Excellent but highly p.c. and censored. I resented the ludicrous “Russian”-bashing when it was the Soviets (many of them non-Russians and anti-Russians) and their toxic ideology that caused mass murder. There was total silence on his very strong antisemitism.
Yes, the truck incident was indeed an accident, but certainly NOT his death in hospital, with his wife prohibited from seeing him as if she were the wife of a private!! He was at the mercy of Eisenhower — who wanted to be p.c. and then become president, exactly as Patton had predicted, even if that political correctness meant allowing bloodthirsty communism to conquer and enslave half the world.
Communism is based on the kibbutz system.the founders of communism were mostly jews. Marx,Engles,Lenin,Trotsky (Bernstein) and a host of other jews .A New York Jewish consortium led by Jewish Jacob Schiff funded the 1917 Bolsheviks revolution. In exchange for Russian mineral wealth. Since 1920 it was the jewish /soviet goal to export global communism via bloody and violent revolution. AH was the antidote to communism and it jewish members.
https://thevision.com/cultura/patton-prigionieri-italiani/
Transl:
WHEN PATTON ORDERED THE KILLING OF 71 ITALIAN PRISONERS, AND NO ONE EVER PAID FOR IT
FROM NICOLÒ ZULIANI 2 APRIL 2019
Giuseppe Giannola was born in Palermo in 1917, in a Sicily where the mafia and sharecroppers share power, condemning it to economic backwardness. At eighteen, Giuseppe is frail, he resembles Fred Astaire, with a slight smile and narrow shoulders. He is recalled for military service and after the Car is sent to the Air Force. It is 1929.
Horace West was born in Oklahoma in 1911. His family is poor and survives by harvesting cotton. After the First World War, the United States enters the Roaring Twenties . At seventeen Horace is a huge man, with powerful arms that are the fruit of work in the fields and in 1928 he moved to New York in search of fortune. He found a job as a cook in a prestigious hotel, but with the Wall Street financial crash of 1929 he became one of the millions of Americans to lose their jobs.
In Italy, Benito Mussolini enjoys the consent of the majority of Italians: the citizens idolize him because he has defeated the communist threat, the peasants because they feel represented and recognized, while many of the opponents begin to re-evaluate his work in the government. After all, the Italian economy is starting up again, leaving behind the hunger of the First World War. The lira was revalued to ninety , the savings of citizens are protected and protectionist duties for the national economy have increased. On the morning of October 24, 1929screams are heard from the New York Stock Exchange building. Thousands of citizens flock to understand what is happening, while men and women jump out of the windows of the buildings. Businessmen and dishwashers cry embraced, there are litter and screams all over Wall Street. The newspapers publish an extraordinary edition: the speculation bubble has burst, and the stock market has burned 25 billion dollars in 1929, or 368 billion today. Thousands of banks fail and millions of Americans lose their cars, homes, jobs and life savings at the same time. Among them there is also Horace.
Crowds pour into the streets following the Wall Street stock market crash, New York, 1929
Horace, with his wife and two children, lives years of hunger and misery. At 29, driven by a ferocious desire for social redemption, he enlisted in the Alabama National Guard. From there he asks for the passage to the infantry. The US has decided to get involved in the Second World War against the Axis forces and has a huge need for men, also enlisting the less young and those with less suitable psyches. In the dormitories, in the canteen, Horace is remembered by everyone as a “madman”. When he arrived in sight of the coasts of Sicily in 1943 he was 33 years old.
For some days the Sicilian peasants have suggested to military relatives to desert. The Americans are coming, they say, and they are unbeatable. Many deserted, but Giuseppe Giannola, stationed at the Santo Pietro military airport, near Caltagirone, remained. On July 10, General Patton and General Montgomery start Operation Husky, to free Italy from the Nazis. The order Patton gives to the soldiers is clear: ” Kill, kill, and kill some more .” For Patton, you don’t have to take prisoners. The Americans landed in Gela on 10 July 1943. Patton instructs the 45th Thunderbird division to break through the Italo-German lines.
Some American soldiers drive through the streets of Palermo following Operation Husky, 1943
On July 14th there is a fierce battle near the airport where Giuseppe is located. The Italian soldiers, for the most part from Brescia, and Germans resisted the allies for two days. After 48 hours they are hammered by a firestorm: Operation Husky is a war machine that has deployed more than 160,000 men, 1,800 landing craft, 600 tanks and almost 5,000 aircraft. At dawn, Giuseppe and the others give up.
At ten in the morning, Giuseppe, another 4, 2 Italians and three Germansthey are grouped as prisoners of war by the Americans. First Battalion Commander Major Roger Denman orders Horace and seven other military men to take them to the rear of the airport, away from the road so that they are inconspicuous, to deliver them to the waiting military intelligence officer. to question them. Horace makes them take off their shirt and shoes so that escape is more difficult, then escorted by his men he sets off. After a kilometer, Horace swerves off the road, and after a hundred meters he stops the group: he instructs a soldier to choose nine prisoners to send to intelligence, then he arranges the others in line and asks Sergeant Haskell Y. Brown to lend him his Thompson submachine gun.
General George Patton
Haskell should obey without saying a word, instead he asks what to do with us. Horace replies ” kill those motherfuckers “. Haskell hands over the weapon, Horace tells the soldiers to turn around if they don’t want to see and then empties the clip on the prisoners, including Joseph. A bullet smashes his wrist, then he collapses among the other bodies that flinch from the blows and fall on top of him. Horace reloads, reaches the pile of boys and finishes the ones who are still breathing.
But Giuseppe is still alive. It remains hidden under the bodies of the comrades for two and a half hours. When he is convinced that he is alone he pushes his way through the bodies using his whole hand and pulls himself out. He just has time to see an American soldier point his rifle at him, then it goes all black. Half an hour later, Giuseppe raises his head. The American’s bullet just grazed him. He gets up from the pile of corpses, wounded and soaked in blood; he begins to walk towards his country, with the Sicilian sun pounding his bare shoulders and his feet being stripped of the pebbles. After a couple of kilometers he stops to rest under a tree, when he sees a jeep on the road. It has the red cross on the hood. Joseph is too weak to get up or hide, but the three men on board see him and pull over. They are Americans.They give him first aid and tell him to wait on the side of the road and that they will come to pick him up. Another jeep approaches, on board there are three American soldiers: initially they think it is one of them, but when they understand that he is Italian one of the three pulls out a Garand and shoots him in the neck.
Two British Red Cross soldiers rush him to the military hospital and Joseph, no one knows how, survives. When he tells his story and identifies Horace, nobody believes him, neither the authorities, nor his relatives, nor the journalists. The other Italians killed were from Brescia, men whose families were far away and nobody knew them. They are reported missing. It is only the merit of a military parish priest if Joseph’s testimony is taken seriously, while the air force was about to try him for desertion. At first, General Patton minimizes the incident and says not to divulge it so as not to ruin the narrative of the Allies, then when he discovers that the story is true he orders “try that bastard”. On September 2, West is court-martialed in secret.He pleads not guilty of temporary insanity. In one day he is degraded and sentenced to life imprisonment, but on November 23, 1944 the sentence is re-examined and Horace is reinstated in the army for all purposes.
In Sicily the years pass, the war ends, the wounds heal, but no one believes the story of Giuseppe, not even his children. Meanwhile Horace has returned to the US, honorably discharged, and will die in Oklahoma in 1974, aged 63. Giuseppe no, he continues to insist, to show the places of the massacre and to tell that story. It is only thanks to a senator of the PDL (and historian), Andrea Augello, if that story becomes known in 2004. Giuseppe is 87 years old, but he has time to see the commemoration and the monument placed in the same place where the Allies several years earlier they had killed him three times, without success. The Vice President of the European Parliament, Roberta Angelilli, who brings the words of President Martin Schulz, and the Vice President of the Italian Senate Domenico Nania, were present at the ceremony in July 2012.but no representative of US institutions. Schulz, in his speechHe says: “The barbarism of the Second World War produced grief, suffering and pain in all families, in all European countries. The stories of the people who have suffered the consequences are innumerable. Our Europe was born from the rubble of that war: it was a silent revolution, which said ‘never again’ to war, ‘never again’ to divisions, barriers, injustices, bloodshed. Europe is a unique project in the history of humanity! It is a project that meant that the enemies, as a sign of reconciliation, reached out to each other, becoming friends. It has allowed entire countries to free themselves from dictatorships and fascisms, to become democracies, while at the same time ensuring peace, prosperity and social justice for most of its citizens. We must be proud of these achievements, without forgetting where we come from.Memory is a necessary duty to prevent similar catastrophes from falling upon our continent again. In this difficult moment for Europe, which is going through a very serious crisis, we must show the same courage that allowed the founding fathers, starting from the lowest point in the history of humanity and civilization, to understand that we can only do it together, and it is therefore together that we must move forward ”.and it is therefore together that we must move forward ”.and it is therefore together that we must move forward ”.