by . He had several stories of Patton , several of the same things this professor has talked about. I love the work this professor does. Everything he puts out is interesting. I love history especially European history and WW2 history.
    My dad is 94 and is still taking care of his own business.

    • @ken_caminiti
      @ken_caminiti 3 роки тому +6

      Does your dad know we fought the wrong enemy?

    • @deborahkelly1489
      @deborahkelly1489 3 роки тому +3

      @@ken_caminiti I have no idea.

    • @zaramby
      @zaramby 3 роки тому +8

      @@deborahkelly1489 I hope he's doing alright! Fighting the wrong enemy or not, he was defending his country.

    • @deborahkelly1489
      @deborahkelly1489 3 роки тому +6

      @@zaramby Thank you very much he is doing great. I hope to go down to Florida when I get back on my feet from surgery. You have a good day/ evening.🙂

    • @extzy7851
      @extzy7851 3 роки тому +2

      @@deborahkelly1489 your dad is still alive????

  • @Deeplycloseted435
    @Deeplycloseted435 3 місяці тому +3

    A drunk solider 50 miles from his post, crashes into a general, who eventually dies from his injuries, and what happened to Thompson the driver?

  • @Uwort
    @Uwort 7 місяців тому +2

    Patton knew what he was doing. He lived his life. Did a job. Then he left. His delivery is so Donald

  • @raoulchapman7310
    @raoulchapman7310 3 роки тому +77

    My Grandfather served under Patton. Always had high praise for him. Told me about Patton personally pinning on his Purple Heart, then telling him to "Get up off your ass and get back to work!". Grandad always chuckled when he told that story.

    • @David-yo5ws
      @David-yo5ws 3 роки тому +12

      Your like a breath of fresh air! Nice to read some facts. All this other BS in the comments was fouling my lungs.
      I am living a life of 'comparative' freedom, because of men like your Grandfather and Patton. Praise to them both.

    • @C0wb0yBebop
      @C0wb0yBebop 3 роки тому +1

      Patton’s men HATED him. With a passion.
      I’m not sure your grandpa remembers it correctly or perhaps time and nostalgia has modified his opinion. His men feared him more than the enemy.

    • @David-yo5ws
      @David-yo5ws 3 роки тому +17

      @@C0wb0yBebop What a fn liberty. Telling someone you don't know, how their Grandpa (who you also don't know) just might have got his memories crossed, about a war that you never fought in.
      What a T.W.A.T you are!

    • @thievingdisc779
      @thievingdisc779 3 роки тому +13

      @@C0wb0yBebop ah yes so you are the representative of all the men who served under him throughout the entire war? Didn’t think so.

    • @raoulchapman7310
      @raoulchapman7310 3 роки тому +7

      You'd had to have met my Grandfather. He was a bigger hardass than Patton ever could've been.
      I'm sure that some of his men hated him. Maybe most, I wasn't there. He certainly didn't seem to care much about the butcher's bill.
      But those same traits that caused people to dislike him endeared him to others.
      My grandfather was a hard-nosed, hard driving, often angry man. I did/do love him but his children didn't like him much.

  • @robertwidby2205
    @robertwidby2205 Рік тому +114

    The “accident” didn’t kill anyone else but Gen. Patton. That fact alone is suspicious. Were his injuries survivable? Then, he improved only to take a turn for the worse. Maybe it was a stroke of bad luck, but the missing details of the wreck add to suspicion. And all the other factors, and no autopsy. One of those things we’ll never know for sure, but it doesn’t sound right.

  • @hobartw9770
    @hobartw9770 8 місяців тому +3

    Like many of us, Patton lacked a filter.

  • @safarygirl
    @safarygirl 9 днів тому

    My mom was in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp Payton’s Army liberated. Her name is listed in a book written by another surviving prisoner who was a lawyer educated enough to write it “Greek Women in Nazi Camps” What she described in that book is what my mother described.The only difference is the author was taken out of the camp in a Death March while my mother was left behind.They tried to gather and remove the prisoners but left because Pattons Army was just about there. My mother said they all got up from bed and looked out the window and saw the last German solder the older or oldest one she said he was, leaving the camp with gate open. The first thing they all did was run down to the kitchens to get food. The author of that book was on that march and survived by escaping while on that march.

  • @henryopitz3254
    @henryopitz3254 3 роки тому +834

    "We fought the wrong enemy" - General Patton.

    • @danielch6662
      @danielch6662 3 роки тому +69

      He wanted another war right after ww2, but against the Red Army. He was wrong. The US would have lost that one. Britain did not want to fight. The rest of Europe had been crushed and had nothing to fight with. The plan was to rearm the German army and use them to fight the Soviets. The same depleted German units that had been running away from the Soviets at top speed for a year. Germany had been reduced to using old men and young boys to try to defend Germany itself, and they were getting crushed like paper. Use THEM to fight the Soviets?

    • @fannybuster
      @fannybuster 3 роки тому +72

      @@danielch6662 Patton would have had the A bomb to use on Moscow

    • @Holret
      @Holret 3 роки тому +23

      @@fannybuster And how do you think those bombers would of gotten there? with Free Sky miles? The russian military had a vast air defese force.

    • @fannybuster
      @fannybuster 3 роки тому +87

      @@Holret The B29 could fly higher than and ground defense could shoot.Russia would have been toast

    • @StylesV13
      @StylesV13 3 роки тому +34

      @@michaelsmith-ec8uh We also could have attacked the Soviet Union from Japan and China. There were three million Japanese troops in China at the time. The USSR would have been fighting a war on two fronts, three if you count invading from the middle east/Iran. With the A-Bomb on our side the Soviets would have been destroyed.

  • @jamesmcgrath1952
    @jamesmcgrath1952 3 роки тому +83

    I find it interesting that when people today think of General Patton they tend to think of George C. Scott's performance but in reality Patton sounded more like Elmer Fudd lol.

    • @beefy_chud8916
      @beefy_chud8916 3 роки тому +7

      I recently watched Patton for the first time and then went and listened to the real Patton speak.....I was blown away lol

    • @boathemian7694
      @boathemian7694 3 роки тому +5

      George Scott was a brilliant actor. Patton brutalized US veterans who marched on DC to cash their war bonds. To hell with him.

    • @beefy_chud8916
      @beefy_chud8916 3 роки тому +8

      @@boathemian7694 lol okay guy......while I do not agree with everything about Patton, I still respect the man. He fought in 3 different Theatre’s of war. The Nazis feared him and for good reason, and while brash and outright dumb in some of the things he has said or believed. His ability to command troops was important to winning the war. So while he was kind of a dick, he was still a badass.

    • @jamesmcgrath1952
      @jamesmcgrath1952 3 роки тому +4

      @@boathemian7694 While Patton was there (so was Eisenhower) it was MacArthur who ignoring orders advanced on the Veterans.

    • @wallsign4575
      @wallsign4575 3 роки тому +2

      @@jamesmcgrath1952 Absolutely correct. In fact, Patton disliked the orders to oppose the vets.

  • @clamcrewcarclub6017
    @clamcrewcarclub6017 7 місяців тому +7

    Patton was a fantastic general on the macro scale, but his decisions on the micro scale such as troop etiquette, morale, and battlefield improvisations were downright dangerous

  • @Lordbigtime
    @Lordbigtime 4 місяці тому +66

    Patton was the only one that truly understood how dangerous the Soviets were. He understood that if they were not stopped while United States was on a war posture that they would dominate Europe and Asia.

    • @BrianRenardDavis
      @BrianRenardDavis 4 місяці тому +2

      Brother When You Find The Time Look Up The Heartland Theory

    • @sehu1291
      @sehu1291 4 місяці тому

      Not the only one. Google operation unthinkable

    • @BrianRenardDavis
      @BrianRenardDavis 4 місяці тому +2

      @@sehu1291 Just When I Thought It Couldn't Get Any Deeper. Time To Pour A Drink

    • @africanlipplateandbonenose3223
      @africanlipplateandbonenose3223 3 місяці тому

      Patton didn't like jews and said we fought the wrong enemy... how right he was.

    • @stoopidapples1596
      @stoopidapples1596 3 місяці тому +6

      Absolutely not the only one, the US was already on their way to preparing the cold war long before ww2 ended. The difference between Patton and many more political figures like Roosevelt was the rhetoric he used. Like seen in this video, he had a view of Russians that was similar to how the Nazis saw them, as inferior human beings, even elevating german citiens above russians. He saw communism as a threat not only because it would hurt people who lived there, but because he essentially saw it as a rival religion that must be crusaded against. This is where he went wrong, and it's absurd to me that I see so many people blindly defending him in this comment section with absolutely no regard to either this or the fact that he was essentially using his army for personal errands, and that he literally permitted the use of war crimes.

  • @elizabethpatience6523
    @elizabethpatience6523 3 роки тому +85

    My Grandfather who fought in WW1 and worked on PT boats in WW2 believed right away that Patton was taken out by the US because he was causing international issues and they knew they could never shut him up. Many of his former solider colleagues felt the same way.

    • @williamcornish3175
      @williamcornish3175 3 роки тому +25

      My uncle who served under Gen. Patton and years later the CIA in Vietnam always said the general was murdered.

    • @Amadeus117
      @Amadeus117 3 роки тому +1

      @Steve Acho shut up tankie. We all know damn well he died because of the gov

  • @brose321
    @brose321 Рік тому +143

    My father was a WWII fighter pilot in the Pacific. He was a career military officer in the USN until 1959. He always believed Patton was assasinated as opposed to an accidental death. For what its worth....

    • @Sniperboy5551
      @Sniperboy5551 Рік тому +3

      Let’s be honest here though, don’t you think that part of that may be because it’s hard to believe that a minor car accident killed a man as legendary as him? I’d be in disbelief too, but that’s because it would make me think about my own mortality even more. It’s hard to believe that a man as great as him could die in such a mundane accident.

    • @Foxtrot-jr5qu
      @Foxtrot-jr5qu Рік тому +5

      @@Sniperboy5551 It could be, since everything is possible. Some folks just are more curious than others and want to learn more if there's more, while most folks just don't care and they just bite the ''official'' story for absolutely everything and they laugh at those who are trying to find out what really happened and call them crazy conspiracy theorists. I'd rather be called a crazy conspiracy theorist, than an NPC who believes every official narrative and doesn't even try to think or to connect the events or whatever and accept it as it is. Isn't everyone who goes against the ''norm'' and what is ''accepted' called crazy? If Patton really was assassinated, what would you expect them to say? The military especially are well known for having their secrets and their favorite phrase to the public being - ''that's all you need to know''.

    • @LeeZaslofsky
      @LeeZaslofsky Рік тому +2

      My dad was a navigator in the Army Air Force, fighting in the Pacific. He understood that Patton was killed in an auto accident.

    • @JoeCitizen-gp3gf
      @JoeCitizen-gp3gf 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@@Foxtrot-jr5qu please us army known screwed killings of folks not well executed assassination . That oss or cia or nsa

    • @JoeCitizen-gp3gf
      @JoeCitizen-gp3gf 11 місяців тому

      Why because army quiet effective assignations?

  • @Rhodesian_FAL
    @Rhodesian_FAL 4 місяці тому +4

    He/his family were a friends of my great grandparents. I’m going to ask my dad if he knows any personal stories of the General.

  • @johnsexton7621
    @johnsexton7621 5 місяців тому +2

    Mac Arthur makes Hood look like a genius

  • @annereilley4892
    @annereilley4892 3 роки тому +233

    9:30 I think he misquoted patton, this is the quote I found, "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." I couldn't find the quote Felton used.

    • @archlich4489
      @archlich4489 3 роки тому +20

      Really? That changes things significantly.

    • @annereilley4892
      @annereilley4892 3 роки тому +11

      @@archlich4489 Google it, it's the only thing that comes up. I tried googling what felton wrote and that doesn't come up. It's possible he said both and what felton found is too obscure to come up.

    • @cabin_fever
      @cabin_fever 3 роки тому +26

      lol if thats the real quote i dont think i can take anything else in these vids seriously again

    • @annereilley4892
      @annereilley4892 3 роки тому +2

      @@cabin_fever I'm just saying that's the quote that comes up, page after page when I enter the keywords that Felton said. It's entirely possible he said what felton quoted, but is obscure and didn't come up in search. Try searching for it and let me know what you find.

    • @andreialexandrunichiforel3502
      @andreialexandrunichiforel3502 3 роки тому +1

      @@annereilley4892 You'd probably need to go to a library to find local articles from that day. Surely they would write about a general calling fallen troops fools.

  • @brushylake4606
    @brushylake4606 Рік тому +495

    "Nothing was said about a conspiracy until thirty years after his death." Maybe not officially, but it was a well-known and oft discussed subject amongst the veterans who served under him. My grandfather was wounded at Bastogne and believed it was a conspiracy almost from day one. He wasn't the only one. Amongst Patton's men, it was a relatively common belief. Generally, it was believed he wanted to get into politics and the powers-that-be wouldn't allow that to happen.
    I can date my grandfather's assertions personally to the late 1970s. I'm 50 years old and I know he was telling me this in 78 or 79. I know he'd never read the book, nor did he see the movie. In fact, the last movie he saw in the theater was "Patton" in 1970 or 1971. My mother said that he had told her this when she was a child in the late 50s or early 60s.

    • @vidavuk1649
      @vidavuk1649 Рік тому +36

      It is really astonishing that he died after all the war operations in car accident. It is simply not to believe.
      Probably he was dangerous for after war situation because he was not typ that you could manipulate.

    • @charlestorruella8591
      @charlestorruella8591 Рік тому +2

      your grandfather was one of Patton's men? if so tell me do you believe he was murdered or assassinated because I'm not sure about that really Patton was a hot head and got in trouble many times for his month and anger you really think anyone was worried about him don't think so

    • @brushylake4606
      @brushylake4606 Рік тому +26

      @@charlestorruella8591 I don't know. I never said anything about what I believe. Read what I said.
      The narrator said that the "Patton was murdered" accusation only became a thing thirty years after he died because of a book. That simply isn't true. I was just adding to the information that the video was conveying.
      Whether or not Patton would have been electable isn't something that I know for sure. What I do know is that a certain segment of the population idolized Patton and the political and military establishment hated him. Many of the soldiers he commanded and some civilians believed he might run and the powers that be had him eliminated.
      I think that is certainly possible, as no one in the political establishment would have wanted Patton anywhere near D.C.
      So, to answer your question, I don't know if he was murdered to prevent a possible run for office, but my grandfather and many other people believed it long before the book mentioned in the video advanced the idea.

    • @chrisdraughn5941
      @chrisdraughn5941 Рік тому +22

      @@vidavuk1649 Assassinating someone with a car accident is extremely inefficient. Especially when they survive and are sent to a hospital. A plot like that requires way too many people to be involved with it. It’s a preposterous plan, and I seriously doubt any professional assassin would come up with plan that would involve so many different points of failure and so many people that would increase the chances of it being uncovered.

    • @monicadelano256
      @monicadelano256 Рік тому

      It is what I alwayns thought

  • @Edgy01
    @Edgy01 3 місяці тому +2

    I wound up meeting his son, General George S Patton, Jr. while serving as a young officer in Germany in 1977. He was very self-centered, and just, I can only only imagine, like his father. Patton was a man that the US needed at the time. He probably shortened the war, and ultimately saved many lives. He wouldn’t have ever made general in today’s army. He might have made colonel, today. Maybe. The US uses people, and then when done with them, casts them aside. I enjoyed the movie Brass Target which certainly presented some counter theories to what might have happened. And ultimately, his early death saved Harry Truman with figuring out what to do with him.

  • @druim-nan-deur
    @druim-nan-deur 3 місяці тому +4

    Glad he finally realised who the real enemy was

  • @W1se0ldg33zer
    @W1se0ldg33zer 3 роки тому +80

    Can't imagine being jostled around in the back of one of those military ambulances with a broken neck for 50 minutes.

    • @KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking
      @KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking 3 роки тому +10

      James Dean died in a similar way. He was loaded, breathing, into a station-wagon ambulance. That ambulance got in an accident. His head slammed the bulkhead - and he (further) broke his neck.

    • @Assassino275
      @Assassino275 3 роки тому +4

      @@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking God damn

  • @TheLaundryGuy32
    @TheLaundryGuy32 2 роки тому +416

    "The difference between genius and insanity is measured only by success."
    - Elliott Carver

    • @paulherzog9605
      @paulherzog9605 2 роки тому +5

      or wealth

    • @culturalliberator9425
      @culturalliberator9425 2 роки тому +4

      That's a good quote

    • @leezaslofsky4438
      @leezaslofsky4438 2 роки тому

      You quote a James Bond movie character? Thanks.

    • @andrewmantle7627
      @andrewmantle7627 2 роки тому +1

      @@alfa-psi I think that's what was said by the commenter. Beware the authoritarian. All of them, without exception.

    • @lisalida6233
      @lisalida6233 2 роки тому +1

      Actually, no. Many corrupt @$$h0les have purloined or suppressed the work of greater, more adept and inventive, creative people. The ones who think outside the box, or shift the inside contents of "the box" are willing to be more outre' (than the
      stodgily prosaic) and thus, "ccentrics, and thus also more vulnerable to exploitation and intellectual properties Scientific discovery thefts. Boo! Lisa Rae Rousseau a.k.a. Lisa R.R.McGuire-Smith, writer, mother, wife, artist.

  • @edgeacademy7113
    @edgeacademy7113 6 місяців тому +2

    “The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World He Didn’t Exist”

  • @joshuaburns3167
    @joshuaburns3167 7 місяців тому +2

    Could you imagine Patton dealing with these kids today?

  • @amadeusamwater
    @amadeusamwater 3 роки тому +192

    I find it strange that driver of the truck wasn't charges with something.

    • @deanpd3402
      @deanpd3402 3 роки тому +33

      Grinning like a fool and he gets off Scot free

    • @dustycups
      @dustycups 3 роки тому +35

      It's pretty much just the standard way cops treated drink driving back then. "Ok mate just drive carefully back home, then tuck yourself into bed with a nice Bonox. Take the back roads next time"

    • @duke14616
      @duke14616 3 роки тому +11

      Story I heard from my Dad who was in Third Army during and post WWII. That Patton himself called off the MP's. That was what the story was at the time. Guess there was quite a bit of drunken unauthorized joy ridding going on after the war.

    • @edwardhollon3914
      @edwardhollon3914 3 роки тому +13

      In the earliest accounts of this accident ,IMMEDIATELY following the incident. PATTON directed that NO CHARGES were to be brought against the truck driver.
      I believe all this hullabalou about assination is an attempt to SELL BOOKS.

    • @duke14616
      @duke14616 3 роки тому +10

      @@edwardhollon3914 I agree about the book's. But again according to Dad, Patton had lined things up in such a way. Rearming the Germans and kicking the Soviet's butt. Could have happened easier than not. Was why Patton got transferred to 15th Army. The recovery he was experiencing in hospital, then not, is suspicious. Plus the NKVD was afraid of him. They pulled off the murder of Polish Officers in Katyan Forrest and it didn't come out till the 90's I believe. That it was true the Soviets not the Germans did that.

  • @FLV.USA.CONSTITITION.2ND.
    @FLV.USA.CONSTITITION.2ND. 3 роки тому +263

    Men like Patton are hated until you need them, then once their done with him, you hate him again!

    • @jamesbrown4092
      @jamesbrown4092 3 роки тому +4

      So true.

    • @fuzzydunlop7928
      @fuzzydunlop7928 3 роки тому +12

      Pretty much. Effective assholes never stop being assholes, they just increase their efficiency to compensate.

    • @WestSide1207
      @WestSide1207 3 роки тому

      *they're

    • @PaulabJohnson
      @PaulabJohnson 3 роки тому +3

      Exactly. Look at Bomber Harris

    • @FLV.USA.CONSTITITION.2ND.
      @FLV.USA.CONSTITITION.2ND. 3 роки тому +5

      We need more like Patton and strong military men that will stand behind men like Patton!!

  • @chuckchambers9565
    @chuckchambers9565 6 місяців тому +74

    " we fought the wrong enemy " - General Patton
    For a public figure to speak the truth, is an unforgivable act to the billionaire class.

    • @dont.ripfuller6587
      @dont.ripfuller6587 5 місяців тому

      Well, they spent quite a bit of money on black propaganda campaigns to cover up Britain's war crimes and America leveraged her position on "stopping a madman" and has thousands of sacrificed American soldiers in Hawaii to mourn, so naturally, Truth couldn't be allowed to interfere with public sentiment. Better to pin everything possible on those on the losing end.

    • @dogsaregods6748
      @dogsaregods6748 5 місяців тому

      Only the truth of a supremacist lover.

    • @Mow_Lester
      @Mow_Lester 5 місяців тому +2

      You mean unforgivable act to our Jewish overlords

    • @AllThingsCubey
      @AllThingsCubey 3 місяці тому

      How tf has this nazi comment not been removed and your accounts banned?

  • @dogbarbill
    @dogbarbill 7 місяців тому +6

    Another book not mentioned here is "Killing Patton" by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (2014). My father loaned me this book, although I have not had a chance to delve into it.

    • @BingBangBye
      @BingBangBye 4 місяці тому +2

      In my opinion, the book doesn't live up to its billing.

    • @retriever19golden55
      @retriever19golden55 3 місяці тому +1

      O'Reilly isn't much of an historian. There are better books around.

    • @jeffrorichard2765
      @jeffrorichard2765 2 місяці тому

      The Bill O’Reilly? 😂😂

    • @dogbarbill
      @dogbarbill 2 місяці тому

      @@jeffrorichard2765Yes, the one and only.

    • @BingBangBye
      @BingBangBye 2 місяці тому

      @@jeffrorichard2765 The one and only (thank god).

  • @billsmith9711
    @billsmith9711 3 роки тому +121

    My dad spoke of Patton's killing long before 1974. Many men from that time thought the same thing. no accident

    • @Android3008
      @Android3008 3 роки тому +11

      Also he's being rather condescending, he usually is above that sort of thing

    • @billsmith9711
      @billsmith9711 3 роки тому +7

      @@Android3008 - to mention first discussed in 1974 shows he is clueless.

    • @partygrove5321
      @partygrove5321 Рік тому

      @@kosmicman2011 Try being rational, you "Patton was murdered" nutz seem to forget that you lack any evidence.

  • @theodorejay1046
    @theodorejay1046 3 роки тому +55

    The truck swerving at the last minute & an ambulance just happened to be passing by is very "coincidental".

    • @RoseSharon7777
      @RoseSharon7777 3 роки тому +7

      Exactly!! There are no coincidences in life.

    • @TheGravitywerks
      @TheGravitywerks 3 роки тому +6

      Just like the serial numbered driver, of a serial numbered truck who was never found.....

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 3 роки тому +3

      I wonder if those Ambulance staff had any ties to the Bethesda Naval Hospital, where James Forrestal and Joe McCarthy were tragically lost to routine ailments.

    • @comradekenobi6908
      @comradekenobi6908 3 роки тому

      LMAO so died Yoshikage-ed 🤣

    • @David-yo5ws
      @David-yo5ws 3 роки тому

      My cousins husband was in a serious car accident. What saved his life? A car following in a line behind him, had a group of doctors coming back from a conference. They stabilised his condition and a helicopter landed in a Golf Course very close to the accident and extracted him. Just a coincidence. It happens. That's the 'luck' some people have.

  • @MasterBlaster-nz3uv
    @MasterBlaster-nz3uv 4 місяці тому +2

    Don't even need to watch this to know. We've been using the same play book since 1916 or 1865, you pick.

  • @teshua
    @teshua 5 місяців тому +3

    Ok, I'm in. My grandfather also commanded a tank unit under Patton. Somewhere in N. Italy, there was a logjam of military vehicles and he was trying to direct traffic when Patton walked up and relieved him to return to his tank. It was even in the movie

  • @georgequalls5043
    @georgequalls5043 3 роки тому +164

    I think there was speculation about Patton’s possible murder much earlier than 30 years after his death. For what it is worth, I saw it in a comic book when I was a child in the late 1950s.

    • @GhostRanger5060
      @GhostRanger5060 3 роки тому +61

      It's been a theory since the day it happened. Most people today are unaware that 1940s Americans were not the stooges today's troglodytes make them out to be. In fact, I would argue that people are more easily misled today due to the overwhelming addiction of post-modern people to electronic stimuli and fantasy/virtual living.

    • @gregb6469
      @gregb6469 3 роки тому +32

      @sosy1178 -- Yeah, Dr Felton is usually very good on history, but this time he is pushing the officially determined story. I wonder if he thinks there was nothing fishy about the 2020 election.

    • @TheSuperhoden
      @TheSuperhoden 3 роки тому +4

      You were a child in the 50's? That's amazing

    • @gregb6469
      @gregb6469 3 роки тому +15

      @@TheSuperhoden -- Why would that be amazing? There were a lot of children around in the 50s.

    • @TheSuperhoden
      @TheSuperhoden 3 роки тому +8

      @@gregb6469 yes, but not many 70+ year old people are on UA-cam

  • @MWcrazyhorse
    @MWcrazyhorse 3 роки тому +181

    note: If you are an important political/ military figure NEVER go on any "hunting trips"...

    • @ashokafulcrum4795
      @ashokafulcrum4795 3 роки тому +30

      But if you are a young soldier on a joyride, riding an army truck 50 miles from where you actually had to travel,..
      You can have as many accidents as you want. No charge will ever be filed,...

    • @Ulvetann
      @Ulvetann 3 роки тому +12

      Reminds me of Dick Cheney. Never stand next to him if he handles a shotgun.

    • @homelessEh
      @homelessEh 3 роки тому +1

      basically every big wig should avoid hunting.. would You miss a chance to Hunting Accident nancy peloci? i wouldnt ..soo we dont hunt here lol safer for every one..

    • @Wuestenkarsten
      @Wuestenkarsten 3 роки тому

      @Honkler Bear: ....or never enter an Invitation to be driven in a Cabriolet, especially in Dallas....;-)

    • @Jupiter__001_
      @Jupiter__001_ 3 роки тому +1

      EUIV flashbacks to max stat heirs dying in hunting accidents...

  • @barbaradoolin4514
    @barbaradoolin4514 7 місяців тому +3

    My father a WWII vet HATED him!

  • @dougnockles29
    @dougnockles29 7 місяців тому +1

    I'm glad Mark stated that in fact Gen. Patton struck not one, but two, soldiers with the first being hushed up by accompanying members of the press as not to cause a controversy and he received a Mulligan of sorts. One of the two soldiers Patton slapped as a "coward" was in fact suffering from malaria whether he (the soldier) knew it or not and was in fact a casualty by any definition. Another part of the story that is untold is that Patton himself broke down and began weeping profusely and became almost catatonic during the incident and some believe Patton suffered from, PTSD and possibly early onset CTE due to numerous head injuries he suffered in his service...

    • @AllThingsCubey
      @AllThingsCubey 3 місяці тому

      If I recall he also drew his revolver on the second man

  • @misterguy9002
    @misterguy9002 7 місяців тому +1

    Patton was utterly brutal to his enemies AND his fellow friends and troops. The man had a target on his back from every angle after the war.